Snape and the Pensieve (Was: Snape's stalling)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116992


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Pippin wrote:
> > <snip>
> It occurs to me that if  Snape has access to Dumbledore's 
> > pensieve, he could easily have found out quite a few things 
the  trio thinks he doesn't know about...like who set him on fire 
and  who raided his supply closet...oh, yes. I like it. ;-)
> 
> Carol responds:
> Can you clarify your thinking here, Pippin? As far as I can see, 
the Pensieve is used either to study one's own memories 
(Dumbledore's normal use of it) or to temporarily protect certain 
memories from being accessed by an unfriendly person or 
enemy (Snape's use of it in OoP). <<

Pippin:

My idea is very simple. Suppose Snape is present during a 
suspicious incident, say the attack on Harry in PS/SS or 
Hermione's raid on the supply closet. He puts his memories in 
the Pensieve. He then enters the memory, as Dumbledore does 
in GoF and Snape himself did when he extracted Harry. 

Snape might  then be able to experience his memory from any 
point of view he chooses, just as Harry did during his two 
pensieve visits. In this way, Snape might discover who jinxed the 
broom, and watch as Harry threw the firecracker and Hermione 
raided his supplies. 

This would also be an excellent way for Snape to report his 
espionage missions to Dumbledore. He simply sets his 
memories in the pensieve, and Dumbledore looks at them. 
Snape can then honestly report to Voldemort that he hasn't told 
Dumbledore a thing <g>.

Pippin