[HPforGrownups] Flashbacks don't always tell the truth (JKR and Occlumency lessons)

[Sherry Gomes]

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vmonte said:
Snipping most of excellent post here ...

Maybe Snape isn't the victim we are lead to believe in OOTP either.

vmonte

Sherry now:

This is something I've always wondered about the Snape's worst memory
chapter.  After all, we are only seeing it from Snape's point of view and in
a memory that is long past.  It is proven psychologically, that we modify
our memories a bit to fit a reality we want.  Not totally, not in a
delusional manner, but we all do it.  We don't know enough about the pensive
to know how it shows the memory.  Does it show exactly what happened, or
Does it only show how someone remembers what happened?  This could be an
important distinction.  That's why I'm not in a hurry to judge anyone in
that scene, not the marauders, not Snape nor Lily.  I just think we don't
know enough yet, and probably, if there's anything significant about that
scene, it won't be something we expect.  In true JKR style!

Sherry G