Is Sirius Really Dead?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 72456

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wheatokd" <kwheaton at i...> 
wrote:
> What do you guys think the significance of the present Sirius gave 
> Harry was, and why why WHY didn't Harry open it sooner? He could've 
> just talked to Sirius through that to make sure he was at the 
house! 
> Other than making me really upset, why do you think JKR put that 
> little bit in there?

To make Harry feel even more guilty.  I think that this present will 
not work now that it is broken. I don't think "reparo" will re-endow 
the mirror with whatever magical properties it had before.  No 
particular reason - just that it would be a switch from the past, 
where Harry's gifts have always worked.  In this book, the Firebolt 
that Sirius gave Harry was confiscated.  The knife he gave Harry 
melted in the door in the Dept. of Mysteries.  Now, the mirror is 
broken.  Other than the DADA books that Sirius and Remus gave Harry, 
all the other gifts Harry got from Sirius have been taken from him or 
somehow destroyed.  

Marianne