Instead of hopes and dreams, the Dark detector displayed one’s fears by revealing the possessors’ true enemies. The dark and mysterious aura of mirrors was amplified through the Foe-Glass. Shadowy figures were moving around inside it, none of them clearly in focus. What appeared to be a mirror hung opposite Harry on the wall, but it was not reflecting the room. Ron too faced his fears when he retrieved the sword of Gryffindor, saved Harry and destroyed a Horcrux – becoming the hero he always wanted to be. Harry was not reunited with his late parents, but they appeared to him when he needed them most, and he ended up with people who loved him just as much. It was by moving past those obsessions and living their own life that the characters ended up realising their dreams in some way. Dumbledore knows that life can pass you by while you are clinging on to a wish that can never be – or ought never to be – fulfilled. The advice to ‘hold on to your dreams’ is all well and good, but there comes a point when holding on to your dreams becomes unhelpful and even unhealthy. Instead, obsession could leave people in disrepair and blur the line between reality and dreams. Dumbledore himself warned Harry that it provided neither knowledge nor truth. Dumbledore, too, despite his initially evasive ‘thick, woollen socks’ answer, knew what it was like to dream of seeing his family whole and happy once again.īut the Mirror of Erised also symbolised the dangers of clinging to those wishes. For Ron, it was to finally step out of his brothers’ shadows and be the best. For Harry, his wish was to be with a family he had never known. The old device reflected one’s deepest desires but kept them just out of reach. Things were also not as they seemed with the Mirror of Erised. The blue eyes actually belonged to Aberforth, who would later send Dobby to the cellar of Malfoy Manor to help Harry in what would become the house-elf’s last heroic act. The jagged piece would also foreshadow another significant death to come. But he brushed it off as his imagination, a moment that again embodied his inability to interact with a dead loved one. And it wasn’t the only time it did.Īfter Albus Dumbledore died, when Harry had been thinking of his late headmaster, he found one of the shards from the mirror and saw ‘a flash of brightest blue’. The broken two-way mirror represented Harry’s grief and shattered emotions in a way words alone couldn’t, intertwining the looking glass with death. Even death was beyond the reach of magic. The mirror, intended to open up a connection between Harry and Sirius, ended up reminding Harry of the great barrier between them. In anger, he hurled the small square mirror back into his trunk, shattering it in the process (uh-oh, bad omen). But all he was left with were his own eyes blinking back at him and Sirius’s name hanging in the air. ![]() For a moment, Harry was hopeful that he would be able to talk to and see Sirius again through the two-way mirror. Harry’s untimely discovery of his late godfather’s gift completely gutted us. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix If you need to speak to me, just say my name into it you’ll appear in my mirror and I’ll be able to talk in yours. Here are some of the important mirrors we learned of and what we think they mean. ![]() Each mirror came to represent so much more than mere reflections. It was no surprise, then, that mirrors in the Harry Potter books also offered significant clues and insights if we looked a little closer. In various versions of Snow White, mirrors were a tell-tale sign of the Evil Queen’s vanity while in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, they revealed the soul (or a vampire’s lack of one). Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass slipped through a mirror to another world, only for it all to have been just a dream. For instance, the usurped king in Shakespeare’s Richard II smashed a mirror as a reflection of his inner destruction. Their enigmatic quality has been explored in literature for centuries and used symbolically in various ways. But in the Wizarding World, though they mostly sat quiet and unnoticed, mirrors were powerful instruments that revealed desires and fears, and reflected truths and distorted realities. To us Muggles, mirrors may serve no greater purpose than to ensure our teeth are spinach-free or to fix unruly strands of hair.
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