Behind the mirror

Harry, Ron and Hermione were sat together in the common room, Hermione trying for the 100th time to explain the ethics behind Hippogriphs. Ron's eyes strayed away from the large textbook in front of him to the large mirror, which hung on the wall. He was surprised to see that what was reflected in the mirror wasn't actually happening. The room was painted with bright colours such as bright red and bright yellow. The people in the room seemed to be wearing the uniform differently, and Harry, Ron and Hermione were nowhere to be seen.


Sirius Black stared into the mirror on the Griffindor common room wall. He couldn't see his reflection, which was odd because the mirror often complimented him on his hair.

Instead he could see a ginger boy staring back at him, he seemed to be in the same year as him but he had never seen him before. In fact the boy seemed to be just as surprised to see him as he was at seeing the boy.

James Potter looked up from his Care Of Magical Creatures book, Remus Lupin had been going over something to do with Hippogriphs for the 100th time and he was glad for the distraction.

"What is it mate?" he asked, staring at the mirror, "Have you got another split end or something?"

Sirius laughed sarcastically, "No! I never have split ends!" he cried defensively, "Its just there's something weird with this mirror,"


Ron had stood up and was staring in the mirror; he could see a boy that wasn't him staring back at him. He was a handsome boy with long straight black hair. The boy seemed confused as he looked at him.

Harry looked up from his Care Of Magical Creatures book at Ron,

"What's up?" he asked, staring at the mirror, from where he was sat he couldn't see a thing,

"Something's not right with this mirror," Ron replied, still staring at the boy.

Both Harry and Hermione stood up and looked in the mirror, but they couldn't see there own reflections, instead they could see to other boys, one wearing glasses with messy black hair and brown eyes who stood opposite Harry, and another with amber eyes and reddish hair.

The six of them stared hard at each other for several minutes without moving.


"What are you doing?" the bossy voice of Lily Evans demanded,

"Oh…nothing," James lied, not turning to face her, he was to busy watching a similar scene unfold in the mirror. A red haired girl who looked slightly like Lily was questioning the boy who was facing him in a similar way.

Sirius was amazed at how much like James the other boy looked, it was like they were related or something. The boy opposite him however looked nothing like him, thankfully, they both smirked at the same time and Sirius jumped back in shock.

Remus and the girl opposite him were both stood with their arms folded, shaking their heads at how much of a fool the others were making of themselves.


"It's a past glass," Hermione explained, "What we're looking at is the reflection of something that happened in the past,"

Harry and Ron looked confused.

"If the mirror shows the past," Harry began, "Then how come they can see us?"

"I don't know," Hermione replied truthfully, "It's all so…"


"…Confusing as to why they are doing exactly the same things as us, they seem to be mirroring us somehow, I've never seen a mirror that can look into the future before," Remus continued, looking at the confused faces of both James and Sirius, he hadn't expected them to understand.

"How do you know that it's the future we're looking at?" Sirius asked,

"The wall paper is decayed and not as vibrant and…"

"The uniform is completely different," Hermione explained.

Ron and Harry understood a little better now, but it was still weird that people from the past were mirroring them it was unsettling.