[HPforGrownups] Re: Child abuse and (spoiler) question

[Charlotte Carl-Mitchell]

No: HPFGUIDX 63969



melclaros wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ccm50_2000" <ccm at t...> wrote:
> > Next question, but first
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> > At the very end of the book, when Harry finds the magic mirror that
> > would have allowed him to talk with Sirius, I was surprised he
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> > bewail the fact that he could have used it to find out where Sirius
> > was and not gone to the Ministry.
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> Oh that's easy. He'd already convinced himself it was all Snape's
> fault. Of course it's likely that Snape actually used a deviced very
> like that mirror to contact Black himself--which makes it all the
> more ironic.
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> Melpomene 

Uh, I don't understand your explanation. I must be missing something. 
Why would Harry blaming Snape mean the mirror was of no consequence? If 
Harry had used the mirror, he wouldn't have been caught in Umbridge's 
office and forced to rely on Snape to pass along Harry's coded message. 
Or are you referring to something else Snape did?
Charlotte