Brain room

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No: HPFGUIDX 117640


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Potioncat:
> It reminded me of the old Frankenstein movies. And then it remined 
> me of "Igor" taking "Abby Normal's" brain after smashing the good 
> brain (Young Frankenstein)
> 
> But I still think it was a Think Tank.  Except the brains didn't 
> seem very nice.

Well, I must say, many think tanks seem less than nice.

:-)

I think the less literal approach is probably better here. I don't think that those were actual 
brains from actual people. They were some sort of of manifestation of the mystery being 
studied in that room. We have to assume that the mystery involved is Thought, right?