[HPforGrownups] Re: Petunia

[kim reynolds]

No: HPFGUIDX 114178

Kim here, throwing in my two pennies:
 
Kethryn wrote:

>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.

To which Finwitch replied:
>Nah - the mirror tells us *nothing* of Harry's family. It tells >us what is his heart's desire. Nothing more, nothing less. It >is not truthful. It gives no information but the knowledge of >what your heart's desire is.

>So um.. Harry doesn't see the Dursleys in it, because he >doesn't WANT to see them, quite the opposite - he wants to be >RID of them! Of course the Mirror won't show him the >Dursleys...

>I wonder if Ron will become the Head Boy AND the Quidditch >Captain as saw in the mirror to be his desire? At least, Ron's >in the team *and* a prefect,(and curiously enough, Harry's NOT) >so it's not so farfetched a thought for him to gain his heart's >desire!

Kim now: 
 
I think the images in the Mirror must at least be true to some degree in that it does show his parents' real features (before he ever saw any photos of them) and so one could assume the images of the other dead relatives were somewhat close to true.  I'd always assumed the people Harry saw in the Mirror were only his dead relatives (not actually them, but conjured by Harry's mind's eye), otherwise, wouldn't Dumbledore have sent him to live with any other living relatives besides the horrid Dursleys?  I think it's in the books somewhere that Harry has no other living relatives but Dursleys.  From your above posts (which make good points about what the Mirror shows), I had a scary thought:  If Harry's heart's desire is to meet his relatives, and all his relatives worth meeting are already dead (add Sirius to that mix too if you like), how can Harry achieve his heart's desire, other than by dying himself?  Of course Harry will die eventually like everyone else and no doubt at a ripe old
 age (at which time he can meet his dead relatives and achieve his heart's desire) which JKR will never include in a book because she's finishing the whole tale at book 7 with Harry very much alive....  Can anyone tell I shudder at the thought of JKR killing Harry off??  She can't, I won't have it... ;-)
 
Wait, wait, I know -- Professor Trelawney will have a stroke of genius, hold a seance, and introduce Harry to his parents and all his wonderful ancestors... 
 
Kim