Question of the Week

Podcast Question of the Week – Episode 68

In this week’s chapter, we meet Dumbledore’s captivating Pensieve. Michael comes at you this week with not just one question, but rather quite a few – but all on the topic of this interesting device.

In this chapter, we are introduced to the Pensieve, with Dumbledore saying that it relieves the feeling of having “too many thoughts and memories crammed into [one’s] head.” Dumbledore goes on to describe the process of using the Pensieve, saying that “One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind [and] pours them into the basin.” How exactly does the magic of this device work? How do you use your wand to pick a memory, and in doing so, are you actually removing the memory from your brain or making a magical copy of it? How many memories can one Pensieve hold? Is the substance alone or the bowl alone what operates the magic, or both? How do you actually get out of a memory? And what happens if you journey beyond the memory’s “edge”?

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