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Interlude: Self-Recording Pensieves

Jane Blane

Committee On Experimental Potions

December 31st, 1994

Dear Madam Blane:

I wish to register the creation of a new potion with your Committee. I have completed the necessary forms (see attached packet), and this letter is only to give a short description of the potion for your records.

I invented this potion to mimic the properties of a Pensieve. It has the silvery color and texture of thoughts placed into a Pensieve, and holds memories, as they do. However, this potion takes the strongest memories of a certain specific mind in the room with it, the first new one to enter once its creator has placed it into a bottle made of glass (see attached packet, especially forms C.1 and D.4, for details on the necessity of a glass container), and contains them. The creator of the potion must usually speak to this new person in order to facilitate certain memories floating to the forefront of the mind. Also, while the Pensieve Potion can contain a great many memories, and store them very fast, it is sometimes a tedious task to sort through them. Each container of the potion can be used only once, and only on the first person other than the creator to enter the room where it is present; should a second person enter the room, it will not record his memories. All these are limitations of the potion that I intend to work out as my research continues.

Suggested uses: instructing students, testing the veracity of suspected criminals, providing testimony at trial.

I await your word on whether you will allow the production of this potion, and hope to find favor in your eyes.

I am,

Professor Severus Snape

Potions Master

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.