Harry not related to the Dursleys?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 55806

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Wolber
<katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
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> Gina Rosich <grosich at n...> wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/21/03 1:32:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> SaBoTaGe3p3 at h... writes:
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> > ... he didn't see the Dursleys. No Aunt Petunia or Dudley... So 
> > does that mean  that the Dursleys aren't related to Harry?? ...
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> Me: 
It doesn't show the truth or the future, just the deepest desires of
Harry's heart.  Harry desires to be with his parents and have a big
supportive family.  The Dursley's are mean to him and hate everything
about him and his parents...so family or not, he doesn't want them
there so of course, they would not be present in the Mirror of Erised.
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> ~Kathryn

bboy_mn:
Kathryn, I think you are on the right track here. Dumbledore,
referring to what Harry saw in the mirror says, "You, who have never
known your family, see them standing around you."

Harry longs for the family he has /never known/. He is aching inside
for all the missing pieces to the puzzle. He knows the Dursleys, so
they aren't 'missing pieces'. So he sees the part of his family that
are his 'deepest desire', the parts of his family he has never know.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn