[HPforGrownups] Getting out of the pensieve

[JaanisE]

No: HPFGUIDX 127564


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From: mz_annethrope

My suspicion is that he is stuck.
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Jaanis:

At first, I would like to say that this is a very nice title. "Getting
out of the Pensieve". It could be a title for a good story/book. ;)

However, on the particular context I would like to express the opposite
opinion than mz_annethrope's. I don't think this device is so much
related with time. The memories are merely like 3D movies stored in
there. Highly advanced 3D movies, highly detailed. But I don't think a
soul or spirit dividing of the "watcher" is involved. :)

I've always imagined it more like a dream, a very clear dream. And what
happens when we sleep would be similar to what happens when we're using
the Pensieve in the way Harry does it (as there are different ways as
shown by Dumbledore at the end of OotP). Another person may wake us
(often s/he may enter our dream for a short moment until we are fully
woke up - hasn't it happened to you?), but if not, then we can wake up
by ourselves in the end anyway. Sometimes it could be easy, sometimes
you should have to try harder. Sometimes you would see an unfinished
dream, sometimes you would see several dreams in a night. But I
certainly think that you wouldn't get stuck in the Pensieve (in *that*
Pensieve which is described in HP books).