Some Discrepancies

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 86349

greatlit2003:

> In the first book, when Harry looks into the Mirror of Erised and 
> sees his family, he sees his parents and other ancestors, 
> including "other pairs of green eyes" like his own. A few lines 
> later, JKR writes that the *Potters* waved at Harry out of the 
> mirror. The green eyes are a connection between Harry and his 
> mother, and some of the people in the mirror are clearly members of 
> the Evans family

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Constance Vigilance (me):

It is important to remember that the Mirror represents only the 
viewers "heart's desires". There is no verification that anything 
that appears in the mirror is true, in fact, my guess is that things 
viewed in the mirror are _rarely_ true. Dumbledore claims that were 
he to look in the mirror, he would see himself with socks. The 
inferrence is that he doesn't have enough socks, so the mirror is not 
reflecting truth. He further says that men have wasted away in front 
of that mirror. If those men were seeing truth, they would be out 
living it, not pining away wishing for what they don't have.

In the case of Harry's desires showing lots of people with green 
eyes, it only reflects his _desire_ that he had lots of relatives on 
his mother's side. Similarly, that he had lots of relatives with his 
knobby knees. I think we can make no further conclusion based on 
that. We certainly cannot conclude that Lily's family is magical 
based on this input.

Constance Vigilance