The Mirror of Erised (Was - Evans family)

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No: HPFGUIDX 72755

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> vampire :
> > Ah but Dumbledore said the Mirror of Erised doesn't give us truth 
> nor knowledge. Harry saw the deepest desire of his heart which is 
his 
> family and since he has green eyes his idea of what his family 
looks 
> like will be like him.> 
> 
> Yerrrs, but he recognises his parents in the photo album that 
Hagrid 
> gives him at the end of PS. He recognises them again in the 
Pensieve 
> in OoP. I wonder if the Mirror works rather like the Room of 
> Requirement (summoning)- in that it can manufacture an image of the 
> actual thing/person? Ron certainly recoognised the Quidditch cup.

That's precisely what's magic about it - otherwise it wouldn't be 
different than the vague images we make in our minds. And, if that 
were the case, it wouldn't be as dangerous as it is said to be. It's 
temptation lies in that it makes an image that extends beyond the 
imagniation, making it *almost* real. (It's that "almost" that drives 
people crazy - remember what Dumbledore said, that people go crazy 
before it because they can't decide whether what it shows is real or 
not. If it only showed figments of the imagination, it couldn't be so 
confusing and addictive.)

 

Naama