Pensive Peeking - & it's Dymanics

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 124094


As far as what the owner of the Pensieve sees relative to what Harry
saw, I think it happens in realtime. When Dumbledore join Harry in 
the
courtroom memory, he only saw what Harry saw from the time Dumbledore
joined him until the both existed the memory.

In the case of both Snape and Dumbledore, they would have both
recognised the memory and would have been able to fill in the blanks
from their own knowledge. In Snape's case, he arrived just as he was
dangling upside down with his underwear showing, if Harry saw that,
then he probably saw the most humiliating part, and what else he saw
was irrelavant to Snape.

Tonks:

Sorry I don't have my book handy. Did Snape look into the pensive to 
see how far Harry had gotten into the memeory?  If not and he just 
comes into the room and catches Harry with his head in the pensive 
and pulls Harry out, how would Snape know if Harry saw just the 
first few seconds or all say 10 minutes of it? What I am trying to 
say is that unless Snape looked, and I don't remember that he did, 
maybe he thinks Harry saw more than Harry actually did.

Tonks_op