Dumbledore's Pensieve

[sridharj_ap]

No: HPFGUIDX 170080

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> I don't think that the Pensieve "has all [DD's] thoughts hidden 
away."
> For one thing, "all his thoughts" wouldn't fit in the Pensieve! He
> only takes out specific memories to examine them, often in 
relation to
> each other, and though we don't see him do it, he presumably puts 
them
> back into his head when he's through with them, just as Snape does 
in
> the Occlumency lessons. The Pensieve is not already full of DD's
> thoughts when Snape places his own three memories in it. Otherwise,
> he'd be in danger of putting DD's memories into his head instead of
> his own.


Sridhar:

I am not sure that one can "accidentally" put another's memories 
into his head, or even if you could, what the effects would be.

> I would not be surprised if Harry inherits the Pensieve and various
> bottled, labeled memories in DH, but not a Pensieve full of every
> memory DD ever had. And those memories, especially the ones 
relating
> to snape and/or godric's Hollow, could be very important to the 
plot
> of DH.

Sridhar:

I agree and although I meant the same, I did not put it that way. My 
bad. If Harry gets a huge collection of memories from various people 
along with the pensieve, I would think it the greatest weapon Harry 
has, apart from the people who would help him.

Sridhar, who is a "Snape is on the good side" believer and 
copies "Carol's style of writing".