Pensieve memories dups or originals? (was: OFH! Snape again)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 140918

Jen wrote:
> > Anyway, I'm with the people who have proposed Snape's Worst 
> > Memory was still hidden in the Pensieve, most likely the events 
> > of the GH incident--that's the one he needs to hide from LV if he 
> > truly changed sides.
 
Saraquel:
> My problem with the - put something in a pensieve and take it right 
> out of your head - theory, is that DD had Slughorn's tampered 
> memory when he sent Harry off to retrieve the missing bits.  The 
> memory that Harry came back with was not just the missing bits, but 
> the whole scene from beginning to end, implying that there are two 
> copies of the memory, and the memory therefore stayed in Slughorn's 
> head after he had given the duff one to DD.  
> 
> ...it makes no sense for Snape to put stuff in the pensieve in the 
> occlumency scene in OotP, unless he was removing these memories 
> from his head.  Is this then, an inconsistency from JKR?


SSSusan:
It may be an inconsistency, but then again, it may be that there are 
*options* for how to use the pensieve.  Perhaps it's like when we're 
editing something in a word processing program or in e-mail.  We 
highlight the text and then we have the *option* of COPY or CUT.  
Perhaps with Snape in the Occlumency lessons, he selected CUT, 
whereas Slughorn selected COPY.

Oh, stop sniggering.  It's a possibility, right?  :-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan