Brain room

[kjirstem]

No: HPFGUIDX 117605



> 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:
> 
<snip>
> ...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?

<snip>


kjirstem:

I found this the most disturbing room of the lot, I kept thinking that
Harry was going to find a label saying "Harry Potter" on the vat. 
After all, he has that scar.  (And what's inside his head then?
Marshmallow fluff? )  Like Maddy I was most bothered by the brains
seeming alive.  Some of the things I wonder about are whether they
were obtained with their owners consent and what their existence in a
vat means for those owners.  Can they be "properly dead" if their
brains are alive?

As for who they are or used to be, maybe they're puppetmasters
controlling the Wizarding World....or maybe they are just the WW
equivalent of data backup.