The Truth of Erised
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Remus Lupin wandered the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was fully aware of where he was, but a very small voice in his head had questions.
"Why am I back at Hogwarts? I haven't been here since teaching so long ago. And where am I going?"
He had no answers, but suddenly a more dominant voice echoed in his brain. "Keep going, you're almost there." This bigger voice pushed the other one completely out of his consciousness.
He kept walking, turning down several corridors and going down a few staircases.
He stopped suddenly at a locked door. He looked around him, checking to see if anyone was around. The cold, dark corridor was empty. He retrieved his wand from the pocket of his robes and pointed it at the door.
"Alohamora," he whispered.
The door unlocked and he entered the room swiftly and shut himself in.
"Lumos," he said and instantly his wand gave a very faint light. He looked around the room and his eyes fell on a very large mirror in the back corner.
"There it is!" exclaimed that pesky voice again.
Remus walked slowly towards the mirror. He knew he shouldn't be doing this; he knew the consequences, but he just had to look...just once.
He centered himself in front of the mirror and looked at his reflection with hesitance.
He gasped at what he saw.
There, in the ancient Mirror of Erised was him, Remus Lupin. But he wasn't alone. A beautiful redhead appeared from behind and to the right of him and the woman wrapped her arms around his waist. As she smiled up at him, his reflection smiled down at her and reached around to kiss her.
Remus stood there, open-mouthed. He peered closer to the reflection, trying to see who the woman was. She looked vaguely familiar.
Suddenly, he knew where he recognized her. But it couldn't be- she was twelve years old! But...in the mirror she looked at least twenty-five. He backed away in fear. He suddenly felt so dirty so...immoral. Surely the deepest desire of his heart wasn't his twelve-year-old student!
Remus startled himself awake. "Oh, thank God," he thought. "It was all just a dream." He fell back asleep for a while longer before waking again, this time to the sound of a woman singing softly from somewhere in the house.
He climbed out of bed and went into the bathroom to splash some cold water on his face. He'd had another dream again. He could never remember what they were about, but he always woke up startled from them. They weren't nightmares, just odd dreams. He placed his hands on either side of the sink on the counter and looked at his reflection in the mirror.
The door opened behind him, and Ginny saw her husband staring into the mirror. She walked up behind him and put her arms around his waist and leaned to his right to look up into his face. "Another dream?" she asked.
He nodded and turned to look at her. He bent down and kissed her.
He felt an overwhelming feeling of déjà vu, but brushed it from his mind as Ginny's kisses became more persistent.
He led her back into the bedroom.
"You're going to be late for work," she purred.
He kissed her neck passionately. "So?"
She giggled as they fell back onto the bed...