The Marauder's Heir (Harry Potter FF)

Chapter 8

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Chapter 8

Christmas with Padfoot

The Christmas season was coming and Harri couldn’t be happier. With the Hogwarts covered in several feet of snow some of her classes had been cancelled, which meant one thing, snowball fights. Of course the twins had been given detention for bewitching snowballs to hit Quirrell in the back of the head, but it was worth watching. Hermione even chuckled at their antics!

Of course Alya was being as unpleasant as ever and continued to make fun of Harri for catching the snitch in her mouth, but no one would listen to her. They were all impressed with the Gryffindor seeker for her courageous catch. This just brought Alya back to making fun of her and Draco for not having a proper family to go home to this Christmas. Harri felt that she did have a proper family to go home to, it was just a strange one.

Harri had received a letter from her godfather asking if any of her friends were coming to spend Christmas with her. Harri already knew that Draco was spending the break with her and the twins immediately jumped at the chance to meet one of the Marauders. Sadly, Hermione couldn’t join them because she was going to be skiing with her family.

Draco, Harri and Hermione had spent all their free time in the library researching Nicolas Flamel. None of them had any luck finding anything on him. That was why Harri, the night before break, decided that she was going to look in the restricted section of the library herself.

Of course nothing happened according to plan. For one, it was rather dark in the library at night and she couldn’t read the book titles properly and two, Filch showed up and then Snape joined the chase. So, Harri was quietly running through the halls of Hogwarts to try and get away from them. She saw a door on her left that was slightly ajar and slid in without either man hearing her. When their voices got farther away she let out a sigh of relief.

When she turned around to face what was in the room she noticed a giant mirror with words inscribed on the top: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.

The words bothered her, but she looked into the mirror anyway and was surprised at what she saw. It was a bunch of people, two she immediately recognized. The first one was a short woman with red hair and the same eyes as Harri. Next to her was a tall, thin man with messy black hair that stuck up in the back. These people were her parents. Harri had only seen them in pictures, but they couldn’t be in the room with her? People can’t be brought back from the dead.

The young witch turned around and saw that no one was there and backed up so she could look at the words on the top of the mirror again. She knew that wasn’t a language and the more she looked at it the easier it became to tell why it wasn’t a language. It was written backwards. She pulled out some spare parchment from her robes and grabbed a quill and wrote the inscription backwards and then forwards: I show not your face but your heart’s desire.

That was when it hit her, this was the infamous Mirror of Erised. It was showing her what she always truly wanted, her family. She had read that people had gone insane because of this object, staring into it till they died. She backed up from it, not wanting to be stuck there forever. She had her own family now, she’d see her parents again when she died. On top of that, Sirius would be mad at her if she went insane over not seeing her parents. She might see them in the mirror, but she got stories about them from Sirius and Remus. They were her family now and she wasn’t going to leave them.

Harri left the room as quickly as she came. She didn’t want to see that thing ever again. It was a dangerous object. What she wanted to know was why the mirror was at Hogwarts, especially since it was in an abandoned classroom where any student could just wander into.