[HPforGrownups] Re: Mirror and Obstacles (why Harry...stone?)

[Robert Gonzalez]

No: HPFGUIDX 47575


Scheherazade (gracious that is a mouthful) wrote:
>
> >
> > >I have a completely different original reading of this.  I thought
> > >that Dumbledore left the mirror for Harry to find because he wanted
> > >him to see his family in it.  Dumbledore knew that having a family
> > >was Harry's deepest desire, and he wanted to be able to tell Harry
> > >that he shouldn't waste away wishing for his family, like the men in
> > >front of the Mirror of Erised, and should, instead, move on with his
> > >new life with his friends.

me:
I think that Dumbledore left the mirror for Harry to find so that he would
understand it when he encountered it at the end. All the other obstacles
they figured out by logic but the mirror had to be explained because
otherwise Harry would not have seen the stone but only his parents like when
he first encountered it.

Rob