Sirius double mirror BUT no Reminder

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 71697

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "madeyemood" <nansense at c...> wrote:
> On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 07:19 PM, madeyemood wrote:
> ...edited...
> 
> 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, ...edited... <<<<


> 
> 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? 
>
> ...edited...
> 
> "madeyemood"


bboy_mn:

I don't think it was so much the presents of 'heat of the moment'
which as you pointed out was not that heated, but the 'relief of the
moment'. 

Lupin and Sirius are both in a panic when they first see Harry; sure
that something disasterous has happened. Then Harry says he only want
to talk about his father. But when he does talk about his father as
seen in Snape's memory, it is a very embarassing and uncomfortable
memory. They both behaved very badly, and Harry's father who they all
admire and who Harry has always admired very much is seen in an
especially bad light. 

I think the relief that Harry is OK combined with their own
uncomforatable and shameful feeling about what Harry saw, combined
with the discomfort of having to explain to Harry how his father could
be such a jerk, additionaly compounded by the shock of finding out
that Snape has stopped Harry's Occulmency lessons, and finally, Sirius
and Lupin were prevented from telling Harry to use the mirror next
time by the sound of approaching footsteps which brought the
conversation to an abrupt halt, all combine together to prevent an
opportunity for any reminder about the mirror.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn