[HPforGrownups] A Question concerning the 2-way mirror (OotP Spoilers!)

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 64830

phoenixtears288 at cs.com wrote:
> 
>     How did Sirius have James' mirror when supposedly the Potter's house crashed when Voldemort killed them.
> 
>    As I recalled in the first book...
>         "No, sir-- house was almost destroyed, but I got him out all right before the Muggles started swarmin' around..." (Hagrid) (US edition, pg 15)
> Wouldn't James' mirror break when the house broke down?

Something that small could have survived.  Or maybe he didn't have it
any more.  Or maybe Sirius picked it up; he was there.  The same applies
to the invisibility cloak.