Harry's memories of that night at Godric's Hollow (was Re: Petunia and Dementors)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147880

JenD:
> > >> <snip> Harry was very young at his parents' death. Pre-verbal 
> > would be the important descriptor. I am not an expert at this 
> > <snip>, but pre-verbal memory is very amorphous and unformed. 
> > <snip> I find it very telling that Harry can remember the screams 
> > of his mother. I don't think he can remember very many things she 
> > said and surely he'd have heard her begging for Harry's life. 
> <snip> <<
 
cat:
> > He does also hear his father(? at least we assume it's James) 
> > telling her to take Harry and run and that he'll hold Voldemort 
> > off (PoA UK edition, ch 12"The Patronus" pg 178). Remember also 
> that 
> > the MoM enforcement officer (Bob?) remembered all the hissing 
> > noises between Gaunt and Morfin, but he didn't understand them.  
> > Of course, this is merely my opinion, but there's something more 
> > to that memory.

Jen D.:
> Hi Cat,
> You know, someone else maybe you, pointed out that a wizard's brain 
> may not work like a muggle's so maybe there is a memory in Harry's 
> brain that can be extracted. I just have to wonder if there were 
any 
> chance that Harry might have had more memory in there, wouldn't DD 
> have tried to access it? I mean, he certainly worked with many 
other 
> people to collect information about LV using their memories, many 
of 
> which were incomplete, tampered with, but that didn't stop him. But 
> I won't discount anything, this is just a feeling, a hunch.

Ceridwen:
Maybe this works like a Penseive memory, objectively recalling 
everything even though the one whose memory it is doesn't 
see/hear/know what else is going on until they plop it into a 
Penseive?

So a pre-verbal infant, or a wizard who cannot speak Parseltongue, 
will still have these things imprinted in their memory so others who 
do know the language can hear what was going on if the memory was 
available.  Or, so Harry recalls what was said when this memory is 
disturbed by the Dementors because the raw information was already 
there, and now he has the knowledge to decypher it correctly.

Ceridwen.