Harry Potter drabble
How I think Harry felt when he saw his parents in the Mirror of Erised
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does and she's already done a fine job owning it.
Harry stares at his refection in the mirror and realizes with a start that there are also two faint silhouettes behind him. His head immediately snaps to look behind him and he is surprised to see no one.
He walks closer to the mirror, wanting to know who they were.
A sliver of red blooms in his vision and suddenly the two figures' appearances became vivid.
A female with bright red hair and brilliant green eyes (like his, he notes) and a brunet with warm hazel eyes, and if he was honest, who could've been his future self .
It is at that moment that he realizes that they are his parents.
Oh god, they're his parents.
His.
Parents.
The wom--Mum gives him a smile and he smiles back. His chest feels like it's going to explode with his heart beating so fast because oh god, oh god, those are his parents, his parents, parents that he could have had.
He lifts his attention to Dad now, staring at him with such pride and joy that it almost physically hurts.
Harry hadn't realized he was reaching out to touch them until he was snapped out of his thoughts by the smooth, cold feel of the mirror.
'Oh,' he realizes, '-right...' His smile turns into a little frown.
A small pressure fixes itself on his shoulder and he faces the mirror once more.
It's Mum's hand on his shoulder.
And he's startled and touches his shoulder that his Mum was grasping.
Only to feel nothing. No soft, warm, and gentle hand resting on his shoulder.
'But,' he thought, 'it feels so....' Harry clutches his shoulder a tad tighter. 'So real...'
He feels his chest tighten and tears threaten to fall. They were just right there. So close yet so far.
He forces back the tears and grins at them. Dad and Mum giving him grins of their own and Harry savors the moment as much as he can, trying to imprint their faces in his brain, memorizing every detail of their appearance.
After all, he wasn't going to see them again anytime soon now, was he?
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Deepest Desire (Harry Potter one-shot)
Fanfiction"Harry stares at his refection in the mirror and realizes with a start that there are also two faint silhouettes behind him. His head immediately snaps to look behind him and he is surprised to see no one." wrote this after watching the 1st movie, H...
