Brain room

[madlysarcastic]

No: HPFGUIDX 117502


Kim wrote:

"You know that Brain Room in the Dept. of Mysteries?  Whose brains 
did they used to be?  Do you think it matters?"

Maddy writes:

I've wondered about the brains as well, but I hadn't even thought of 
who the brains might have belonged to. It is a creepy thought though, 
isn't it? I mean, I believe that some university had Albert Enstein's 
brain preserved for study, but the fact that the brains are described 
as "swimming" (or at least that's how I remember it; don't have my 
book on hand) makes them seem as though they are somehow *alive*. And 
that is want irks me the most about them. After Ron summons a brain, 
it has "tentacles" that try to strangle him. And if IRC they seem to 
display a projection of thoughts of some sort, don't they?

Perhaps the liquid that they were in has some magical properties in 
them that keeps them from decaying, but also keeps them active 
somehow.

Something I did wonder about with respect to the brains is how Ron 
will be affected by his contact with one of them. Didn't Hermione say 
that Madame Pomfrey had said that memories/thoughts from someone 
else's brain can do far more damage than his other wounds? I've 
wonder if Ron will start having memories or something from the person 
who's brain that was? Maybe it's similar to a legillimens/occlumens 
process...only instead of having your own memories broken into, 
someone else forces their memories onto you.

Curiouser and curiouser.

=)
Maddy