OOP:A Hypothesis on the Two-Way Mirror

theshef2002 shefali22 at hotmail.com
Fri Jun 27 19:54:22 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 65093

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "norwoodpa" <norwoodpa at a...> 
wrote:
 
> How many 15 year olds would take 6 months to unwrap a gift  they 
had been 
> given, much less to remember it?!  Add  to that the emotional 
charge of the 
> love between recipient and giver and Harry's often desperate need 
for 
> someone to guide him, Sirius' house-bound status, their parting, 
the drama of 
> the warning "No, don't open it in here!...I doubt Molly would 
approve-but I want 
> you to use it if you need me, all right?"  

BUt remember, Harry didn't WANT to use it. He didn't want to give 
Sirius any reason to come out of hiding and put himself in danger, so 
he just hid the package away and forgot about it.

> But my opinion aside, she's gone to great lengths for Harry to have 
this mirror. 
> I don't think its sole function is one destructive expression of 
grief and 
> frustration.

I still want to know wht happens if Harry throws the broken shards of 
his magic mirror into the curtain, and takes the whole one from 12 
Grimmauld Place.


Shef







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