Harry was laughing at some of the suggestions Sirius and Remus were throwing out on how to avoid life and death situations, as he sat down to lunch.

"We could create a permanent bubble charm around him, so no one can get with in three feet of him."

"We could hire bodyguards. Huge muscle bound mountains. They wouldn't dare- Whoa!" CRASH!

Harry jumped up as Sirius' chair collapsed out from under him. "Sirius are you alright?"

"Urg!" he groaned, sprawled out on the remains of the chair. "What happened?"

"The chair broke."

"And you called me fat." Kero snarked.

Sirius reached underneath himself and pulled out one of the chairs legs. The top looked like it had been cut. He glared at it and turned to face Remus.

"You wouldn't know how this happened, would you Moony?"

"Why would I know?"

"Someone had to have cut the chair. Harry and I were out in the forest and the plushie couldn't do it."

"I'll show you plushie." Kero growled. Sirius ignored him.

"Maybe it was a Clow card." Remus suggested.

"What, Clow invented a Prank card, now?"

"No," Kero said thoughtfully. "But many of the cards like playing pranks. Twin, Shadow, Change, a lot of the minor elemental cards like pranks. Harry, you should try to sense and see if you can find anything."

Harry nodded and closed his eyes. He called up his magic his magic and looked around the house. It was very distracting as there was so much magic around, it almost seemed to overwhelm him. He was about to give up when he noticed something strange.

There was magic in Remus's room. This wouldn't have been odd on it's own but his magic was telling him that it was Sirius.

That couldn't be right. Sirius was right here next to him. And there was something off about it. He opened his eyes.

"It's Sirius," he said. "In Remus's room."

"Er. No I'm not." Sirius said.

"I know, but that's what it feels like. It's you but not. Like you're backwards."

"Sounds like Mirror." Kero said. "Mirror can copy people like a reflection and literally become that person. Even magically. It's a tricky one though-"

Sirius interrupted. "Hah! I told you it wasn't me this morning." He crossed his arms and glared. "Next time maybe you'll believe me when I say I didn't do it."

"If this card likes to pull pranks, what is it doing in my room?" Remus asked in apprehension.

"Spiders in your bed maybe?" Harry grinned and raced out of the room to find the card.

"Thank you, Harry, that's real comforting." Remus grumbled as he followed.

Harry stopped outside Remus's room and gave the inside a glace with his magic. The card was still inside but no longer active.

He turned to the others who had followed behind him. "You guys stay out here," he said.

"But…" Sirius made to protest.

"Do you want to end up sealed in a card?" He asked. "The Mirror can take the form of anyone, I don't need to get confused about who I'm sealing."

"Good idea Harry." Kero nodded. "Mirror isn't a offensive card anyway, you shouldn't have a problem. While you do that, I'll go get us some lunch."

Sirius grabbed his tail. "I don't think so, slacker. You can wait out here and worry like the rest of us."

"But I'm hungry." Kero whined.

"Power of Darkness, power of Light. Surrender the wand the force ignite. Release!" Wand in hand, Harry opened the door and stepped inside.

The room seemed normal enough, for a wizards house anyway and he didn't see the card anywhere.

Harry moved further into the room and shut the door. He could sense the card and knew it could sense him too. He needed to be cautious. He though about reaching out to scry for it but he didn't want to be distracted in case it came at him. He moved about the room hoping that if he got close enough to it he would be able to sense it even while it was in hiding.

He was right. As he got nearer to the mirror on the dresser that odd twist of magic he recognised as Clow, got stronger. Harry stepped up to the dresser and looked at his reflection looking back. Suddenly waves of magic poured off the mirror and the world rippled!

He spun around and come face to face with his own reflection. Mirror! He raised his wand. "Return to your power confined. Mirror Card!" The Clow circle appeared at his feet and magic streamed up to bind the card but it had no effect. The binds went straight through the reflection. His own face smirked back at him and that's when he noticed all the other reflections.

The room was filled with them. All reflections of him. It was like walking through a Fun House, except all these reflections were different. With some it was obvious. There was one Harry in his quidditch gear, another dressed to the nines in dress robes to put Malfoys at the ball last year to shame. In other reflections the difference was more subtle. A smirk, or a glare. A vapid expression or one of dark warning.

One Harry was a girl, another was a muggle, another dressed as a warrior out of legend. His animagus form prowling around and in one or two images he had cat ears and a tail.

There were so many. He spun around the room trying to find the one reflection that was the Mirror card. He was just about to risk scrying when one image caught his eye.

His image was standing by the wall but not leaning against it. It was dress simply much as Harry himself was, in jeans and a shirt, but with a casual robe thrown over it. It's hair was wind blown and wild, but its fringe covered the scar. The reflection smiled at him but didn't seem too interested, looking instead around the room, taking in everything. It held a wand in it's hand and the Clow key around it's neck.

Harry walked up to it. "You," he said. "You are Mirror."

Magic rippled again and the reflections disappeared. Now in front of him, instead of his own image, there was the a beautiful green-haired girl, draped in a long flowing kimono. In her hands she held a mirror. The avatar smiled at him and nodded.

"Return to your power confined. Mirror Card!" This time when the Clow circle appeared the bindings latched on to the avatar and drew it's power back to it card form. The card sank happily into his hand. Grinning at his new acquisition Harry moved over to the door. He was about to pull it open when he hear whispers from the other side.

"Can you hear anything?"

"Kero, the rooms have a one way silencing charm on them. You can't hear anything."

"Maybe you can't but I am a magical Guardian. My hearing is much better any a any old mutts."

"You-"

Harry pulled the door open and saw Sirius grabbing Kero again. "Hey guys, I got it!" He held up the Mirror card in triumph.

"Great work, Harry." Sirius congratulated him.

"Yeah, you're making short work of these cards." Kero said. "Don't get too cocky though, some of the ones still to come are pretty powerful. You'll need to keep up your energy. Get lots of lunch. Can't go missing a meal. It's very important." All this was said as Kero floated out of the room at high speeds, clearly intent on taking his own advise.

Dobby had out done himself with lunch, he put together a wonderful spread of sandwiches, fruit and pastries. Kero whimpered with joy at the sight and shot toward the table.

"Protego."

"Ouf!" Kero bounced off the shield, his smushed face only inches away from the delicious food.

"Kero, it is not polite to eat before everyone gets to the table." Sirius said smugly, putting his wand away. "Just wait a few minutes. It won't kill you to show a little decorum."

"I'll show you -"

"Boys!" Remus interrupted. "Not at the table."

Harry giggled at the pout on both their faces. He sat down to lunch and helped himself to the spread as the others did the same.

"This looks great," Sirius commented, as he loaded his plate. "Dobby really is a great cook. The house elf we had when I was a kid couldn't cook for peanuts. I was always surprised he never poisoned us with some of the crap he made."

"It might explain your disposition then," Kero commented, dragging half the table toward him.

Harry just ignored the bickering. It was beginning to get common place when ever Kero and Sirius were in the same room. Or general vicinity. Or awake. He picked up his sandwich and took a bite, "Mmphf!" and promptly spit it back out again.

"What's wrong Harry?" Remus asked as he took a bite of his own lunch. Harry watched at his face screwed up in revulsion.

"What's wrong with the food?" Sirius asked having swallowed his own mouthful, and was taking a large gulp of water to wash the taste from his mouth. They turned to look at Kero, who seemed to have made it through half the food in front of him before he even stopped to taste it. When he did though…

"Bleck!" Kero followed Sirius' example, only he planted his face in the water jug.

"Dobby!" Harry called.

Pop. Dobby appeared, only he wasn't his usual excitable self. He was covered in flour and jam and was almost in tears. "Dobby is sorry, Master Harry Potter sir. Dobby is trying to keep it out of the food but it is being so fast. Dobby is a bad elf! Bad! Bad Dobby!" He began to hit himself over the head.

"Dobby, stop!" Harry grabbed the elf's flailing hands. "Dobby, what was getting into the food?"

"The sweet magic! The pixie! Dobby tried to stop it."

"A Clow card?"

"The Sweet!" Kero exclaimed. "The Sweet, Harry, the Sweet. My favourite card. You have to capture it, Harry. The Sweet. It can turn anything into candy."

"Right like you need any more sugar." Sirius rolled his eyes.

"It's alright Dobby. I'm not mad. Why don't you show me where the pixie is and I'll get rid of it."

Dobby sniffled. "Dobby will show you."

Harry followed Dobby down to the kitchen, which was located beneath the castle in a cavernous room that would have fit a dozen chefs easily. There seemed to be food all over, in various stages to preparation. He wondered what Dobby was going to do with it all but remember how much Kero seemed to eat.

Dobby pointed. "Sweet magic is there!"

He was pointing to the larder. Harry summoned the sealing wand and opened the doors.

A small fairy with afro-like hair resembling cotton candy and a yellow dress with skirt resembling cream puffs shot out.

It darted across the kitchen and Harry chased after it. The avatar waved it's wand and a pan turned into a cake. He tried summoning the little avatar to him but the thing was fast. It darted behind a bag of flour and pushed the whole thing over, Harry had to jump back to avoid getting hit. He growled in frustration. How the hell was he supposed to catch the thing? Windy would be no help, the avatar was too small for Windy to properly catch. The avatar giggled at his frustration but just as it was about to change the chair into a cookie Dobby came up behind it and threw up a dish towel and snagged the little pest right out of the air.

Harry wasted no time and swing the wand up. "Return to your power confined. Sweet card."

Dobby had to quickly jump out of the way as the power of the circle reached up to contain the Sweet, who pouted at having it's fun ruined.

Harry turned to show Kero his new card only to find him sitting on the bench, looking at the mess of the kitchen, tears streaming down his face.

"Kero?" He asked in concern.

"My lunch," Kero whimpered. "It ruined my lunch. I'm so hungry."

Harry just rolled his eyes.

After Dobby fixed everyone another lunch, and Kero had eaten his fill, (easily twice what Harry had eaten,) Remus cornered the little Guardian and demanded more information.

"How exactly is Harry supposed to find these cards of yours? The ones so far have just been around the castle."

"They're not my cards." Kero told him. "They were meant for Harry. He'll find them when he needs to."

"And in the mean time, who knows what kind of trouble they're causing."

"Well I was trying to teach him to sense the cards at a distance but he kept getting distracted." Kero insisted.

"We can try again now." Harry offered, still high from having captured three cards that morning. He sat himself down on the floor of the den and summoned his magic. It took him a bit to remember how to scry long distance. The world was so strange when he saw it this way. He could see the whole of England, but everything was out of proportion. He had to force himself not to get distracted by what he was seeing.

Harry concentrated on the magic of the Clow cards. He thought maybe he could sense it at a few places around the country but focused on one spot. The magic was strong but indistinct. He could make out a sense of sharpness to it. Strength and skill. Now he just had to find out where it was.

Making out anything of the real world like this was hard because the physical world didn't seem very important to his magic, and it was much more interesting to look at the enchantments on that painting.

"-ry."

He could just make out a vague out line of the physical world but could tell where he was. Looking around was hard and there was nothing in the immediate vicinity that gave him a clue to his location.

"Harry."

Maybe it wasn't the place he needed to be looking at. He touched one of the bright spots that he recognised as a person. Oh! So that's where…

"Harry!" Someone was shaking him, calling him. He wanted to tell them to stop, that it was distracting, but he found it surprisingly hard to get his body to move. His eye lids felt so heavy as he forced them open.

He was leaning against Sirius's chest and Kero was floating above him with a serious expression on his face.

"Harry?" Sirius asked, peering down into his face.

"What happened?" Harry asked.

"You were almost spell-bound." Kero told him. "I didn't think this would happen. It takes a great deal of power to become lost in your own spell like that. Did you find a card?"

Harry sat up as he remember what he had been looking for. "Oh yeah! I did. Kero, is there, I don't know, a blade card? I got a sense of strength and skill and it seemed really sharp. That sounds weird I know."

"No blade card but there is a Sword Card. Or maybe the Arrow. Did you see where it was?"

"Yeah. It was hiding out in the British Museum."

I'm so sorry about the short chapter, people. Real life has been kicking my ass lately, so you could have had a short chapter now or waited for a longer one. To make it up to you Eriol will probably make an appearence in the next chapter.

Wow we had so many constructive reviews for the last chapter. You've been so great. I thought I'd answer some of the questions here rather than individual replies. I hope no one minds.

People has asked about Harry and Sirius being able to talk in their animagus forms. In canon Sirius talks about being able to communicate with Crookshanks and says that he is a really smart cat. Well Harry is part Kneezle and has a human mind as well. It stands to reason that they should be able to communicate. At least I think it does. If not consider it magic.

Someone said the cards were being caught in the same order as the anime. Um, no. The order is random and is mostly based on how I think they should be captured and what cards he'll need where. I'm not following the anime.

Will he have a rival? No he wont because I don't want to write in an OC. Sorry, I'm just lazy. Plus this isn't Card Captors, it is a completely new story.

Another comment was writing his name on the cards. I gave this a lot of thought and decided not to because I didn't like the idea of defacing the cards that way. Yes I know names are important and work as a binding, but lets just go with Harry not needing to.

Please keep up the the constructive reviews. They really do inspire me to write more.