"Ack!"
I coughed a few times as I stumbled into the alley, the scent of Floo Powder still fresh in the air. I hated traveling that way, it always upsetted my fragile nose.
My mother stepped out behind me and patted my back as I sneezed twice then uprighted myself, pushing my dark cloak over my shoulder.
I glanced about and smiled at the people about me. Witches and wizards of every size shape and color passed by me, a few glancing at me and smiling a little before walking off. I shrugged a little, my golden blonde hair sliding down my back as I skipped off along side my mother.
My mother grasped my hand and pulled me gently after her into a small corner shop filled with animals, owls, cats, rats.. Any pet a young Hogwarts witch or wizard could wish for. I shuddered away from the beastly rats and eyed the cats before pointing out one, a slender black cat with short sleek fur. My mother nodded and smiled to me before turning to the storekeeper and asking him about the animal.
"Ma'ma," I whispered, not wanting to wake a sleeping cat nearby, "I'm going to go look for my books, okay?"
My mother nodded and I skipped out of the store, nearly dancing with each step I took. I noticed a few young wizards looking at me and I smiled sweetly, watching as their faces turned bright red. I giggled as I turned into a corner bookstore, the air smelling of old books as I passed through the doorway.
I looked around for the store keeper but he was nowhere to be seen, so I shrugged it off and went about scanning the shelves for books. I found myself drifting further and further back into the shop, practically drawn into the books I looked though. I dared not pick up a few books, fearing what I might find inside. Then finially I reached the stone wall that was the back of the store, but there was a creature standing there, looking at me! I moved closer to look at it and it seemed to mock my movements, its foot moving as my own did, its head tilting as so did mine. The creature frightened me, its face blotched with green and its hands gigantic, nails bitten to the source and feet so big it seemed they could fit in no shoe I had ever seen.
"Who are you!" I cried out, only to be answered by the same question, at the exact same time.
I backed up a little more and so did the creature, such a look of fright on its face as could only be matched by my own. "Please don't hurt me.." I whimpered.
The creature answered my question with the same one and I smiled weakly, stepping closer to the creature.
"I don't want to hurt you.." I whispered to the creature.
Slowly I stepped even closer, reaching out my hand to touch the creature's.
The creature held its hand out to me and I winced as I moved close enough for our hands to touch. I gasped as my finger tips met it's, but I only felt the cold, smooth surface of glass. I raised my other hand and held it to the creature's but found it only met glass as well.
"What kind of wizardry is this!" I cried out before my eyes widened, for in the glass behind the creature I saw the faces of the three young men I had seen before, pointing and laughing at the spectical.
Almost afraid to look I turned around and glanced at the window behind me at the front of the shop and saw the same three boys.. They were pointing and laughing.. At.. At me..
My mouth widened in horror as I looked to my hands, which were the hands of the creature.. My feet the same, my body, distorted and covered in blotches of green. I dropped to my knees and reached out to touch the glass, wanting only to escape the horror around me, the humiliation.
I felt burning tears fall down my cheeks as I closed my eyes. When I opened them again I found myself looking out at the shop, at the boys who had been laughing at me. Instead of the humor that had been in the eyes before they were seemingly horrified and I could not understand why until..
Until I realized that I had become the mirror..
From then on, from within my translucent prison I called upon the mirror to show only what people wished to see from the bottom of their hearts, so they would never have to endure the tragedy I had to.
I coughed a few times as I stumbled into the alley, the scent of Floo Powder still fresh in the air. I hated traveling that way, it always upsetted my fragile nose.
My mother stepped out behind me and patted my back as I sneezed twice then uprighted myself, pushing my dark cloak over my shoulder.
I glanced about and smiled at the people about me. Witches and wizards of every size shape and color passed by me, a few glancing at me and smiling a little before walking off. I shrugged a little, my golden blonde hair sliding down my back as I skipped off along side my mother.
My mother grasped my hand and pulled me gently after her into a small corner shop filled with animals, owls, cats, rats.. Any pet a young Hogwarts witch or wizard could wish for. I shuddered away from the beastly rats and eyed the cats before pointing out one, a slender black cat with short sleek fur. My mother nodded and smiled to me before turning to the storekeeper and asking him about the animal.
"Ma'ma," I whispered, not wanting to wake a sleeping cat nearby, "I'm going to go look for my books, okay?"
My mother nodded and I skipped out of the store, nearly dancing with each step I took. I noticed a few young wizards looking at me and I smiled sweetly, watching as their faces turned bright red. I giggled as I turned into a corner bookstore, the air smelling of old books as I passed through the doorway.
I looked around for the store keeper but he was nowhere to be seen, so I shrugged it off and went about scanning the shelves for books. I found myself drifting further and further back into the shop, practically drawn into the books I looked though. I dared not pick up a few books, fearing what I might find inside. Then finially I reached the stone wall that was the back of the store, but there was a creature standing there, looking at me! I moved closer to look at it and it seemed to mock my movements, its foot moving as my own did, its head tilting as so did mine. The creature frightened me, its face blotched with green and its hands gigantic, nails bitten to the source and feet so big it seemed they could fit in no shoe I had ever seen.
"Who are you!" I cried out, only to be answered by the same question, at the exact same time.
I backed up a little more and so did the creature, such a look of fright on its face as could only be matched by my own. "Please don't hurt me.." I whimpered.
The creature answered my question with the same one and I smiled weakly, stepping closer to the creature.
"I don't want to hurt you.." I whispered to the creature.
Slowly I stepped even closer, reaching out my hand to touch the creature's.
The creature held its hand out to me and I winced as I moved close enough for our hands to touch. I gasped as my finger tips met it's, but I only felt the cold, smooth surface of glass. I raised my other hand and held it to the creature's but found it only met glass as well.
"What kind of wizardry is this!" I cried out before my eyes widened, for in the glass behind the creature I saw the faces of the three young men I had seen before, pointing and laughing at the spectical.
Almost afraid to look I turned around and glanced at the window behind me at the front of the shop and saw the same three boys.. They were pointing and laughing.. At.. At me..
My mouth widened in horror as I looked to my hands, which were the hands of the creature.. My feet the same, my body, distorted and covered in blotches of green. I dropped to my knees and reached out to touch the glass, wanting only to escape the horror around me, the humiliation.
I felt burning tears fall down my cheeks as I closed my eyes. When I opened them again I found myself looking out at the shop, at the boys who had been laughing at me. Instead of the humor that had been in the eyes before they were seemingly horrified and I could not understand why until..
Until I realized that I had become the mirror..
From then on, from within my translucent prison I called upon the mirror to show only what people wished to see from the bottom of their hearts, so they would never have to endure the tragedy I had to.