Rumors (was:Re: Q - It's a Joke)

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 97356


>vmonte responds:
> >
> > I'm sure the portraits are responsible for passing on what happened
> > in DD's office. I seem to remember a portrait in GoF passing on
> > information to the fat lady.
>
>Potioncat:
>In one of those scenes you never notice at first, one of the DA
>members says that a portrait in DD's office told him about Harry
>killing the basilisk with Gryffindor's sword.  My thought was: Why
>was this kid in DD's office? maybe it should have been: Who else
>talks to portraits?
Phil responds:
the Mirror of Erised could be connected to the portraits and were the 
source for the rumors.

COS:
Weasleys talking mirror:
Harry got a shock the first time he looked in the mirror over the kitchen
mantelpiece and it shouted,

"_Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!"

POA:
the mirror in Harry's room at the Leaky Cauldron:
He raised his hand automatically and tried
to make his hair lie flat.
"You're fighting a losing battle there, dear,"
said his mirror in a wheezy voice.
    "I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.

OotP:
Sirius' two-way mirror:
Out fell a small, square mirror. It looked old;
it was certainly dirty. Harry held it up to his face and saw
his own reflection looking back at him.

He turned the mirror over. There on the reverse side was a
scribbled note from Sirius.

This is a two-way mirror, I've got
the other. If you need to speak to me, just say my
name into it. You'll appear in my mirror and
I'll be able to talk in yours. James and I
used to use them when we were in separate detentions.

So thinking back to the Mirror of Erised,
maybe it could see and talk like the Weasleys' mirror
  and the mirror at the Leaky  Cauldron.
Or it could work like a two-way mirror, with the other in
Dumbledore's office, watched by the portraits of old headmasters
and headmistresses.

Phil, who's glad his mirrors don't talk.


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