The Significance of the Foe-Glass

[rosered2318]

No: HPFGUIDX 144006

At first this may seem more appropriate for the movie sister group, 
but bear with me and I think you will see where I am going. 


I remember reading somewhere that when Steve Kloves was writing the 
script for Chamber of Secrets he had wanted to cut something and JKR 
would not let him because it became very significant in later books 
(HBP).  That something turned out to be Borgin and Burkes, the 
Cabinet and Knockturn Alley.  I even remember it showing up the the 
Chamber of Secrets video game.  None of that was necessary to the 
plot development of Chamber of Secrets, the book or the movie, but 
it was very necessary to Half Blood Prince.  

I have seen Goblet of Fire three times now.  They left out a LOT of 
stuff.  But they did not leave out the Foe Glass.  They didn't even 
use it to the same effect they did in the book (Harry seeing 
McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Snape coming to his rescue).  In the 
book of Goblet of Fire, they mention that the foe-glass has a crack 
in it at the bottom.  I think the same foe glass also appears twice 
in Order of the Pheonix.  Once in the headquarters for the DA

"...and a large, cracked Foe-Glass that Harry was sure had hung, the 
previous year, in the fake Moody's office."  pg 390, US ed

and once in Voldemort's hideout 

"Left alone in the dark room, Harry turned toward the wall.  A 
cracked, age-spotted mirror hung on the wall in the shadows.  Harry 
moved toward it.  His reflection grew larger and clearer in the 
darkness...A face whiter than a skull...red eyes with slits for 
pupils."  pg 586, US ed.  The passage refers to when Harry was 
dreaming of Rookwood being tortured.


I can't recall if the foe-glass was mentioned in HBP but I find it 
very curious that it deserves all of this attention.  I don't have 
any theories because I am not a very good theory person, but I feel 
that the true significance of the foe-glass has not been revealed 
yet.  Theories, anyone?


Rose