The Blood of the Chosen One (On hold for now)

Chapter 7: Erised's Mirror, Nicholas Flamel & Norbert

Harry began to open his Christmas presents in a happy way, for it was the first time he received gifts. He began by the sweater that Mrs. Weasley had sent him, thanking it with a wide smile. Then he noticed that there was another gift that had his name: it was a package. Cora observed the package that Harry had in his hands: it seemed light. The redhead approached her friend and was perfectly aware that there was a note attached to the package, in which there was something written in a stylized writing.  
—That's strange... it says that it's for me... —said Harry slightly confused after examining the bundle on a suspicious way—. "Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned you. Use it well." —Harry read with a serene voice. After a few seconds of doubt, the child finally decided to open the bundle, from which it extracted a big pledge.

—What is it? —asked Ron while he ate some jelly beans.

—It looks like.... a cape. —Harry answered him after getting up of the armchair where it had sat down, supporting the pledge with its hands.

—Try it on, let's see how it looks. —suggested Cora with a slight tone of curiosity while she observed it, at the same time that she sat down in other of the armchairs.

Harry did what Cora had suggested, and put the cloak on his shoulders. Surprisingly, the cloak made the body of Harry completely invisible, leaving only his head visible, which seemed to float in the air.

—Wow! —gasped Ron.

—I don't see my body! —cried Harry as he turned around himself, with a smile from ear to ear.

—I know what it is... —said the redhead getting up from the armchair—. It's an invisibility cloak, but there are very few.

—Who has given it to you? —asked Ron, approaching Harry.

—I don't know. It doesn't have any names. —replied Harry—. It just says "use it well"...

That same night, without waiting too long, Harry went to the library to search for information about Nicholas Flamel in the Forbidden Section. The boy was accompanied by the red-haired girl, who that night could not even sleep due to the excitement of this new tool, which would help them to sneak away at night. The library was dark and it seemed enchanted due to the great silence that reigned there. Harry decided to carry an oil lamp on, in order to see the shelves and the many books that were kept in there. While carrying it in his hand, being the only thing visible, the child was about to be frightened on several occasions, for it seemed that the lamp floated alone in the air. Calmly, the two children hidden by the invisibility cloak managed to delve deeper into the library, where the Forbidden Section was. The children entered the Forbidden Section after unlocking the lock. They began to look with their eyes among the various titles that there were, however, some were intelligible and others did not even possess one.

—Here! Nicholas Flamel! —cried Harry quietly, leaving the lamp on the table, while he was getting out of the robe that covered them both. Cora, on the other hand, stretched a little to reach the book they wished to read and left it on the table. Harry opened the book, from whose interior came a heartbreaking and very strident cry, making the two students to panic. In an attempt to silence the screaming book, Harry slammed it and returned it to his bookshelf, but it was too late, for the two children clearly heard a hoarse voice, which certainly belonged to the Hogwarts warden.

—Who Is there? —asked Filch as he walked through the halls of the library with a lamp of light.

Harry quickly grabbed the cloak from above the table, throwing the lantern he had brought to the ground in the process, shattering the glass into small pieces. The children were covered with the robe and began to move through the halls in silence.