[HPforGrownups] RE: Snape / House Elves / Harry's Relatives / Viktor / Karkaroff

[Ronale Stevens]

No: HPFGUIDX 39330


--- catlady_de_los_angeles <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:

 
>> Ronale wrote:
> 
>> At no time does the passage tell us which side of
>> his family they
>> come from. (Though I presume the green-eyed people
>> are from 
>> mother's side.) 



> I also presume that the green-eyed people are on his
> mother's side,
> so I am very annoyed at the book having this
> sentence: "The Potters 
> smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily
> back at them, his 
> hands pressed flat against the glass as though he
> was hoping" etc
> 
> That comes right after the sentence that you
> referred to (paragraph 
> break in-between) about the green eyes and knobby
> knees.
> 
> Altho' I have an opinion that apparently no one else
> in this list 
> shares: the people Harry sees in the Mirror of
> Erised are not 
> portraits of selected real dead relatives, they are
> portraits of what 
> Harry imagines his relatives to look like (his
> parents look right 
> because he has actually seen THEM, altho' not
> recently). Because the 
> Mirror of Erised reads minds, not necromancy.
> 

You could well be right.  But I interpreted the words
"The Potters" to refer to James and Lily, just as I
would interpret the words "The Stevenses" to mean my
husband and myself, not our uncles, aunts, cousins, 
etc.  Maybe I'm more egocentric than I realized.

But once again Rowlings words are open to so many
interpretations that no satisfactory conclusion can be
reached--yet.  She, as well as the mirror, are playing
mind games.


--Ronale7

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