hall.
"You should wake me up, I want to see your parents."
Ron complained angrily, annoyed that Harry had discovered that the magic mirror didn't call him by himself yesterday.
Harry said: "You can go tonight, but I will go again. I want you to see that mirror."
The two people were discussing things about the magic mirror eagerly, and they almost forgot about Nico Flamel.
John put turkey on toast and made a sandwich.
Just as he was about to put it in his mouth, Harry said, "John is here too, but I didn't see his family."
John put down the sandwich and said somewhat seriously: "Harry, that mirror should not be able to see your family, but should reflect what you desire in your heart. You shouldn't be too obsessed with it."
Ron asked curiously: "John, what did you see?"
"I?"
Recalling the scene he saw yesterday, John smacked his mouth and said, "I saw a table of food."
"Well……
Ron and Harry were a little speechless. They thought John would see other things. He loves learning so much, shouldn't he see books.
However, Harry didn't take John's words to heart, but wanted to go more and more.
He is so in need of love.
The strongest magic built with maternal love cannot make up for the shortcomings in his heart. He wants his parents to be by his side more than a savior.
John didn't care whether Harry heard it or not, he had already warned him anyway.
With Dumbledore here, not even Voldemort can harm Harry and the others.
John, who was not worried, thought of Nico Flamel after finishing his meal, took out the chocolate frog wizard card from his pocket and handed it to Harry.
"This is?"
Harry was a little confused by his actions.
John smiled mysteriously, "All the answers may not be as profound as you think. You have to learn to observe the things around you."
The murmuring words confused the two of them, but Harry still accepted the card.
Harry, who was focused on the Mirror of Erised, changed his hands and stuffed the card into his pocket. It would probably take some time before he remembered it.
None of this had anything to do with John, who had already gone to the library.
Under Ms. Pince's gaze, he piled books on alchemy on the table.
The diligent appearance made Professor McGonagall who was passing by feel happy. The only drawback was that this was not a Gryffindor student.
After two hours with the blessing of the top student, John barely managed to pile up the alchemy theory.
The academic master's time passed, and he put down the pile of books and rubbed his sore eyes.
"It's still too difficult to rely on these theories."
In front of him were "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Runes" and "A Simple Alchemy".
These are the most basic things, and they can make people’s heads spin.
But thanks to this, John can start practicing alchemy.
According to the records in "The Science of Fairy Casting", magic text plus alchemy equals fairy casting.
Although the formula is simple, it requires thousands of trials to succeed.
Heading to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor, John changed places this time.
"I need a place where I can refine things."
After walking back and forth in front of the huge tapestry three times, a wooden door appeared on the blank wall.
Open the door and go in. Inside is a place with many cauldrons.
There are also many empty bottles on the shelves on the wall, some with materials for magical creatures.
John moved his fingers, it seemed that he needed to add some information.
Just like refining wands, magical creatures are valuable in the hands of wizards.
With John's family's financial resources, he couldn't afford it, but there was a big materials dealer around him who could just borrow it.
...
the next day.
"Here you go, John what do you want a Blast-Ended Skrewt butt for?"
In Hagrid's hut, as a gamekeeper, Hagrid dealt with magical creatures every day, and the materials he had saved over the years were priceless.
But Hagrid didn't seem to realize this, sitting on a mountain of treasure without even realizing it.
John is one of the few students who has a good relationship with Hagrid, and he also has a friendship with him when he broke into Aragog's lair.
After hearing that John wanted materials, he immediately collected a lot of them.
Taking the material, John almost fell down.
Despite how easy it was for Hagrid to hold it, the pile of things was actually very heavy.
The Blast-tailed Skrewt is a magical creature bred at Hogwarts, possibly a cross between a manticore and a fire crab.
In other words, Hagrid could take out a basketful of buttocks at one time, and John was going to use them as materials for his first alchemy.
"I'm studying alchemy Hagrid, after all who can know these things better than you."
Hagrid was very happy to hear this, and John declined his offer of rock biscuits.
Holding baskets of snail butts, John trudged back to the Room of Requirement to start his own refining.
For this reason, he could be said to have forgotten all about food and sleep, and even missed dinner.
When John came out of the Room of Requirement, there was some black ash on his nose.
Just as he was about to return, he passed the fifth floor.
Stopping, John saw that the door where the mirror was placed was ajar.
He knew it was Harry in there.
"He's still obsessed." With a sigh, John changed his mind about going back to the dormitory and headed towards the room on the left.
As he approached the door, John heard voices talking inside.
Could it be Ron? Yesterday Harry showed Ron a mirror.
Casting a disillusionment spell on himself, John seemed to disappear in the darkness.
An old but gentle voice came from inside.
"You, like hundreds of others before you, have discovered the joys of the Mirror of Erised."
"I didn't know it was called that, sir."
"But I assume you know its magic by now?"
"It...it made me see my family."
...
Harry talked with Dumbledore who appeared here, and Harry learned that this mirror was just like what John said, and could show what he desired.
Dumbledore used this to teach Harry, and at the same time told Harry that the mirror would be moved to another place.
Harry was a little reluctant, but he still obeyed and put on the invisibility cloak and went back to sleep.
"Professor Dumbledore, what do you see when you look in the mirror?"
Before leaving, Harry was a little curious about what Dumbledore saw in the Mirror of Erised. Dumbledore smiled mysteriously and said playfully: "I saw myself holding a pair of thick woolen socks."
“You can never have enough socks.”
Regarding this answer, Harry felt that it was a bit perfunctory and not unreasonable.
After all, John also saw a table of food, and he felt that John might be as wise a person as Dumbledore.
Dumbledore, who watched Harry leave, did not leave the room, but said to the air with a kind smile: "Maybe I should also talk to you face to face, Mr. Wick."
Well, John knew he was naive in trying to hide this from the greatest wizard of the century.
Stepping out of the darkness, he terminated the Disillusionment Curse.
The figure gradually emerged, and he seemed to appear in the room out of thin air.
"Excellent Disguise Charm, it seems you learned a lot in the restricted area." Dumbledore praised.
John was a little embarrassed, and felt a little guilty after being exposed in person for violating school rules, especially when that person was the principal of Hogwarts.
Dumbledore laughed and said, "Don't worry, I don't think Professor Quirrell signed the note he gave you."
He blinked, looking naughty like an old man.
John knew that Dumbledore would not let him come out for no reason. He was about to leave, but Dumbledore stopped him.
Sure enough, Dumbledore looked at John, his kind eyes flashed with a sense of seeing through people's hearts, and asked: "Mr. Wick, what did you see in the mirror?"
John's body tensed, and he subconsciously activated Occlumency, and answered honestly: "Good food, a lot of good food... and I become stronger."
After hesitating for a while, John still chose not to hide it.
Dumbledore was very satisfied with his answer, clapped his hands and laughed: "Applause for honesty, John, you know, Minerva has been nagging in my ears these days, maybe there is something wrong with the Sorting Hat."
Under the half-moon lenses, Dumbledore's eyes were full of meaning, and his voice was as mellow as magic, "She was wrong. There is nothing wrong with the Sorting Hat. You are indeed the most suitable for Slytherin, there is no doubt about it."
"Promise me John not to touch those irreversible magics."
"I promise you Professor."
I don’t know why Dumbledore brought this up, maybe because he knew that John had read a lot of dark magic in the restricted area.
John nodded without hesitation. Although he knew that the old man would not kill the students, John was still a little afraid that he would be discovered.
"You have the self-control to defeat your desires. I believe in you John. As a reward for discovering the answer, you may have the opportunity to come into contact with the real Philosopher's Stone."
Dumbledore changed his seriousness and blinked, as if to imply something.
John was stunned, the answer?
He thought of the chocolate frog wizard card. The old man seemed to know everything.
Whether it’s the Forbidden Zone or the Chocolate Frog Wizard card.
