[HPforGrownups] Re: Contacting Sirius

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108384

> Interesting thought!  Could he reach the present day Sirius who is 
> dead? Or what if he does reach Sirius but he reaches the Sirius of 
> the past? Who is to say that the mirror has any sense of time? If a

> spell was cast to cause it to respond to Snuffles and Prongs, maybe

> it will locate the Snuffles of the past? 
> He calls out Snuffles and reaches 16/17 year old Sirius...what do
> you think?
> 
> vivian


The point of the mirror was to provide simultaneaous communication in
the present between two people - usually, but not always, in
detention settings.  It was a walkie-talkie, a cell phone, a pager -
pick your muggle technology but it wasn't designed for anything else.
 There was a need - getting around the restraints of seperate
detentions - and there was a solution - the two-way mirror.  That's
all.

I think the broken mirror at the end of OOTP is yet another JKR
indication that Sirius is dead and gone and that there's no use
crying over wasted opportunities that won't come again.  If we "see"
Sirius again, it will be as a pensieve memory or some other glimpse
of an earlier period but I strongly doubt that Harry will be able to
interact with him as he does with portraits.  Sirius is gone and
that's that.

And frankly, I doubt very much that a 16-year-old Sirius would
provide the kind of advice that Harry needs.  

Magda


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