The Mirror and the Heart

[halli]

No: HPFGUIDX 105371

> Kneasy:
> > Oh ye of little faith - if it's a communication device, and every 
> > mirror we've seen in the WW does communicate (or at least I can't 
> > remember one that doesn't) - why shouldn't DD's be one that 
> > broadcasts what DD 'desires and wants' you to see? Very handy, 
> > I'dve thought.

Halli:  
  I highly doubt that DD is the one controlling it. I don't have the 
book right now, but from what DD said about men wasting away before 
it, it seems more like an old, old artifact that DD simply came 
across or received somehow. It could have been barrowed from the DoM, 
seems like the type of thing that would be in there. I really don't 
think that DD would have allowed men to waste away before it if it 
really was his...unless they were evil, but even so...

> SSSusan:
> This is all quite possible.  I wonder, though, why DD would want to 
> give Harry such a gift (bec. it seems that is what you're saying, 
it 
> was the gift of seeing his family) when he also KNEW that Harry 
> would be tempted to sit there and rot in front of it, tormented.  
> Yes, thrilled beyond measure, but also so obsessed that he couldn't 
> tear himself away.  

halli: 
   I agree with Susan on this. If DD was trying to show Harry his 
parents through the mirror, wouldn't that be like when Moody showed 
Harry that picture of his parents with the Order? Kinda sick, IMO.

SSSusan:
> BTW, I don't think Harry's deepest desire was to get out of there 
at 
> that moment.  I don't think he was focusing on that *yet*.  I think 
> his deepest desire was truly to STOP Q!V, and THIS is precisely 
what 
> DD was testing in Harry. WOULD his deepest desire be to split, or 
> would it be (as DD suspected & hoped) to stop Q!V and protect the 
> stone?

halli (again):
I think in the book that Harry actually says that his deepest desire 
is to get the stone before Q!V does...let me try and find it... 
  SS Am Ed, pg 291 
"Harry's mind was racing. What I want more than anything else in the 
world at the moment, he thought, is to find the Stone before Quirrell 
does. So if I look in the mirror, I should see myself finding it..."

So it wouldn't be to stop Quirrell nessesarily, but to simply find it 
first, and then get out of there, you'd think.
    halli,
 who is a bad quoter, poster, and new here, sort of...