Of Pensieves and Memory Diaries

[dudemom_2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 79844

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> 
wrote:
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> 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.) <<Snip>>
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> Bohcoo

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Interesting ideas you have posed. Possibly the answers will come up 
later in future books. IMO I think once the Pensive is broken the 
memories will dissipate like the prophecies did. I could see it 
leading to some big consequences if a LV follower got access to a 
Pensive that had memories in it (makes me wonder why everyone seems 
to be so careless with them, especially around Harry -  and he isn't 
the only curious one at Hogwarts). Anyway, as Mr Weasley once 
said: "Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't 
see where it keeps its brain." (US PoA P 194) Truer words ever 
spoken!

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Dudemom_2000