Hogwarts: Nagini captured at the start

Chapter 67 The Magic Mirror of Erised

"A restricted area? That's incredibly audacious! He or they can't have gone far. We're sure we can catch the disobedient student," Snape said coldly.

The conversation grew louder, indicating that the old bat and the bald, smelly old man were getting closer to the narrow corridor. Robin led Harry and Ron, slowly backing away.

After retreating seven or eight meters, he noticed a door on his left with a large crack in it. He realized that an important magical artifact was about to appear, and immediately decided to pull the two of them inside.

The room appeared to be a long-abandoned classroom. A thick layer of dust covered the tables and chairs that were piled up like small hills along the wall. Not far from the pile of broken tables and chairs, there was an upside-down wastepaper basket.

Opposite the wastepaper basket, against the wall, stands a large, imposing, and luxurious mirror.

The mirror was almost touching the ceiling of the abandoned classroom. It was supported by two claw-shaped feet and was surrounded by a gorgeous gold frame. At the top of the umbrella-shaped vine pattern, there was a line of small characters engraved.

【Erisstratoherua.】

Yes, it's confirmed. It's the Mirror of Erised, the magical mirror that reflects people's desires.

Outside, the conversation gradually subsided until it was completely inaudible. With the threat gone, Robin saw Harry emerge from his Invisibility Cloak and walk to the mirror.

My roommate Harry seemed to be in a trance, sometimes covering his mouth in surprise, sometimes turning his head to look at both sides, sometimes reaching behind him to grope around, sometimes tilting his head in thought. Finally, with his nose pressed against the mirror, he cried and murmured, "Mommy, Daddy!"

"Uh, is he under a curse?"

Clearly, Ron also witnessed Harry's perplexing behavior throughout.

"I...I'm not cursed, Robin, Ron! I see Mom and Dad, and the rest of the Potter family. They live in the mirror. Come here, I want to introduce you to them." Harry was overwhelmed with emotion as he touched upon the family he had longed for.

"Really?" Ron walked to the mirror with a skeptical look on his face.

"Did you see that?" Harry asked anxiously.

Ron shook his head. "There's no one else in the mirror but you!"

"No, wait a minute, there are more than a dozen people standing in the mirror. Come on, let's switch places, and you can take a good look again."

Harry pushed Ron to the front of the mirror, staring at his face hopefully, hoping he would say: Yes, the mirror is full of members of the Potter family.

However, things did not develop in the direction he had hoped for.

As soon as his friend walked directly in front of the mirror, he realized that he could no longer see his family members in the mirror, but only his friend's illusory image.

Ron's thought process after looking in the mirror was quite similar to his roommate Harry's: surprise, doubt, probing, and excitement.

"I've grown up, I'm very tall and handsome, I'm wearing the student council president badge on my chest, and I'm holding the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup in my hands. Oh my god, I'm the captain of the Quidditch team, and I even got an invitation to join the Cannons! Cool!"

Luo Bin: Hey (▔，▔)ㄏ, young man, you need to understand that there is a big difference between dreams and wishful thinking.

"Robin, you take a picture too!"

Harry, refusing to believe it, dragged Robin to the opposite side of the mirror as well.

One second before looking in the mirror, Luo Bin was worried that the magic mirror would reflect a scene of intimate sexual activity that would make one's nose bleed; the next second, he wanted to unleash his inner national treasure.

"Robin, you see a bunch of people too, right? Here, there's a beautiful red-haired witch, and like me, she has green eyes. Here, there's a tall, thin wizard, and like me, he wears glasses and has a tuft of unruly hair on the back of his head. Here, there's a little old man, and like me, his knees are uneven."

Even though he couldn't see his family, Harry still pointed at the mirror and anxiously asked his roommate for confirmation.

"No, it's not like that! Robin, you've seen me all grown up, haven't you? The certificates I've received cover an entire wall, the trophies I've won can't fit on three shelves, and there are thousands of pink fan letters on the table waiting for me to reply."

Ron became more and more excited as he spoke, wishing he could pull Robin away and plunge into the mirror.

Under the gaze of two pairs of bright, piercing eyes, Luo Bin replied calmly, "I didn't see any of what you two were talking about."

"So what did you see?" Harry asked.

"Um, it's pitch black, I can't see anything. I think it's a magic mirror, everyone sees a different image when they stand in front of it."

"Maybe...it foreshadows the future?" Ron's eyes lit up.

"Impossible, my whole family has passed away. Let me check again!"

Harry stood in front of the mirror again, pursed his lips, and then reached his hand behind him as if to hold someone's hand. His lips curled up slightly, and a happy smile spread across his face.

"Robin, I think something's off with Harry."

"He longs for family so much, let him take a few more photos!"

Anyway, in a few days, some big shot will step in and help him break his mirror addiction.

"But... I also want to take a closer look at the certificates and trophies, and see what glorious achievements they record about me," Ron said, gazing longingly at the magic mirror.

Luo Bin: (⊙o⊙), young man, so this is what you're thinking! However, if the Mirror of Eris reflects images of intimate sexual activity, it's hard to say whether I'll be able to resist the temptation.

Luo Bin took out paper and pen and drew a simple sketch of "Brother Sang holding up the trophy" on the spot.

After finishing the drawing, I tore it up with a ripping sound and gave it to my roommate.

"Cool! Exactly the same as what I saw."

Then, inside the abandoned classroom, two people appeared, seemingly possessed.

One was obsessed with looking in the mirror, the other was obsessed with looking at simple line drawings.

However, Ron's mental state gradually returned to normal in less than an hour, but two hours later, Harry was still touching his hand, smiling, and his eyes were sparkling.

Suddenly, a cat meowed from the hallway outside.

It's Filch's lackey—Mrs. Lorris!

Luo Bin raised an eyebrow and winked at Luo Bin, then pulled someone into an invisibility cloak in one swift motion.

"Ugh, let it out!"

Robin covered Harry's mouth, gesturing for him to look towards the door.

A cat's head with erect ears peeked through the crack in the door, its bright, sparkling eyes observing everything inside the abandoned classroom.

Its fur length has returned to normal. It is said that Filch spent more than half a year's savings to ask someone to get a bottle of healing medicine from London.

After a long wait (actually 3 minutes), Mrs. Lorris meowed and walked away.

"Phew, this place isn't very safe. It might have gone to call Filch."

Ron said, panting heavily. It was clear that he had been holding his breath quite a bit while Loris was peering in.

"But I still want to."

In the end, Harry was carried back to his dorm by his two roommates.

As the curtains on the single bed were lowered, Robin's consciousness entered his sea of ​​consciousness.

Following his heart's desire, he took out a hazy, almost transparent book from the silverfish spirit book, casually flipped through a few pages, and then stuffed it into the bottom of the box.

Because that book constantly conveys the same message: you're a loser, you're just an illiterate.

He moved his finger, summoned an orange square, poked the black leather totem, and then looked up at the light screen in mid-air.

(End of this chapter)