Pensieve memories (was Re: The Huge overreaction)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 150158

Ceridwen:

> > [...]
> > 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?  [...] 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????

houyhnhnm:

If wizards do have keener hearing than muggles, then they would also
have to have a greater ability to filter out excess stimuli or they
would find themselves in the condition that is said to afflict people
with autism.

The interview continues:
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ES: I was dead wrong about that.

JKR: Really?

ES: I thought for sure that it was your interpretation of it. It
didn't make sense to me to be able to examine your own thoughts from a
third-person perspective. It almost feels like you'd be cheating
because you'd always be able to look at things from someone else's
point of view.

MA: So there are things in there that you haven't noticed personally,
but you can go and see yourself?

JKR: Yes, and that's the magic of the Pensieve, that's what brings it
alive.

ES: I want one of those!

JKR: Yeah. Otherwise it really would just be like a diary, wouldn't
it? Confined to what you remember. But the Pensieve recreates a moment
for you, so you could go into your own memory and relive things that
you didn't notice the time. It's somewhere in your head, which I'm
sure it is, in all of our brains. I'm sure if you could access it,
things that you don't know you remember are all in there somewhere.    
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I don't think real human memories work that way at all, so this is a
magical phenomenon we are dealing with, not something we can relate to
our own experience.

However, Rowling is very clear about the way that Pensieve memories
work.  Whether it makes sense or not that someone could have a memory
of a conversation that was too far away to hear, we have Herself's own
word that what you see in a Pensieve is the way it happened.

Except that now I am wondering about the pov of the person visiting
the Pensieve. Could two people observe the same memory and see things
differently?  Could you go back in the Pensieve  to view the same
memory for a second time and see things you missed before?