Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Hòn Đá Phù Thủy/Chương 12”

On Christmas Day, both Harry and Ron receive gifts. Among Harry's are a sweater from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Molly Weasley|Mrs. Weasley]], and an [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Invisibility Cloak|Invisibility Cloak]] from an anonymous sender. The note with the cloak says that it belonged to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|Harry's father]]'s, and advises him to "use it well."

The Christmas feast is very merry, including various magical accessories and truly amazing amounts of delicious food. Following dinner, Harry remembers the Invisibility Cloak, and decides to explore the library's Restricted section, hoping to find Flamel's name. The first book he selects, however, screams when opened, causing Harry to break his lamp, and alerting [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Argus Filch|Filch]]. On the run from Filch, he enters a room containing a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Mirror of Erised|mirror]]. Standing in front, hisHis reflection shows him amidst a crowd of people. On closer inspection, this crowd is revealed to be his parents and relations – though not the Dursleys, but his parents and apparently his other magical relatives.

Excited, Harry later fetches Ron to show him the mirror, so Ron can see Harry's parents. Instead, Ron sees only himself wearing a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Head Boy|Head Boy's badge]], and holding the Quidditch Cup. After[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mrs. Norris|Mrs. Norris]] apparently can sense them discoversunder the boysCloak, Ronwhich stayskeeps Ron away, but over the next few days Harry keeps returning to the mirror until he is surprised by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]]. Dumbledore identifies the mirror as the Mirror of Erised, and explains that it shows "only the deepest desire of our hearts". When asked what he sees when he looks into the mirror, Dumbledore replies that he sees himself holding a pair of socks, which Harry suspects is untrue. Dumbledore tells Harry that he is going to hide the mirror, and asks that he not seek it out again.

When Harry looks into the Mirror of Erised, he views his family for the first time, transfixed by seeing the parents and relatives he never knew. Now Harry sees what James and Lily were actually like in life. Having lost them when he was still an infant, he has no recollections about them. He continually returns to gaze at his mother and father's images until Dumbledore intervenes. Dumbledore explains that rather than showing what someone's outer self looks like, the mirror reflects what lies buried within, their deepest desires. Erised is actually "desire" spelled backwards. What Harry desires is a loving family life with his lost parents restored to him. Although this loss has created a huge void in his life, it is blank, containing no memories or images to draw upon. Now Harry can begin to fill that void somewhat as he learns more about his family and starts exploring his feelings and his place in the world. While dwelling on his loss does cause him pain and grief, it also creates strong feelings of love and yearning, showing that Harry's emotional self is multi-faceted; he is not dominated by one or two feelings alone, nor is he solely ruled by emotions or use his tragedy as an excuse to vent anger and hate at others. His budding logic and intellect also help temper his feelings, though, at this age, he is still driven mostly by his impulses. Dumbledore's timely intervention prevents Harry from endlessly dwelling on hopeless dreams and lost opportunities rather than living his life. Even though the mirror is removed and hidden, Harry will encounter it again, as it plays a significant role in the book's climax.

Ron already has the family that Harry lacks, therefore his desires are obviously quite different. Feeling unremarkable and always overshadowed by his talented older brothers, when Ron peers into the Mirror, he sees only himself, as Quidditch captain and Head Boy, betterstanding thancompletely everyoneon his own accomplishments. Unlike Harry, however, he will not feel the need to continually return and stare at the Mirror's reflection, partially fearing being caught, but also resigned to knowing what it is he wants, but believing he can never attain it.

Harry and Dumbledore's relationship is also established in this scene, and until now there has been no significant interaction between them since Dumbledore left baby Harry on the Dursleys' door step ten years earlier. Not only has Dumbledore remained distant in the story until now, but he has been portrayed as being rather enigmatic and eccentric. Harry even considered that he might be a touch mad. Dumbledore is truly an enigma, and even by wizard standards, he seems odd. It is doubtful that he has ever had much direct interaction with students, being a lofty and somewhat aloof authoritarian figure, and it has been unclear just what his role will be in the book. He is, however, a kind, gentle, and humorous man, and rather than reprimand Harry, Dumbledore steps beyond his Headmaster role to gently guide Harry with helpful, almost fatherly, advice, understanding that Harry's needs are unique fromamong otherthe students. Their relationship will likely continue to grow beyond student and teacher from here on.

Of Note: The mirror's entire inscription reads, "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi". When those words are read backwards, the inscription is: "I show not your face but your heart's desire". We can safely expect that the Mirror of Erised will play a role elsewhere in the book, though exactly what that role will be, and how the Mirror's peculiar function will be important, it is too early to tell.

Harry's desire to have an ordinary, peaceful life surrounded by family is something that follows him throughout the series and helps drives his actions in nearly everything. Although he can never be reunited with his parents, he does eventually acquire the family he so deeply desires. Ron also sees his heart's desire, to become HogwartHogwarts's Head Boy and Gryffindor's Quidditch team captain, winning the Quidditch Cup. While Ron never becomes either Head Boy or Quidditch captain, he is later appointed as a Gryffindor [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Prefects|prefect]], and wins a spot on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as Keeper, his playing skills helping Gryffindor win the Quidditch Cup. While the mirror shows that what we desire may be more than can be achieved, by overreaching, it is possible to attain much that makes for a satisfying life.

Dumbledore has rarely had close relationships with Hogwarts students. Though Harry will become an exception, there is another student, also an orphan and a talented wizard, that Dumbledore also paid closer attention to, though not in the same way as with Harry. That student's name was [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Tom Marvolo Riddle|Tom Riddle]], and he eventually transformedstarted intousing the name [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]].

It is unknown who returned the Invisibility Cloak to Harry until the book's end, when it is revealed it was Dumbledore. However, that raises a large question. When Harry is caught at the Mirror of Erised, Dumbledore mentions that he does not need a cloak to be invisible. Invisibility can be created by a spell, the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Disillusionment|Disillusionment charm]], that Dumbledore probably excels at. Interestingly, the note to Harry reads that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|James Potter]] "left" the Cloak in Dumbledore's possession shortly before he died. However, it is learned later that Dumbledore actually asked James if he could borrow it. Why, then, would Dumbledore have wanted James Potter's Invisibility Cloak? It would seem that he has no need for it, after all.