7 Pensieve Memories The Harry Potter Movies Cut

7 Pensieve Memories The Harry Potter Movies Cut

Harry used Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve to observe important memories several times throughout the Harry Potter books, but most of these moments were cut from the films. These scenes presented crucial peeks into the Wizarding World's past to help Harry, and the audience, understand the circumstances around Voldemort and his rise to power. However, while this context was helpful, it proved less critical than other Harry Potter scenes and was therefore cut from the limited time available in the movies. Harry still dove into the Pensieve, a device used to view memories firsthand, a handful of times in the Harry Potter...

Harry used Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve to observe important memories several times throughout the Harry Potter books, but most of these moments were cut from the films. These scenes presented crucial peeks into the Wizarding World's past to help Harry, and the audience, understand the circumstances around Voldemort and his rise to power. However, while this context was helpful, it proved less critical than other Harry Potter scenes and was therefore cut from the limited time available in the movies. Harry still dove into the Pensieve, a device used to view memories firsthand, a handful of times in the Harry Potter movies. Like in the books, his first interaction with the mysterious device was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when he accidentally fell in and witnessed Barty Crouch Jr's sentence to Azkaban Prison. Then, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore used the Pensieve to show Harry his first meeting with the young Tom Riddle, and the device was central in discovering Voldemort's Horcrux plan. Still, the Pensieve had many additional moments in the books. 7 Dumbledore’s Memory Of Trelawney’s ‘Chosen One’ Prophecy In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort lured Harry to the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic so that Harry could retrieve a prophecy. In the movie, this was smashed, but Harry still heard a snippet of the prediction. It told of a boy who would have power the Dark Lord knew not. However, little else was explained about this, though the book provided a much more complete story. After Harry's adventure at the Ministry of Magic in Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore took Harry to his office and explained the significance of the prophecy. He told Harry how he had first heard it during an interview with Professor Trelawney, in which she (unknowingly) gave her first authentic prediction. The headmaster used the Pensieve to show it in its entirety, revealing to Harry that during this interview, a Death Eater (who Harry would later discover was Severus Snape) had overheard the following book moment and reported it back to Voldemort: "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies . . . and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives..." - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 6 Bob Ogden’s Memory Of The Gaunt Family In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore and Harry began their private lessons together. In the movie, the headmaster wanted his student to see the first moment he met the Dark Lord as a child and reveal that, even in school, Voldemort had been searching for a solution to mortality in the Horcruxes. However, by the time of the Half-Blood Prince book's ending, it became clear that Dumbledore also intended to ensure that Harry fully understood who Tom Riddle had been and where he had come from. To assist with this in Harry Potter, Dumbledore showed Harry the memory of a Ministry official, Bob Ogden, who had once paid a visit to an old and very proud wizarding family, the Gaunts. The patriarch, Marvolo Gaunt, had been Voldemort's grandfather, and his daughter Merope, was Voldemort's mother. Marvolo had been extremely abusive to his children, especially his daughter. Though the family had once been wealthy and powerful, their gold had been squandered, and Ogden's memory saw them living in squalor. Harry also got a glimpse of Voldemort's Muggle namesake in this memory, Tom Riddle Sr. He had been a wealthy, attractive man who lived in a nearby village, and Merope had fallen desperately in love with him (much to the rage of her father). This love was u...