OOP: what was the point of...

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 61913

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sayaka" <pyggiegirl at a...> 
wrote:
> This is a spoiler.
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> Was anyone else anguished each time Harry didn't think of what 
Sirius 
> had given him after last seeing him last at Grimmauld place? It was 
> stated clearly that this object would prove to be a form of 
> communication between the two. And seeing how the owls and fires 
were 
> being patrolled at Hogwarts, and Scumbridge's fire being dangerous 
to 
> get to, I remember several times when I was thinking, "Use what 
> Sirius gave you, what are you thinking!" And at the end, it proves 
to 
> be something that would have been very useful indeed. Those mirrors 
> would have been terribly useful to Harry, as the security of the 
> school was getting out of hand and becoming nearly impossible for 
> Harry to have contact with his godfather, not to mention it would 
> have been way more reliable than the fire, because he would always 
> have been able to talk to Sirius in person, and not just whoever 
> happened to be in the Grimmauld place basement. Those mirrors could 
> have saved pretty much everything. Why would they have even be put 
> them in the story, if they weren't going to be used? They better 
> serve a bigger purpose in one of the future books, because so far 
> they just take up words and space in book 5, and I don't like waste 
> like that. Maybe (hopefully) there WILL be a way to connect Harry 
> with Sirius again, using those mirrors somehow? (Although I know he 
> tried at the end, but it didn't work...)

Yeah, am I the only one who smacked there head and went "Doh" when 
Harry remembered the mirror?  I guess he didn't tell Hermione about 
it, because she surely would have reminded him of it.  

Tamara