Mya Mu quietly slipped into the library. She remembered that there was a corner of the library known as the "Restricted Section." Madam Pince had drunk too much today and had already returned to her room.
The library was pitch-black, with only a beam of moonlight shining inside. Mya Mu looked around and suddenly saw a lamp floating in midair. The sight was especially eerie. She swallowed, too nervous to even breathe.
Suddenly, Mya Mu failed to notice a chair in front of her and walked straight into it. The chair let out a screech, and she cried out in surprise. Luckily, she was not tripped by it.
The air was silent for ten seconds. The lamp turned toward her, and at the same time, a familiar voice called out, "Who's there?"
Mya Mu was relieved that she had not run into some strange creature. "Hey, Harry, it's me. Where are you?"
Harry appeared behind the lamp. Mya Mu walked over and looked at him curiously. "Wow, were you invisible just now? How did you do that? That's so cool!"
Harry rubbed his hair and held out his right hand. "Because of this. It's an Invisibility Cloak."
"This is practically the ultimate tool for sneaking around at night!" Mya Mu exclaimed.
"So you came to check out the Restricted Section too?" Mya Mu asked why Harry was here, only to find that his purpose was the same as hers.
The Restricted Section was at the back of the library. Harry and Mya Mu carefully stepped over the ropes separating the books and shelves. Harry held up the lamp while Mya Mu held her wand, using it to read the book titles.
The books here were clearly old. Some of the titles had peeled away and faded. Harry could not even make them out, and even when he could, there were words he did not understand.
Some books did not even have titles. They saw one with a dark stain on its cover, a little like blood. It looked rather frightening.
"This book... seemed to make some kind of sound. Did you hear it, Mya Mu?" Harry asked Mya Mu beside him fearfully after closing the book.
"Hm?" Mya Mu was puzzled. She did not seem to have heard anything just now. "It was probably just your imagination. Maybe there are ghosts outside the library?"
After hearing Mya Mu's words, Harry put the incident out of his mind. He reached up and took down another large book, black and silver, then placed it on his knees.
"Harry, what are you looking for?" Mya Mu asked. She was also holding a book open on the floor, though she could not understand most of it.
"I wanted to learn about Nicolas Flamel, but we've already searched through all the books outside. None of them had any detailed records, so I decided to look here." As he spoke, Harry opened the book, and a shrill sound tore through the silence.
Harry quickly slammed it shut, but the book's screaming did not stop. Startled, Harry staggered backward. Mya Mu grabbed several books and piled them on top of it, but Filch had already been drawn over by the screams.
The two quickly shoved the books on the floor back into the shelves, then threw on the Invisibility Cloak and ran for it.
At the doorway, they brushed past Filch. Even after they ran into the corridor, they could still hear the screaming.
Harry and Mya Mu hid near a suit of armor. From there, they could hear Filch's voice. "Professor, you said that if anyone was wandering around at night, I should report it to you immediately. Someone was in the library, in the Restricted Section just now."
Harry's face instantly went pale, while Mya Mu tried to guess which professor Filch was talking to. It could not possibly be Dumbledore.
Snape's voice reached their ears. "The Restricted Section? Then they cannot have gone far. We'll catch them."
Wonderful. It was Snape. They were doomed.
Harry pulled Mya Mu backward slowly and into a room on the left. They leaned against the wall and gasped for breath. That had been close. Thankfully, Harry had spotted the room behind them.
It seemed to be an abandoned classroom, with many desks and chairs piled against the walls. There was also something completely out of place: a mirror.
It was an exceptionally grand mirror, stretching all the way to the ceiling. It had an ornate golden frame and stood on two clawed feet.
Filch and Snape had already left. Mya Mu and Harry exchanged a glance and decided to take a look. They slowly approached, but strangely, there was nothing in the mirror. They stepped closer.
Suddenly, Mya Mu saw an image gradually appear in the mirror. In it, she was lying amid a mountain of delicious food, with so much food around her that she could not see the end of it.
⊙∀⊙! No, she really liked this!
Mya Mu then noticed Harry covering his mouth excitedly. "Harry, what did you see?" Based on her experience reading novels, he should have seen something different from her.
"I saw... I saw lots of people standing behind me. My parents were waving at me, and then my dad put his arm around my mum," Harry said, looking into Mya Mu's eyes. "You were standing beside me too."
"These are probably all illusions. I just saw myself surrounded by food, and candy was raining from the sky. That obviously can't happen, right?" Mya Mu patted Harry on the shoulder.
"So... that's how it is." Harry's mouth turned down in disappointment before he looked back at the mirror.
Seeing Harry continue to stare at the mirror, Mya Mu did not rush to make him leave. Seeing parents who had been gone from his life for so long and all that... she should not disturb him.
Mya Mu explored every corner of the classroom. Suddenly, Harry came over to her. "Mya Mu, I want to bring Ron here too. Will you wait for us?"
Mya Mu readily agreed. She decided to practice several spells she had recently learned. Cedric had said that their final exam would randomly select one spell for them to perform.
Before long, Harry and Ron entered the room. Ron was rubbing his eyes. "Oh, mate, you should've woken me earlier."
"Hi, good evening, Ron." Mya Mu walked over to greet him.
"Mya Mu, good evening!" Ron smoothed his hair, then glanced at Harry with a look that seemed to say, "I thought you were my brother, and you didn't tell me Mya Mu was here too."
The two pulled Ron over to the mirror, and Mya Mu asked, "Ron, do you see anything?"
Harry said, "Why are you just standing there?"
"Oh, I saw myself grown up, and I was Head Boy. And I... I was wearing the kind of badge Bill used to wear, holding up the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup. I was Quidditch captain too!" Ron excitedly shared what he had seen in the mirror with the other two.
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