Two-way mirror at GH

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No: HPFGUIDX 115498


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, AnitaKH <anita_hillin at y...> 
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, AnitaKH <anita_hillin at y...> 
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> I propose that the Two-way Mirror had some role in revealing the 
events of Godric's Hollow on that Fateful Night.
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> mhbobbin:
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> Not half-baked at all. I like it.  I'm willing to consider the 
Floo Network though the two way mirror is better. Even better than 
Portraits. Further to this--what if the man that Harry hears yelling 
to Lily to take Harry and run--wasn't James but someone that 
James /Lily was talking to through one of these methods. (or even in 
the Portrait although Portraits seem to take orders rather than give 
> them.) 
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> Lupin reacts so strangely (PoA) when Harry mentions that he thinks 
he  heard his father in the Dementor flashback that I doubt the man 
Harry hears is James. So what if that unknown man was, in 
effect, "on the phone" with Godric Hollow when the attack occurs. It 
would be consistent with some contemporary murder mysteries. (I 
can't think of one now.)
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> Thanks for thinking this idea isn't totally off the wall.  My MO 
is to come up with an idea and then let you bright folks shoot it 
down or flesh it out.  
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> I really like your idea that the voice Harry hears may be 
emanating from the mirror, and since we haven't been shown exactly 
how it works, we can speculate all we like.  We're all deeply 
suspicious that the "James" voice isn't James at all, so this would 
answer that rather neatly.
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> mhbobbin:

Alas, I liked the idea of the man's voice that Harry "remembers" 
being from the two-way mirror but it doesn't work. Another poster 
correctly pointed out that the voice also says "I'll hold him back" 
implying the voice was from a person physically present in the room.

As I see it, theories about Godric Hollow (or at least the 
logistical aspect of this part of it) must address three mysteries:
1) How did Dumbledore learn of the attack. Was there a witness?
2) How did Dumbldedore know where to send Hagrid, when he didn't 
know who the Secret Keeper was. Ostensibly the House was still under 
the Fidelius Charm, unless terminated in ways not yet clear.
3) Why did Lupin react so strangely to Harry's statement that he 
heard James' voice. What does Lupin know about this? Could the voice 
belong to someone other than James?

A theory that the Potters were in communication with someone not at 
Godric Hollow via mirror or whatever helps with the first part. But 
not yet the rest.

And then there are are the additional mysteries of what truly 
happened in the attack, was Pettigrew there and did he take the 
wand, and why the house fell down and so forth.  Not to mention 
where did baby Harry go between Hagrid pulling him out of the 
wreckage and Hagrid delivering him to Privet Drive. And why was 
Hagrid at Hogwarts to tell McGonagall that DD was going to be at 
Privet Drive that night. Was Hagrid at two places at the same time? 
(uh-oh. we know what loathsome literary device that implies.)

I lament that I suspect the revelations about these events will wait 
till Book 7 because I think they're so central to the puzzle. But I 
hope they're included in Book 6 instead. Or at least a big chunk.

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