CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 12, The Mirror of Erised

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1.	Who did you think the Invisibility Cloak was from?

Alla:

I think I will answer same as Potioncat, it is hard for me to even imagine now that I did not know that it is from Dumbledore, but I cannot be sure if I thought it the first time I read it.


2. Filch says that Snape asked him to inform him if anyone was prowling
the corridors at night- what did you think of this the first time you read it? 

Who did you think that Snape might suspect would be out of bed?


Alla:

Not Quirrel, that's for sure!

3. Dumbledore says later that he didn't get the idea to use the Mirror of
Erised to hide the stone until after Harry's encounter with it- so why was it in
the school or in that classroom to begin with? What do you think is the origin
of the Mirror?

Alla:

See, THIS sort of thing is to me a perfect example where I can totally buy Dumbledore's manipulativeness and cruelty. I am having a lot of trouble buying the idea that he could have predicted and known how three kids will get to know each other so well, like and love each other so well, etc, but these sorts of games to me is exactly the games Dumbledore would play.

So, I do not believe him for one second that he got the idea to use the mirror after Harry's encounter with it. I think that he had that idea way before and then brought Mirror to school and showed Harry how it works. Cruel, but effective if you ask me

6. How did Dumbledore know that Harry had found the mirror and what Harry
and Ron had seen in it? What do you think are his ways of becoming invisible
without a cloak?

Alla:

I just think he knows a complex charm to make him invisible.

7. Did you believe Dumbledore when he said he saw himself holding socks in
the mirror? What were your theories on what he might have seen?

Alla:

Oh, that I remember very well, nope, not for a second. I had no doubt that he was lying there, because to me it was way too trivial, I thought that he kept his true wish to himself.

Of course I had no idea what he really saw, but was sure that not socks lol.

Thanks for the interesting questions Janelle!