Pensieves and other magic (wasRe: HBP (Snape's) old school textbook:

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No: HPFGUIDX 137043


> > Alla:
> > 
> > Oh, but Potioncat, don't you remember that person can modify his 
> >own memory before putting it in the pensieve? :-)
> 
> Potioncat:
> Well, we've seen the memory can be modified before being bottled. 
We 
> weren't shown how. In fact...I just don't remember (my poor memory 
is 
> constantly being modified and I don't like it one bit!) do we even 
> see how the memory is put into the bottle?

Alla:

Actually, you are not the only one. :-) I don't have the  book with 
me either, but I think that when Slugghorn gives Harry a normal 
memory, he does put it in the bottle.
I can be very wrong about it though.




Potioncat: 
> But if the memory was taken out of the head, and placed in the 
> Pensieve, the memory in the head would already be modified. That 
> wasn't the situation in Slughorn's case.

Alla:

True, but I am not saying that situation was analogous, I am just 
saying that this idea( modifying your own memory) could be here for a 
reason or for no reason at all. :-)

Besides, Dumbledore stresses that Slugghorn did a poor job out of 
modifying  his memory. It suggest to me that people could do a better 
job out of it.

And we all know that Snape is a powerful wizard. :-)


Potioncat: 
> I realise this is one of our many "agree to disagree" points. But I 
> think the "Worst Memory" is accurate, but incomplete.

Alla:

The best thing which I get out of arguing with you is that even when 
we disagree, I often don't feel it. :-)

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that we will learn that Maraduers 
actions were great in this scene, but I do think that we MAY learn or 
NOT  that Snape downplayed the seriousness of his actions. :-)


Potioncat:
 What I always 
> wondered about is this:
> 
> Snape cuts James across the face and blood spatters, but nothing 
else 
> is said about it! We don't see James wiping blood away, or curing 
the 
> cut or crying out in surprise or pain.


Alla:

YES, doesn't it looks strange to you? Don't you think that Snape may 
have at least erased some pieces of this memory?


> Alla: 
> > Oh, did I tell you that now I am almost convinced that Snape 
indeed 
> > left Pensieve on the table for Harry to see?
> 
> Potioncat:
> But to what point? And how was he to know they would be interrupted?
> 

Alla:

I am sorry, could you clarify? What do you mean " to what point"? To 
what point in the memory Snape wanted Harry to be a witness to?


Just my opinion,

Alla.