Brain room

[ginnysthe1]

No: HPFGUIDX 117927


Kjirstem wrote:

>I found this the most disturbing room of the lot, I kept thinking 
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 responded:
>It reminded me of the old Frankenstein movies. And then it reminded 
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.<

Antosha responded:
>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 manifestation of the mystery being studied in that room. 
We have to assume that the mystery involved is Thought, right?<

Kim now:
There was some discussion more or less recently, not sure when 
exactly, on a thread whose title I can't remember (hey, maybe they've 
got *my* brain in that tank swimming around... it seems to be missing 
from my cranium right now ;-)) about the possible contents of the 
locked room, but no one wondered at the time about the purpose of the 
contents of the other Dept. of Mysteries rooms.  So that's a great 
question!  The locked room contains "the mystery of mysteries" 
apparently, the time room contains the mystery of Time (I assume), so 
the Brain Room contains the mystery of Thought??  Definitely stands 
to reason!  I'd only gotten about as far as thinking that the Brain 
Room contains a bunch of soggy, scary brains... 

Kim