Pensieve - Just a Thought

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No: HPFGUIDX 823

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforth's Goat" 
<Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> > Theoretically
> > then if Sirius could sieve these thoughts, Harry could then peer 
into
> > the past as he had done so in Dumbledore's office. The problem 
with
> > this is that the sheer trauma of Sirius' time in Azkaban may also 
get
> > siphoned into the Pensieve and Harry, on looking in, would be 
drawn
> > into an unpleasant world, albeit, as an observer.
> >
> 
> No denying that makes sense.  But I don't think it will happen.  
JKR often
> seems to bring in bits of magic that serve a purpose in the tactics 
of a
> single book (or even within a section of a single book) but don't 
serve the
> overall stretgy of the series.  

> About Sirius: It's also possible that the pensieve can collect 
memories only
> within a limited period of time following their formation.  That 
would keep
> anyone from using it to dig up long-lost memories (at least without 
the use
> of a very clever therapist ... )

I think the pensive - My boss and I were only saying on Thusday how 
we wanted one! - can have a limited number of memories, so Sirus 
could sort out only the memories he wanted to show harry - this could 
be a bit optimistic. And Also I suppose you can put the memoires back 
in your own head once you have finished  considering them ..

The Mirror of Erised or the flying Ford are
> two simple examples.  They serve their purposes, then trundleoff 
off over
> the horizon.  (Or into HP4GU, as the case may be ... )

that flying ford will be back - no doubt about it. it is just living 
rough in the forrest before returning tumumphantly!
> 
> Snape's truth serum is a more complex example of these moves: It 
serves the
> tactics of GoF but leaves us wondering why Dumbledore doesn't 
administer a
> spoonful to every prospective Hogwarts teacher.

because that would take an eliment of humanity out of the 
interactions, the point is not to know the truth about something but 
for you to trust the other person is telling the truth - can you 
think what it would do to power relations if you expected ppl to have 
a truth serium as a job prerequist? No, I think the danger of using 
it universaly is so great that it is one of those things best left 
to 'police' kind of powers. 
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