I think it’s more plausible that the mirror acts like it does in canon; that is, you see the room you’re in, plus some features that you deeply desire; you don’t see yourself leave the room unless you actually leave the room.
Harry needs to buy lottery tickets right away.
I see three broad paths the next chapter could take:
Hermione, wake up! We won and now we have to rescue Dumbledore!
“You thought that would stop me? Now we fight!”
“You thought that would stop me? I had just made a horcrux for her, and your Patronus plus my horcrux is how we’re going to solve the death problem. You’ve failed my loyalty test. And after all I did for you!”
(As always, there is the category of “everything else.”)
I think it’s more plausible that the mirror acts like it does in canon; that is, you see the room you’re in, plus some features that you deeply desire; you don’t see yourself leave the room unless you actually leave the room.
They did leave the room and go to a graveyard before Hermione was resurrected.
They did leave the room and go to a graveyard before Hermione was resurrected.
The reader sees them leave the room and go to a graveyard. But whether or not they in actuality left the room depends on how the mirror transmits information. Yvain is leaving open the possibility that Harry is hallucinating this (with the mirror’s help), and giving it high probability because of how much is going in his favor very quickly. I agree that’s a possibility, but think it’s unlikely given how the canon mirror operated and the evidence we have of how the MOR!mirror operates.
I think it’s more plausible that the mirror acts like it does in canon; that is, you see the room you’re in, plus some features that you deeply desire; you don’t see yourself leave the room unless you actually leave the room.
I see three broad paths the next chapter could take:
Hermione, wake up! We won and now we have to rescue Dumbledore!
“You thought that would stop me? Now we fight!”
“You thought that would stop me? I had just made a horcrux for her, and your Patronus plus my horcrux is how we’re going to solve the death problem. You’ve failed my loyalty test. And after all I did for you!”
(As always, there is the category of “everything else.”)
Upvoted retroactively.
They did leave the room and go to a graveyard before Hermione was resurrected.
The reader sees them leave the room and go to a graveyard. But whether or not they in actuality left the room depends on how the mirror transmits information. Yvain is leaving open the possibility that Harry is hallucinating this (with the mirror’s help), and giving it high probability because of how much is going in his favor very quickly. I agree that’s a possibility, but think it’s unlikely given how the canon mirror operated and the evidence we have of how the MOR!mirror operates.
I see. Point taken, then.