The Mirror and the Heart

[aboutthe1910s]

No: HPFGUIDX 105310

 
> aboutthe1990s wrote: 
> > 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.  
> > 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...  
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Just to make sure I understanding you...which is which??  The one 
> which has everything you want on the other side is the veil?  The one 
> which has nothing is the mirror?  Or vice versa?  I'm asking because 
> I'm not sure if you mean literally ON THE OTHER SIDE of the mirror or 
> IN THE REFLECTION of the mirror....


I was thinking that the Mirror of Erised has everything--either on the
other side or in the reflection, depending on whether or not you
believe the theory floating about involving the inscription being
backwards and what actually lies on the other side--I don't think that
in this context it necessarily makes a very big difference...

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