The green liquid in the basin

[Shaunette Reid]

No: HPFGUIDX 165682

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grouchymedic_26149"
<tctrppr at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello, all,
> 
> Paul From WV. here. One thing puzzles me, and I apologize in advance if 
> it has already been discussed. Reference HBP, when Harry and DD travel 
> to the cave on the seashore to retrieve the horcrux. I am curious about 
> the green liquid in the basin in the middle of the lake that contained 
> the horcrux. How did the basin get refilled? If the basin had been 
> emptied before, by who ever took the horcrux, it should have still been 
> empty. Is the basin enchanted, so that it refills it's self when 
> emptied? If not, who refilled it? Food for thought.
>

Shaunette has a teeny-tiny theory:

If the Birdbath!potion is indeed something like pensieve stuff, and if
it does force the drinker to relive horrible memories, how do one's
memories get siphoned out automatically into the basin...before the
drinker arrives? It would make more sense if those Worst Memories are
the memories of the *previous* drinker.
Maybe Voldemort filled the basin with his own worst memories,
intending the potential horcrux-theif to shoulder his strange
sufferings before dying. RAB drank VM's worst memories, then the basin
refilled with RAB's worst memories...
DD subsequently drank RAB's worst memories, as the basin refilled with
DD's...
if Harry returns to the cave to look for the real locket (provided
that Inferi-pocket-locket theory pans out) someone (kreacher's been
suggested quite a bit, the poor thing) might have to drink DD's worst
memories
and maybe DD's worst will shed light on certain enigmas...certain
greasy-haired, hook-nosed enigmas...

-Shaunette