Time travel with Mirror of Erised. Was: The mirror onthe website

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 120626


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
 
vmonte:
 
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> What if the voice at GH that Harry presumes to be of his father is 
> really his own? Remember that Harry hears this voice during PoA 
when 
> he is 13 years old. His voice would certainly be different at 18 
> years of age. (Harry already made this mistake during PoA when he 
> thought that his father conjured the patronus. Is he doing it 
again?) 

Geoff:
Harry does /not/ hear a voice which might be his father's in the 
Dementor incident. He glimpses someone....

'A paralysing terror filled Harry so that he couldn't move or speak. 
His Patronus flickered and died.

White fog was blinding him. He had to fight... expecto patronum... he 
couldn't see... and in the distance,he heard the familiar 
screaming... expecto patronum... he groped in the mist for Sirius and 
found his arm... they weren't going to take him...

But a pair of strong, clammy hands suddenly wrapped themselves around 
Harry's neck. They were forcing his face upwards... he could feel its 
breath... it was going to get rid of him first... he could feel its 
putrid breath... his mother was screaming in his ears... she was 
going to be the last thing he ever heard -

And then, through the fog that was drowning him, he thought he saw a 
silvery light growing brighter and brighter... he felt himself fall 
forward onto the grass -

Face down, tooweak to move, sick and shaking, Harry opened his eyes. 
The blinding light was illuminating the grass around him... the 
screaming had stoped, the cold was ebbing away...

Something was driving the Dementors back... it was circling around 
him and Sirius and Hermione... the rattling, sucking sounds of the 
Dementors were fading. They were leaving... the air was warm again... 

With every ounce of strength he could muster, Harry raised his head a 
few inches and saw an animal amidst the light, galloping away across 
the lake. Eyes blurred with sweat, Harry tried to make out what it 
was... it was as bright as a unicorn. Fighting to stay conscious, 
HArry watched it canter to a halt as it reached the opposite shore. 
For a moment, Harry saw, by its brightness, someone welcoming it 
back... raising his hand to pat it... soemone who looked strangely 
familiar... but it couldn't be...'

(POA "The Dementors' Kiss" pp. 281-82 UK edition)

No way could Harry have /heard/ a voice which he thought was his 
father's. His head was filled with the Dementor-induced memories and 
the Patronus had been conjured from the opposite side of the lake.

His assumption is based on his glimpse...

He says to Hermione later that he had seen the person... "I think it 
was my dad."

Geoff
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Exmoor National Park views, walks and West
Somerset Railway steam and diesel views


(POA "Hermione's Secret" p.297 UK edition)