[HPforGrownups] Re: Petunia

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 114118

>>Rachel says:  Well, it *does* add up logically, but emotionally, it 
just doesn't.  To me, one of the greatest powers of the HRH Trio is 
the idea that you have all "angles" of the wizarding world 
represented.  You have pure-blood Ron, Muggle-born Hermione, and the 
Half-Blood Harry.  When you see the success of their exploits and the 
strength they derrive from standing together, you can see the 
strength the rest of the wizarding world is depriving themself of by 
so pig-headedly segregating themselves.  I guess to make Lily of some 
magical lineage just sort of kicks the half-blood leg out of the 
triangle.

Rachel
>>

Kethryn -
Funny this should be brought up just as I finish the Mirror of Erised scene in The Sorcerer's Stone.  Now, I might be going out on a limb here but would Harry see in the mirror the muggles in the family?  He doesn't see the Dursleys (not that I can blame him but they are family) but he sees at least ten others, all of whom are apparently related to him.  One of them is apparently his grandfather plus Lily and James.  Does he only see the dead members of the family...or just the magic users of the family?  There at least ten so that could be Lily, James, James' father ("he looked as though he had Harry's knobby knees"), a couple of Lily's relatives (the green eyes are a dead giveaway there), and the one's with Harry's nose are possibly the rest of James' relatives (p. 209).

Theories abounding but, if the mirror shows Harry's true heart's desire, is it as simple as wanting to see his family (if so why were the Dursley's left out) or did he just want to see the magic users or did he just want to see the ones he would never get to meet (presumably because they are dead).

That's something to ponder, at any rate.

Kethryn  who has a headache from thinking about the dratted mirror.

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