The Mirror

Chapter one: Sent Spiraling

Disclaimer- I'm not nearly as cool as JK Rowling is, so she owns every Harry Potter related theme and character in here. Except April and July, they're my own. No profit is being made, unless you want to pay me.

Part two! Thanks for reading

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Harry swallowed hard and stood back up very slowly. He was in the boy's dormitories of Hogwarts.

How on earth…

He scanned the room that had been lavishly decorated for Christmas. It was impossible to apparate inside of Hogwarts, so how did he get here?.. He stumbled a step backward when he realized that he was not alone. A group of four boys sat Indian-style on one bed, tossing brightly covered chocolates and candies to one another. Harry felt a familiar giddy sensation in the pit of his stomach, as he looked upon the young faces of Remus Lupin, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black.

Harry frowned, wondering how he had ended up in this memory, or whatever it was, but he no longer cared how he got there when he saw his father hand out three small wrapped parcels.

"This is when they got the mirrors!" Harry said excitedly, before clapping a hand over his mouth. It was apparent, however, that the marauders could not see, nor hear Harry.

He moved closer to the group and smiled at the face of his very young father. His untidy black hair was as messy as ever, and had obviously not been brushed

Sirius was the first to open his messily wrapped Christmas gift. He stared at it for a moment, "Er, mate," he said turning to James, "I know you think I'm a bit conceited and all, but this is just mean." He said flatly, glaring at the small rectangular mirror in his hands.

"No you dolt," James said, wrenching it from Sirius' grasp. The others had all unwrapped theirs. "They're two-way, or should I say, four-way mirrors. Watch," He held the mirror up close and clearly said: "Remus Lupin."

Instantly Remus' mirror clouded over and was replaced by the face of a smiling James. "Great, huh?"

Peter and Sirius exchanged a look of excitement and tried out their two. Remus nodded approvingly, "Good choice of a gift, mate, I must admit."

"You know what these could be great for?" Sirius asked looking up expectantly.

The others waited for him to continue, "Cheating!" He said as if it had been obvious.

Remus sighed and shook his head, but said nothing. Peter and James on the other hand looked as if they had struck gold, "Brilliant!"

As abruptly as it had happened, however, the room turned that same pitch black and there was complete silence for just a moment. The next thing he knew, he was in the center of the potions room, in one of the schools dungeons.

The last place he wanted to find himself.

The class had obviously already begun; cauldrons fizzed and smoked all around him. Instructions for a basic laughing potion were scrawled neatly on the chalkboard in front, and a small, squat, balding professor sat at his desk correcting tests.

Harry scanned the room for his father and saw him sharing a desk with Sirius and Remus. Peter sat in front of them along with a blond-haired chubby boy whose name Harry couldn't place. He was turned around talking the other marauders while his cauldron stirred on its own.

Harry glanced behind James and saw his mother sitting a table down with two twin blonde girls. He frowned; they seemed familiar somehow. He made his way to their table, for he had not yet a chance to see Lily.

"I'm telling you, he's an idiot. The whole lot of them are." The longer haired twin said rolling her eyes, and re-reading the directions on the board.

"You're right April, believe me, last week they thought it'd be funny to flood the Slytherin bathrooms. Which closed down the entire dungeon for the day." Lily said.

The other twin said nothing, and just continued to concentrate on the potion at hand. Harry could tell already that it was not coming along right; it was looking like a thick sludge while everyone else's around was a faint pink and giving off giggles while being stirred.

April glanced down the table at her sister, "July, don't tell me you disagree!"

July just shrugged, "They're not all idiots."

"Oh that's right," said her sister mockingly, "She likes Lupin." She teased loudly enough for Remus to hear. She glared as he turned and looked her way, and began to work once again on her potion, hoping he'd get the hint and turn back around.

Lily looked surprised and laughed a little, looking to a very red-faced July. "No way!"

Harry rolled his eyes at the giggling teenage girls, as the potions master came waddling up to their desk.

He had a kind smile on his chubby face, "Now, now girls, potions isn't this much fun."

Lily, still smiling laughed a little, "Sorry professor Slughorn."

"Let's see here," The professor said, glancing down at April and Lily's potions with an approving nod. "Nice work April… perfect, as always Lily."

July hurriedly threw in a few more ingredients, apparently hoping to bring her potion back to life. Slughorn tisked, and shook his head. "I believe you put a little too much ginger root Miss Merriwether." With a wave of his wand her potion had disappeared and he moved along to the next table.

"I give up." July said with a sigh.

Harry couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic for her. He too had never been very good at potions, but he had Snape to worry about.

Speaking of which…

Harry took another glance around the room and spotted Snape at the far table on the other side of the room with the other Slytherin's. He was scrawling into his large opened potions textbook. His potion had already been completed and bottled and he was waiting to be graded by Slughorn. Harry glared maliciously and walked back to James' table. The boys who had apparently finished their potions were busy showing how their newfound mirrors worked.

A tall Gryffindor boy was admiring them enviously. "These are brilliant."

"I know!" James said laughing. He lowered his voice, "How else do ya'think we would have gotten into the dungeons unnoticed. We have constant contact even if we're separated." James had apparently left out the fact that he had an Invisibility Cloak and the Marauders Map. "Filch would have a fit though, so we're keeping them sort of a secret."

Harry couldn't help but laugh out loud. If it was such a secret, he thought, then why on earth was he showing them off? He could see April's point about him acting like an idiot.

Faster, this time, the room turned black and Harry was thrown into a different, farlesscheerful,part of Hogwarts.

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I know it's short… but it makes it a little easier for me to section it off like this. I'll update as soon as I can – in the meantime please review- it makes me feel special.