No More Questions (was Reflections On That Mirror)

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No: HPFGUIDX 85365

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> wrote:
> 
> Write more about the Mirror, please, Kneas. I'm not quite sure if I 
> get your secondary point at the moment - that the Mirror operates 
> like the Room of Requirement, perhaps? Can only conjure/Summon things 
> which already (have) exist(ed) - Madam Hooch's whistle/Moody's 
> Foeglass - Ron sees the real Quidditch Cup, Harry sees his real 
> family? But Ron is potentially the next Quiiditch Captain/Head Boy -? 
> nope, I'm lost again.
> 
> Cauldrons of Flobberworms all over the place.
> Look at the mess you've made, Kneasy!
> Kirstini

Secondary point? Not too  sure about the first; my thinking is about
as  disorganised as you claim yours  is. Mostly it was a peg to
suspend a skein of ideas from, ideas reinforced by the appearance
of Harry's relatives.

OK. DD seems very anxious to keep Harry away from the Mirror.
Claims it is A Bad Thing. Drives you mad; you'll pine away, grow hair
on your palms, whatever. But, (see Ron), this ain't necessarily so.
In fact I bet you could get all sorts of ideas from that Mirror - all
you have to do is  want to know something badly enough. Think what
Harry could do with that if he sat there long enough thinking of the
future instead of the past. And DD can't allow that, can he?

Also he wants to avoid too many questions - what's new?
Why didn't the Mirror work the way he claimed it would re Quirrell?
Our doomed DADA prof was not about to go tinkering with the Stone.
Voldy wouldn't let him. Voldy would be off the back of his head before
any brewing of potions or casting of spells hove into view. Why?

1. If he stayed Quirrell would become immortal too.

2. Quirrell had drunk unicorn blood; he was cursed; or at least his 
body was and Voldy would want to  be as far away as possible before 
the screaming meemies hit.

Does DD's spell control the Mirror as he makes out? Seems not, 
otherwise Quirrell would have got the Stone, by DD's own rules. 
Oh, I  don't doubt that DD spelled it for the protection of the Stone,
but that doesn't change what it is.

Then there's Harry's family appearing at his shoulder.
Yep; like you I  reckon that's the key to the whole thing right there.
Family. Harry has never asked, never been told about his antecedents.
We get a load of deliberate distractions for Harry and for us as soon as
it looks as if the questions might surface. Big secret. Family. The chains 
that bind. And I reckon the links go back to Voldemort.

Now I see three possibilities:

1. The Evans' link back to the Riddles,

2. The Potters link back to Marvelo Whatever Voldy's mother was 
called, possibly with a name change when Voldy got nasty the first 
time around and the family wanted to cut all connections to such a 
blot on the family escutcheon,

3. Or *both* links are applicable. 

Since James' family is a total unknown, version 2 seems to be current
favourite, except Voldy seemed a bit reluctant to zap Lily. Conversely, 
being family didn't save the Riddles. But the Riddles weren't Mudbloods
just like Voldy and just like Lily. Sympathy from the devil? 
Chronic information shortage. Can't decide. Just like the noses - James
had a longish nose - but so does Petunia. Which does Harry's resemble?
Which is a family trait, which a coincidence?

I'll think some more on this. But I'm convinced blood is the key to the 
whole series. 

Back  to the  Mirror.

Yes, I think DD has sold  Harry  a  pup. The Mirror is more than the
description given by DD. The engraving doesn't say I show false images,
fantasies, lies. What would be the point of a mirror like that? It says
I show your desires. Real wants. Perhaps it shows if these wishes are
realisable - if you look to the future as Ron did. I bet Sybill would give
her eye teeth for something like that!  But Harry, foolish boy! 
looked to the past and didn't ask the right questions.

Kneasy,
Brooding