Disclaimer:I do not own Harry Potter This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. I did however take quotes from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and obviously Rowling owns that.
Authors Note: This story is a sort of individual encounters with the Mirror of Erised that all connect in the end. Constructive criticism is also very much appreciated. Oh and I'm writing this in response to MarauderMadnessMwahaha's Mirror of Erised Challenge, this is just a short introductory chapter, and all the quotes, which are italicized, are from Albus Dumbldore. (though anyone that's read harry potter would of course know that but what ever…), there now I think I have nothing more to note on.
"What The Heart Truly Desires"
by Pinkbismuth
Intro
"What the Heart Truly Desires"
Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi
"This mirror will give us neither knowledge nor truth"
It shows us what we truly desire and from that we may gain knowledge.
"Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible"
Of those who wasted away before it...
Those who were entranced knew it was not real but that it may be possible.
Those who were driven mad believed that it was neither.
"The happiest man on earth would be able to use the mirror of erised like a normal mirror, that is he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is."
But what makes him happy?
"It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."
The question however, is, what do our heart's desire?
I show not your face but your heart's desire