Chapter 4 – Mirror of Erised
A/N:
AAAAHHH OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I TOOK THIS LONG TO MAKE A NEW CHAPTER! The chapter title isn't terribly original, is it?
AngelofDarkmess94: Thank you!
Disclaimer: There's a disclaimer, so doesn't that mean I don't own either Sailor Moon or Harry Potter? I own anything you see that is not owned by JK Rowling or Naoko Takeuchi.
The chilly winter came and it was time for holidays, though those who chose to could stay at Hogwarts.
Lina and Lily received a letter that there were some problems back at Crystal Tokyo, so they should stay at the school for the time being. Ron and Harry decided to stay at Hogwarts also, however Hermione's parents wanted her to go home, so she couldn't stay at Hogwarts.
"Don't forget to send me letters, oh, and I left your Christmas presents already, DON'T OPEN THEM YET." Hermione warned.
"Don't worry Hermione, we can't if we wanted to, anyway." Ron said wryly. "All presents are magically stored until Christmas comes.
"Oh, by the way, don't try going through Fluffy yet," Hermione warned. "He might bite your heads off."
Ron laughed at this, and everyone stared at him awkwardly.
"What? Something on my face?"
Since most of the students had left, Harry, Ron, Lina and Lily mostly had the common room to themselves. Bored, Ron offered teaching Harry how to play wizard chess, which was the same as the muggle version, though it can move and talk. Harry had been lent a set by Seamus Finnigan, and kept losing... And losing... And losing...
After yet another win, Ron became bored.
"Isn't there anyone else here that can play chess? No offense mate, but you're not exactly a chess prodigy."
"None taken." Harry replied. After all, how can someone play with the pieces shouting at you? In fact, Harry was still shaken up from being shouted on by a chess set.
"Lily can play." Lina said, grinning. "I can play a bit too, but I'm nowhere as good as her."
"Eh?" Lily looked up from her book only to be dragged to the table by her sister.
"I bet a chocolate frog that Lily will win." Lina challenged Harry.
"Sure, I still got a couple left." Harry said.
WARNING: If you don't like chess, skip ahead to the next bold text or this might get boring!
"Ladies first." Ron said, grinning. Lily started the game by moving a pawn to e4, which Ron replied by moving his pawn to b6. Lily continued with moving another pawn to d4, replied by moving his bishop to b7. Moving a bishop to d3, Lily was met with a response by the set.
"You idiot! Now he's ahead of you!" a pawn complained.
"Quiet!" a bishop scolded the pawn. "This is only her third move, she might improve by the middle game.
Ron moved a pawn to f5, which was eaten by Lily's pawn at e4. Apparently this was a mistake of sorts, Ron was grinning as he moved his bishop to eat a pawn at g2. Lily moved her Queen to h5, causing a groan from her King.
"You're not supposed to move the queen in the opening game unless very necessary!" it shouted exasperatedly. "Mark my words, this is a move you will regret."
"Well at least she checked the other team's king." a knight said. Then Ron covered the check by moving a pawn to g6.
"I take that back, she can't even check properly."
Lily's response to Ron's move was to eat the pawn using the pawn at f5, replied with a knight moving to f6, threatening the Queen.
"Quick, save the queen!" a rook advised, but it was useless. Instead, Lily ate a pawn at h7 using the one at g6, causing more groans from her chess set.
"This girl is leading us to our death!" the Queen said. "And she didn't even try to save me-"
The queen was quickly cut off as she was struck by the knight at f6, and Lily lost her queen.
"Well, what do you say to that, Lily?" Ron asked her while grinning.
Slowly, Lily moved her bishop to g6, and quietly muttered,
"Checkmate."
Ron gawked.
- End 'boring' game - Lily won, by the way -
"..."
"..."
"Er, Ron? You okay?" Lily waved her hand. "Ron?"
"I think you broke him," Harry said, fishing out a chocolate frog.
"Here you go, Lina. You won the bet."
"Thanks!" Lina said, taking the chocolate frog, skipping to her room cheerfully.
Ron was still gawking...
Back at Crystal Tokyo...
"Did you send the letter?"
"Of course, we wanted it to be a surprise."
"I just hope Lina doesn't try going home using... whatever it is she might use... You know how she is..."
Just then Lily's owl Olivia flew in, clutching a letter, which read,
Dear mum and dad,
We got your message, though we were hoping to come home I knew that it was going to be bad there, so I forced Lina to stay. Hope you're handling things well there!
Love,
Lily
P.S.
Lina told me to tell you, 'Don't forget our Christmas Presents!'
"Thank Selene. I thought Lina would use some sort of flying device or something..."
"..."
"..."
"Now, where were those chocolate cakes you wanted to 'sample'?"
...
It was the night before Christmas, so lots of people tried staying up so they could see the presents being delivered. Unfortunately most were too tired to stay awake and gave up, though the more excited ones (such as Lina) kept awake.
"C'mon Lina, let me sleep already!" Lily complained.
"Nope, I'm going to keep you awake until I see presents!" Lina replied.
Lily groaned, Lina could be very annoying sometimes. They were twins and yet so different. Thankfully Professor Dumbledore had thought of students like Lina, and had prepared a sleeping potion that would activate around 11 o'clock. This promptly knocked out any students who were still awake.
7 hours later...
Lina yawned and rubbed her eyes, stretching her legs. She absent-mindedly looked towards the window.
"Hey, look, its snowing." she said, then snapped to attention, on the foot of her bed were her presents, and she groaned. What happened last night? All she remembered was a sweet smell before passing out...
She would ask that to Lily later - or rather, now.
"Hey, Lily, wake up, it's Christmas!" she said excitedly, shaking Lily.
"Ugh... What time is it?" Lily asked her.
"6 AM." came the reply and Lily groaned.
"Wake me up at 9." Lily told Lina, and buried her face in her pillow.
"Don't make me drag you out of your bed," Lina warned.
"Do your worst." Lily replied, and tried getting back to sleep.
Lina tried dragging Lily out but it was no use, Lily was heavier than she thought. She knew Lily wouldn't budge without special techniques... What was that spell again?
"Augandae Sensorium! Rictusempra!"
The effect was instantaneous. Lily screamed with fits of giggles.
"AAAHAHAHAHHAH STAHAHAHAP I GIVE UP! AHAHAAHHAH6H!"
"Finite!"
Lily dropped back to her bed.
"Now help me open my presents!" she said cheerfully.
"Just... let me ... catch my breath..." Lily said.
"Do you want another round?"
"NO! And have you been reading my diary? That was a spell I made up!"
"Oh. I thought you just found it somewhere..."
"Can't we at least have a bath first?"
"No."
Lily cursed under her breath.
...
Being twins, Lina and Lily almost always got the same presents each, so Lily decided to open Lina's first, not much excitement when you know what you're getting. They got a dozen chocolate frogs each from Hermione (funny how her parents are dentists...), lots of owl treats from Hagrid (enough for a year, EACH), more chocolate frogs from Harry, and...
"What's this?" Lina asked, opening another present.
"Oh! Ron told me about these, it's a Weasley Sweater!"
"Weasley Sweater?"
"Every year his mum makes hand-knit sweaters for her family, I guess we're part of the family now..."
"Ooh, Fudge!"
Lily facepalmed.
"Huh, our last presents are different. Look at the shape!"
Lily stared at the packages, they had indeed looked different.
"Probably from home, mum knows your wants are different from mine." Lily said.
Lina immediately ripped the packaging apart and received a golden staff of sorts.
"Wow, pretty... But what use does it have" Lina said.
Lily held the staff. "Oh god. This is real gold!"
"SAY WHAT NOW?"
"I'm serious! I can fell magic in it though..."
Lina grinned. "Maybe it could shoot lasers!"
Lily looked appalled at the idea.
"Lina. That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard."
"Respect your elders. You're younger than me."
"Only by 5 minutes! And you sound like an old lady!"
"You're still younger. Are you going to open your present?"
Lily took care and tidily opened her package. It was a small computer, similar to the Mercury Computer, though it looked sleek and had the moon symbol instead. It had connection to the Lunar Kingdom network, which in turn had Internet access.
"Not fair, you got a cooler present than I did!"
"Depends on how you look at it." Lily pointed out.
After getting rid of the packaging, they went to the common room to meet up with Harry and Ron. Ron was already there, though Harry was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey Ron," Lina greeted. "Where's Harry?"
"Over here!"
The twins jumped, and looked around for the source of the sound. Ron laughed his head off.
"Hey, you're right Ron, this really is an invisibility cloak." the sound said, taking the cloak off. Lily stifled a scream.
"HARRY! YOU ALMOST SCARED US TO DEATH!" Lina shouted, throwing a pillow at him.
"You should have seen - the look on your faces!" Ron said between gasps of breath.
"Erm, sorry, I didn't mean to." Harry replied.
"And how'd you get an invisibility cloak, anyway?" Lily interjected. "I read they're really, really rare..."
"The sender said it was my father's..." Harry answered. "...Must be a family heirloom of sorts..."
"Hang on, you said it was your father's?"
Harry nodded.
"But then... It should be really old now... Why does it still work perfectly? I mean, after years of use there should be a hole or something, shouldn't there?"
Harry shrugged. "I don't really know, but at least I can keep a watch at Fluffy. Heck, I might be able to get through him alone!"
"Don't," Lily warned. "You made a promise to Hermione, and you know how she is when you break a promise..."
Everyone shivered, remembering how Hermione had been furious with Ron for sneaking up on her a second time, even though he promised he wouldn't do that before. It could've been because she was scared to death though.
All the students left and the teachers left gathered at the Great Hall, and they only used one table due to the small amount of students. The feast was delightful, and all the students went back to their dormitories feeling full and sleepy.
Except Lina. She was bored, and decided to go to the boy's dormitory.
'After all, the rules only say boys shouldn't go in the girls' dormitory, nothing about the vice-versa.' she thought.
Arriving at Harry and Ron's room, she opened the door and was surprises to suddenly feel pushed back out by an unknown force. Said unknown force was revealed to be none other than Harry Potter in his invisibility cloak.
"Lina, what are you doing here?" Harry hissed, looking around to see if anyone else was there.
"I was bored, what's your excuse?" Lina retorted. Harry hesitated, and then said,
"I- Well I wanted to- check the restricted section of the library. And possibly explore Hogwarts."
"Count me in. You're not going anywhere without me."
"Good thing you're not as worrisome as Lily and Hermione, then. Come on."
Silence. Then,
"But seriously Harry, the library? I think Lily and Hermione have infected you or something."
"Great. Now what are we going to do?"
Lina had opened a book from the restricted section and it had screeched worse than a banshee. Just barely escaping Filch's arms, they both had gotten lost in the corridors.
"Hey, you opened the book." Harry countered.
"Well- you- you started this whole thing by going to the library, anyway!" Lina spluttered.
Then they heard Filch's voice talking to Professor Snape.
"Damn, he might accidentally corner us or something!" Lina hissed. "Let's hide in that room!"
Going into a room, hearts still pounding, they stuck their ear to the door, listening for footsteps or a sign someone was outside. A few minutes after being sure they were alone, they finally took a look around and Harry spotted a mirror.
"Huh, who would put a mirror in an unused room?" he asked.
"Don't know," Lina answered. "But it probably has some unknown magical property... Hang on, there's some Latin transcribed on it..."
"How'd you know it's Latin?"
"Lily has this big Latin dictionary and kept giving me Latin words, since all our spells are Latin anyway. Let's see... It says something along 'Mirror of Erised'... Lily's better at this stuff than I am..."
"Erised?" Harry asked, peering at the mirror.
"I'm not sure you're supposed to look at the mirror... Ah what the heck, we're Gryffindors!"
Harry yelped.
"What the- HARRY! What did you scream for? Someone might've heard us!"
"B-but there are invisible people- a woman with red hair... And my eyes... And a man that looks like me... Mom? Dad?"
"Harry, are you hallucinating? There's nothing weird in the mirror..."
"Merlin, I think this mirror shows my whole family... There's even an old man with my wobbly knees..."
"Harry? Harry, snap out of it!"
Harry swatted Lina's hand (which was waving in front of his face) and stared hungrily at the images he supposedly saw. Lina slapped Harry's cheek.
"Huh-wha-what? Lina, why did you slap me?"
"You've gone crazy, seeing non-existent people... Come on, let's go..."
"But you haven't seen what's in the Mirror!"
"I saw everything normally. Now let's go!"
"Well, maybe you need to see t from my angle! Here, try standing where I was!"
Standing on the mentioned position, Lina stared at the Mirror, then blinked and rubbed her eyes. Then she stared again.
"Uh-Like I s-said, there's absolutely nothing there! Now let's go!"
Harry had a suspicion that Lina was just trying to hide the fact that he was right, but he let it go.
"Alright, but I'm going back tomorrow."
"What? What for?"
"To see my family again, of course. Didn't you see my family?"
"No." And it was the truth, for she saw something more disturbing than seeing dead people - she saw herself as a sailor scout, something she dreamed about since she was 4. Did it show her true form? Her future? Was it unaffected by Lunar Magic? Could normal wizards look through the magic? Questions spun in her head, but she would not be getting the answers until the next night.
It was not a mirror of the future, it was one of desire. For Erised spelled backwards... was Desire.
A/N:
Made-up Spells:
Augandae Sensorium
Sensory Heightening Charm (or the Supersensory Charm Ron mentioned at the end of the Deathly Hallows). Usable on caster or target.