technically there are an infinite number of things you don't desire: which to choose?
The one that serves Dumbledore's wacky schemes best?
- heh, I hadn't actually given the whole thing this much thought, but. You have an excellent point about the psych-out, and also how creepy would that be? gaaah. - and, yes, everything and everyone in the HP-land lying to you anyway was sort of my only reason of wondering in the first place. Not that it's how I read the Mirror in the books (can't think of any examples of it lying per se, but then the HP canon really isn't my forte) - but I wonder about the possibility.
On the other hand, first, yes to the skipping over years of therapy (okay, now even that sounds really skeevy to me) - but also, you know, the psychoanalytical notion (to simplify and distort the matter like whoa, I suppose) that 1) desire can't (mustn't) cease and 2) that the object of desire is never-obtainable sort of by definition - and then that bit about the "happiest man on earth" - and also is what the Mirror shows really the deepest desire, as opposed to what it can catch hold of the easiest? I don't know, the whole thing just confuses my little brain a lot. :)
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Date: 2005-10-20 05:17 pm (UTC)The one that serves Dumbledore's wacky schemes best?
- heh, I hadn't actually given the whole thing this much thought, but. You have an excellent point about the psych-out, and also how creepy would that be? gaaah. - and, yes, everything and everyone in the HP-land lying to you anyway was sort of my only reason of wondering in the first place. Not that it's how I read the Mirror in the books (can't think of any examples of it lying per se, but then the HP canon really isn't my forte) - but I wonder about the possibility.
On the other hand, first, yes to the skipping over years of therapy (okay, now even that sounds really skeevy to me) - but also, you know, the psychoanalytical notion (to simplify and distort the matter like whoa, I suppose) that 1) desire can't (mustn't) cease and 2) that the object of desire is never-obtainable sort of by definition - and then that bit about the "happiest man on earth" - and also is what the Mirror shows really the deepest desire, as opposed to what it can catch hold of the easiest? I don't know, the whole thing just confuses my little brain a lot. :)