CHAPDISC: DH 23, Malfoy Manor

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183468

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chelsealwferguson"
<chelsealwferguson at ...> wrote:

> > 8) What did you think was the explanation for Dumbledore's
> > eye in the broken mirror?

 
> We know this already, it was Alberforth's eye, not Albus'.


zanooda:

I believe that Zara wants to know what we thought about the eye in the
mirror at the time we read this chapter for the first time, not now
:-). We didn't know for sure back then that it was Aberforth :-). I
remember that the eye puzzled me, both in this chapter and in "In
Memoriam", because we were never told that the Dumbledore brothers had
the same eyes. 

Now I think I should have guessed, because in that old picture of the
Dumbledores both boys are described as "very alike", and their father
has the twinkle in the eye, just like DD. It seems obvious to me now
that both boys inherited their father's eyes, but back then I didn't
know what to think - did DD meet with Sirius behind the veil and used
his mirror to look after Harry <bg>? 

I only started considering Abe something like one page earlier than
Harry saw the mirror on his fireplace :-). I know most of the readers
guessed much earlier (and some maybe knew from the very beginning
:-)), but I was really slow on this one ;-(.