Harry's emotions his strength or his weakness? ( LONG)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141591

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
 
Valky: 
> But there is another matter of Non Verbal spells, which I think OTOH
> *is* forshadowed as something Harry can use effectively. When he gets
> the Stone out of the mirror, he is saying nothing, and yet he makes it
> happen effortlessly. So on the matter of the Non-verbal magic, I think
> Harry *is* going to apply himself to it, and I am fairly certain he
> won't find it all that hard, I think it will come to him a bit like
> apparating did. 

Geoff:
I'm not sure I would agree with you that this is Harry performing non-
verbal or wandless magic.

The Mirror of Erised is an interesting artefact. Taking a couple of 
quotes from Dumbledore:

'Harry thought. Then he said slowly, "It shows us what we want... 
whatever we want..."
"Yes, and no," said Dumbledore quietly  "It shows us nothing more or 
less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."'

(PS "The Mirror of Erised" p.157 UK edition)

'Harry tried to understand this but it made his head pound so he 
stopped.
"And sir, there's one more thing..."
"Just the one?"
"How did I get the Stone out of the Mirror?"
"Ah, now, I'm glad you asked me that. It was one of my more brilliant 
ideas and between you and me, that's saying something. You see, only 
one who wanted to find the Stone - find it but not use it - would be 
able to get it..."

(PS "The Man with Two Faces" p.217 UK edition)

Now this, to me, places the Mirror, along with the Sorting Hat and 
Riddle's diary,  in the danger zone of:

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where 
it keeps its brain."

(COS "Dobby's Reward" p.242 UK edition)

Now it is probable that the Hat and the Mirror are accepted as being 
trustworthy by a long history of reliability but it seems that the 
Mirror, like the Hat, has the ability to think for itself as it 
seemingly possesses the power to read a viewer's mind and determine 
their deepest wishes. So, coupling this power with the fact that 
Dumbledore has "programmed" how someone can get hold of the Stone, I 
believe that when Harry was thinking about the need to get hold of the 
Stone to keep it away from Quirrell, these two factors came into play 
and it wasn't magic on Harry's part which placed the Stone in his 
pocket. The Stone and the Mirror were acting together to channel events 
through him.