Chapter 106: The magic mirror of Erised (Edited)

"But... Why aren't we leaving now?" Fish looked at Harry with confusion, "It's not like we have classes now, and it's not like Minerva won't let us leave, meow."

"Uh..."

Harry was stunned for a moment, then patted himself on the head, since he'd snuck out at night with his invisibility cloak and had unconsciously assumed that was something he could only do at night in secret.

And since most of the students had gone home for the Christmas vacations, there weren't many people in the castle, and since it was cold and no one wanted to go out, it wasn't so easy to get caught if they were careful.

So Harry decisively pushed the chessboard in front of him and stood up, "So what are we waiting for? let's go now!"

"Hey!" exclaimed Ron, on the opposite side, "I'm going to win!"

The pieces on the chessboard also shouted loudly, expressing strong contempt for Harry's shameless tactics.

Harry ignored him and eagerly dragged Fish out of the Common Room.

Ron rolled his eyes helplessly and picked up the pieces grumbling on the chessboard before following them.

When the three of them reached the fourth floor, Harry said to Fish and Ron, "I remember finding that room next to a suit of armor, and the corridors were quite narrow."

"The armor on the fourth floor? Then I know where it is."

Fish was familiar with his own territory, and immediately remembered the location that Scarhead said.

"Follow Fish~". (●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish waved to Harry and Ron and stepped forward.

With him in the lead, the three of them soon came to a fully covered metal suit of armor, and as soon as Harry saw it, he exclaimed, "Yes! That's the one!"

Harry quickly found the door he had found the night before on the left side of the armor, and after looking around to make sure no one else was there, he stepped forward and pushed it open, leading the way.

"Meow? I've already been in this room and there's no mirror."

This place was a bit out of the way, it wasn't even a secret room, so of course Fish had been there before, but finding nothing interesting in it, he rarely went back.

"So, did someone put that mirror in afterwards?" Ron wondered as he walked in, "Who would put a magic mirror in a corner like this? And it looks like it's worth a lot of money." added Ron after entering the room and seeing the large mirror.

It was a standing mirror with an ornate gold frame that reached all the way to the ceiling and had two claw-like legs underneath, so even if it wasn't a special magical item, the price couldn't be much lower.

"Erised le nozaroc ut ed onis arac ut se on otse.... What does that mean?" ?ω?

Fish looked at the line of letters etched into the top of the mirror and realized he couldn't read them at all.

"Uh... Is that probably the name of the mirror? Or an activation spell or something."

Ron, who couldn't read it either, scratched his red hair and speculated.

Then Fish pulled out his wand and pointed it at the large mirror in front of him, "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi Meow!"

(?ΦωΦ?) つ━☆?*.

There was no movement.

"It's useless, meow."

Fish calmly put his wand away and said to Ron, who was horrified.

"You can't do this in the future!" Ron, who had come to his senses, said to Fish, "It's very easy for something bad to happen if you try a spell of unknown origin, Dad once told me about a person who chanted an unknown spell, and then got disfigured by the acid that spat out of a teapot when he chanted an unknown spell on it! His whole face was burned by the acid!"

Fearing that Fish would commit such a recklessness again, Ron spoke in a grave tone.

"Meow!" ∑(●ΦДΦ●)

This did catch Fish's attention, who cowered a bit in fear, his cat ears drooping, as he weakly replied, "Understood, meow.... Fish won't be doing this in the future."

"That's good..."

Ron then softened his tone and looked at Harry, who had been standing in front of the mirror since he had entered, caught with his family in the mirror and unaware of what was going on around him.

"Hey Harry, are you okay?" Ron asked, tapping Harry on the shoulder to bring him back to his senses, "Where's the family you were talking about?"

"They're here, aren't they?"

Harry shot a surprised look at Ron, pointing to the mirror in front of him, "Look! They're all here... there's a lot of people!"

"But there's only Scarhead in the mirror, meow." Fish poked his head out and looked at the big mirror, "Even Fish can't see it! This mirror is broken, meow!" ∑(●ΦДΦ●)

Harry realized that Ron and Fish were not in the mirror, but were standing next to him.

"Why don't you try staying here with me?"

He turned to the side, standing directly to the side of the mirror.

Ron, who was standing next to him, took Harry's place, and Harry couldn't see himself or his family in an instant, and only Ron was there.

"Meow! The man in the mirror has turned red-headed number four!"

Fish saw the same thing as Harry, but Ron saw something completely different.

"Look at me!" said Ron with some excitement.

"Can you see your family around you?" asked Harry curiously.

"No, it's just me... but unlike now, I seem to have grown up a bit... I'm a Prefect too!" Ron said.

"Meow? what's Prefect?" Fish said, as he didn't understand what he was saying.

"I'm, I'm wearing one of those badges that Bill used to wear, and I'm holding the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup... I'm also captain of the Quidditch team!"

Ron turned his head excitedly, looking at Harry and Fish, "Do you think this mirror predicts the future?"

"No way... my family is already dead..." Harry shook his head in a somewhat depressed mood, throwing his friend's illusions to the wind, "Let Fish try."

"Okay..."

Ron reluctantly turned away, actually looking forward to seeing his glorious "future" for a while longer.

It was Fish's turn to stand in front of the Mirror of Erised, and the figure in the mirror changed from Ron to Fish, faithfully reflecting the cat's ears on his head and the cat's tail behind him.

"Meow! It's Fish!" ?(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish looked at himself in the mirror, then stood in place and wriggled, waving his forearms from time to time, or kicking his legs, watching himself in the mirror repeating these actions, Fish had a lot of fun.

But he soon stopped, for in the mirror there were countless treats and toys all around him, and in it he saw the Sorting Hat he had always wanted.

As he turned his head to look around, he saw that there was nothing in the mirror, so Fish, his eyes shining, pounced on the mirror, hitting it with both hands.

"Come on, give me everything!" ?(●?﹃?●)?