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It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
Even knowing full well that the illusions in the mirror were false, people still wasted their time before it. They became obsessed with what they saw, even driven mad, because they did not know whether everything in the mirror was real or could possibly come true.
Dumbledore had used it as part of the trials protecting the Sorcerer's Stone. He hid the Stone within the mirror as its final safeguard. Only someone who wanted to find the Stone, wanted it, but did not intend to use it could obtain the Sorcerer's Stone.
"Did she tell us what this mirror means?" Gong Saiyi asked Severus in confusion.
Now Sleeping Beauty was lying on the sofa in his home.
"That world is not real," Severus said. "It is made of people's desires."
"What?"
"You can think of it as the world inside the Mirror of Erised. That mirror can become an entrance."
"I still don't understand," Gong Saiyi said.
"Human desire can make some intangible things tangible, just like the material world."
"You're planning to return to Britain?" Gong Saiyi asked.
"Children's desires are not as complicated as adults'. There was a reason that mirror was placed in a school." Severus rubbed his eyes. "Napoleon loved to seize things so much. Maybe he got hold of a Mirror of Erised."
"There's more than one mirror?"
"Many people think there is only one Pensieve." Severus gestured for Gong Saiyi to look at the Pensieve they had just taken from the Louvre Museum.
In fact, he had taken more than one thing. The Paris police had already been mobilized, yet he remained utterly calm, as though he had grown