Chapter 30 Mirror of Erised
That night, Mike, who had practiced in the Room of Requirement until late at night as usual, dragged his tired body out of the Room of Requirement. Since he discovered the Room of Requirement, Mike would come here to practice almost whenever he had time. After mastering meditation, Mike added meditation to his practice. This caused him to be exhausted and like a zombie almost every time he walked out of the Room of Requirement.
Mike held the wall and walked into the secret passage leading to the Ravenclaw Tower. Fortunately, this secret passage was extremely unscientific. The Room of Requirement was very far away from the Ravenclaw Tower, but it only took a few tens of seconds to reach it. At first, Mike had doubts about this, but now Mike is really glad that this secret passage exists. He just wants to go back to his bed and have a good sleep.
It was pitch dark inside the secret passage, and Mike could only rely on the flickering fluorescent light to move forward.
A minute later, Mike found that there seemed to be something wrong with this secret passage.
Normally, according to his walking speed, he should have seen the exit of the secret passage by now, but now Mike still saw the endless darkness in front of him.
Mike forced himself to be alert. At this moment, he might have triggered the mechanism and changed the destination of the secret passage.
After an unknown amount of time, the exit of the secret passage finally appeared in front of Mike, but Mike was not in a hurry to go out.
Ravenclaw's tower is located next to the Owl House. The lighting there is very good, and Mike can see the surrounding situation even at night.
But according to the light coming in from the entrance of the secret passage this time, the destination of this secret passage is definitely not Ravenclaw's tower.
Mike extinguished the fluorescent flash in his hand and slowly moved to the exit of the secret passage along the wall.
This is a very spacious room. It looks like an abandoned classroom. There are dusty desks and chairs piled up in the corner.
On the place where the podium should have been, there is an object that is out of tune with the surroundings, a huge full-length mirror.
Under the moonlight outside the window, everything in the abandoned classroom was visible. The full-length mirror was quietly placed there, reflecting the moonlight on the mirror, which looked spooky.
Mike walked out of the secret passage carefully. The moment he left the secret passage, the entrance to the secret passage on the wall of the classroom disappeared silently. Mike fumbled on the wall where the secret passage was originally located for a while, but did not find any mechanism, and his heart sank.
Fortunately, the door of the abandoned classroom was still open, so Mike did not have to worry about being trapped here.
After observing for a while and not finding anyone else in the classroom, Mike turned his eyes to the only abnormality here, the full-length mirror. When he
got closer, he found that the mirror was surprisingly large, reaching the ceiling. The frame was golden and decorated with extremely gorgeous wood carvings. There was a line of words engraved on the top: Erisstra Uhluait Ubica Fruait Onvohes.
Mike was shocked. Isn't this the Mirror of Erised? It was moved to Hogwarts so early. In the original book, Harry found this mirror after Christmas.
The Mirror of Erised is called the Mirror of Desire in legend. It can display the things that the user desires most in the form of a picture in front of the user. Many great men in history have fallen under its magic and wanted to die, including the famous Merlin.
Although he knew that he might be immersed in the illusion created by it, Mike couldn't help but look at himself in the mirror. He really wanted to know what he wanted most. In fact, most people don't know what they want most in their hearts. Everyone just follows their instincts and lives in a daze. Being able to see what you want clearly is a necessary quality to become a great man.
Mike saw himself in the mirror. Although his face was very different from his current face, Mike still recognized it. It was his previous life, the greasy middle-aged man. There were
many people standing around the greasy middle-aged man, all of whom were his relatives and friends in his previous life.
His wife Amanda was wearing a wedding dress and hugged him tightly. The woman in the mirror was not as old and ugly as when Mike died in his previous life. She still maintained the dazzling face of her youth. Mike swore that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
Behind them stood three people. His eldest daughter Tracy was wearing a gorgeous evening dress, and her posture was elegant like a princess from a fairy tale. His youngest son Jimmy was wearing a doctoral gown and holding a roll of paper tied with red silk in his hand. Mike knew that it should be a graduation certificate. A little further away, a slightly bald man was holding a bottle of wine and smiling at the family of four, and he would take a sip from time to time.
"Trevor." Mike murmured.
Mike looked at everything in the mirror in a daze, and tears unconsciously wet his cheeks.
He stretched out his hand to touch Amanda's face, but what he felt was not Amanda's warm skin, but a cold and smooth mirror.
It has been almost a year since he came to the world of Harry Potter. During this year, Mike has been using hard training to numb his longing for his family and friends, and this suppressed emotion finally broke out tonight.
Mike's emotions finally collapsed. He leaned on the Mirror of Erised and collapsed to the ground and burst into tears.
Mike always thought that he was still the carefree and unrestrained gangster he was back then, and family and friends were dispensable. But he didn't expect that in the end, they were still the ones he cared about the most.
In the shadow of the classroom, Dumbledore looked at Mike who was crying. He was not unfamiliar with Mike's reaction. He had the same reaction when he first saw his family in the Mirror of Erised.
Seeing Mike at this time was like seeing himself back then. Dumbledore sighed silently, his figure gradually became transparent, and finally disappeared.
Today, he deliberately led Mike to this abandoned classroom in order to use the Mirror of Erised to test Mike. I had thought that I would suddenly appear when Mike was trapped in the illusion of the Mirror of Erised and give him a lesson about love.
However, I am afraid that this is not necessary now. Mike performed very well, much better than the best scene Dumbledore expected. Mike is
different from Voldemort. Voldemort has no love in his heart, only desire and hatred. But Mike still has the love for his family and friends in his heart.
Such Mike will never become the next Voldemort.