The memory of Burke in the Pensieve

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 150459

catlady wrote:
<snip>
> I think Burke revolving above the Penseive means that he could have
come from a memory that someone else gave to Dumbledore rather than
from DD's own memory <snip>

Carol responds:
Since Bertha Jorkins ("That is Bertha as I remember her," quoted from
memory), Snape, and Trelawney all rise from the Pensieve when
Dumbledore wants to show only the speaker without the context and
these are all, AFWK, DD's own memories, I see no reason to think that
the memory of Burke is not also DD's. When DD went to investigate the
situation and why we don't know--possibly after he got the first Gaunt
memory from Bob Ogden and learned that Merope wore a locket. He also
knew that Tom Riddle had been born in London, which would lead him,
IMO, to check out Borgin and Burke's as a place where she might have
tried to sell the locket. Or he might have contacted Burke after the
death of Hepzibah Smith and his acquisition of Hokey's memory. He
seems to have been following Riddle's life and career for a very long
time, before Severus Snape and MWPP were even born.

At any rate, I'm quite sure that the figure of Burke rising from the
Pensieve is from Dumbledore's own memory, and I doubt that we'll learn
any more about it.

Carol, wishing that DD had left behind a shelf full of bottled
memories involving Severus Snape as boy and man