pervy snape-fancier

I've been sitting on these for a while not feeling very articulate or creative. Not that I do right now either, of course, but I'd rather they were out of my inbox without the total cop-out of just deleting them outright. So I give you one of the Fandom Top Fives I was asked back in September.

from janus:
5 fave wizarding artefacts (includes sweets).

I don't know if you meant to include things like potions in this, but I'm going to include one.

Amortentia -- I think the way it smells different to each person and telltale of the object of their affections is neat. I wonder, though, does that mean that if two people are each in love with the same person, does it smell the same to each of them? Or could there be some variation based on what each person personally associated with the object? And would it change if you got dosed with it? I.e., if person A gives Amortentia to person B, would the scent of it change from hinting at person C to person A for the duration? And what if there's no one in particular you're attached to at the moment -- do the scents somehow symbolize what you're attracted to in general? (Or is that what it's doing anyway?)

The Knight Bus -- It's wacky and all, but it's really a very impressive feat of wizarding engineering when you think of all the spells that must be involved in its operation.

The Marauder's Map -- Ethical implications aside, how genius do you have to be to cook up that kind of magic when you're ~16?

Pensieve -- Being able to replay memories like recordings would be great. None of this degenerating "Well, I think it went like this, but um, I don't really remember..." business.

Fred & George's Daydream Charms -- Thirty minutes, wow! Hard to find time for that in my day nowadays. I wonder how much control the user has over the content.