“But by the end of the story the mysterious old wizard mask has moved from Dumbledore to Harry, and Harry’s brash young hero mask has moved to Hermione. (Hermione’s mask does not, so far as I noticed, move to Dumbledore.)”
Just imagine: thousands of years later, Dumbledore is pulled out of the mirror and finds himself in a completely alien transhumanist future built by Harry. Young (only a hundred years old!), inexperienced, armed with principles and ideas about reality that are completely inappropriate for this world and society… Just like Hermione at the beginning of the story, isn’t it?
“But by the end of the story the mysterious old wizard mask has moved from Dumbledore to Harry, and Harry’s brash young hero mask has moved to Hermione. (Hermione’s mask does not, so far as I noticed, move to Dumbledore.)”
Just imagine: thousands of years later, Dumbledore is pulled out of the mirror and finds himself in a completely alien transhumanist future built by Harry. Young (only a hundred years old!), inexperienced, armed with principles and ideas about reality that are completely inappropriate for this world and society… Just like Hermione at the beginning of the story, isn’t it?