Foe Glass

ats_fhc3 the.gremlin at verizon.net
Sat Nov 9 18:50:33 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 46388

Melody wrote:
"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."

Okay, the passage is: "Snape followed him [Dumbledore], looking into 
the Foe-Glass, where his own face was still visible, glaring into 
the room" (GoF, 679, US Ed.).
Just for fun, I'm picking this apart. It does not make any mention 
of Dumbledore and McGonagall in the glass. The way the sentance is 
phrased, it sounds like Snape's face is the only one still visible 
in the glass. However, the radio-tuner idea does work here, because 
Harry could see Crouch's enemies in the glass, and not his own. 
However, if Snape's face was the only one left, what would account 
for him seeing only him, other than the whole "I am my own worst 
ememy thing"?
-Acire





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