Erised thoughts (long)

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 105757

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

(big snip)
The Stone, regardless of its 
> actual physical location, would only be accessible via the Mirror - 
> hence the need for ancillary protection of the Mirror.
> 
> There are plenty of weaknesses with this theory.  The Mirror was 
not 
> brought into play, apparently, until some time after Dumbledore 
took 
> charge of the Stone.  Thematically, it doesn't bring in the issue 
of 
> reversal raised by Iris.  It does, however, suggest how the Mirror 
> could more or less do Dumbledore's wishes without him micro-
managing 
> what it shows to each person.  And it does preserve the idea of 
> Harry having to face up to his true self - though he didn't do 
badly 
> at the end of PS.
> 
> David

Carolyn:
Your theory reminded me of the classic 'mirror mirror on the wall, 
tell me who is the fairest of them all'. And we all know what 
happened to the wicked witch, so you could be right. It feels like a 
JKR twist on an old joke.

I've always been curious to know what would have happened to the 
Stone if Quirrel!Mort had lost his/their temper and chucked a brick 
at the mirror before Harry had retrieved it. Would the Stone have 
vanished for ever? Or would it have continued to exist in some sort 
of peculiar limbo? And would it have been the same kind of limbo that 
Vapour!Mort currently existed in, at that point?

Probably been reading too much Pullman and Fforde, but I've kind of 
been waiting for a parallel universe, complete with a time shift, to 
turn up in these books. A mirror would seem to be an obvious way into 
such a world; wonder if all the WW mirrors we have seen are portals 
in some way.