Fun and games with Baggy

[fhmaneely]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "fhmaneely" <fmaneely at b...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, and on a side note, while I am at it, instead of using a 
pensieve 
> > to get baby Harry's thoughts, how about Occulemency/Legitimency 
> > (sorry about the spelling)?
> > 
> > Fran
> 
> 
> Possible of course. But I don't think it would be as effective as 
the
> Pensive.
> 
> Snape very carefully tells us that memories and thoughts are not 
neatly
> filed away and it's pretty much chance which ones you end up seeing.
> They could keep finding memory after memory of whatever it is that
> pre-occupies kids of 15 months and under - "Hungry", "Wet" "Unhappy"
> - all that fascinating stuff.
> 
> But if you do a brain-drain into the Pensive - ah! lots of 
benefits; you can
> keep studying the same memory for as long as you like from different
> angles for a start, not possible with Legilimancy, I think.
<snip> Kneasy

So we know for sure that a brain-drain extracts conscious or 
unconsious thoughts. I was under the impression, probably misguided, 
that using Occ./Leg., the person may not have control over blocking 
what thoughts are seen, and so DD could have gotten past Lazlo's 
heirarchy of needs thoughts that may be in the conscious of a baby
Fran