Snape's treatment and pensieve

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No: HPFGUIDX 138343

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Fabian Peng Kärrholm (Message 138330) 

>About "Snape's Worst Memory", to what extent do you think the 
>Pensieve shows what really happened? Does it 'remember' things the 
>way they happened, or the way someone remembers the events? Since 
>Snape removes his 'worst' memory for every Occlumency lesson, it 
>makes me think that the memory is in the way it was in his minds. 
>Which means that any insult he might have made to 
>James/Sirius/Lupin, might have been removed from it. 


"K":

Concerning the Pensieve:

The Leaky Cauldron, 16 July 2005

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

MA: One of our Leaky "Ask Jo" poll winners is theotherhermit,
she's 50 and lives in a small town in the eastern US. I think this 
was addressed in the sixth book, but, "Do the memories stored in
a Pensieve reflect reality or the views of the person they belong
to?"

JKR: It's reality. It's important that I have got that
across, because Slughorn gave Dumbledore this pathetic cut-and-paste 
memory. He didn't want to give the real thing, and he very obviously 
patched it up and cobbled it together. So, what you remember is 
accurate in the Pensieve.

ES: I was dead wrong about that.

JKR: Really?

ES: I thought for sure that it was your interpretation of it. It 
didn't make sense to me to be able to examine your own thoughts
from a third-person perspective. It almost feels like you'd be 
cheating because you'd always be able to look at things from someone 
else's point of view.

MA: So there are things in there that you haven't noticed 
personally, but you can go and see yourself?

JKR: Yes, and that's the magic of the Pensieve, that's what brings 
it alive.

ES: I want one of those!

JKR: Yeah. Otherwise it really would just be like a diary,
wouldn't it? Confined to what you remember. But the Pensieve 
recreates a moment for you, so you could go into your own memory and 
relive things that you didn't notice the time. It's somewhere in
yourhead, which I'm sure it is, in all of our brains. I'm sure if 
you could access it, things that you don't know you remember are all 
in there somewhere.
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-
anelli-3.htm