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583: High Flying Hijinks (Sorcerer's Stone, Chapters 11 - 12)
MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast
Dumbledore and the Mirror of Eris
"The mirror is bewitching and tantalizing, but it does not necessarily bring happiness," Dumbledore warns Harry. "Who has not fantasized about an alternate reality of something that happened in our lives?" asks Rowling. In the Tale of the Three Brothers, a second brother who had the resurrection stone was driven mad with hopeless longing to join his dead love. Potter's use of both devices share this similarity: They can really become all consuming for people and cause them not to live.
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