The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

There is a treasure called the Pensieve in Dumbledore's office, which can store memories and watch the memories of others.

Dumbledore opened the door to his office and led Tom inside. At this time, the principals on the wall had already woken up and were gathering in groups to chat. When Tom came in, the principals just glanced at him and continued to chat. Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes, stood on its branch as usual, sleeping with his head buried in his wings.

There is a shelf behind Dumbledore's desk with the Sorting Hat hanging on it. There was a cold sword placed in a glass box next to the hat, with a ruby ​​the size of a pigeon egg inlaid on the hilt of the sword. This is the sword of Godric Gryffindor, and it is there for a true Gryffindor when he needs it.

Dumbledore walked to a black cabinet and took out a shallow stone basin. The mouth of the stone basin was engraved with runes and other mysterious symbols. The basin was already filled with the same clouds. A silvery substance that is both liquid and gaseous. The mysterious substance is like silver, but it is constantly flowing, with ripples appearing on the surface, and from time to time it spreads and rotates like clouds.

It's like light turned into liquid, and like wind condensed into solid.

"The pensieve is a tool for wizards to store memories. Most pensieves, like wands, will be buried together when the owner dies, because the memories inside have a strong personal color. However, there are also some pensieves that carry Memories are passed down from generation to generation by wizards, such as the Pensieve at Hogwarts." Dumbledore walked to the Pensieve, took out his wand, and stirred the memories stored inside.

The penetration of the wand caused the surface of the silver object to rotate faster, and even a small vortex was faintly formed.

"Sometimes I feel that there are too many thoughts and memories in my mind. Then I use the pensieve," Dumbledore said, pointing to the stone basin. "I use the wand to suck out the excess memories from my brain and pour them into this pensieve." In the basin, I’ll take a closer look when I have time.”

Tom glanced at the pensieve and found that a figure had faintly emerged from it.

"The human brain only develops and utilizes a small part of it," Tom retracted his gaze, "Professor, did you know? Human memory is divided into shallow memory and deep memory. Many times we think we have forgotten something, But it doesn’t, it’s just sleeping deep in our brains.”

"There are many reasons for forgetting, including time, pain, and external forces. Memory is a person's most beautiful asset, isn't it?" Tom's wand has appeared in his hand, "Professor Dumbledore, I can borrow your meditation Does the basin store some memories? I believe you wouldn’t peek at it, would you?”

Dumbledore smiled and nodded, vowing that he would not peek into the memories left by Tom, and if he broke the promise, he would never be able to eat dessert again. After taking the oath, Dumbledore taught Tom the method of extracting memories.

Tom believes that the function of the pensieve is to preserve the wizard's most "fresh" memories. You should know that memories will "fade" over time, and changes will occur in various details that the owner of the memory himself did not expect. Just like the memory of military training, the first day and the last day of military training are definitely different. The last day will add an inexplicable beautification filter to the first day.

However, if you extract the memory after the first day of military training, you can get the most "fresh" and original memory of military training.

Tom wanted to do this because he found that the memories he saw from Lockhart were starting to become blurry, especially the memories of the few people Lockhart had stolen from him, and the details were changing. These memories are gradually taking on the color of himself and Lockhart, which is unacceptable to Tom.

So he wanted to extract these memories and keep them pure.

Tom followed Dumbledore's instructions and placed the tip of his staff on his temple. When he removed the tip of the stick, some silver-white strands of hair-like silk were stuck to it. Tom put this new memory into the pensieve, and he saw several strange yet familiar wizard faces floating in the basin. Tom took the Pensieve in his hands and turned it like a gold miner turning a sandbox until the memories sank.

After everything was completed, Dumbledore walked over to Tom and added Evans' vial of memories to the pensieve. All of a sudden, the scene in the basin changed. Dumbledore also came up and approached the pensieve with Tom.

Tom looked hard into the basin and found that underneath the silver memories was a carriage-like scene. Tom seemed to be looking into the train through a train skylight.

This seems to be a Muggle train? Judging from the interior of the carriage, it should be a first-class seat, but Tom was sure that this was not the Hogwarts Express. The characters in the basin car are also adults dressed as Muggles. Judging from their expressions and movements, these people are all passengers on this train.

Dumbledore took Tom's arm and pulled him closer to the basin.

"Watch what I do." He gave Tom a demonstration. He walked to the pensieve, bent down, and plunged into the basin. Originally, the depth of the stone basin would have submerged Dumbledore's cheeks at most, without even getting his temples wet. But the basin swallowed Dumbledore like a bottomless abyss.

Tom followed suit and bent down so that the tip of his nose touched the surface of the memory in the basin.

In an instant, Dumbledore's office turned upside down. Tom felt a suction coming from in front of him, as if he was on the edge of a whirlpool. He rushed forward and fell headfirst into the basin. The memory in the basin was obviously bright silver, but after falling in, Tom felt like he was falling into a cold, dark substance.

Tom found himself sitting in a soft chair. The chair was very spacious, with enough space reserved in front, and a small shelf for luggage at hand. In front of him was a clean and tidy table, and across the table sat the kind-hearted old wizard Dumbledore.

He pointed behind Tom, and Tom looked in that direction and saw Evans sitting diagonally behind him. Even in the Muggle world, Evans wore his monocle, double-breasted coat and bowler hat. If time went forward eighty years, this outfit would not feel out of place at all. But in the 1990s, this outfit was a bit out of place.

At this time, Evans was reading a copy of the Muggle "Mirror" seriously. The passengers in the same carriage were also busy with their own things: reading, writing at their desks, or closing their eyes to meditate.

No one plays with mobile phones or game consoles because portable versions of these have not yet been invented. There are always people who like to ridicule Chinese people by saying that foreigners like to read books on the subway, but these people must have never been abroad. They don't know that people abroad concentrate on reading on the subway because there is no signal.

In the past two years, signals have become more popular, and they have a lot of fun playing with their mobile phones.