OOP: Harry's guilt. Why didn't he use the two-way-mirror?

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No: HPFGUIDX 62820

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florentine Maier" 
<florentinemaier at h...> wrote:
> I've been reading lots of messages where people say that Sirius' 
> death was "pointless".
> 
> - I think it is very important, because Harry is responsible for  
> it.  Being so hot-headed and stubborn all the time, he didn't ?   
> bother to look what the present that Sirius gave him before       
> occlumance lessons 
> started was: that magic mirror for communication.
> IF he had used it for checking if Sirius was at home, THAN        
> Kreacher 
> probably wouldn't have been able to lie to him and lure him to the 
> department of mysteries.
> 
> Maybe Harry will realize this during the summer holiday, and he 
might 
> try harder to control his agressive impulses in the next book?
> 
> Florentine Maier

Me: 
Perhaps Harry will learn this.  But even if he does, I don't know 
that *Sirius* in particular dying was necessary to make this point.  
Certainly, his death will affect Harry more than many other 
people's, but his failure to contact Sirius via the mirror could 
have led to *anyone* in the Order or any of the students dying as 
well.  If Harry had opened the mirror, he could have talked to 
Sirius, and known he didn't need to go to the Department of 
Mysteries.  He didn't, he went, but this put lots of people in 
danger: Hermione, Luna, Neville, Giny, Remus, and Sirius, as well as 
the other Order members who came to his rescue.  So having Harry 
learn this particular lesson doesn't, to me, explain the 'point' of 
*Sirius* dying.

Lisa