The letters are in reverse order, but not mirrored. No wonder they didn’t think of that!
It wouldn’t fit the narrative. (Just like it didn’t fit the narrative in canon, so nobody pointed it out there, either.)
Maybe the mirror has some kind of very narrow Confundus charm, that makes a person’s brain unable to process these letters? ;)
Well, yes. The False Comprehension Charm is precisely a very narrow Confundus charm that makes a person’s brain unable to process these letters—by substituting a convenient, wrong, preprocessed ‘answer’.
The letters are in reverse order, but not mirrored. No wonder they didn’t think of that!
It wouldn’t fit the narrative. (Just like it didn’t fit the narrative in canon, so nobody pointed it out there, either.)
Maybe the mirror has some kind of very narrow Confundus charm, that makes a person’s brain unable to process these letters? ;)
Well, yes. The False Comprehension Charm is precisely a very narrow Confundus charm that makes a person’s brain unable to process these letters—by substituting a convenient, wrong, preprocessed ‘answer’.