the Ever So Frustrating Egg

[LD]

No: HPFGUIDX 39258

Eloise wrote:
>And if the function of a memory charm *were* to suppress, but 
>not wipe a 
>memory, it could explain, as I did before, the fact that Harry 
>reacts worse 
>to Dementors, who have access to his memories and Neville to 
>the  egg which 
>provokes an unsolicited emotional response to sound.

We *know* that memory charms just suppress memory, because Voldemort
says he was able to break through Bertha Jorkins' memory charm(s) with
(I assume) a big healthy dose of the Cruciatus Curse. If the memory had
been wiped completely then Voldemort's torture efforts would've been
useless, because the memory wouldn't be there to discover. Right?

My thoughts on the egg are that it doesn't sound like *anything* except
what it is - the egg. People have to interpret it differently because
they have to make a best guess based on what they've heard before, or
what they've been told of in class. Although I have to admit, Neville's
whole
suppressed-memory-of-parents-torture-eating-away-inside-until-he-explode
s-and-goes-on-a-mad-rampage thing makes for a lot more Bang! :D


>Eloise, who doesn't know how she could possibly make her 
>greatest fear seem 
>ridiculous, would hate to be confronted again by any of her 
>worst memories, 
>but would quite like to know what she truly desires.

-LD, who doesn't know what his worst fear is, can't actually remember
what his worst memory is and doesn't even want to know what he most
desires, because that would take all the fun out of discovering it for
the first time.