In the Harry Potter world, there's this useful instrument, used quite a lot by Professor Dumbledore. It was first discovered by HP in The Goblet of Fire.
It is useful, but is subjected to potential abuse, which is what Harry himself did the first he saw it.
Well, you know, curiousity. It's a blessing.
Anyway, this instrument is called a Pensieve. For those of you who aren't fans of HP, a Pensieve looks like a shallow basin filled with silvery, cloud-like substance of liquid/gas consistency.
And what, one may ask, is this silvery, cloud-like substance of liquid/gas consistency? It's a bunch of memories, "floating" together after it is siphoned out by their owner. Then, anyone can access it should they find themselves in the vicinity of that Pensieve.
On the one hand, it is useful in the sense that you can siphon out the memories you don't want to forget and retrieve it anytime.
You can use it to connect the dots in your quest for the Holy Grail.
You can use it to show people what happens at a particular time and place. Which would be useful to, say, win an argument. Or even a trial in court. Huh. That would be particularly useful. We should make this Pensieve thing a thing. But then, it can be tampered with, like what Professor Slughorn did to the memory of the conversation between Tom Riddle and him. Which turns out to be an important piece of the how-to-end-Voldemort-forever puzzle.
Or you can use it to simply feel nostalgic and dwell in those memories.
On the other, well, you know. Privacy and abuse and not living life due dwelling in memories and stuff.
And how i wish i have one.
The Pensieve i mean. Not memories.
It'd be too pathetic to desire a memory. Just hoping it would come floating by. Yeah, that's about right.
Not that i have too many great memories that would lead to the end of world poverty and hunger. Or to finding the cure for cancer and AIDS and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Or to increase literacy rate. Or to the access of clean water for every part of the world. Or to reduce the effect of global warming. Or to bring peace in Middle East.
Or maybe there is. Man, i should really start working on it.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- Albus Dumbledore -
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