[HPforGrownups] Re: The two-way mirror - a cruel useless plot device

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 163746

Stevebboyman:

Also, consider that Sirius did not just give Harry a
gift. If that's all it was, Harry would have opened it.
Instead Sirius gave Harry a badly wrapped package WITH
a Context attached to it. Carol has already covered
that context. But it was that context that caused
Harry to subconsciously reject the package. He resolved
to never use it because he didn't want to be the one
who put Sirius at risk. By rejecting the context, he
subconsiously rejected the package itself.

Plus this was a very intense year for Harry. He had
plenty of things to distract him from some package
tucked away forgetten in his trunk.

Lynda:

Wow! what good responses! I have to agree here. Harry wasn't exactly given
this present and wished Merry Christmas! He's gets it in secret, and he's so
determined to protect Sirius that he "forgets" about it. Harry was under a
lot of tension that year. When I was discussing the book with two friends
yesterday (one of whom is trying to read it for the first time with her four
year old actively resisting her endeavers--"No Harry Potter, Mommy! Read
that one!--as he hands her another book) we reiterated that for various
reasons Harry spends the majority of the book mad.  All of this makes it
somewhat believable that Harry could mentally misplace the mirror. A little
far-fetched, but I've seen some pretty strange things (btw--the loss of my
wallet and subsequent return had the result of redistributing my budget and
"stretching" my money a bit. Not that my money is ever other than
stretched...

Lynda


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