Whose Pensieve on HBP Cover?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 128186

Potioncat wrote:
> > More important than whose pensieve is it, IMO, is whose memories
are in it? Harry's Dumbledores? I wouldn't think they'd be looking
into someone else's memories....uh, oh...Merlin help them if it's
Snape's thoughts!! <snip>


The Other Cheryl responded:
> <snip> Perhaps they are looking at Harry's memories of the AK at GH.
Perhaps the Pensieve and HBP contain the answer to JKR's "Why did
Voldemort survive?" question. What would happen to someone who
wandered into the path of an AK inside someone else's memory?


Carol responds:
I've said this before, so forgive me for repeating, but thoughts are
not stored in a Pensieve. They are placed there by a person capable of
removing them from his own head--an Occlumens. We have so far seen
only two people capable of performing this intricate bit of magic,
Dumbledore and Snape. Snape is not present in the HBP scene, so,
unless Harry has learned to become a "superb Occlumens" in the time
between the end of OoP and the HBP cover scene, the thoughts or
memories are almost certainly Dumbledore's.

As for an AK in a memory, I'm sure it couldn't kill, any more than the
people in the memory can see and react to the person who enters the
memory. He is only a witness to things that have already happened and
can't be changed. As the Ghost of Christmas Past tells Scrooge, "These
are but the shadows of the things that have been. They have no
consciousness of us." And, I would imagine, they have no power to hurt
us, either, at least not physically.

Carol, counting the days