Snape's Pensieve

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 137061

Kizor:

> and did or didn't Snape know which one Harry
> intruded into, as they certainly didn't discuss the matter afterward?
> Does that say anything about his reaction?
 
houyhnhnm:

****
But whether James really did take off Snape's pants, Harry never found
out.  A hand had closed tightly over his upper arm, closed with a
pincer-like grip.
[...]
"Amusing man, your father, wasn't he?"  (OotP, AE, p. 649)
*****
Clearly, Snape knew which memory, he was in the pensieve with Harry.

I have had some questions about Snape's use of the pensieve and the
other two memories, though.

When someone withdraws a memory and places it in the pensieve, does
the person lose the knowledge that the memory contained?

If so, perhaps Dumbledore has loaned Snape the pensieve, not so Harry
won't see Snape's memories, but so Snape will not be influenced by
them.  If so, it doesn't work.  (Hence Dumbledore's comment to Harry
at the end about an old man's mistake.)

Perhaps neither Snape nor Dumbledore anticipates Harry's being able to
break into Snape's mind.  Because, it seems to me, the memories Snape
would be most concerned about hiding from Harry would not be
childhood/teenage humiliations, but his meetings with Voldemort.
(which we didn't know were taking place when OotP came out, but we
know now.)