OoP: Hufflepuff and the Mirror (Ja, spoilers, doncha know)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 65191

In lieu of spoiler space, I am going to thank Grey Wolf and the Admin 
team for the FAQ and hope that people will use it.  I have read 1485 
posts today to catch up and found some of it to be repetitious.

That said, on to business:

Hufflepuff:  Pip!Squeak and Jenny from Ravenclaw (both of whom I 
count amongst my favourite listees to read) were pleased that 
Hufflepuff would "take the lot".  

I was miffed as can be!  For the last four years we, um, I mean they, 
have had the proud honour of being fair and just and hard working and 
all those things the sorting hat (in song) and Dumbledore (in Ced's 
eulogy)said were associated with the House of Hufflepuff.  Now we, 
um, I mean they, are no more than the leftovers.  

I had always liked the sorting of old as it meant that everyone had 
at least one good quailty in them.  Sure, some had the qualities of 
more than one house, but at least everyone had something of which 
they could be proud.  Even in a Slytherin-pride kind of way.


The mirror:  Darrin (another fave) touched on the fact that during 
the first fireplace chat Sirius should have asked why Harry was using 
the fireplace in the first place.  Responders assumed there wasn't 
time.  

I have to disagree.  They know the Flue Network is being watched.  
Remember the scene:  Harry calls.  Lupin answers the fireplace and 
goes to fetch Sirius.  ("Sirius!  Fireplace!  It's for you!  Harry 
calling!")

Sirius had given Harry the mirror with the note on the back saying 
that he and James had used it when they had seperate detentions.  
Wouldn't it concern him that perhaps the mirror had been 
confiscated?  It wouldn't take a genius to figure out who had given 
it to Harry.  I can see him coming to the fireplace asking "Harry!  
What's wrong?  What happened to the mirror?  Are you OK?"  Or 
something along those lines.  It should have rung warning bells in 
his head that Harry had used the fireplace.

Of course it would have killed the plot, but it still irked me.

Ginger, who thinks that Kingsley Shacklebolt has a purple wand.


"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"  
Albus Dumbledore
And wouldn't we all do well to remember that in this, our time of 
grief.