The length of the Pensieve Scene

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 118187


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "curlyhornedsnorkack" 
<easimm at y...> wrote:
  
> Even if we do leave out the characteristics of the pensieve, on 
which
> we don't agree, (and not everyone seems to either, and I'm not
> interested in discussing it any further for the foreseeable future)
> Snape's actions are still suspicious. Can you address the 
character's
> motives for taking advantage of a beautiful day to sit in a dense
> shade? Why didn't he set off for a nicer place, most likely the 
shade
> of the tree under which the Marauders settled, if he was unaware of
> them? Or why didn't he sit closer to the girls?   

Hickengruendler:

Sorry for my bluntness, but Snape can sit whereever he wants. Also, 
assuming that the memory is objective (which I'm sure it is. I know 
you are disagreeing, but let's assume for a moment it is), than it 
doesn't matter if Snape might have planned something. Because this 
had nothing to do with James and Sirius' motives. James and Sirius 
attacked Snape because they were bored, not because they suspected 
that Snape might attack them any minute.

There is another scene that confirms the memory. When Harry told 
Sirius and Remus about the incident, they didn't deny it. They didn't 
say: "Well, the Pensieve is not objective. Snape started the fight." 
They didn't even protested when Harry blamed them for bullying Snape 
just because they were bored. Don't you think they would have said 
something, if the situation weren't the way it seemed? If not for 
their own sake, than surely for James'. I'm sure they don't want 
Harry to believe such things about his father, if James never did 
them. But instead they only said that James grew out of it, and that 
Snape wasn't an innocent angel either. Which I'm sure is the truth, 
but Sirius and Remus didn't do anything to correct Harry's view about 
James deeds in this scene.

Hickengruendler