Contacting Sirius

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 108861

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kelly Duhon 
<witchypooh67 at y...> wrote:
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> 
> Magda Grantwich wrote:
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> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> Kelly:
> 
> I hope Sirius becomes a ghost (as it seems many unhappy wizard 
souls do) and continues to be a guiding force in Harry's life.  I 
think having a ghost in the Order could prove very useful.
> 

Pat:

When Harry finally thought to talk to Nick, Nick really dashed that 
hope that Sirius would be around as a friendly ghost for Harry to 
talk to.  Sad as it is, I believe JKR means it when she says that 
the dead cannot come back.  She feels that very acutely, because of 
the death of her mother, (as I know from my own experience) and has 
used the Mirror of Erised and Sirius's death to show the devastation 
of the early death of someone we love--and it's finality.  Things 
are left unresolved by Sirius's death, but that is something we have 
to learn to handle as we continue to live.

As for the mirror that is now in pieces at the bottom of Harry's 
trunk--I do think that he will use it in some way in the future, but 
not to contact Sirius.  He could have thrown the broken mirror away--
that's what most of us would do with broken glass.  But the mirror, 
broken, is still there.  I thought he would probably repair it at 
some point, but I like the idea that the pieces could be used by all 
of them--Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, and Luna--who now 
seem to be the inner circle.


After Harry's disastrous forays into the Floo Network in OotP, I 
doublt that he will try that again.  The mirror or it's pieces will 
give him the means of communicating with others whom he trusts.

Pat