Of Pensieves and Memory Diaries

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 79592



1.  What would happen if Snape or Dumbledore accidently dropped the 
Pensieve when transferring it from the cabinet/table and broke it, 
like the prophecies that got broken in the Department of Mysteries?
All the memories that had been placed there would cease to exist, 
wouldn't they? (I am assuming that when Snape put his memory of The 
Lake Incident into the Pensieve, he no longer could remember it 
himself. He had transferred it for safekeeping.) 

2.  Which, MOL leads me to my next question: What would happen if the 
Pensieve were to get broken while Harry happened to be inside it on 
one of his visits? Would he be stuck in that particular memory for 
all eternity or would he pop right back to the present when the 
vessel broke since he did not belong to that time?

3.  Same questions for memory diaries like the one Tom Riddle created 
to "preserve his 16-year-old-self." If the diary had been destroyed 
while Harry was witnessing Hagrid's downfall at the hands of Tom 
Riddle, would he have been stuck there?

4.  What would happen if Harry happened to be in the Pensieve looking 
over, say, one of Snape's memories and for whatever reason, Snape 
were to die? In each instance where Harry paid a visit to someone 
else's memory, the owner of the memory came down into the memory and 
physically retrieved Harry to the present. If the owner of the memory 
were to die, how would Harry get back out of the memory? Remember, in 
Dumbledore's memory of the trials, Harry could no longer see the 
Pensieve "hole" in the ceiling -- all he saw was smooth ceiling. 
Serious creeps.

Thanks in advance for your theories and thoughts on these questions!

With apologies if I missed the first 1200 discussions of this subject,

Bohcoo