Wrong name for the mirror?

[watsola79]

No: HPFGUIDX 74473

> > "amanitamuscaria1" wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi - Just re-reading the mirror scene, I wondered if possibly 
> Harry 
> > > didn't try the right name? 'Sirius' - no effect - 'Sirius 
Black' -
>  > > > no effect - I wonder if he'd tried 'Padfoot'...

> > > > ---Ben replied:

> I really don't think that that is why Sirius didnt appear in the 
> mirror... JKR has stated before that she wasn't going to raise back 
> any dead characters since it only creates false hope for those kids 
> who reads the HP books and who have lost their parents... That's 
why 
> she didn't have Sirius turned into a ghost or have him answer back 
in 
> the mirror... I think...:)
> 

I agree.  I think if saying "Padfoot" had been the key to working the 
mirror, Sirius would have mentioned that to Harry when he gave it to 
him in the first place.  Seems to me the mirror was used by JKR 
primarily to cause Harry a tremendous sense of anguish in that he 
didn't remember the exchange with Sirius as well as to emphasize that 
there really is no turning back after death.  

--Lana Lovegood