Chapter 16 - Level 14 [ part 2 ]. Erised and Dragons (1/2)

Harry used his cloak of invisibility and told me and Ron how he found a mirror that showed his family. Ron and I were excited but for different reasons. Ron wanted to see Harry's family, while I wanted to know what I truly dėsɨrėd.

In the evening after hours of searching, three of us, bȧrėly fitting under invisibility cloak, somehow got into the room with the mirror. Because, my descriptive skills are honestly lacking, no other words except for ”big and tall” did not come to mind, when I saw the mirror.

After we came in and Harry looked into the mirror, he tried to show us what he saw to Ron and me, but unfortunately for him, we didn't see a thing in it. Then Ron tried standing before it and saw manifestation of his true dėsɨrės. Then I understood why mirror was called ”Erised”. This word backwards is ”desirE”. Both funny and sad, knowing that whatever you see in the mirror is an unfulfilled dream.

Soon, Harry and Ron started arguing and me being lost in thoughts didn't notice how this argument started. But I didn't need to intervene, because soon our trio heard some noise from outside in the corridor.

It was that annoying cat of Filch. Mrs. Norris. Thankfully we were able to hide under cloak in time, but it scared me shitless, nonetheless. I didn't think it was that dangerous to come here.

『 Sneak 21 ➔ 22 』

Well, that is a nice bonus.

In any case, after staring for some time cat went away and we decided to go back to our dorms, before cat has called Filch. I really wanted to look into the mirror to see what my dėsɨrė was, but it will be postponed I suppose. Thanks to one of my abilities I have better memory and recall, so I mostly memorized way here from Gryffindor tower.

We reached the tower soon and those two went to sleep, while I decided to check that mirror. I had nothing to fear, because I can Save&Load anytime.

'Save progress'

〖Save ⟳〗

Then I looked in the mirror and saw myself there. Standing in the circle of fire, while lightning was screeching in my hands. Smile was on my face, while people from beyond the circle were throwing spells at me. Why smile? Because all spells were ineffective against my defense. True invincibility. Or better to be said I was wielding power so immense and unparalleled that I was invincible.

Hm, so was it, power, that I dėsɨrėd? Never thought of myself as power hungry, but I suppose that explains my unquenching dėsɨrė for knowledge.

My dėsɨrė was so simple, yet so strong. After thinking about it for some time power could make sure I will survive. Will grant me wealth and prosperity. Will help me achieve success. Power is foundation for everything. I understood it clearly now.

Personally, I always thought that understanding your dėsɨrė is the only way to achieve your happiness. Because if you know it well enough, you can either set yourself on fulfilling it or forgo impossible dėsɨrė to pick a new one. Controlling and fulfilling dėsɨrės is the way to happiness for me and I will continue walking this path.

I was in deep thought for some time. I yawned and understood that I need to go sleep. Because I was too lazy to go back myself and honestly wanted to have more time to sleep, I decided to just load latest save I made, saving myself some time. Literally.

However, it was my first-time loading a save, so I asked the system.

'How do I load to a save, system?'

[Think 'Return to' and then mentally picture the moment you want to return to or second option if you know the number of the save you can say 'Return to moment 3' for example. ]

'Can I say, ”return to last saved moment?”'

'Return to last saved moment'

For a second my vision blanked and all I saw was darkness, but in the next moment I was in my room standing, ready to go out for a mirror.

That was faster than I expected.

Anyway, it's time to sleep.

*Week later*

These past few days Potter was gloomy and deep in thought. I ȧssumed he was going every day to look into that mirror. I wanted to talk him out of this, but then decided against it. In original he somehow got his dėsɨrė under control, right? So, he can do this now as well.

And I was right. Today when we got to breakfast, I saw him there a tad bit livelier than before.

By that time students started returning for a beginning of the term. Granger returned a day before term started and sufficiently berated us for not finding who Flamel is, but I surprised all three of them.

This week, I finally find out the book that mentions him. Thank god, I had upper hand, knowing he was an alchemist, but even then, I had to go through ton of books before I was able to find one that mentions him. This dude is not old. He is freaking ancient.

”Who said we didn't? I know who he is.”