This is not to be taken as a dogma. I read that Malfoy represents the frontal lobe. His name means "Bad Faith". Neville Longbottom represents the hind-brain, or the Medulla Oblongata.
When Draco Malfoy steals the Rembrall from Neville, it is the process of surrendering the faculties of Memory to the jurisdiction of the Frontal Lobe. This is an act of Bad Faith.
When Harry, the hero and the Divine Potter from alchemy, retrieves the Remembrall and returns it to Neville, it represents a re-assertion of the Intuitive Mind. When the Rational is in control of Memory, it abuses its power and is misled by its own natural shortcomings. It bullies the Intuitive mind in this instance. By retrieving the Remembrall, Harry restores this balance. Now the individual will only remember the important things when the unconscious, which speak through Intuition, WANTS a memory to be used. This prevents an abuse of power, as in our system of checks and balances in the United States government, although one should be cautious not to take this analogy too literally; the functioning of government and how we understand it is very different from this psychic function and crisis. The chief symptom of health is a mind that is clear and not crowded with troubling memories.*
* This is not to say that useful memories cannot be upsetting. It just means that one is no longer troubled by the excessive expenditure of attention on memories. Even a memory that was "good" upon conception can become troubling.
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