Chapter 5: Those Voices
"I know you, I've seen you in a dream, an old familiar scene from somewhere. And you know me, there's a glowing in your eyes I know and recognize from somewhere." – Those Voices, from A Very Potter Sequel (the scene where Harry sees his parents in the Mirror of Erised).
Harry threw off the invisibility cloak after taking cover from Filch, and found himself standing in a dark room, he had never seen it before. There was a mirror on the wall that had Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.
"For the first time," Lily whispered to her husband, "He's finally going to see us!"
Just then, they weren't alone. Lily and James were joined by multiple people, all to see Harry see them. Lily and James greeted their parents, their grandparents and their aunts and uncles.
Azalea Evans approached her daughter and hugged her.
"Hi, mum," Lily smiled.
Harry approached the mirror and looked in. He gasped when he saw that he was not alone. Behind him stood many people. He recognized his parents, but there were more. Standing behind his parents, were aunts, uncles, grandparents, great grandparents and more.
The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.
In the mirror, Lily placed a hand on Harry's shoulder.
Lily joined herself in mirror and placed a hand on Harry's shoulder. Harry reached around and touched his mother's hand, without even knowing.
Harry put his hand on his shoulder, where Lily's was in the mirror but felt nothing.
"Merry Christmas, sweetheart." Lily whispered to her son.