I abducted HP's friend on his wedding day

As the Christmas vacation came to an end, Angus discovered a mirror in a hidden classroom.

——The Mirror of Erised.

Inside he saw Helga, Helena, Godric, and Salazar...

Those are Angus's favorite family members. This is a happy thing for Angus who unexpectedly arrived a thousand years later. Although he doesn't know the principle of this mirror, he is allowed to look at it. When you reach the person you miss.

So, he brought Draco and Tom, who were bored, directly to this classroom.

Tom recognized the magic mirror at a glance: "This is the Mirror of Erised..." He raised his eyebrows, and then he instantly figured out the key to it. It was probably left here by Dumbledore.

Draco looked over curiously, blinked his eyes, a little surprised, then quickly lowered his head, thought for a while, and moved away from the mirror.

He didn't know if other people would see what he saw, but soon he knew that whether it was Angus or Tom, what he saw inside was what he wanted to see.

Tom was always reluctant to say what he saw, but he asked what Angus saw.

"It's someone you care about..." Tom even looked a little disdainful. He felt that what Angus saw and the desires in his heart were a bit too immodest.

Angus snorted coldly and asked Tom: "Then what did you see? Is it better than mine? Is it more advanced than mine?"

Tom just raised his head proudly, closed his mouth tightly, and refused to reveal anything.

Draco breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that what he saw was normal and ordinary.

He looked at the mirror with some nostalgia, his eyes flickering with a little bit of light, a little stagnant and a little dim.

That mirror only faithfully reflects the deepest desires in the heart.

What you desire...

Angus turned to Draco and asked Draco curiously: "What did you see?"

Draco hesitated, and then whispered: "I saw myself becoming the Chaser of the Slytherin Quidditch team, and I saw me winning the Slytherin Quidditch team, and they were all surrounding me. I……"

Tom complained mercilessly: "Childish!"

Angus knocked Tom away with force, then put his arm around Draco's shoulders. He smiled and said, "That's awesome!"

Draco smiled, yes, that would be awesome.

Soon, the mirror seemed to disappear from the game between the three of them. It was just a mirror, and it just passed by looking at it.

Late at night, in front of the Mirror of Erised, stood the figure of a young man.

He sat quietly in front of the mirror without saying a word, just holding his head high and looking at the mirror. Next to him was a candlestick with a dancing flame on it, silently accompanying the young man.

Dumbledore appeared quietly behind the young man, looking at him with complicated eyes.

"Son, what do you see in the mirror?"

When the young man heard the noise, he did not move. He lowered his head and remained silent.

"Tomorrow, it will be moved to another place..."

"..." The young man turned his head and looked up at Dumbledore, his eyes red.

"In this mirror, what you see is only your most urgent and strongest desire. Don't indulge in illusory dreams. My child, what you have to remember is real life."

Dumbledore leaned down, placed his warm hands gently on the boy's head, and stroked the boy's hair with his warm breath.

"I saw my... dad... and mom..."

Dumbledore sighed, his eyes full of pity as he looked at the young man in front of him.

"I don't think they want you to be immersed in falsehood."

"I know...I know it's false...I know..."

Dumbledore gently stroked the boy's head, and his tone was particularly gentle: "Go back, it's already very late, I still hope you will pay more attention to your body, and don't stay up late when you should be sleeping. That doesn't mean anything to you. good habits."

The young man stood up, hesitantly, and looked back at the Mirror of Erised again with reluctance. His steps were a little heavy and he walked very slowly. He was still hesitant until he reached the door.

"Professor Dumbledore..."

"What? My dear child." Dumbledore turned his head and looked at him with concern.

"What do you see in the mirror?"

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Just like you, we are family members, very important family members."

Yes, in this world, most of the time, family is the deepest softness in your heart.

"Thank you, Professor."

Watching the students leave, Dumbledore's expression gradually became calmer and a little lonely. His figure was particularly lonely in this empty classroom, alone...

I don’t know why, but Dumbledore didn’t deceive that student. Even though he was not a Gryffindor student, Dumbledore rarely cared about him. Maybe, sometimes, he understood that he was a partial professor, at least. Among the four houses, he prefers Gryffindor students.

Only today, for some reason, he didn't lie to that student.

Maybe it’s because we can still see Tom Riddle in Hogwarts...

"If I had done something more to Riddle and been more tolerant, he wouldn't be what he is today."

Dumbledore had many regrets in his heart.

He was prejudiced against Slytherin students. This prejudice made him watch Tom Riddle become Voldemort. It was also this guilt that made him finally give in to another Slytherin student. got a real answer.

Give yourself a chance, what if those students will really change?

He never felt that he had misjudged Tom. He was very aware of the darkness deep in his heart, so he always treated him with such vigilance. However, a long time ago, he saw that hidden secret in another Slytherin student. Deep darkness and desire, but the student died in the end.

Gust Brown.

That was the student who made Dumbledore's doubts become a joke. He had doubted Godric, he was wary of Godric, and he was afraid of Godric. But in the end, Godric proved that he was different from Voldemort. of.

There was still love in his heart. Although he chose death and sacrifice with that love, this love also caused another student that Dumbledore was very optimistic about to fall into darkness. But in the end, he was really not the same as Voldemort. , embarking on the path of destruction.

From then on, Dumbledore began to question his own views. He felt that he had misjudged the nature of the student. Could it be that he did not handle it well when he faced Tom Riddle?

This was also Lily's reminder to him.

Lily once approached Dumbledore about the Brown brothers, and they talked a lot. In the end, Dumbledore did not do anything to Salazar, even if he knew what cruel things Salazar had done.

Perhaps because of his old age, Dumbledore even felt sorry for his enemies.

He pitied Tom, the boy whose end was almost doomed.

Life is really full of cruelty.