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NOVEMBER 7, 2003 at 5:11 PM
Posted by GRAE
Source: Maple Ridge Times via Wizard News
Us older Harry Potter fans can sympathize with Dumbledore's need to keep a Pensieve handy, as Marlyn Graziano muses in their column
for the Maple Ridge Times.
I wish I had a Pensieve.
Harry Potter fans will know what I'm talking about. For the uninitiated, a short explanation: The Pensieve is a marvelous device. Readers are introduced to it as a magical basin filled with a whitish silver substance.
That substance is made up of strands of thought, pulled from the mind of Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
If I had Professor Dumbledore's Pensieve in my kitchen cupboard, I could at least pick and choose what information I wanted to disregard for the moment. And I would be assured that although I had removed that information from my mind, it would still be accessible - sent off for safe storage and future retrieval.
As it stands, I have no way of knowing what's going to slip away and when.
Sometimes, it's not all that important. I figure that if I get to the top of the stairs and forget what I had headed up there to fetch, well at least I got some exercise.
When I get to the grocery store and can remember only three out of the four things I needed to buy, well, three out of four ain't bad.
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Prefect
Points: 321
Isis says:
one of the many helpful things for the wizarding world. i wonder if they'd allow me to bring it into exams whhat a helpful device that will be. Don't you think.
Posted Jan 16, 2004 at 7:43 AM EST
Professor
Points: 1155
MissMaryPotter says:
a Time turner, a pensive, and a wand would be useful in my everyday life, that way I could turn back time, fix the mistakes I made in the day, then go home and forget about it, while summoning the remote control from my roomate's hand and a glass of coke at the same time.
Posted Jan 22, 2004 at 12:51 AM EST
Professor
Points: 1126
holtasaurus says:
Pensives would be soo cool!!! Even though id probley forget about them hehe Im trying to become a student!
Posted Jan 23, 2004 at 3:54 PM EST
Witch
Points: 841
evangalista says:
A pensieve would be great, especially when you have kids. Then you wouldn't have to worry about forgetting all the cute things they did when they were little. Just siphon it out, and bring it up later when they ask you about something! A great idea!
Posted Jan 28, 2004 at 9:20 PM EST
Professional Beater
Points: 20891
feltonluver says:
I really wish I had a pensive that way I could remember things, or go back in time and experience really good and fun times!
Posted Feb 22, 2004 at 6:29 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 3rd Class
Points: 1445
PotionMaster says:
It would be awesome to have a pensieve! I keep a journal sometimes so I can keep good memories recorded for ever but with a pensieve I could actually see them again. Oh that would be great. Too bad it's fiction.
Posted Mar 8, 2004 at 9:29 PM EST
Mediwitch
Points: 2608
nickyole1 says:
I thnk that it would be really cool to own and use a pensieve. Too bad I cannot, though. Oh well. Sometimes I really do get overloaded with thoughts!
Posted Jul 30, 2004 at 12:40 PM EST
Avada Kedavra Survivor
Points: 4063
the-girl-who-lived says:
I want a pensive. Life would be so much easier.
Posted Nov 7, 2004 at 4:37 PM EST
Witch
Points: 859
hwhitesi says:
I wish I had a pensieve. It would def. come in handy. It also would of been awesome to have a portable one, so that way during tests I could just pop into it and retrieve the answers I had studied before. Oh wait that would make my intentions of use bad...ok so maybe I wouldn't do that. But to relieve moments and memories with friends and watch them rehappen would be great. It would also solve a lot of arguements on events that happened. You could be like " see I told you it happened like that."
Posted Aug 22, 2006 at 3:16 AM EST
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