Power and Persecution [1] || Harry Potter x OC x Draco Malfoy

20. The Mirror of Erised

DISCLAIMER 

I do not own Harry Potter ... but if I did the Mirror of Erised would have been guarded or something I mean it was just lying around wtf

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Harry Potter was just a boy.

Contrary to the legend surrounding his name, he did not possess complete bravery or an absence of fear.

Which is why the second one of the books in the restricted section of the library opened and revealed the head of a screaming man prompting Filch to become aware of his presence, he ran.

He had barely read one page of a book.

So much for getting information on Nicholas Flamel.

However, as he ran from not just Filch but two other teachers who had been out roaming the hallways at night (Professor Snape and Professor Quirrell), he had stumbled upon something else.

Something that made him completely forget all about what his task had been.

In an empty stone room sat a large mirror.

Harry had approached it cautiously, knowing that in the world he found himself in, even a simple mirror could mean bad news.

But as he got closer, two figures had joined him in the reflection.

His mother and father.

After seeing them, Harry immediately swirled around to look at them in person.

But they weren't there.

They were only an illusion.

But illusion or not, Harry found himself completely entranced by what he was seeing.

His mother and father smiling down at him as if they were trying to communicate the thousands of words they were never able to tell him.

He wanted nothing more than to be able to hear them, to hug them.

It took all of his willpower to pull himself away from the mirror.

But the thing that did it was two-fold.

And they both involved his friends.

The first was that he wanted to make sure he wasn't going crazy.

If Ron or Bel saw his parents, it would solve that problem.

Secondly, he wanted his friends to see his parents simply because they could.

Even if the two figures standing in the mirror were an illusion, they could still see two of his friends.

His closest friends.

His first found friends.

Harry wanted his parents to know that he wasn't alone anymore.

That he was happier now.

Harry had immediately run under the invisibility of his cloak to the entrance of the Hufflepuff common room.

"Sugar and Spice", he had whispered out loud.

Nothing happened.

This confused him, as he swore those were the words used by Bel to get into the common room before.

Perhaps it had changed, and without a way in, there wasn't a way to reach her.

Harry had then returned to his own dormitory where Ron lay snoring.