"Harry, I am your *Uncle*" (+ Dreams)

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No: HPFGUIDX 18556

Magda wrote:

<<I don't really believe Snape is Harry's uncle but, playing Devil's
 Advocate for a moment, might it not be that he wouldn't recognize a
cleaned-up, smiling, non-black-wearing Snape?<<

Like he didn´t recognise the short-haired, younger and healthy Sirius 
on his parents´ wedding photo?

Good thought. But Snape still *isn´t* related to Harry.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:

> Except for James and Lily, I am not convinced that the people whom 
> Harry saw in the Mirror were real people who ever existed. The 
Mirror 
> figures out what the viewer's heart's desire is, and then comes 
> up with an image that the viewer will recognize as hiser heart's 
> desire. It has to be recognizable, not it has to be true. Harry's 
> deepest desire was family (extended family, blood kin). 

Don´t agree. The real bad thing Voldemort did to him is take his 
family (his closer family in any case), so his deepest desire is to 
see it undone, although he knows it can´t be. This wish to undo 
things is extended to his whole family rather that to his parents 
only. 

Harry´s desire also is to find a place where he really belongs, where 
people accept him as he is and share his thoughts, ideas and feelings. 
Living with the Dursleys, he´s never had that. The people in the 
mirror represent this idea by sharing some of his physical 
characteristics, IMO.