Chapter 7: The Mirror of Erised & Christmas

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Y/n POV
The next month or so went past quickly, with mountains homework and more quidditch games. Christmas break has arrived and I have decided to stay at Hogwarts for the break.

There were a few people staying at Hogwarts for the break including, Harry, the Weasley's, Riddle, Prince, Winter and Emily. Harry and the Weasleys I understood but why didn't the others, though I guess the same could be said if I.

My parents said it would be good for me to stay here for the holidays as they were spending time in America at the moment, I was happy to, though I could help feeling a little left out when Hop, my barn owl delivered the letter. I call him Hop as he tends to hop/jump around a lot.

During the break I learnt to play wizards chess, plus Ron, Harry and I discussed Nicolas Flamel, who has something to do with what the three-headed dog is protecting.

Soon Christmas arrived and we were all sat at one table for the Christmas break. Ron wasn't too sure of the other students seating near us, well mainly the Slytherins.

Since we were stuck at the table I decided to talk to them, "So why did you guys stay here for the break?"

"I don't exactly have anywhere, where I'm needed." Riddle answers bluntly.

"Parents are somewhere in the world." Emily says.

"Mine, said it would be educational if I stayed." Winter adds.

"Hogwarts is nice." Prince says.

Some of those answers were a little vague.

That morning I had received gives from my parents, friends and Mrs Weasley, which is a jumper that I'm currently wearing.

"You seemed to have gotten a good amount this year." Riddle states looking at me.

"I did. How did you know?" I ask, a little weirded out.

"Your face says it's all." She responds.

"What about you? I should think being a Slytherin you got great gifts." Ron asks a bit rudely.

"Yeah, tons." Riddle responses a little sarcastically.

"The tree did have some nice presents under it." Prince quickly adds.

"I got a few myself." Emily says.

"As did I." Winter adds on.

They don't seem very social.

"Riddle! Why is your hair slightly white?" George asks from across the table after getting her attention.

"I'm simply annoyed, is all." She answers and her hair returns to normal.

"Are you a Metamorphmagus?" Percy asks.

"I am." She responds.

"What is that meta thing?" I ask, not really catching the whole name.

"A Metamorphmagus, is someone who can change their appearance at will. You're either born with it or your not." Percy explains.

"There are of course animagus, who use a potion to be able to turn into one creature, that usually is their patronus." Winter adds.

"You really are a nerd, sometimes." Emily says.

"Just because you didn't know, Emily, doesn't mean other people didn't." Winter comes back with.

"Riddle, doesn't count. She's on a whole different level of being a nerd." Emily says.

"I knew it too." Prince intervenes.

"That's because you spend too much time with her." Emily says.

The rest of us kind of just watched this weird conversation, argument they were having. Soon though that was over and we separate from them and head back to the common room.

The next day, Harry tells us all about this mirror he found after going out in his cloak of invisibility to look through the restricted section. Apparently he can see his parents in it. I got a little excited about this when he told us that he was taking us to the mirror tonight.

Later around curfew, we head there with the invisibility cloak, huddled together. It was a little awkward but at least it stops is from getting caught.

Upon entering the room the cloak is pulled off and Harry takes Ron over to the mirror first but instead of seeing, Harry's parents, Ron sees that he is head boy and quidditch captain. I started to feel a like disappointed, I wanted to see Harry's parents but the mirror seems to only show things, specific to each person.

I take a look any and find, two silhouettes standing next to me. Which just seemed odd. The silhouettes did however seem to be of two males, in adulthood and I in the centre looks aged up as well, which just caused me to freak out and I refused to look at the mirror again.
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Harry Potter POV
The next night, Harry was yet again in front of the mirror. He was soon interrupted up Dumbledore coming in and started talking about the mirror, explaining that it shows your deepest desires.

He goes on to compare Harry's with Ron's and Y/n's, saying that her desire, "is to be loved romantically by someone, the two silhouettes were because she concerns two people to be worthy enough to be her partners in the future."

He then goes on to tell Harry that the mirror will be moved and not to go looking for it.

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