Foe Glass

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No: HPFGUIDX 46383

Alexander Lomski wrote:
> >   What everyone seems to have missed, is that Dumbledore,
> > Snape and McGonagall are what *Harry* sees in the Foe Glass,
> > not what Barty does.

aja_1991 wrote:
> Perhaps the foe glass is not like, say, the Mirror of Erised, which
> automatically "retunes" itself for each observer.  Instead, it may
> be like a radio, which is permanently locked on one "station" until
> retuned.  In other words, Barty Crouch Jr. "tuned" the foe glass for
> himself.


Aja, I like your "tuned" view-point.  That was my impression as well.
 Since Barty owned the glass, and the glass is a magical object that
sees the truth not his poly-juice cover, the glass reflects his foes.
 If it is just whoever looks in the glass sees their foes, then when
Snape looked in the foe-glass, he saw McG, Dumb, *and* himself.  Now,
it is possible to be a foe against oneself, but since it was just said
that Harry saw the three profs int eh glass and then Snape saw the
same three, I think it is meant to say that the Foe-Glass reflects the
foes of the owner not the looker.

My question is then why was Harry not in the glass?  Does it only
matter if the foe is mentally against the direct person not the ideals
of the person?  The three profs were after Barty Jr.  Harry did not
know Barty Jr. was the man before him, so he was not a foe of him as
yet.  That is the only way I can see why Harry was not in the glass as
well.

Remember the map?  Well of course, you do, but the map in Snape's hand
showed Snape what he would read on the map.  Harry saw the words as
well even though they were not intended to him.  Snape had the map in
his hands and it was his command that caused the map to insult him.

So, in the case of the magical object Foe-Glass, I say it is not in
the eye of the beholder, but the hand of the possessor.


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