feelings...nothing more than feelings... (was: Re: Harry's disposition )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94971

> Kimberly wrote:
> > I think that for me, that clears up the question of "why didn't 
> Harry stop and use the mirror ?". He was determined from first 
> receiving the package that he wasn't going to use it.     I still 
> think he could have used the mirror but at least that gives me an 
> insight as to why he didn't. It was reckless and impetuous, yes, 
> but maybe this can shed some wandlight behind him jumping off and 
> running to the MoM the way he did.
> 
> Geoff responded:
> Allow me to disagree with you. <snip>
> 
> (Sirius) "I want you to take this, he said quietly,thrusting a badly 
> wrapped package ....... into Harry's hands. "What is it?" Harry 
> asked. "A way of letting me know .... No, don't open it in 
> here...."said Sirius ...... "OK", said Harry, stowing the package 
> away ..... but he knew he would never use it .... It would not be 
> he,Harry, who lured Sirius from his place of safety,"
> 
> ie HP didn't want to compromise SB's safety. 
> So we agree up to there. <snip>> 
>
> "Harry ..... noticed a badly wrapped package lying in a corner of it
> (his trunk). He could not think what it was doing there ..... He 
> realised what it was within seconds. Sirius had given it to him 
> inside the front door of number twelve Grimmauld Place."
>             
> ie Harry had completely forgotten about it. It had been given at a 
> time when everybody was rushing around in ever decreasing circles 
> getting ready.

Carol:
IMO, it's all part of the terrible irony of good intentions
contributing to (but *not* causing) Sirius's death. DD, Snape, Harry,
and Sirius himself all unwittingly contributed to Sirius's death in
some way, but the blame lies with LV for luring Harry to the MoM and
Bellatrix (or whoever cast that second spell). The forgotten mirror
emphasizes the irony of good intentions gone awry. And look at Geoff's
first quotation: "It would not be he, Harry, who lured Sirius from his
place of safety." Yet Sirius left Grimmauld Place to save Harry
despite Harry's good intentions. That line reads very differently on a
subsequent reading than on a first. No wonder Harry has a bad case of
survivor's guilt.

Carol