The day after
melclaros
melclaros at melclaros.yahoo.invalid
Sun Feb 27 19:42:34 UTC 2005
--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> The Pensieve provides the equivalent of a DVD recording - and one
where you can change your angle of viewing too.
> All voices would be recognisable, all words would be heard and once
Voldy hove into Harry's view over the edge of the cradle intent on
doing his dastardly deed what happened from then on would be apparent
- the spell or possession attempt, the rebound, Voldy's
discorporation, the explosion,
> anything said by the Voldy accomplice, screams of agony from
Vapour!Mort - all would be revealed. It'd be like that video of the
wedding I went to last summer - a catalogue of horrors recorded for
all time.
I think I might have been there too. At that wedding that is, or one
very like it.
I like this idea, it makes a lot of sense if you believe, like I do,
that a memory stored in a pensieve is completely objective. Then yes,
you're right. The memory of a toddler would work just as well as
anyone else's. A camera doesn't comprehend what's going on in front of
its lens, it simply records it, much like 15 mo old Harry's mind may
have done. It would certainly make a nice way to tie up the loose
ends, wouldn't it? No arguments allowed, this is who was there and who
did what. Who was loyal to whom would be played out in glorious
technicolor for all to see.
There are people who'd have a big problem with that idea, the ones who
believe pensieve memories are subjective and therefore would require
some understading of the events and would be tainted by terror and
emotion experienced by the rememberer (for lack of a better term).
>
> If DD couldn't figure out what had happened - why and how - from
that lot, then he'd be a disgrace to his Chocolate Frog card.
And quite frankly, to a lot of readers, after OoP, he's in danger of
becoming that now.
>
> Add in a previous interpretation that 'neither can live while the
other survives'> to mean that Lily and James must die for Harry to
live, and if Bob isn't your> uncle, he's no further away than second
cousin.>
> Of course, nobody believes me (hides slight tremble to lower lip),
but what
> do I care. Onward I struggle, bearing a banner with a strange device....
I don't know why no one believes you, sure it means some syntax
twisting, but it's nothing I would put past Jo Rowling, not by a long
shot. We've had FIVE books to show us that what we thought we've read
is not, in fact, what we've read at all. Is she setting us up for a
rehabilitated Tom Riddle while we're all getting ready for a book
seven blood-bath? Could be, could be.
Mel
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