[HPforGrownups] SS Question

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 101722

> I am going to apologize for having way too much time on my hands at
> the moment :P
> I was reading another interview and found this:
>
> My mother passed way nine years ago, and her death greatly
> influenced a passage in Book 1. And I'm sure careful readers don't
> need to be told what passage that is. My father is still alive, and
> he really likes the books, and my sister, to whom the first book is
> dedicated in part, was the first person ever to hear the story. She
> didn't read it, but I told it to her.
>
> Does anyone happen to know what passage she is talking about off
> hand?
>
> Jacqui

Harry seeing his parents in the Mirror of Erised. Rowling was trying to
relay to the readers the feeling of always wanting just one more minute with
them and it's never enough.

Alina.