The Mirror of Erised as prophecy

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 88825

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "suehpfan" <stanleys at s...> 
wrote:
> 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

I think that you make a good point: that Harry is starting to 
realize that blood does not mean family. He is starting to 
understand that there are so many people who care about him that are 
not directly related to him that I am hoping that he won't be so put 
out by the Dursleys any more, though ever since PoA he hasn't really 
taken their brand of abuse sitting down. I am really hoping that the 
rest of Ron's visions in the mirror come true: that he becomes the 
best of all the Weasley brothers and that he achieves some success 
outside of Harry's shadow. And though I would certainly be upset if 
Harry died at the end of Book 7, I can't think of a more emotional 
ending than Harry being welcomed into the wizard version of the 
afterlife by his mum and dad. 
Meri