The Mirror of Erised as prophecy

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 88811

Hello everyone, my first post.  I have been lurking for a while and 
would like to add my two knuts to the posts about the MoE.  It seems 
to me that though Ron's vision of himself is more easily demonstrated 
in his life, Quiditch captain, Head Boy, etc.  Harry's is equally 
profectic.  As many have noted here, he cannot, without dying 
himself, join his biological family.  However, at the end on OotP he 
is,in fact, surrounded by his "family".

"Harry nodded.  He somehow could not find words to tell them what it 
meant to him, to see them all ranged there, on his side." OotP pg. 
870 American edition.

It can also be said that he was "surrounded" by his family, his 
parents anyway, in the cage at the end of GoF.  When his parents came 
out of Voldemort's wand and protected him long enough for him to get 
away. (Sorry, don't have GoF handy to check the page number.)

Though I agree that the mirror is neither the truth nor a real 
predictor of the future, it seems that since both boys came to the 
MoE with a basically "pure heart" (Quirrel did not) it gave them a 
sort of guide post to reach for what their hearts desired. 

I will go back to lurking quietly.

Suehpfan