Harry's other relatives???

[steffy07]

No: HPFGUIDX 70029

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, EnsTren at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/13/2003 3:59:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> mreddo at y... writes:
> 
> 
> > Harry sees his other relatives in the Mirror of Erised in Year 1. 
Not 
> > only does he see his parents, but he sees many other green eyes 
like 
> > his own and an old man with knobby knees. He doesn't see anyone 
that 
> > he recognizes (definitely would have recognized Dumbledore!), and 
he 
> > would probably remember later on if he recognized Sirius from 
that 
> > picture. 
> > 
> 
> I think you have it all wrong.  The Mirror shows you what you want 
to see, 
> not what is.
> 
> I think all of those images came from Harry's head, the mirror made 
a family 
> that all look a bit like him.  It is an illusion.
> 
> Since Harry has no previous idea what his family looks like it took 
his ideas 
> of what they should look like, to resemble him.

--This is a good idea, but remember, when Harry gets the Photo album 
from Hagrid at the end of the year in SS, he sees acutal pictures of 
his parents, I think the first time he has ever seen a picture.  He 
doesn't mention that the pictures don't look like the people he saw 
in the Mirror.  If the people in the Mirror were his own images of 
what his parent's probably looked like, then surely when he saw a 
REAL picture, if they looked different, then the Harry would have 
thought to himself "Boy, my parent's looked different in the Mirror 
of Erised"

Steffy