Mirror

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I get awaken quickly by someone shaking me. I gasp and look up to see my brother in the girls Slytherin dorms.

"Harold James Potter, what are you doing here," I say, and he looks at me confused.

"Waking my sister up."

I push him and I get up, "what do you want, if Filch catches you then you are dead for sure."

"I wanted to go into the restricted section tonight, I have the cloak."

I look at the cloak on the ground and I sigh, "fine."

I put on my slippers and start to walk out of the dorms and down the stairs with my brother. Once we get to the bottom of the stairs, Harry drapes the cloak over the two of us and we start to walk out and down the hallways of the school. I look around at the slightly fuzzy surroundings and try to say as quiet as possible.

Harry picks up a lamp and we walk into the restricted section of the library. I walk off from Harry and walk over to section N to see if I can see anything on Nicholas while Harry goes to F. I look above N and see M. The first thing that goes into my eyesight is Malfoy. I pull out the book and start to open it but before I can all the way I hear screaming from where Harry is. I put the book back and run over to see what it was. Harry is shoving the book away and drops the lamp before he picks up the cloak.

"We've got to get out of here," Harry whispers and we both whip our heads around to the entrance where we hear the voice of Filch.

"Whose there? I know you're in there. You can't hide."

We pull the cloak over ourselves, and I stay close to my brother as we quickly try to get out. We watch Filch pass us before we sneak out as fast as possible. We stop and hear Filch's cat meowing at us.

"Run," Harry whispers as we quickly start to run around the corner until we almost run into Professor Quirrell and Professor Snape.

"Severus. I-I-I."

"You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrell."

"I...I don't know wh-what you mean."

"You know perfectly well what I mean."

Harry and I walk around slowly while we pray not to make any noises to draw attention to ourselves. As we make it over Snape whips his head then swipes his hand towards Harry and I as we cover our mouths before Snape turns back around. Harry and I turn and see a door. We slowly creep over before Filch comes over saying there is a student out of bed. They run in different directions before we walk into the random room with a Mirror in it. I get out from the cloak after the coast is clear and walk up to the mirror slowly. I look into it and see myself, but I look older and I am standing next to a boy.

"What," I whisper confused and stare at the mirror as three kids walk in front of me and the boy. 

I look closer at the face of the boy and gasp while walking backwards. Draco Malfoy stood next to me in the mirror. 

"Harry, step in front of this mirror," I say and drag him over. When I walk over with Harry, it changes to our parents.

"Mum and dad," Harry says and I shake my head.

"I saw me when I was older, and it was different. It was me and Draco together. There were three kids with us."

"I am going to go get Ron," Harry says and runs out with the cloak leaving me alone. 

I look into the mirror again and it is the same as I was alone. Draco is holding my hand and I am smiling. I groan and cross my arms. What does this even mean? Is this going to be my future? I got to get out of here. I quickly run out of the random room and look around the hallways as I run through the halls. I run towards the dungeons, and I see Snape entering the Slytherin common room. I sigh and I walk towards the door while looking down at my feet. I am so going to get killed. I enter the common room and look up to see Draco and Snape talking. 

They both look at me, "Miss Potter, what are you doing out in the hallways at this time of night."

"I needed to talk to my brother professor, but he was sleeping. I am sorry, it will not happen again."

Snape raises an eyebrow clearly not believing me, "don't let it happen again; you could get hurt, li-," Snape starts to say a name before rushing out of the common room and out into the hallways.

I sit out the couch and Draco sits next to me, "you weren't seeing your brother, were you?"

I look at him confused, "how do you know?"

"You have been gone for more than an hour. Where were you?"

"That is none of your business, Draco," I stand up quickly and look at him.

"Yes, it is, now where were you?"

I start to get angry while thinking about that mirror with Draco and I when we were older. That can't be my future. 

"Leave me alone, Malfoy!"

"Whatever, half-blood."

I storm off and run up to my dorm room while trying not to cry. Is he actually going to be my future husband?

The next couple of days, I keep going back to that mirror to see if anything had changed at all. Like the people in it or the status of the people. Nothing is changing at all. Part of me desperately wants it to change but another wants it to be so. Part of me wants to marry Draco and become a Malfoy. I can't think like this; maybe the years will change it.

"Back again, (Y/n)," I turn around and see Professor Dumbledore standing behind me, "I see that you like so many before you have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised. I trust by now you realize what it does. Let me give you a clue; the happiest man on earth would look into the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is."

"So, you mean, it shows us what we want?"

"Yes and no. It shows us nothing more or less then the deepest and most desperate desires in our hearts." 

I look back at the mirror and think, "I guess this is really what I do want in life."

My deepest desire is to marry the prick, Draco Malfoy.

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