CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 28, Snape's worst memory

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 115186


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Meri wrote :
> "But why then did he leave the Pensieve out in the open? Snape 
knows 
> what a busybody Harry is, and surely (though I have no canon to 
back 
> this up) DD would have mentioned that Harry knows how a Pensieve 
works
> and might be tempted to peek."
> 
> Del replies :
> Well, actually, Harry doesn't *really* know how to work a 
Pensieve. In
> particular, he doesn't know how to *get out* of it, as DD knows 
very
> well. So maybe Snape figured that Harry wouldn't be *stupid* 
enough to
> do what he did, because let's face it : going into Snape's pensieve
> without knowing how to get out of it was simply incredibly stupid.
> 
> Del

Ah, Del, good to hear from you again! 
Harry does stupid things all the time without thinking of the 
consequences, like flying the car to school, and, well, practically 
anything else that Snape has tried to get him expelled for. I've 
said it before and I'll say it again, he's a teenager, and foresight 
is not a talent usually associated with that age group. Who knows 
what else Harry would have seen had he stayed in the Pensieve? 
Meri