CHAPTER 13: THROUGH THE MIRROR.
(Isa's voice)
We had just arrive from Hogsmeades when I decided that same night I would try to contact Sirius and Eloy due to a handwritten notebook I found at the roof of one of the towers. I came across it by lots of luck. I had to catch a ball form there, I slipped a bit and some of the planks over it fell down revealing me a dusty notebook with a name written on it: Pad foot. So I wanted to contact him using the mirror my brother and me once found and that now I was still trying it to work. I had read about mirrors and this concrete kind of mirror for ages with my brother, so now I was trying to make it work.
What I had never managed to make it work was the notebook. I had tried everything, from muggle graffito in case it was written with invisible ink, to revealing charms; but nothing happened. I managed to get nothing but for it insulting me on writing forms.
As joke it would be a great one, but… I was beginning to get tired of it.
While we had dinner, we chat about the day and the trip. It was a great day and really funny, I had nearly forgot what happened on Halloween when I won the contest of couple carnival with a mysterious boy that turned out to be my protecting angel: Eloy. Just nearly.
When I arrived back the common room after a hard afternoon training with Draco (what was hard because he found a bit hard to concentrate on my orders and cause weather was a bit harder too due to fog raised that afternoon), I found out that the common room was packed with people, too much for taking my mirror out and use it for chatting with Eloy and Pad foot.
Nevertheless, though I went down to the common room with the mirror well hidden in my pocket, I did not stop of fidgeting with it the whole moment. For a moment I wished that the time was running faster and they all went to fall asleep already, but it was not possible. One to one they were going away of the room and I finished remaining alone, or so I believe.
I extracted the mirror after creating a soundless bubble in the door. Then I began to make it grow until it reached the height of a person and I could hang it on the wall. Then I began to recite the form of communication, slowly and softly; one, two, three ... four times until suddenly the mirror began to shine very softly.
"Isa?" A male voice asked from the mirror almost in a whisper. "Isa, these there?"
"... Come to me, ancient magic, and return the voice and the image to me of those that already are not here. That their faces are shown clear as if they were true, that their voices resound in the silence to accompany, oh, in this dark night ..."
"Wow, and I who was thinking that there could no be anything better than my former mirror communicator... " Said Sirius's voice in the same whispering tone.
"… Verita almae reflexum! " I said then to end the conjuration.
The mirror at the time gave off a flash of light that made me close the eyes for a few seconds and when I returned to open them Eloy and Sirius were there.
" Do you see it, poochy? " Eloy said to him. " I told you that she would manage to do it. "
" It is ... incredible. " Sirius said touching the mirror from his side. "Are we trapped? "
" Not. " I said smiling charmingly. " It is, for saying it somehow, like a window between this world and where you are. A mirror that shows those who are not longer here. " I added sitting down because the charm had sucked a big amount of my energy and was not at its top when I threw it. " Eloy and I create it to try to speak with already dead wizards and witches. As an alternative to the investigation of the books. "
" It is still giving you problems, isn't it? " Eloy asked me worried.
"Yes, it's just that ... today it was more exhausting day than usual ones. " I said softly taking off importance from it. "Do not worry, a night of dream and I will be again well."
"Listen, did you find my book? " Sirius asked me.
" Ah, yes. " I said. " A very good joke, a book whose target is insulting whoever tries to read it. "
" No, no. " He said shaking the head. " It is protected. You have to say the exact password or you will not be able to read it because it will not reveal his secrets. "
(Harry's voice)
We were tired when we say goodbye of Isabel and Hermione to rise to our room; however I still could not sleep so I decided to give an eye to the map of the marauder. Only to get some fun and get tired my self a bit. Everything was like always, but the attention called me that in our common room, there was just Isa, and she was doing magic, apparently. Yes, of her dot a sandwich "Engorgio" was going. I decided to go down to see what she was planning to do; so I took my invisibility cloak and began my way down.
On the other hand, when I tried to hear what she was saying I could not. I approached more and she was continuing without anything heard though it was clear that she was speaking.
Suddenly, I saw that she was before a mirror and in it not only she was reflected, but also a persons' couple that I recognized and they did made my mouth to let out a sound of exclamation.
Then both looked at me and while I covered my mouth trying not to breathe yet I would have sworn that Sirius and the boy of the Halloween dance could see me despite of the invisibility cloak.
(Isa's voice)
Finally, following Sirius's indications, I had managed to open the book and to see it fast. Sirius had explained everything to me on the book and now we were speaking about this and that when we hear a sound at my back, it had not been anything else than an exclamation on total surprise, but it made me look in search of a "spy".
" Isa, I believe that you should learn to improve your safety. " Eloy said to me looking rightly behind me. " Especially when it is evident that your friends worry about you. "
I got up and looked after the chair, but there was also nobody.
" I know that there is someone spying on us, but he or she can not hear us. " I said. " And I can not see him or her."
" I was going to ask you that the following time you were opening this window you brought also Harry but... " Sirius Said.
" Do not tell me any more. " I said smiling wide again and getting a marble of my pocket to enlarge it in my hand with the closed eyes and throw it to where the sound very attenuated of breathing was coming from.
Paff.
The globe exploded rightly on what had to be the head of invisible Harry revealing an enormous floating spot.
" Don't you know that you should not spy on a girl in a private chat? " I said to him removing the field of protection and sound-proofing to leave him to pass to where I was. " You have managed to get away with it because they have insinuated me that the one spying me was you. " I added while one was taking the cap and I was returning to restore the soundproof barrier.
" What … what is it? " He asked me confused.
It was not necessary to know legeremancia to see that he was surprised and at the same time, thrilled and a bit scared.
" It is a mirror. " I told him sitting down again. " How to explain it to you … Is a kind of window between their world and ours. But we can not even go there or they come. "
" They Are … real? " He asked then.
" We are the ghosts of the future … " Eloy said joking.
" Eloy, enough " I told him.
" Excuse me, I was joking. " He apologized.
" I understand that it can be hard for you to believe it " Sirius told him. " I still can not believe that I could do this. But I am really delighted. " He said smiling happily. " It is like to have an opportunity to return and speak with you. "
"We will not interrupt you. " Eloy said.
" Ditto. " I added sitting down with the legs hanging of one of the arms of the armchair on a carefree form. " Unless it is something very … private. "
" Thank you. " Harry said.
" No, no. " Sirius said. " Remain, this also concerns you."
" I do not like to put my nose where they do not call me, unless someone is in danger. " I affirmed holding my face in my hand. " If I fall asleep, Harry, I would be grateful that you were waking me up to close the window. We do not want that the window is opened around here the whole time. "
" I've heard, are you really ok? " Eloy asked me worried.
" But yes!! " I told him. " It is just I have had training in the morning, excursion to Hogsmeades, training in the evening and then the effort of opening this. "
" I did not know that you were such a good witch. " Harry suddenly said.
"Sure, it's just a bit that you know me. " I answered making an armchair appear for him to seat.
" For most of people who does not know me very much, I am just a more or less well know Quiddich player that gets good marks, if they know me a bit more. "
" I then suppose you are not like that. " Harry said.
" She is a great girl. " Sirius said. " She always managed to bring me some muggle chocolate and wizard ones managing to sneak them into Azkaban; and I always hid it the best I could. Of course, the dementors could not see … "
" The truth is that I never knew why you had so much interest to go Azkaban when our dad had to go and you could go with him. " Eloy affirmed.
" Sirius was an interesting prisoner. " I sentenced. " He was not looking the rest of preys there. Don't know, she was there, quietly and sanely while most of the rest were on a vegetable state or desperate or mad. "
" Ah, yes. I believe that already I remember it. " Sirius said. " A small girl … you would be five or six, weren't you? "
" Six. " I affirmed to then smile. " And you were right then, I was still too young. "
"Six years and you were taken there?!" Harry asked surprised and confused. "I would never take such a young person to a prison. Less if there are such nasty creatures as dementors around."
"I wanted to see my father work and I think it was that or staying alone at home risking to get attacked." I said smiling softly. "And after all, dementors don't attack such little and healthy people as I was then."
"True, but they didn't because they were told a little girl was around there." Sirius said.
"I can't believe it." Eloy said. "He called you little and you didn't blow a single tooth off? Amazing! What did you do on her then?"
Then Sirius began laughing. I suppose it was not for less, I mean… even me had to smile.
"C'mon Eloy!" Isa said smiling. "He was not in condition of being hit by me. He was being guarded by two dementors all the time! And as you have never bothered to travel there to see them you don't know how awful they are!"
"But you seemed unaffected." Sirius said.
"Then I was happy and not much evil things had happened me." She said. "Now they could affect me thousand times worse. As well, now I can see Thestrals."
I knew what she meant, she saw her family dead. It must have been awful, nearly as awful as my remembers where I saw my parents die even when I didn't remember their dead corpses.
"And how is they allowed such a young girl to get and visit you?" I asked them.
"Her father was an auror." Sirius said. "I knew the same day I saw him finding her in front of my jail."
"Yeah, I remember dad used to take dark wizards there." Eloy said. "Once or twice a year, I think. And when I was seven and she was six, she began crying so hard she wanted to go with him that he decided to take her with him. When she came back she said next time she would take more chocolates for her new friend."
"Ah… those chocolates saved my stomach and mind health remembering me how was to be free." Sirius said.
"And is not any way of bringing you back to…" I asked them.
"I have already told her not to try anything." Eloy told me.
"It would be too bad." Sirius said serious for first time about something as trespassing a rule or two. "I don't want you to even lose your time trying to find a way."
"And there are some ways." Isa said about falling asleep of tiredness. "Not legal ones."
"That means dark arts." Eloy said. "And she knows none of us approve that either."