Yeah, I assumed the same. The chapter specifies “episodic memory” (although, somewhat confusingly, it says “everything” earlier in the sentence):
Everything, forget everything, Tom Riddle, Professor Quirrell, forget your whole life, forget your entire episodic memory, forget the disappointment and the bitterness and the wrong decisions, forget Voldemort -
It seems this is a real thing that can happen. “In the case of dissociative amnesia, individuals are separated from their memories … they may forget who they are and everything about themselves and their personal history”, yet they can walk and talk and do everything well enough to “move to a new location and establish a new identity” as an adult: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-amnesia
Yeah, I assumed the same. The chapter specifies “episodic memory” (although, somewhat confusingly, it says “everything” earlier in the sentence):
Everything, forget everything, Tom Riddle, Professor Quirrell, forget your whole life, forget your entire episodic memory, forget the disappointment and the bitterness and the wrong decisions, forget Voldemort -
It seems this is a real thing that can happen. “In the case of dissociative amnesia, individuals are separated from their memories … they may forget who they are and everything about themselves and their personal history”, yet they can walk and talk and do everything well enough to “move to a new location and establish a new identity” as an adult: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-amnesia