[HPforGrownups]Mirror of Erised

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Jana wrote:

> I was thinking about what Harry saw in the Mirror of Erised. Several posts 
> have questioned whether Lord Voldemort killed all of those people and why, 
> iif he did kill off all those people, he wanted to kill off the entire Potter 
> line. It occurs to me though that the mass of people Harry sees in the Mirror 
> of Erised might not be real. I mean, Harry's deepest desire was probably 
> something like being with a big family of people who all love and care about 
> him, so the Mirror of Erised showed him just exactly what he wanted to see. 

Exactly what I think.  As Dumbledore said, the Mirror gives us neither 
knowledge or truth.  What I think happened is it took the images of Harry's 
parents from his subconscious mind, as he did live with them for the first 15 
months of his life, so those memories would be there.  Anyway, it took those 
images from his mind, showed them along with a various assortment of people who 
shared characteristics of each of them as well as Harry.  Such as knobby knees, 
unruly hair, and green eyes.

Since as far as we or Harry know, his only living relatives are Petunia and 
Dudley, and neither one of them appeared in the mirror.  Because in his mind he 
wouldn't want them anywhere around, and the mirror knows that.  So it didn't 
show the truth, because if they are part of his family, they should've appeared 
in the mirror along with the others.  But as we know, the mirror doesn't show 
the truth.

Richelle

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