The Mirror Holds the Answer (and another clue!)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
Tonks_op:> I bought a collectors plate from someone in the UK (on E-
bay) and I 
> was very surprised when I saw it up close in person. It is the 
> Mirror of Erised. The title is on the back "The Mirror Holds the 
> Answer". What is surprising is the way that the artist has shown 
> Harry and the stone in the mirror.  I don't know how many here are 
> familiar with a picture call the "Sacred Heart of Jesus", but this 
> picture reminds me of that.  It does not show the stone in his 
> pocket, it shows it in the place that his heart would be, the stone 
> is red, human heart shaped and has light radiating from it just 
like 
> in the picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  I am just amazed by 
> this.  I have not seen this picture anywhere else.  I didn't pay 
> that much attention to the picture on the plate when I bought it 
and 
> it is hard to see things on the internet anyway.  But it is just 
> clear as day when I open the box just now.  I think that this is 
> even more evidence that Harry is not just the boy next door!

Geoff: 
Tonks kindly emailed me off-group about this one; fortunate for me  
because I rarely visit OT because of time constraints.

My first take on it was that it seems to be leaning a bit to the 
Catholic side of things. As a non-conformist Protestant, I do not pay 
a lot of attention to "religious" art - I'm a bit of a Philistine in 
terms of art in general. So I dobn't feel qualified in that direction 
to comment.

My second thought was that I wouldbe inclined to pigeon-hole this in 
my mind with fanfic where there are all sorts of interesting spin-
offs and "what ifs" which can be quite interesting to speculate on.