theory of Seven / Mirror of Erised

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Hey, Randy, cool theorizing about 7 Deadly Sins for 7 books. The 7
Heavenly Vvirtues are the 3 theological virtues, Faith, Hope, and
Charity (Love) and 4 Cardinal Virtues, temperance, prudence, justice,
fortitude. I checked Wikipedia, which tells me that: "The cardinal
virtues are distinguished from the capital virtues. The capital
virtues are often paired with the much more widely known capital (or
"deadly") sins. The capital virtues are: humility, liberality,
brotherly love, meekness, chastity, temperance, and diligence. The
capital sins, sometimes called the "seven deadly sins," are pride,
avarice (greed), envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth."

Talisman wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3876 :

<< Later, Harry sees his parents in the Mirror of Erised (209).  
Now he knows how they look. (Note: apparently the Mirror shows a true
form of your heart's desire, because Harry's parents' mirror images
conform to what he later sees in albums, penseives and smokey wand
regurgitations, etc.) >>

We know that the Mirror of Erised can read your mind (or your heart,
if your heart is not part of your mind) because it discovers what is
your heart's desire. If it can read Harry's mind/heart, it can plucK
from there forgotten baby memories of the appearance of his parents
(no one doubts that he did see his parents while a baby) to use in
making its picture, while inventing all the other relatives.
Irrelevantly, logically Sirius should been in the picture: he was
around baby Harry enough.