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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Well." Niki said after they had finally stopped running. "Now we know what Dumbledore meant by, 'dying a most painful death.' However, now we're lost."br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /"Well, all we'll get by standing here is detention when Filch finds us." Hermione panted. "So let's see if we can find our way back."br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /"Not likely." Ron style="box-sizing: border-box;" /"Shut up, Ronald." Niki sighed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Shut up both of you." Harry said wearily as Ron opened his mouth to retort. "Be quiet, or we'll be caught."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"They walked a while farther, and then heard the unmistakable shuffling and panting of Filch./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Quick! Through here!" Harry hissed, shoving the other three through a door and closing and locking it, then putting his ear to the door. "He's gone." he finally announced./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Good." Hermione said. "Now, let's get back. Come on Niki, Ronald." she turned around and saw Ron, but not Niki. "Harry, where's Niki?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""I'm over here." Niki said, coming around a pillar. "Harry, come see this."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"Harry curiously walked over to Niki and saw a large mirror. There were strange markings around the top. "What? It's just a mirror."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Look in it properly." Niki insisted. "Stand here." she positioned Harry so he was directly in front of the mirror./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Niki, what?" Looking back into the mirror, he almost screamed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"There he was in the mirror, along with three other people. One he knew, and two he knew of, had seen pictures of, but had never spoken to. Niki was standing there next to him, her arm around his shoulders, and behind them were James and Lily. Harry looked behind them, into the background, and saw Moony and Padfoot. Behind them where lots of people Harry had never seen before./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""You see them, don't you?" Niki asked, coming to stand next to Harry. The Niki in the mirror faded and was replaced with the actual Niki. "You see all of them."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Yeah, I do." Harry said. "Ron, come here."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""What?" Ron asked, coming over to the twins./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Look in this mirror and tell us what you see." Niki said, her and Harry stepping out of the way./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""um..." Ron said. "I only see me." he looked curiously at the twins./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Look longer." Harry insisted, and Ron looked back at the mirror, and let out a yelp./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Wow!" Ron exclaimed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Do you see them?" Niki asked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""I only see me," Ron said. "But I'm older! I'm Head Boy! And I'm Quidditch Captain, too! I'm holding the Quittitch Cup!" he paused. "I look good."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"Harry and Niki looked at each other./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Hermione, what do you see?" Niki asked. Hermione stepped in front of the mirror./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Um, I see..." Hermione looked into the mirror. "I see myself as a Hogwarts Professor. It looks like I'm the Transfiguration teacher. I'm all grown up and able to pass on something I loved learning and doing to other people."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Huh..." Niki said, looking carefully at the markings. "Hey, these are words." she suddenly said. "'Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.' Look, if you turn it around and change the spacing, it says, 'I show not your face but your hearts desire.'" she looked at the other three. "Come on, am I wrong?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"Hermione stepped forward and studied the mirror. "No, you're not. What did you and Harry see?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""We saw the same thing. Us with our parents, Moony and Padfoot, and people who I'm assuming are our gandparents and family." Harry said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Well, I'm guessing that what each of us saw is our deepest desire." Hermione said. "I mean, it says that pretty plainly."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""She's right." Harry said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""So that means that our deepest desire is to have our parents and family, along with Moomy and Dadfoot," Niki said, contemplating. "And Hermione wants to be a Hogwarts Transfiguration professor and pass something she loves learning and doing to others, and Ron..." she stopped, and looked at Ron. "He sees himself as Head Boy, Quidditch Captain, and holding the Quidditch Cup." she glared at him. "Really? That's your deepest desire?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Niki," Harry said in a warning tone. Ron's ears were turning red./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;""Come on, let's go." Niki sighed, taking one last, long look into the mirror, and then walking to the door. The other three followed./p
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