Yeah, and I am kind of surprised that neither Quirrellmort nor Harry thought of reversing the letters. I mean, we are dealing with a magical mirror here. How is this not the first thing they’ve tried ?
I get the feeling from Voldemort’s comments and Harry’s thoughts that the Letters of False Comprehension have a mind affecting power that prevents you from understanding them. I think the inversion is a joke for the readers.
I assumed the inversion was because the mirror was somehow reflecting the phrase, or at least that it’s some kind of artistic flair meant to suggest so.
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’.
Yeah, and I am kind of surprised that neither Quirrellmort nor Harry thought of reversing the letters. I mean, we are dealing with a magical mirror here. How is this not the first thing they’ve tried ?
I get the feeling from Voldemort’s comments and Harry’s thoughts that the Letters of False Comprehension have a mind affecting power that prevents you from understanding them. I think the inversion is a joke for the readers.
I assumed the inversion was because the mirror was somehow reflecting the phrase, or at least that it’s some kind of artistic flair meant to suggest so.
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 inscription is not in the Latin alphabet.