SS Question

[Jacqui]

No: HPFGUIDX 101740

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> > 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.

Ah ok, that makes perfect sense I think.  I read in another 
interview when someone asked JKR what she would see in the mirror of 
Erised, she said her mother.
Thanks!
Jacqui