OOP: Brains?!?!?!

[innovan]

No: HPFGUIDX 63496

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snufflesnbeakie" 
<bhauersperger at h...> wrote:
> could someone please share their theories on the 
> significance of the "brain tank?"

Everything in this part of the Department of Mysteries is about 
recording and archiving:

The first room is full of thousands of clocks stuck in a loop, each 
ticking the same few seconds over and over again so that people in the 
future can reach back to the time the clock preserves.

The Hall of Prophecy is a library of one-play-only audio recordings 
awaiting for the prophesized to hear.

The Brains have "ribbons of moving images, like unraveling rolls of 
film" which become "tentacles of thought". They store famous thoughts.

The Death Chamber in some way archives or stores death or the dead.

Innovan