[HPforGrownups] What would convince Harry/canned memories

[JodyE50 at aol.com]

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Amandageist, that is very interesting. I truly hope that something like that happens in book 7. DD may even have left Harry that bottle in his will. 

 I have been wondering something about pensieves. If there is more than one 
memory floating around in a pensieve, how does one "choose" which one to visit? 
The reason I ask is part of the whole "Is Snape really evil?" debate.

 In OOTP, when Snape is teaching Harry occlemency (or sabotaging his efforts 
to learn it) he is careful to hide away the memories he doesn't want Harry to 
see, in case Harry should be able to legilimance.  When he is called out, 
Harry takes a peak into Snape's memories, and sees the scene of James tormenting 
Harry. However, is this the only memory Snape has stored away? Is that the 
worst thing he has to hide? Imagine if Harry had peeked into that pensieve and 
seen a memory of Snape pledging allegiance to LV, or doing something that 
directly contradicted his work for the Order of the Phoenix. No wonder Snape was so 
upset that Harry spied on him. At the time it just seemed like Snape was 
humiliated by the memory that Harry had seen, and that's why he was so upset. But, 
then again, how did he know which memory Harry had seen, unless he had removed 
only one? Of course if Snape is not really evil, he would have nothing to fear 
from his memories and wouldn't bother to hide them from Harry, except for the 
ones he finds personally embarrassing, of course. And so the debate 
continues...

Jody


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