After the potions riddle, The Golden Gang walked down a stair case witch lead them to a huge chamber. But they also saw a surprise. The Mirror of Erised was in here.
"What's the mirror doing here?" Ron asked.
"I thought when Dumbledore said he would move it to a new home, it'd be out of Hogwarts." Said Antonio.
"That's what you thought?" Asked a voice.
The five looked in front of the mirror. It wasn't Snape. It was Professor Quirrell.
"You?" All of them asked.
"Yes." He said. "Snape did seem like the type. But who would have known it to be p-poor inisent old P-P-Professor Quirrell?
"But dering the first Quidditch match, Snape tried to kill me." Said Harry.
"Oh n-n-no dear boy. I tried to kill you!" Quirrell rised his voice.
"What?" Harry asked.
"I knew you were gonna be trouble to me. I had to do it. But you Hermione Granger! If you haven't knocked me over to set Snape's robes on fire witch broke my eye contact, I would have secseeded. Even with Snape muttering his little Counter Curse."
"Snape was trying to save Harry?" She asked.
"Then you let the troll in." Said Susan.
"Of course I did! With the whole school distracted, I would have gotten here! But Snape wasn't fooled and went to the Third Floor to hold me off."
"Then it was you who showed Malfoy how to bewitch brooms." Said Ron.
"Of course! I thought if I showed him how to do it, Potter would be dead! But instead, he bewitched Longbottom's broom because he wanted to destroy the boys remembrall!"
And then, Quirrell turned back to the mirror.
"You see what this mirror does? It shows me holding the Philosophers Stone. But how do I get it?!"
"Use one of the children!" A creepy voice said.
"Master, witch one?"
"The mudblood that looks like Potter will do!"
"COME HERE CROSTHWAITE! NOW!"
Shivering, Antonio did as he was told and stepped forward. Until he stopped in front of the mirror. But as he looked at it, he saw his reflection pull a red rock out of his pocket. It was the Philosophers Stone. And then the reflection put it back. The real Antonio then felt something in his pocket. He knew it was the stone.
"Well?! What do you see?!" Quirrell demanded.
Remembering what he saw last time, he said, "I see myself with Susan all grown up. We're married and we have our own kids."
"He lies!" The voice shouted.
"TELL THE TRUTH! WHAT DO YOU SEE?!"
"Let me speak to them!"
"Master. You're not strong enough."
"I have strangh enough for this!"
Before the five knew it, Quirrell removed his cloth. Revealing his bold head. And just as another face came on the back of it.
"Harry Potter. Ronald Weasley. Hermione Granger. Antonio Crosthwaite. Susan Bones. It is nice to meet you in person!"
"Y-You." Antonio said. "You're Voldemort."
"Yes indeed! You five see what I have become!" Voldemort said to them. "Potter's parents refused to step aside! That is why I killed them! But a kind of magic I do not know of prevented me from killing him! Making me into this! Unicorn blood can substain me! But it can not give me a body of my own! But you, Antonio Crosthwaite, have what I need!"
"Run!" Antonio shouted as he and others tried to escape.
"Stop them!"
And then, Quirrell snapped his fingers. Causing fire to block the fives path back.
"Harry!" Voldemort said to him. "Why would you run and fight when you can just live and join me?!"
"I'll never join you!" Harry shouted.
"Bravery! Just like your parents! But yet you end up in Hufflepuff while they were in Gryffindor! But I can tell you and your friends! There is no right or wrong! And there is no good or evil! Only power! But you Crosthwaite! You have an item I need that lies in your pocket!"
With that said, Antonio reached for pocket and pulled the stone out of it.
"What?" Hermione exclaimed.
"How did you," Susan tried to say.
"I don't know." Antonio answered.
"Harry Potter! I know you never got to know your parents! But if you let Crosthwaite give me stone, you can see them again!"
But then, not just Harry, but the whole gang saw Lily and James Potter in the mirror. Shaking their head not to trust him.
"You lier!" Harry shouted.
"Harry may not be a Gryffindor, but he knows his true loyalty!" Ron shouted.
"And that loyalty is with us!" Hermione shouted.
"So even if you want the stone," Susan started.
"We'll never give it to you!" Antonio finished.
"Kill them!"
Quirrell then ran to Harry and pinned him to the floor choking him. Making Antonio gasp as he drop the stone
"Harry!" Hermione shouted.
"Her...mion...e!" Harry was saying as he grabbed Quirrell's hand. "Herm...ione! I...I lo...ve...you!"
Just then, something caused Quirrell to let go as his hand turned to stone and crumbled up.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"I love you." Harry said, gasping for air. "You've seen me as a true person instead of just The Boy Who Lived. You knew everything That we needed to know. I never want to let you go."
"Harry." Hermione said to him. "I...I...I love you too."
"Guys," Antonio tried to say.
But Harry and Hermione didn't listen. They moved the mouth closer to each other and kissed.
"Guys. Now is not the time." Said Ron.
"What kind of magic is this?!" Quirrell demanded when his hand was gone.
"Fool! Get the stone!" Voldemort commanded.
Quirrell then ran to the stone. Until Harry and Hermione broke their kiss and grabbed his face. Both of them making it smoke and turn to stone and then spread on his whole body. Until Quirrell head out his remaining hand before his body crumbled and fell to the floor. He was dead.
"Wow." Said Antonio. "Who know love had its own magic?"
"Love?" Hermione asked. "Was it our love that stopped him?"
"Of course. I remember now." Antonio said again. "Jessica told me that true loves kiss and meaning can be very powerful magic. That's why Quirrell turned to stone."
"Love." Said Harry. "Maybe it was my mothers love that saved my life that day."
"Say." Said Susan. "Antonio. Have we kissed?"
"Maybe now if you want."
And then, Susan and Antonio pulled themselves up to each other and kissed.
Ron sighed. He hoped that he'll also have a girl someday.
But the moment Antonio and Susan broke their kiss, Voldemort reformed in smoke form. And then, he went through all five of them. Knocking them all out cold as they fell on their backs before leaving the castle. However, the moment Voldemort was gone, Dumbledore arrived with Jessica and Cedric.
"Don't worry." Dumbledore said to them. "They are not dead. Just knocked out."
Dumbledore then turned to the Philosophers Stone. Knowing that it was time to get rid of it for good.
Authors note:
And there we go. Harry and Hermione have revealed their love witch saved them from Quirrell. The next chapter will be the last of the story.