[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius double mirror

[Echa Schneider]

No: HPFGUIDX 71584


On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 07:19 PM, madeyemood wrote:

> 1) Did any reader remember the gift before Harry came across it at the 
> end of
> the book? [It reminded me of how, in SS, a vital clue resided on 
> Dumbledore's
> chocolate frog card that we flashed on practically as the train took 
> off from
> platform 9 3/4.]

I was getting so frustrated with Harry for not using the gift, and then 
I kept thinking that he would remember it in just the nick of time and 
it would save the day. By the end, when he was desperately trying to 
check on him, I was actually screaming at my book about how stupid 
Harry was being. Then when he finally found it, I was completely 
heartbroken. That scene was just so tragic.

> 2) Why didn't Sirius remind Harry about it instead of having both of 
> them go to
> such extravagant lengths to connect? Why would S want to, for 
> instance, hang
> out in the Gryff fireplace every hour, or have Harry risk breaking 
> into Um's
> office rather than just remind him about the mirror in the bottom of 
> his trunk?

Isn't the only time Harry talks to Sirius after he gets the mirror the 
one time he contacts him through Umbridge's fireplace? I thought it was 
fairly odd that Sirius didn't ask him why he was using the fireplace, 
but then I just figured that maybe he didn't have a chance to say 
anything before Harry departed.