Mirror of Erised

Muya tiptoed into the library. She remembered there was a place in the corner called the "Restricted Section," and Madam Pince had drunk too much today and already returned to her room.

The library was pitch black, with only a single beam of moonlight shining inside. Muya looked around and suddenly saw a lamp floating in mid-air. The sight was incredibly eerie. She swallowed, so tense she didn't dare to breathe.

Suddenly, Muya didn't notice a chair in front of her and bumped right into it. The chair made a "screeching" sound, and she let out a gasp. Fortunately, she wasn't tripped by the chair.

The air was silent for ten seconds. The lamp turned, facing her. At the same time, a familiar voice asked, "Who's there?"

Muya was relieved she hadn't encountered any strange creatures and replied, "Hey Harry, it's me. Where are you?"

Harry's figure appeared from behind the lamp. Muya walked over, looking at him curiously. "Wow, were you invisible just now? How did you do that? So cool!"

Harry ran a hand through his hair and extended his right hand. "It's because of this. It's an invisibility cloak."

"This is simply a must-have for sneaking out at night!" Muya exclaimed.

"So you wanted to check out the Restricted Section too?" Muya asked Harry why he was there, surprised to find their goals were the same.

The Restricted Section was at the back of the library. Harry and Muya carefully stepped over the ropes separating the books and shelves. Harry held up the lamp, and Muya used her wand to illuminate the book titles.

The books here were clearly old. Some of the titles had peeled and faded. Harry couldn't decipher them, and even if he could, there were words he didn't understand.

Some book titles had no names at all. They saw a book with a dark stain on it, resembling blood, which looked quite terrifying.

"This book... it sounded like it made a noise. Did you hear it, Muya?" Harry asked, scared, as he turned away from the book to Muya beside him.

"Huh?" Muya was confused. She hadn't heard anything. "It must have been your imagination. Maybe there's a ghost outside the library?"

Hearing Muya's words, Harry dismissed what had just happened and picked up a large book with black and silver binding. He placed it on his lap.

"Harry, what are you looking for?" Muya also picked up a book and spread it on the floor, though she couldn't understand most of it.

"I wanted to learn about Nicolas Flamel. Unfortunately, we've searched all the books outside, and none of them recorded it in detail, so I decided to come here and look." As he finished speaking, Harry opened the book, and a piercing scream shattered the silence.

Harry quickly closed it, but the book's screaming didn't stop. Harry stumbled back in fright. Muya grabbed a few books and tried to press it down, but Filch was attracted by the screaming.

The two quickly shoved the book back onto the shelf and, putting on the invisibility cloak, bolted.

At the entrance, they brushed past Filch. As they ran into the corridor, they could still hear the screaming.

Harry and Muya hid together near an armor. From there, they could still hear Filch's voice, "Professor, you said if anyone was wandering around at night, I should report it to you immediately. Someone was just in the library's Restricted Section."

Harry's face instantly turned pale. Muya, meanwhile, was trying to guess which professor Filch was talking to, but it definitely wasn't Dumbledore.

Snape's voice reached their ears. "The Restricted Section? Then they can't have gone far. We'll catch them."

Great, it's Snape. They were doomed.

Harry pulled Muya and slowly retreated, entering a room on the left. They leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. It was a close call, thanks to Harry discovering a room behind them.

This appeared to be a disused classroom. Many desks and chairs were piled against the wall, and there was one object that didn't belong: a mirror.

It was a magnificent mirror, reaching all the way to the ceiling, with an ornate golden frame and supported by two claw-shaped feet.

Filch and Snape had already left. Muya and Harry exchanged a look and decided to go check it out. They slowly approached, but strangely, there was nothing in the mirror. They took a few more steps forward.

Suddenly, Muya noticed an image gradually appearing in the mirror. In the image, she was lying amidst a pile of delicious food, so much food that she couldn't see the end of it.

⊙∀⊙! No way, this is something she genuinely liked!

Muya then noticed Harry covering his mouth excitedly. "Harry, what did you see?" Based on her experience reading novels, his vision should be different from hers.

"I saw... I saw many people standing behind me, my parents waving at me, and then my father hugging my mother," Harry said, looking into Muya's eyes. "You were standing next to me too."

"These must be illusions, because I just saw myself surrounded by food, and it was even raining candy. It's obviously impossible," Muya said, patting Harry's shoulder.

"So... that's what it is." Harry's lips turned downwards in disappointment, and he shifted his gaze back to the mirror.

Seeing Harry staring intently at the mirror, Muya didn't rush him to leave. Seeing parents she hadn't seen in a long time, she decided not to disturb him.

Muya explored every corner of the classroom. Suddenly, she saw Harry come to her side. "Muya, I want to ask Ron to come here too. Will you wait for us?"

Muya readily agreed. She decided to practice some of the new spells she had recently learned here. Cedric had told her that the final exam would involve randomly testing them on a spell.

Before long, Harry and Ron entered the room. Ron was rubbing his eyes. "Oh man, you should have woken me up earlier."

"Hi, good evening, Ron," Muya walked over to greet him.

"Muya, good evening!" Ron smoothed his hair and then glanced at Harry, his look saying, "I considered you a brother, and you didn't even tell me Muya was here."

Harry and Muya pulled Ron over to the mirror. Muya asked, "Ron, did you see anything?"

Harry said, "Why are you stunned?"

"Oh, I saw myself grown up, becoming the Head Boy, and I was wearing the badge Bill used to wear, holding the House Cup and the Quidditch trophy, and I was the Quidditch Captain!" Ron excitedly shared with the other two what he saw in the mirror.

If you think this book is good, remember to add it to your bookshelf to avoid losing it next time.