Good writing...

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 110800

Linda asked :
"I just wanted to ask a question of everyone.... How many of you 
thought of the mirror to communicate with Sirius as you read the 
passage?"

Del replies :
Unless my mind is completely confused, we couldn't have thought of the
mirrors as we didn't even know about them yet. Harry never opened the
package Sirius gave him until after Sirius was dead.

Now of course, we could have remembered that Sirius had given Harry
*something* to communicate with him. I must admit I didn't.

DuffyPoo:
"A way of letting me know if Snape's giving you a hard time....I want you to use it if you need me, all right."  [Sirius]  "It would not be he, Harry, who lured Sirius from his place of safety, no matter how foully Snape treated him in their forthcoming Occulmency classes."  From this it is easy to see that Harry believed it only had one purpose, something in regard to how he was being treated by Snape.  Harry had determined not to use it and we, as readers, were meant to forget about it, just as Harry had forgotten.  Interesting, though, that it *was* Harry who lured Siris from his place of safety after all.

Linda wrote :
"Everything that we had read before-hand showed Harry seeing things as
they were happening, not lies."

Del replies :
"Actually no, quite the opposite in fact. We know that in *2* instances
only, Harry saw something that was truly happening (the murder of
Frank Bryce, and the attempted murder on Arthur Weasley)"


DuffyPoo:
I can think of one more: the conversation with Rookwood just prior to Avery being tortured.

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