Dark Devices: The Mirror of Eris

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Dark Devices:  the Mirror of Eris.

Excuse me, that was Erised.  How silly of me.  Eris was the goddess of discord, and according to Hesiod (Works and Days), she sometimes worked by planting unsatisfiable desires in men’s hearts:

She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. But Strife is unwholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar….

Completely different thing from what that mirror does, got it.

Jodel suggested in “The Quirrell Debacle” that Dumbledore had set up Harry to look into that mirror.  She argued that the headmaster had first moved that Mirror away from the heart of the labyrinth, and then had had Filch and Snape herd Harry to the appropriate room, primarily because Albus wanted to learn Harry’s heart’s deepest desires.  Letting Harry gaze into that mirror, in that view, was Dumbledore’s test to make sure Harry wasn’t another future Dark Lord in training. 

I think that there was something more going on than merely Albus’s test of Harry.  If I am correct, I earnestly hope that Severus and Argus were not implicated in Twinkles’ plots.

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And now for something ELSE completely different!

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