Sirius' s mirror

[Rebecca M]

No: HPFGUIDX 87283

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Najwa Issa" 
<sawsan_issa at e...> wrote:
>  
>  
> cubs9911 wrote:
> > I was wondering today what the purpose
> > will be of the mirror that Sirius gave to Harry.
> > I wonder if anyone thinks that Harry will need
> > this sometime in the future. He never got a
> > chance to use it and I dont think that JKR would
> > put it there for no other reason than for Harry to
> > regret never using it. Any ideas.
>  
> I have been wondering about that for a while now. I think that it 
has a
> significance for later,

I ocntinue to think that the significance will have to do with Harry 
realizing that by his failure to use the mirror he condemmed Sirius 
to death -- after all in OotP all he does is remember the mirror and 
try to use it to contact Sirius, he doesn't have a "Oh my God, what 
an idiot I was not to remember this before" moment.

I think the plot development of the next couple of books will hinge 
on Harry getting pulled deep into the issues around the prophecy and 
his own guilt in Sirius' and, in some ways, even his parents' 
deaths -- I think he will be even darker and angrier than in book 5 
and his anger may lead him away from Dumbledore and to inadvertently 
aiding V.

Rebecca