The Mirror and the Heart

[aboutthe1910s]

No: HPFGUIDX 105281

Iris wrote:
> The Mirror, in PS/SS, represents the seventh ordeal Harry has to 
> pass through to find the Stone. If you acknowledge (as I do) that 
> the seven ordeals are a summary and a metaphor of the whole series 
> (1st ordeal== 1st book, etc
), well, you can suppose we'll see the 
> Mirror again (the Mirror, or something similar) in the seventh book. 
> And, maybe, Sirius' small mirror will play a part in the outcome. 
> Simply because mirrors, small or huge, play an important part in 
> initiatory processes. For example, they are used in the Masonic 
> loges; the initiate is locked in what they call a `meditation room', 
> where he/she finds a curtain and the following sentence: `If you 
> have a genuine wish, if you possess courage and intelligence, draw 
> this curtain.' 


As far as how the mirror may manifest itself in the seventh book if it
isn't as itself, I imagine the veil in the Department of Mysteries to
be a visually very similar object to the mirror--one has glass where
one has a curtain, but I imagine the frames having very simliar
structures.  (Well, I mean, how many variations of an arch are there
really?)  I also see a certain connection between the function of the
two, but maybe this is just me--on the other side of one is everything
you want.  On the other side of the other is nothing.  Now I'm really
just throwing this out there for consideration and wouldn't really
count on it, but it seems to me that there is a possibility that they
were created as intentional opposites...  Maybe the mini mirrors
Sirius and Harry had are useful simply as a reminder of the mirror, as
a clue, to form a subtle connection between the veil and Mirror of Erised?

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