Harry Potter Pensieve Memory Set

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The light was coming from the Pensieve sitting on Snape's desk. The silver-white contents were ebbing and swirling within. Snape's memories... things he did not want Harry to see if he broke into Snape's defences accidentally." — The Pensieve in 1996 [src] Morfin Gaunt’s memory of meeting Tom Riddle, when Tom stole the Peverell Ring and then killed his father and grandparents in the Riddle House ( HBP17)

The boys' three companions rose quietly from their seats; the woman with the heavy-lidded eyes looked up at Crouch and called, "The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban; we will wait! He will rise again and will come for us, he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters! We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him!" On the surface, Bagman is likeable and Crouch is not, but look at the facts. Bagman has been giving information to the Death Eaters, and is being let off with a slap on the wrist because nobody - not even Moody - expects him to use his brain to act like a responsible adult. How many people were hurt or killed by this irresponsible celebrity's actions? Given Moody's distinction even among fellow Aurors, the fact that he spent six months pursuing a single Death Eater seems significant. It would be particularly interesting to know if this was an official assignment by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and whether Moody was dedicated to working only on this one case for that length of time. Lily Potter: " Not Harry, please, no, don't kill him, take me, kill me instead —" Lord Voldemort: " This is my last warning —" Lily Potter: " Not Harry! Please... have mercy... Not Harry! Not Harry ! Please — I'll do anything...." — Lily standing between Voldemort and her infant son [src] Memories can be shared and stored in bottles for later perusal ( HBP13, DH32). Dumbledore used "crystal phials" while Hermione conjured a bottle "out of thin air" to hold Snape's memory. A stopper holds in the memory - if not perhaps it might somehow escape.When Harry had acquired the true memory of Horace Slughorn, he went to Dumbledore's office. He then saw the younger Horace Slughorn tell Tom Riddle about how to make a Horcrux and the main purpose of one. Also, he noticed the concern in Slughorn when he saw the greedy expression upon Riddle's face. [8] Due to Dumbledore's death at the end of the school year, that was Harry's last lesson with Dumbledore. Harry did not use any specific incantation, and did not in fact have any idea at this point what the Pensieve was or what it could do, so it seems somewhat unlikely that the selection of memories that appear in the Pensieve have anything to do with a conscious or even unconscious command of Harry's. Judging from Dumbledore's demonstration later on, he had been examining these specific memories just before Fudge's arrival. By the end of his career at Hogwarts, Silvanus only had one arm and half a leg due, we assume, to the injuries caused to him by the magical creatures he’d worked with all his life. On his retirement however, Albus Dumbledore came to the rescue and ‘presented him with a full set of enchanted wooden limbs’. How thoughtful! What did he do after retiring from Hogwarts? The Pensieve was enchanted to recreate memories so that they become re-liveable, taking every detail stored in the subconscious and recreating it faithfully. Once memories were siphoned into the Pensieve, a witch or wizard could enter them by dipping your head in the water and view the memory from a third-person point of view, almost as if travelling into the past. However, since it's just a memory and not actual time travel, the user of the Pensieve was non-participant, meaning that their presence had no effect on anything that happened in the memory. Even more difficult than the recreation of memories was the use of a Pensieve to examine and sort thoughts and ideas, and very few wizards have the ability to do so.

You are further accused," bellowed Mr. Crouch, "of using the Cruciatus Curse on Frank Longbottom's wife, when he would not give you information." After Harry heard the full prophecy in Dumbledore's Office, he had to live with the knowledge that he would have to kill Voldemort in the end. Rumours also were let slip to the Daily Prophet about what the battle in the Ministry was centred on, leading to Harry being called "The Chosen One" in the newspapers. [11] Indeed, Harry was the "The Chosen One" because Voldemort chose to believe that the prophecy was talking about Harry, the half-blood like himself and thus his equal. Harry survived the Killing Curse because his mother sacrificed her life for him and gave him a protection from Voldemort until he comes of age (at 17). [3] We have here the first confirmation that Snape was a Death Eater, and we hear of Dumbledore's trust in his conversion. This will be a recurring issue throughout the series, and will only be fully understood once Harry experiences Snape's memories in the final book.Rookwood's own usefulness as a mole within the Ministry would have ended with his arrest, but it is not known whether any of his agents remained in place. As demonstrated by Ludo Bagman later on, some of Rookwood's agents may not even have known that they were agents. Harry looked around more carefully. The room, as he had suspected when observing it from above, was almost certainly underground - more of a dungeon than a room, he thought.

Love potions are actually banned at Hogwarts, so why was Slughorn allowed to have a cauldron-full in his N.E.W.T. Potions class? It's possible that Dumbledore allowed it so Harry would hear Slughorn's lecture on the dangers of love potions before he showed him the memories about Merope Gaunt and the sad childhood of Tom Riddle. It had the appearance of a shallow stone or metal basin, into which runes and strange symbols were carved and precious stones were fitted. It was filled with a silvery substance that appears to be a cloudy liquid/gas; [2] the collected memories of people who had siphoned their recollections into it. [2] [1] Dumbledore looked very intently at Harry for a moment, and then said, "I have a theory, no more than that. ... It is my belief that your scar hurts both when Lord Voldemort is near you, and when he is feeling a particularly strong surge of hatred."A Pensieve is a shallow stone basin with ancient Saxon runes and symbols carved around the edge used to collect and view memories ( GF30, Pm). When in use, a silvery light shines from its contents, which are bright, whitish silver, and cloud-like, moving ceaselessly. Harry thought the stuff in the basin looked like “light made liquid – or like wind made solid” ( GF30). Curiosity got the best of Harry, and he looked too closely at the instrument. When his nose touched the odd substance, Harry fell into the memory that was inside the Pensieve. [2] Initially confused, Harry settled in to watch a hearing for the Durmstrang Institute Headmaster, Igor Karkaroff. He was chained and bedraggled looking. In the memory, he had come from Azkaban to give up the names of his fellow Death Eaters. Of the names he listed, many fell flat, until he accused Augustus Rookwood, an Unspeakable. [2] This suggests that Rookwood belongs to Ludo Bagman's father's generation, and thus is quite a few years Ludo's senior. We don't know whether Bagman senior was accused of any Death Eater involvement.

it was a very beautiful, circular room, lined with pictures of previous headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts, all of whom were fast asleep, their chests rising and falling gently. Ludovic Bagman, you were caught passing information to Lord Voldemort's supporters," said Mr. Crouch. "For this, I suggest a term of imprisonment in Azkaban lasting no less than -"It also seems that Silvanus wasn’t very good at learning from his magical creature-related mistakes. Apparently, he had ‘no fewer than sixty-two periods of probation during his time of employment at the school (a record that still stands)’. Also, J.K. Rowling tell us that he ‘once famously caused the Great Hall to catch fire after enchanting an Ashwinder to play the Worm in a play of “The Fountain of Fair Fortune.”’ ‘The Fountain of Fair Fortune’ is a story written by Beedle the Bard and appears in his tales – if you’d like to find out more about it, here’s an article for you. It's perhaps worth noting that Karkaroff left Snape until last when naming names to save his own skin, and that Snape is on speaking terms with him during Harry's fourth year (even if not publicly so). Why is Harry so surprised that Dumbledore has been communicating with Sirius? Why has Sirius never mentioned this to Harry? There was Antonin Dolohov," he said. "I - I saw him torture countless Muggles and - and non-supporters of the Dark Lord." A shallow stone basin lay there, with odd carvings around the edge: runes and symbols that Harry did not recognise. The silvery light was coming from the basin’s contents, which were like nothing Harry had ever seen before. He could not tell whether the substance was liquid or gas. It was a bright, whitish silver, and it was moving ceaselessly; the surface of it became ruffled like water beneath wind, and then, like clouds, separated and swirled smoothly. It looked like light made liquid — or like wind made solid — Harry couldn’t make up his mind." — Harry Potter viewing the Pensieve in the Headmaster's office for the first time [src]