Penseive Question...

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 187381

---  "Jamieson Wolf Villeneuve" <jamiesonwolf at ...> wrote:
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> Hello all, 
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> When someone takes a memory out of their heads and puts it into the Pensieve, do they still remember it? Will they still be able to recall the memory in their minds, even though the memory is in the Penseive? 
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> Or, while the memory is in the Pensieve, do they have no mental record of that memory? I'm curious to what everyone else thinks. Thoughts anyone? 
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> Cheers,
> Jamieson
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bboyminn:

I've always speculated that there are primary and secondary 
memories. A primary memory is my memory of an actual event.
A secondary memory, as an illustration, is the last time
I remembered the event is question. That act of remembering
is a completely separate event in and of itself. Yet it
contains a version of the content contained in the primary
memory. 

So, when I lose a primary memory to the Pensieve, I still
have the secondary memories to draw on. Though the secondary
memories are not as prominent or as vivid as the primary. 

As another illustration, you can remember placing a specific
memory about a specific event into the Pensieve. That is a 
limited separate event. You know what memory you stored, and
when you stored it. That allows you to continue to know it
exists, and to recover it when you need it.

Because the secondary memories are much less substantial and
prominent than the primary memory, I think they are more
difficult to read. They don't recall with the ease or clarity
of a primary memory.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn