Mirror of Erised

[Susanna]

No: HPFGUIDX 191329


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> >  Bart:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Dorothy:  Thank you, Bart.  I feel that this must have been what 
> he meant besides Harry getting too personal, thus ending that 
> conversation.
>

Finwitch: You know, I'm going with this one. Particularly with the comment about the happiest man in the world using it as a regular mirror as he was explaining the mirror's function. (Making him much less likely to lie about what he thinks is HAPPY, it being education, not answering a personal question.) Personally, I disagree with that comment. I think it'd be absolutely horrible not to desire for anything. In that, Dumbledore's indeed desiring what would be the worst, considering that one of the symptoms of *depression* is lack of desire. I'd say it's a depressed man who sees nothing but himself in that mirror. I wonder, though - might Dumbledore have reconsidered by the end of the book, saying how people tend to want the worst? (Including himself, of course, not that he'd admit it).

Me, I think I'd just use it to figure out what I want. (Or try to. Probably just see myself knowing what I want).