Editing Magical objects in Harry Potter (section)

== Storage receptacles ==

=== Moody's Magical Trunk ===
[[File:The Making of Harry Potter 29-05-2012 (7386427778).jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|Moody's Magical Trunk]]
Alastor Moody is depicted as owning a strangely bewitched magical trunk. It has seven locks on it, and the trunk opens to a different assortment of objects for each lock. Most notably, though, the seventh compartment is about {{convert|10|ft|m|0}} deep (possibly because of the use of an Undetectable Extension Charm), and is where Barty Crouch Jr. imprisoned the real Moody. Other compartments contain spellbooks, Dark Detectors, and Moody's invisibility cloak.

=== Pensieve ===
[[Image:The Making of Harry Potter 29-05-2012 (7375511988).jpg|thumb|Pensieve stone basin]] 
According to Rowling, the '''Pensieve''' is a stone basin used to review memories. Covered in mystic runes, it contains memories whose physical form is neither gas nor liquid. A witch or wizard can extract their own or another's memories, store them in the Pensieve, and review them later. It also relieves the mind when it becomes cluttered with information. Anyone can examine the memories in the Pensieve, which also allows viewers to fully immerse themselves in the memories stored within, much like a magical form of [[virtual reality]].

Users of these devices view the memories from a [[Third-person narrative|third-person-point-of-view]], providing a near-[[omniscient]] perspective of the events preserved. J. K. Rowling confirmed memories in the Pensieve allow one to view details of things that happened even if they did not notice or remember them, and stated "that's the magic of the Pensieve, what brings it alive".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mugglenet.com/jkrinterview3.shtml |title=MuggleNet Emerson and Melissa's J.K. Rowling Interview Page 3 |publisher=Mugglenet.com |date=16 July 2005 |access-date=25 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110122257/http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview3.shtml |archive-date=10 November 2011}}</ref> The memories contained in the Pensieve have the appearance of silver threads. Memories that have deteriorated due to age, or that were heavily manipulated or tampered with to alter perspectives (such as Slughorn's), may appear thick and jelly-like and offer obscured viewing. Memories are not limited to just those of humans, since Hokey the house-elf provided Dumbledore with a memory as well. It makes its last appearance in ''Deathly Hallows'' when Harry uses it to uncover the truth about Snape.

In [[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|the fourth film]], the Pensieve in Dumbledore's office conforms to the description given in the novel. However, in the [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|sixth]] and [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2|eighth films]], it appears as a shallow metal dish, floating in midair and filled with a [[Mercury (element)|mercury]]-like liquid. During the eighth film, Harry removes it from the stone basin so he can use it to examine Snape's memories.