THE PENSIEVE PAPERS

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[See note regarding source FILOFAX.]

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FILOFAX: I could share a memory of more practice with Hestia, if you’d like.

PL: That won’t be necessary – you referenced an operation – was that Iscariot?

FILOFAX: Oh dear. I don’t think you ought to have heard that.

PL: What does the term ‘Iscariot’ mean in the context of the DoM?

FILOFAX: Now now. Don’t make me come over and wipe your memory, you naughty boy.

PL: Was your work at Hogwarts under the general heading of Operation: Iscariot?

FILOFAX: I’m sorry. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

[This went on for 42 total exchanges, all iterations of the same question. Under no circumstance would Source Filofax answer any questions or reveal any direct information about Operation: Iscariot.]

PL: So when you mentioned the operation, Jones surrendered the diary?

FILOFAX: Yes. Hooker wasn’t pleased. But orders are orders. Anyway, they had another prototype to play with.

PL: There were multiple diaries?

FILOFAX: Yes: a field copy and a control copy. Twins separated at birth, you could say.

PL: Did Artefacts succeed in implanting full immersive memories in one of the diaries?

FILOFAX: Eventually, yes. But that came later. When the diary entered the field, as it were, it contained text and the simulacra of memory. Nothing more.

PL: When did it go into the field?

FILOFAX: Now there’s a little tale. But I suspect you know more of it than you let on.

PL: Could you, from this point forward, only answer my questions directly and honestly without these coy diversions?

FILOFAX: Only if you ask me direct and honest questions. You tease me, I tease you. Aren’t those the rules of our little game?

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