Chapter 298: Mirror

A corner of the corridor.

Here was a polished suit of armor, and on the armor was a black cat like ink.

The black cat leaped, transformed into a young wizard, and silently left the corridor.

The knight's pony was more convinced of the knight's way than he was. When he was not completely sincere, or rather, not completely showing the knightly spirit—Xiang Xien guessed that he couldn't ride the pony.

So he came to see, but didn't expect the knight to trick the prefect.

In the Hope Cottage.

Xiang Xien lit a magic candle for his seat.

For two days in a row, he had been reading and organizing these notes.

It must be said that although these notes were fragmented, and sometimes skewed very strangely—for example, studying whether the water of the Water-Making spell in ancient magic runes could be drunk...

But compared to Professor Tela's notes, they had more advanced Runic parts.

In Professor Tela's notes, perhaps for fear of Xiang Xien doing some overly dangerous experiments, these notes didn't mention much about advanced Runic.

Just like Columbus discovering the New World, Xiang Xien found those most important magic runes in other notes.

In fact, they were just cases of wizards failing, but their failures were not meaningless; at least Xiang Xien knew some useful ancient magic runes. For example, in the old Futhark Runic poems, g represents gift, positive, miracle; o represents holding, obtaining things beyond consciousness and experience.

These runes would be very helpful in a wizard's transformation into a magical creature.

Also relying on these notes, Xiang Xien had some ideas about magic runes and materials.

When Professor Tela returned, Xiang Xien could start preparing to test the Kneazle biscuits.

The evening of the third day of the Christmas break.

Harry and Luo En suddenly ran into the Hope Cottage in a hurry.

"Xiang Xien, you have to come and see with us!"

He was very serious.

Night.

The castle fell into a deep sleep. Whispers came from not far from the fourth-floor corridor.

"Are you going to put it on, Xiang Xien?"

A mass of air spoke; it was actually Harry inside the Invisibility Cloak, and the shivering Luo En.

Xiang Xien shook his head and cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself.

【You practiced the Disillusionment Charm once at the proficient standard, proficiency +10】

He would not miss any opportunity to practice spells.

"You are..."

Harry widened his eyes.

"I seem to have read somewhere, is this a Disillusionment Charm?!"

Luo En exclaimed. Then he covered his mouth.

So the three started their action.

Xiang Xien originally had no intention of coming, but he suddenly remembered, what if he could see some books he had ignored but longed for in his heart in the mirror?

Memory sometimes lies, and it wouldn't take long to come here.

December always brought more snow, sometimes with biting cold winds; in the corridor, Luo En was already shivering.

"I'm frozen,"

It was Luo En speaking,

"Let's not look for it, let's go back."

"No!"

Harry said in a hoarse voice,

"I know it's somewhere nearby."

The three brushed past a tall wizard ghost wandering from the opposite side, but didn't see anyone else.

Just when Luo En started humming that his feet were about to freeze, Harry saw the suit of armor.

"It's here—it's here—that's right!"

They pushed open the door. Harry took off the Invisibility Cloak from his shoulder and flew to the front of the mirror.

He saw—they were still there. His mother and father were overjoyed the moment they saw him.

Luo En was also stunned. When Harry turned sideways, he saw himself wearing the kind of prefect badge Bill used to wear—holding the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup in his hand—was he actually the captain of the Quidditch team?!

Xiang Xien silently revealed his figure. He scanned the room; it looked like an abandoned classroom.

Many tables and chairs were piled up against the wall, presenting large dark shadows, and there was also an overturned wastebasket—but, on the wall directly opposite, there was something that didn't seem to belong here, as if someone had temporarily placed it here because there was no place to put it.

It was a very grand mirror, reaching the ceiling, with a gorgeous golden frame, supported by two claw-shaped feet at the bottom. A line of words was engraved on the top: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.

Xiang Xien knew that reading it backward meant: The Mirror of Erised allows people to see their deepest, most intense desires.

So what would he see?

Xiang Xien was a little curious.

At this time, Harry and Luo En were still arguing:

"You already watched it alone all night yesterday, let me have some time." ===== CHAPTER 299 =====