OOP: what was the point of...

[txjen70]

No: HPFGUIDX 62060

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sayaka" <pyggiegirl at a...> 
> wrote:
> > This is a spoiler.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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

I don't know that Hermione would have remembered even if he had told 
her.  After all, she didn't remember that Snape was also a member of 
the Order when they needed to talk to someone.  And I also think 
it's odd that she didn't think that the fireplace in Umbridge's 
office was connected to the Floo Network and unwatched to boot.  
WOuldn't that have been a faster and safer way to get to the MoM in 
the end instead of flying?