Adrian Craddock and The Philosopher's Stone

Christmas

A few weeks later and it was time for the Holidays. Aiden sat in the Great Hall reading a book while Ron and Harry were playing Wizard's Chess.

"Knight to E5." Harry said, looking at his chess piece

"Queen to E5." Ron ordered, his chess piece moving to Harry's knight and destroying it.

"That's totally barbaric." said Hermione, approaching the table with a frown on her face.

"It's Wizard's Chess." Ron says to her. "I see you've packed."

"See you haven't." she retorted.

"Change of plans. My parents decided to go to Romania to visit my brother, Charlie. He's studying dragons there!"

"Good. You can help Aiden and Harry then. They're going to the library to look for information on Nicolas Flamel."

"But we've looked a hundred times." whined Ron.

Hermione then leaned in and said in a smug voice: "Not in the Restricted Section. Happy Christmas." and with that she left the Great Hall.

"Merry Christmas Hermione." Aiden said before mentally berating himself for not checking the Restricted Section.

"I think we've had a bad influence on her." said Ron, looking at Harry.

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Christmas Morning went as expected. Aiden fell out of bed due to Ron screaming "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" After giving his redheaded friend a good reason not to wake him up like that again (as with Harry, Ron also developed a fear of aggressive-sounding Welsh), Aiden and the others started opening their presents.

Aiden had gotten a book for DADA from Ethan, a box of Chocolate Frogs from Ron, a map of England from Hermione("I've been to London twice and got lost both times.") and a wine-red sweater with an A on the front from Ron's mum. He had also gotten Ron a book on Quidditch Teams around the world, a Golden Snitch carved out of wood for Harry and that promised book about his family history for Hermione.

After a few more presents, Harry was down to his last one. When he opened it, the three were confused: it was just a cloak. When he put it on however, Ron and Aiden looked at him in shock. Confused as to why they were looking at him like that, Harry looked down at his body and quickly realized why his friends looked like that. His entire body was missing! Someone had sent him an Invincibility Cloak! With that thought however, Harry's shocked expression turned into a mischievous grin.

"I think I know how we're getting into the Restricted Section now."

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Later that night, after the other two had went to bed, Harry came back into the dorm and started shaking Aiden awake. The slightly older boy was immediately woken up and was still tired.

"What time is it anyway, Harry?" he asked, yawning.

Harry simply ignored Aiden's questioned and went to wake Ron up. The three then slipped under Harry's cloak and made their way to what he wanted to show them. Before long they arrived a room that was almost empty, save for one thing: a mirror with a strange inscription.

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"So you woke us up just to show us an old mirror? I don't understand." said Aiden, clearly confused.

"No, it's not just a plain old mirror. If you look inside, I think you'll see your family. or I don't know. I just know I saw my parents in it." explained Harry.

Now Aiden was even more confused. A mirror that shows your family?

Ron, still confused, decided to step forward and look in the mirror.