A implicação (de OOtP) é que você está literalmente dentro da penseira;
But whether James really did take off Snape’s pants, Harry never found out. A hand had closed tight over his upper arm, closed with a pincer-like grip. Wincing, Harry looked round to see who had hold of him, and saw, with a thrill of horror, a fully grown, adult-sized Snape standing right beside him, white with rage.
‘Having fun?’
Harry felt himself rising into the air; the summer’s day evaporated around him; he was floating upwards through icy blackness, Snape’s hand still tight upon his upper arm. Then, with a swooping feeling as though he had turned head-over-heels in midair, his feet hit the stone floor of Snape’s dungeon and he was standing again beside the Pensieve on Snape’s desk in the shadowy, present-day Potion master’s study.
Snape teve que entrar na memória, pegar Harry e depois tirar os dois, de volta para a masmorra. Note que os pés de Harry acertam o chão de pedra. Claramente eles não estavam tocando antes.
Mais tarde, temos essa troca entre Harry e Lupin:
‘I can’t tell him that, he’d kill me!’ said Harry, outraged. ‘You didn’t see him when we got out of the Pensieve.’