The Cave and the Tower

[imthruthelookinglass]

No: HPFGUIDX 134236

Tonks_op wrote:
 
( the scene in the cave. DD drinks the liquid and starts_ what??  
Remembering something that is from his life, or channeling a memory 
of someone else's??  And what memory is it? big snip 
 Is he drinking the liquid out of a pensive and someone's memory is in
it??  Who's?  
  
 
 
LEH replies:
I really like the idea of the basin actually being a type of pensieve.
Could it possibly be that the basin refills itself with the memories 
of the last person to drink the liquid?  Perhaps Dumbledore is 
experiencing the memories of the mysterious RAB.  That obviously 
painful memory - sounds like someone being crucioed to me - would 
certainly explain why RAB was out to ruin Voldemort.


Peekaboo:  
Ive heard "a few" suggestions that the bowl in the cave may, in fact, 
have been a pensieve.  This reminded me of a thought I had concerning 
Snape and his innocence or guilt:

I had been pondering how, if Snape was truly with DD, how he would 
prove this to the OOTP (in necessary or even desired). I had thought 
perhaps HIS pensieve might hold the proof.  That he would leave word 
behind through the memory of his agreement with DD to kill him if 
need be.  But what of the bowl in the cave?  What if this is indeed a 
pensieve holding the memories of the last drinker?  Then is it 
possible it could hold a portion of Dumbledore's memory, and with it 
possible clues as to Snapes true nature?  Unlikely, as it is 
obviously a - if not the most - painful memory the drinker has 
experienced that is left behind.  Maybe this will be the answer to 
the destruction of Dumbledore's hand considering that question never 
was answered?  Of course this could all be left in Dumbledore's 
pensieve.  I had read a comment that it was possible all memory 
stored in a penseive would be lost if the owner passed.  However, 
Dumbledore had bottled memories of many people so this probably is 
not so.  Maybe this is how we will hear from DD in the future.  Maybe 
this is how so many of our questions will be answered.   

Peekaboo

 
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