The Huge overreactions from a five minute time span.

[Deb]

No: HPFGUIDX 150154


(Snip)
 Ceridwen:
> According to Rowling, a Pensieve memory is an objective recording 
of 
> an event.  From the Leaky Cauldron/Mugglenet interview:
> 
> ***MA: One of our Leaky "Ask Jo" poll winners is theotherhermit, 
> she's 50 and lives in a small town in the eastern US. I think this 
> was addressed in the sixth book, but, "Do the memories stored in a 
> Pensieve reflect reality or the views of the person they belong 
to?"
> 
> JKR: It's reality. It's important that I have got that across, 
> because Slughorn gave Dumbledore this pathetic cut-and-paste 
memory. 
> He didn't want to give the real thing, and he very obviously 
patched 
> it up and cobbled it together. So, what you remember is accurate 
in 
> the Pensieve.***
> http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview3.shtml


Deb here:
  What has been puzzling me about "Snape's Worst Memory" is - how is 
it possible for Harry - being within Snape's memory as he is - hear 
what James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter are talking about at the end of 
the DADA OWL exam?  During that conversation they are talking about 
doing so well on the question of werewolves and Lupin admits he is a 
werewolf. Yet this memory is alleged to have occurred before "the 
Prank" so Snape would not have known that Remus is a werewolf at 
that time. And, as I read the scene, Snape was not close enough to 
them when this conversation was taking place to overhear it. So - 
how could Harry hear this conversation in the midst of Snape's 
memory????  JKR says that Penseive memories are reality and I take 
that to mean that they are exactly what the owner of the memory 
experienced. So did (does) Snape have extraordinarily good hearing 
and actually knew before the Prank that Remus is a werewolf? Or has 
he also doctored his memory to include things he learned later? Or 
is this another FLINT?   

Deb (aka djklaugh) -