Dumbledore's Penseive

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 132795

Potioncat:
Well, as I understand it, thoughts are put into the Pensieve,
reviewed, and then returned to the head. DD says he was called away
in the midst of reviewing his thoughts. Snape always fills the
Pensieve at the last minute and returns the thoughts to his head
before Harry is out of the door. Both times that Harry went into the
Pensieve, the owner had been suddenly called away.

So I don't think thoughts are stored in the Pensieve. Of course, if
someone was called away and never returned, I guess someone else
could take them on.

But along that line..."Snape's Worst Memory" still seems to me to be
James' memory. I just can't figure out what it would be doing in
Snape's head or why Snape would keep James' memory alive.

vmonte responds:
You know, you might be right. There is a moment at the begining of 
Snape's Worst Memory where Harry starts looking for Snape during the 
exam and says to himself: [where's Snape]"...after all this is 
Snape's memory."

This comment bothers me because JKR makes a point to tell us that 
Harry understands this memory as being Snape's (why mention this 
since we the readers already understand this as being Snape's memory. 
We see (read) Snape loading the penseive with his memory). 

It almost makes me feel that JKR is once again showing how Harry is 
jumping to the wrong conclusion. Remember PoA when Harry assumed that 
the person he saw across the lake was his father?   

Will the voice Harry believes to be James at GH also turn out to be 
someone else?

And remember that every penseive scene mentioned in the books had 
deceptive elements. Hagrid did not let out the monster in the 
Chamber. Tom Riddle was not a good kid. And Crouch Jr. was not an 
innocent victim of his father (DD's memories of the DE trials).

There is more to Snape's Worst Memory than we have been shown.

Vivian