Sirius double mirror BUT no Reminder

nineve_laguna nineve_laguna at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 19 22:58:14 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 71705

> 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
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And a very good one. I am impressed. I was a very dark time indeed 
for all the characters, and with all the work for the Order, Sirius 
might have just forgot as well.
Nineve.





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