2wayMirror

[Cassy Ferris]

No: HPFGUIDX 155921

Catlady wrote:
   
  No, the mirrors inspired Harry to feel a bitterly ironic guilt that no
other souvenir of Sirius would have done.
  <snip>
  if Harry had remembered the mirrors, he
probably wouldn't have gone to MoM, and if Harry hadn't gone to MoM,
Sirius wouldn't have died. 
   
  Cassy:
  Isn't it a bit cruel on the part of the author to do this to a character? To lay on a child a burden of knowing that not only he was a cause of his godfather's death, but that that death could be so easily prevented? I mean, if it was not for the mirrors, Harry at least could be thinking something along the lines of: "at least I honestly believe Sirius in danger and did everything in my power to save him, facing such odds and dangers on the way..." By the way, I was really amazed how soon Harry recovered from his loss. merely two weeks passed between the end of Ootp and the beginning of HBP and he already managed to put Sirius's death behind him.