[HPforGrownups] Re: "Harry, I am your *Uncle*" (+ Dreams)

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  From: Deeblite 
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  Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 12:09 AM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: "Harry, I am your *Uncle*" (+ Dreams)


  At 01:58 PM 5/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
  >At 05:32 PM 5/11/01 +0000, Rita Winston wrote:
  > >It has to be recognizable, not it has to be true. Harry's
  > >deepest desire was family (extended family, blood kin).
  > >
  > >So the Mirror showed him people he would recognize as family.
  >
  >I like this theory -- it also explains why he didn't see the
  >Dursleys in the mirror.


  yeah but another explanatio for that is that the mirror only showed him the 
  Potters.   And Lilly took the name Potter when she married James, so that 
  would explain her presence


  In SS, p.208-209:

  "She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes-her eyes are just like mine,Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass.  Bright green-..."

  then

  "And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror, and saw other pairs of green eyes like his..."

  Now, there's no reason why people in James' family can't have green eyes, but I, personally, took these two passages to mean that a) Harry has his mother's green eyes...and b) anyone else in the mirror who has green eyes "like his" most likely are then part of Lily's family, not James'

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