OOP:A Hypothesis on the Two-Way Mirror

[norwoodpa]

No: HPFGUIDX 65483

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rebecca M" <rmatovic at s...> 
wrote:
> :
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pan_donkey" 
> <mac at d...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "norwoodpa" 
> <norwoodpa at a...> replied:
> 
> > I 'm convinced that you absolutely have NOT missed 
> something and that is 
> > why I think this broken mirror is extremely important.
> > 
> 
> [snip]
> > 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.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure that the broken pieces matter -- but I do think 
> that his finding it and *not* putting two and two together that he 
> caused Sirius's death through his neglect of opening the 
> package earlier is important.
> 
> I suggest that the moment he does put two and two together and 
> figures out that he could have prevented the death very easily will 
> be a critical moment in either book 6 or book 7.
> 
> Rebecca





Harry knew immediately after Sirius' death that he could have
prevented it: 

(quote from page 820, content reiterated in subsequent pages)

"It was his fault Sirius had died: it was all his fault.  If he,
Harry , had not been 
stupid enough to fall for Voldemort's trick, If he had not been so
convinced that 
what he had seen in his dream was real, etc...."  

(Not to mention if  he had actually worked on his Occlumency because 
Dumbledore thought it necessary instead of putting on a pig-headed
passive-
aggressive resistance simply because it was Snape!)

I think the mirror will serve up a lot more than guilt because that's
already 
been done.

PN