Reflections On That Mirror

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 85320

B Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

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> Ah, excuse me, but wasn't that what Quirrell was up to? Finding the 
> Stone? He had no intention of using it - "I see the Stone...I'm 
> presenting it to my master...but where is it?"

Good one. I guess DD would argue that giving it to LV was already 
using the Stone. Harry, on the other hand, just saw himself pocketing 
the Stone. He didn't intend to do *anything* with it.

> Go further back. The Mirror is supposed to show your desires, not 
> knowledge or truth. So says DD.
> 
> Ron stood in front of the Mirror and sees himself as Head  Boy, 
> Head of Quidditch and holding the Quidditch Cup.
> 
> Oh, how we laughed!
> 
> Ron is now a Prefect and a Quidditch hero, with still  two years to 
> go at school. Hello? Anyone getting a strange feeling about this?

Nah :-) For me, it only illustrates that one can start with the worst 
odds against him, and still fulfill his dreams, out of hard work and 
perseverance (and a bit of luck :-). Ron decided to try the tryouts, 
he practiced for a whole week, he endured his brothers' taunts, in 
other words he took his chance. As for being a Prefect, well he did 
have 1 chance in 5, right ?

> Harry sees family - at least ten others besides himself. He sees 
> his parents, he sees other pairs of green eyes, he sees noses like 
> his and a little old man who might have his knobbly knees.
> 
> Noses? Knobbly knees? Has Harry's nose ever been described? If it 
> has I can't find it. But apparently it's distinctive enough to be 
> recognised. The only nose I  can remember is Snape's. Great beaked 
> thing. You don't think...? Surely not.

I don't remember Harry's nose being described, but I seem to remember 
that James-in-Snape's-Pensieve's nose is described as being different 
from Harry's. So that would mean that either Harry has his mother's 
nose or that this characteristic skipped one or more generations on 
his father's side.
As for Snape's nose... Well, well, well... ;-)

> Knobbly knees - how about those? Not really. Closest is a scrawny 
> boy on a bucking broomstick in one of Snape's memories and another 
> scrawny newcomer that gets a mention. Not close enough.

Sooo... Let's see. The green eyes are on his mom's side. The knobbly 
knees are neutral for now. That leaves the nose. If the nose is from 
his mom's side too, that might very well mean that Harry saw only 
people from his mom's family in that mirror (apart from his dad, of 
course). That could be interesting, don't you think ?

(snip)
> So James did (does) have a family. Who and where? And since 
> purebloods are such a tight, small, intermarried group 
> why didn't Sirius point out a few of the Potters among all the 
> generations on the Black tapestry? Maybe a few were there. But as 
> I've posted before, Potter is such an odd name for a pureblood; 
> almost unreal.

Yup, couldn't agree more. Something is awfully weird here. Harry 
doesn't ask about his grand-parents (on either side). Noone mentions 
them to him, except Sirius once but he doesn't go into details and 
Harry doesn't ask. And the Potters don't show up on that tapestry, or 
at least Sirius doesn't mention them (if so, why ?). Something's up, 
definitely.

> But the Mirror. Can't help feeling Harry missed a trick there. 

Could be.
Just like I feel he should re-open that photo book of his. He might 
be up for nasty surprises. For all we know, the name Tom Riddle might 
even appear on some old family picture (nobody except for DD, Harry 
and dearly few others know that's LV's real name after all).

Del