[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP:; SPOILER : A Hypothesis on the Two-Way Mirror

[the firey chasm from whence it came]

No: HPFGUIDX 64847

>What surprised me most about Harry's discovery of Sirius's mirror is that 
>he didn't
>seem at all upset by the fact that this little object would have saved 
>Sirius's life. If
>Harry had known what was in the package, or had turned to it when he 
>thought Sirius
>had been captured, he could have found out right away that Sirius was 
>fine. It seemed
>odd that the thought didn't even cross his mind. Am I missing something?
>
>-Pan

That's a pretty good point. It's definitely what I thought of when I read 
that part. My guess would be that he was too distraught from Sirius' death 
to think that rationally about it. Also, it seems like he was feeling a lot 
of guilt but at the same time was really feeling the urge to blame everyone 
but himself. I think it's too painful for him at this point to realize all 
the things he really could have done differently. I think that's going to 
be the hardest thing about this death for him to face: the fact that it was 
completely preventable.

~dream