Mirror of Erised

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 191294

> Bart wrote:

>You didn't read it carefully. His deepest, most desperate desire was to
>want nothing more than a pair of thick woolen socks; in other words, to
>be content with what he had.

Miles:
I don't think this is a question of reading carefully.
You present an interpretation, not a fact.

Your interpretation at this point is that Dumbledore told Harry the truth. 
Harry himself is in doubt about this, because he considers his question to 
be too private.

But I think that the last book shows us the real deepest desire of Albus 
Dumbledore: that his young sister Ariana wouldn't have been killed, or that 
he at least could apologize to her about the accident that lead to her 
death.
We know it because he couldn't resist to use the Ressurection Stone to 
recall Ariana, not considering that Voldemort had more than one reason to 
curse it.

So, if you ask me, one should have read the entire series carefully to know 
the answer to this - and many other questions ;).

Miles