Foe Glass

[Betty]

No: HPFGUIDX 35804

jktaylor wrote:

> A newbie thought on Snape and the Foe Glass:
>
> When I first read it, I thought that Snape saw himself in the glass,
> because he is his own (worst?!?) enemy.

That's actually is a nice idea, I agree he can be his own worst enemy, 
but I'm afraid the Foe Glass doesn't work that way.

Katze suggested:

> The only thing I can think of it is that the Foe glass shows the enemies
> of the owner. I would guess that the glass belonged to Crouch.
Porphyria wrote: 
This must be it; I *don't* think it's supposed to work like the Mirror 
of Erised. 
large snippage
 Katze must be right in 
that the Foe Glass somehow knows who its owner is. Maybe when you buy a 
Foe Glass, you have to cast some kind of ownership spell on it to let it 
know who you are.
I like this idea, but I don't think Crouch had to own the foe glass.  It
could have been Moody's.  Crouch says he packs all of Moody's Dark Arts
things in his trunk.  It's likely that he could have shrunken it or
expanded the inside of the rtrunk as neeced to fit it. I do like the
idea of a spell the owner casts, and possibly Crouch re-cast the spell
to his own purposes once he'd gotten the foe glass?
Betty