[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron as Prefect (was: Chapter Discussion...)

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 88744

At 21:44 14-01-04 +0000, you wrote:

>What about the Mirror, when Ron sees himself as quiditch captain,
>prefect, and head boy; his brothers each did these, but they didnt
>do them all at once. Perhaps it is forshadowing that Ron will do all
>of these.

In which case, for consistency's sake (and IMO) Harry seeing himself
surrounded by his family must mean that he'll die as that is is the
only way this image can come true ...

Or perhaps the Mirror, as Dumbledore /explicitly/ tells us " this
mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth."

/If/ (and that is, IMO, the "if" of something improbable) there is
any foreshadowing in the Mirror of Erised, it would be, IMO, thematic
foreshadowing. We might see Harry surrounded by family, but one he
creates himself; not his parents, grandparents etc. And we may see
Ron prove himself as the best of all the Weasley children, but not
in the ways he (with the imagination of a first year student) imagined.

/Troels