Why didn't Dumbledore use the pensieve to view Harry's memories?

[Debi]

No: HPFGUIDX 186007

> mindi:
> I was just finishing reading GOF the other day and I was
> wondering why instead of making Harry relive the whole LV
> encounter over again to tell what happened, why didn't
> Dumbledore have him extract his memory of it and view it
> for themselves in the pensieve? Then they would have been
> able to show that to Fudge too. Then he would have had to
> of taken it as the truth, right? Just a thought.

joeydebs:

I suspect there is a way to 'falsify' memories (such as Confunding)
which Fudge would claim Dumbledore did to Harry to undermine him.

Also, I suspect Dumbledore thought Harry would deal with it better
if asked to relive it - as a healing process. After all in the
Muggle world we go to therapists and talk to order and deal with
major traumas.