New Here - 1st Post: The mirror Sirius gave Harry in Book 5

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This may be a stupid question but. . . it has been bugging me since I
finished the book months ago. At the end of the Book, Harry finds
the mirror Sirius gave him and tries to call Sirius. Could he have
used the mirror all along to reach Sirius instead of the fire, etc.?
If not, why not? If so, why didn't Sirius just remind him to use the
mirror?

If anyone is kind enough to answer, please be gentle with me. I read
all the books one right after the other and have not reread any,
yet. I guess I'm a late bloomer, and I'm glad of it too. I would
have gone nuts waiting years for the next book.

errx2


Snow:
Welcome to the site where you will find many nuts who have waited so 
long that some of us have considered everyone to be ESE (ever so 
evil). 

Your question is not stupid just not satisfyingly answerable. JKR's 
answer on her web site that the mirror may not have helped as much as 
you think but may help more than you think (not verbatim) allowed me 
to question my favorite character in the series; Sirius. If Harry 
were to have contacted Sirius, alone, via the mirror and Sirius isn't 
who we have been led to believe he now is, what answer would Sirius 
have given to Harry about what Harry had seen? If Harry is to use the 
mirror now but the mirror is at Sirius' house at Grimmald Place what 
might he see and hear possibly from Phineas questioning Kreacher 
about his great, great grandson? 

There are many scenarios that could take place but I doubt that 
Sirius took the mirror with him to the Ministry, after all Harry 
didn't take his.