Sirius double mirror

[madeyemood]

No: HPFGUIDX 71673

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? 

Echa:
> 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. <<<<

!!¡¡kudos to you, echa, for keeping that detail in mind.¡¡!!

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?

Echa:
> 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. <<<<

You may be right. I haven't checked. If that's the case, we can say
that it might have been the heat of the moment (which, by the bye, is an argument I accept in the way Lupin didn't get around to taking his potion at the end of PoA debate). But was the moment *that* heated? Should Sirius have thought to say something First Thing?

Perhaps this is an example of Sirius being so frustrated by his travel constraints, having lost 12 years and his great good looks to Azkaban, etc, that he goes a little overboard in tacitly encouraging Harry to break
the rules so that he (SB, that is) can relive what may have been the only
tolerable part of his life, the carefree Hogwarts years when he wasn't immersed in creepy pureblood ideology or demetor-flattening consciousness.

"madeyemood"