[HPforGrownups] two way mirror of sirius

[Scott Santangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 92824



kashelkar <kashelkar at yahoo.com> wrote:
Kashelkar writes:

At the end of Christmas vacations, Sirius hands Harry a badly wrapped package.  It contains a two-way mirror, Sirius having the other one.  So if Harry talked into it, Sirius would be able to see & listen him and vice versa.  How come Sirius never uses it himself??  When Harry 
broke into Umbridge's fire to discuss with Sirius the worst memory of Snape, why Sirius didn't ask him not to use such dangerous method to contact him again, and rather use the mirror given by him???  Certainly, if Harry hadn't forgotton about this mirror, He'd be able to check that Sirius is safe after his vision and Sirius needn't die 
at all.  Also, if it was never to be used why did JKR introduce this item in the story at all???

owlery2003 replies:

This is one of my favorite questions. Lots of previous posts on this topic (a few of my own!). I was convinced even before JKR's recent comments that this was too significant to dissapear after Sirius' death, particularly when Harry throws the mirror into his trunk and leaves the broken pieces at the bottom. Something's going to happen there. Don't know if a "reparo" will work on this. Whatever happened to Sirius' mirror is also an unanswered question. If he didn't have it on him at the MOM, it's probably still at #12Gp. Given it was a 2-way communication gizmo, I'm guessing that there's some extension of that use, or possibly that the mirror(s) "remember" past conversations (I'm stretching there, I know). I can see Harry and Lupin going through Sirius' personal effects in the next book and maybe we find out more at that point. When I first considered the mirror thing, I was amazed Harry had "forgotten" about the communication line he had been given. But I'd forgotten that Sirius had
 also, apparently, forgotten to remind Harry. So they were both at "fault" in that regard, which should be of some comfort to Harry.



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