you’re uh, assigning just a tad too much power to the well above average biochemist.
More seriously, I think Harry’s path here is much more magic than bio focused. He’s seen memories removed and copied. If he can figure out how to remove ALL the memories from a body, and if he knows the obliviate charm, and if dead cells work for poly juice (which they should since hair is dead) then he has a decent path using only minor variants to known magic.
But the way memories are stored in Pensieves, all they provide is a firstperson video feed of things that have happened. That’s not enough information to make up a whole person.
Is it first person video, or first person full sense feed (including sound smell, feel of the chair etc.)? Because if its a first person full sense feed, plugging that into human brains is how we get people right now.
If you push the same feed into a brain, you might get the same person at the end. I’ll note that the Mr. Bester storyline makes a point of showing how reproducible thoughts are given the same conditions.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to at least ask? Professor E-V might not have ideas, but he would have contacts at Oxford where he/Harry could find other ideas. The downside is that, by involving the non magical world, his family and those contacts will become bigger targets. And I suspect Harry would be loathe to expose them with an unknown enemy with largely unknown capabilities.
you’re uh, assigning just a tad too much power to the well above average biochemist.
More seriously, I think Harry’s path here is much more magic than bio focused. He’s seen memories removed and copied. If he can figure out how to remove ALL the memories from a body, and if he knows the obliviate charm, and if dead cells work for poly juice (which they should since hair is dead) then he has a decent path using only minor variants to known magic.
But the way memories are stored in Pensieves, all they provide is a firstperson video feed of things that have happened. That’s not enough information to make up a whole person.
Is it first person video, or first person full sense feed (including sound smell, feel of the chair etc.)? Because if its a first person full sense feed, plugging that into human brains is how we get people right now.
If you push the same feed into a brain, you might get the same person at the end. I’ll note that the Mr. Bester storyline makes a point of showing how reproducible thoughts are given the same conditions.
Hair isn’t even cellular. Given that it can be cut off and used, follicles are not required.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to at least ask? Professor E-V might not have ideas, but he would have contacts at Oxford where he/Harry could find other ideas. The downside is that, by involving the non magical world, his family and those contacts will become bigger targets. And I suspect Harry would be loathe to expose them with an unknown enemy with largely unknown capabilities.