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The screen went black before showing the castle with snowflakes falling to the ground. Then it showed them the Great Hall, where just a few students were sitting. Between these students were Ron, Harry and Nora.

Harry and Ron were busy playing a game of chess and Nora was reading her copy of Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them from Newt Scamander. The copy she had bought back in Diagon Alley.

"This looks so peaceful." Caroline said. The kids were just sitting around, nowhere in danger for the moment.

Hermione walked towards them with her suitcase, just at the moment Ron said. "Queen to E5."

One of Ron's pieces moved forwards and destroyed one of Harry's. Ron just smiled in victory, knowing he was gonna win.

"Never mind that, Care. What kind of game is that?" Elena asked.

"Chess, obviously." Rebekah said. It was not that hard, now was it?

"I don't care." Kol said. "I want one."

"Kol, no." Finn and Elijah said at the same time.

"That's totally barbaric!" Hermione said to him.

"Good thing it ain't real then." Nora joked, making Hermione immediately nod.

Nora was happy that it wasn't real though. Imagine you're on the board playing that?

"That's wizard's chess." Ron spoke before eyeing Hermione's suitcase. "I see you've packed."

"I see you haven't."

"Change of plans. My parents decided to go to Romania to visit my brother, Charlie. he's studying dragons there." Ron bragged.

"Good. You can help Nora and Harry, then. They're going to go and look in the library for information on Nicholas Flamel."

"We've looked a hundred times!" Ron commented and turned to Harry who nodded at him.

Hermione leaned closer. "Not in the restricted section. Happy Christmas." Hermione started to walk away

"That's the spirit, Mione! Happy Christmas, love you!" Nora yelled after her.

Hermione yelled 'I love you too' back over her shoulder before walking out of the great hall.

"Cute." Rebekah said, wishing she had a friendship like this.

"Right?" Lily said, agreeing with the Original.

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"Harry, Nora, wake up!" Come on, wake up!" That was the first thing on the morning of Christmas. Both running downstairs immediately in their pajamas. Nora has Belle in her hands setting her down on the ground of the common room, before going over to the presents.

"Christmas!" Jeremy yelled out. He had always loved it before his parents died.

"Oh my God. How cool would it be to spend Christmas in a freaking magic school?" Bonnie asked, more to herself than anyone else.

"Happy Christmas Ron." Nora said, hugging him before sitting down on the couch, still being tired.

The two boys wished each other Happy Christmas and then Harry's eyes fell on Ron's sweater. A maroon one.

Ron looked down embarrassed. "Oh, my mum made it."

"Wish I had a mom." Nora whispered under her breath, barely heard by Harry, who shook his head in agreement.

"Looks like you two got one too." Ron spoke again.

"We've got presents?" Nora's head peaked up from above the couch.

Lily started sadly at the screen with tears in her eyes, leaning on James's shoulder, whispering something that really sounded like 'hate - sister - Vernon." Her son and niece ended up in the worst place. Hell on earth.

"I will give her so many gift she will not even know which one to open first." Elijah started. "When I meet her, ofcourse." He did hope that was rather sooner than later.

"When will that be?" Finn asked.

"Sorry Finn, we can't answer that just yet." James said, smiling apologetic at the family.

"Yeah. Multiple ones even."

Nora went over to a staple on the left of the three while Harry ran down to his. First they both opened they're presents from Mrs. Weasley. Harry's sweater was blue with a H knitted on it. While Nora's was more a cherry red one with an N on it. With the sweaters there were also a few self beaked treacle tarts.

Ron had given her some sweets just like the twins.

Lee had given her a moving picture of himself, her and Fred and George.

Hermione has given her a muggle book Wuthering Heights.

Hagird had send all three of them cakes, just like Mrs. Weasley, only Mrs. Weasley her cakes looked better and more eatable.

"At least he tried." Nora said, feeling very happy that the giant had thought of them.

Then she opened another present.

'As a baby you always loved it when people read to you, especially your parents. And this was one of the presents I gave to you on your first birthday.

Merry Christmas Nora.'

She smiled at the mention of her parents. Not knowing from who the present was she opened it nonetheless. She did find it creepy but it was a gift she was willing to except. Everything was better than another pair of those old socks the Dursely's got for them.

She saw a little box of chocolates and a book, a muggle one. She then picked up the little stuffed animal, which was a mini wolf, a cub to be precise.

Harry had also received a gift from this mysterious person and had placed his chocolates down with the book Pride and Prejudice which apparently his mom always loved.

"I did."

Harry picked up his last present on his pile, which was addressed to both him and his sister. Nora also had one note left. Just as she was about to read it, she heard Harry talk.

"Your father, James, left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned to you and Nora. "Use it well."

He unwrapped it and a cloak came into sight.

"What is it?" Ron asked and Nora rolled her eyes at him. How did he not see that that was a cloak?

"For real." Kol said, rolling his eyes also.

"Some sort of cloak."

"Well, let's see, then. "Put it on."

As Harry pulled it over his shoulders, the rest of his body, except for his head, started to disappear.

"AAAHH what the hell?" Screams came from all over the room.

"WHERE IS HIS BODY?" Stefan asked. If he saw this on the streets he would be running. Well, technically vamping.

"They better got that." James said, smiling at the many happy memories he and his friends had lived because of the cloak.

"What?" Lily raised her eyebrows at him. She didn't want the kids to go exploring something they shouldn't be near.

"Wow!" Ron and Nora said together, both looking funny at the other one, while Harry looked down. "My body's gone!"

"I know what that is. That's an invisibility cloak!"

"I'm invisible?" Harry asked.

"No, Harry, your body is totally still very visible." Nora answered sarcastically before picking up the note. But she said something first. "They're really rare. I wonder who gave it to you."

"There was no name, it just said, 'use it well.' And Nora," Nora's head snapped towards Harry's. "it was returned to both of us."

"AWESOME!"

"Look at how happy she is." Elijah said to Finn, who nodded in return.

He just hoped she would still be this happy when they meet.

But would she be as happy?

...

Nora shrugged before finally reading the little paper in her hand.

Merry Christmas, Nora!

Another creepy present.

Percy came downstairs, looking grumpy. Nora slapped Ron's head with her new book she had gotten. "You woke him up."

Percy smiled weakly at her. Nobody knew why but Percy had a weak spot for Nora. One time he had seen the twins walking in the hall after pulling a prank, but then he had noticed Nora, between the two, he decided to not tell the teacher. Ron looked at her like a second sister, and Nora reminded him a bit of Ginny.

"If he likes you enough not to tell on you, your some sort of god." James said. Fifth year was not gonna be Percy Weasley's best year if Nora had something to say about it.

"It's fine, Nora." He turned to Ron.

They had spent all day in the snow with the twins, even throwing snowballs at the back of Quirrell's head. But when the night came, Nora couldn't sleep, so she picked up her book and walked down to the common room.

One step towards the couch she heard footsteps from the boys staircase and Harry appeared. Both standing still and just staring at the other one for two minutes.

(Nora and Harry be like: 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️)

"What are you doing here?" Both asked at the same time but Nora started faster.

Nora smirked. "Technically if I heard correctly, which I did, I started speaking earlier so you have to answer first."

Harry sighed. "I was going to the restricted section. You?"

"No, don't do that." Lily said, even though she already knew.

Nora looked confused. "Why isn't Ron with you? Or better question, why didn't you ask me to come with you?" She asked, offended.

"I couldn't wake up Ron. He was too deep in sleep. And I can't go to the girls' dormitories, remember?"

"But why at night?"

"Less chance of getting caught."

"The castle is almost empty, right?" Klaus asked.

The couple nodded.

"Then why do this at night?" Caroline asked and Bonnie jumped in.

"They could easily go in the middle of the day. Nobody would see them."

"Okay, we're going." Nora said, taking Harry's invisibility cloak from him and wrapping it around them. Harry's head was still visible, because Nora was smaller than him, a lot.

"I don't like this." Elijah said, he would rather not have his daughter in trouble or worse in danger.

"Why were you out of bed?" Harry asked, while they were walking through the library.

"Couldn't sleep." Nora

Only Harry's hand was visible because it was holding a light. When they stopped in front of the restricted section Nora unlocked the door and they quickly passed shelfs to the F-section.

"Famous Fire-Eaters. Fifteenth-Century Friends. Flamel. Nicholas Flamel, where are you?" Nora muttered reading the titles of the books, not once seeing even the letter combination FL. Harry took the cloak off them and placed it down, next to their lamp on the little table.

Harry picked a book from the shelf and opened it just to see a giant face, screaming, trying to come out of it. He quickly placed it back after closing it, which had been rather difficult.

"Even the books, really?" Damon asked. "Is anything in this place normal?"

"This is normal." Lily and James answered.

"Who's there?" The voice of Filch could be heard all over the library, because it was empty. Nora took the cloak, in process, making the lamp fall to the ground with a loud thud.

"Get out of there!" Kol and Rebekah screamed.

"I know you're in there. You can't hide." Harry wrapped the cloak around them. "Who is it? Show yourself."

As Filch passed them, they ran as fast as they could out of the library. Mrs. Norris followed them. "I'm gonna kick the cat."

"No, you're not, Har-!" Nora cut herself off when they saw Snape pushing Quirrell against the wall. Ew. She thought it would be something completely different.

"Severus, I-I-" Quirrell stutterted.

"You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrell." Snape said, his voice full with venom.

"I don't know what you mean." Quirrell said as the twins went in a bow around them.

"You know perfectly well what I mean."

Nora guessed that Snape had heard one of their loud breathing, because he stretched his arm out towards them, hoping to catch them but instead caught air.

Snape turned back to Quirrell. "We'll have another little chat soon. When you've had time to decide where your loyalties lie."

Flinch came walking towards with the Potter's broken lamp. "Professors, I found this in the restricted section. It's still hot. That means there's a student out of bed."

All three of them ran towards the direction Harry and Nora had just come from and the twins opened the door in front of them.

"That was weird." Elena said.

"No, that was suspicious." Rebekah said.

As they closed it, Nora saw a gigantic mirror in front of her, leaving Harry under the cloak she went out of and walked towards the mirror. "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi" She read while Harry made his way over.

Nora made her way around the mirror seeing if there was anything else.

"Mom?" Harry asked, seeing a red headed woman standing behind him in the mirror.

"Nora. Harry, your sister." Nora answered confused.

"She looks so confused right now." Damon said.

"Your everyday look." Kol spat back.

Lily smiled at him.

"No Nora, I see my parents! Dad?" He asked while eyeing James, who also smiled, widely at him.

"Wait, I wanna see your parents." Nora said, excitedly, standing next to him, only to see the two of them. "Harry, I don't see anything." She said.

"Maybe you need to stand in front of it alone?" Harry suggested and took a step to his right.

And she did, as soon as he didn't stand in front of the mirror more people started to appear. "Hey, I see them." She spoke, enthousastly, but her smile disappeared when more and more people came. "Did you only see your parents, Harry?"

He nodded. "Why?"

But Nora was too busy staring at the mirror. She saw many people, most of whom she didn't even know. Nora only recognizes her mom, who was smiling at her softly, and her aunt Lily and uncle James.

On both sides of her mom were standing two men. Two men she looked a lot like. "Dad?" She asked, not knowing were to look. Both men nodded proudly at her, which confused her but she kept looking around. Her hair turned purple.

"She knows?" Elijah asked, not knowing what to really think about that. He would've preferred to tell her himself so that she knows the truth.

"In a way. But not all of it."

On the left of one of the men who had just nodded was a blonde woman, with a beautiful smile. Behind them were three different men. Next to another nodded man, there was a man standing with a straight face, but he looked a lot like the man with long curls.

Behind them were Harry's parents and behind them were three other women she didn't recognize. "Who are all these people? I only know my mom and aunt Lily and uncle James. We've gotta tell Ron."

Harry agreed, both running towards the Gryffindor tower. "Ron, you've gotta see this! Ron, you've gotta see this." They both half yelled at him, taking the covers of him.

"Ron, come on, get out of bed!" Nora spoke.

"Why?"

"There's something you've got to see! Now come on!" Harry said, shaking Ron. The three quickly ran back to the room where Harry and Nora had found the mirror, under the invisibility cloak, of course.

"Come on! Come look! It's our parents!" Nora and Harry said happily. They stood in front of the mirror. Ron looked at the two confused. "I only see us."

"Look in properly. Go on, stand there." Harry said, moving Ron a bit to the left, so he was standing in the middle of the mirror. Nora herself also stepped back.

Ron's eyes got big. "There. You see them, don't you?" Harry asked, pointing at the place in the mirror where his dad had stood earlier.

"That's me! Only I'm head boy. And I'm holding the Quidditch Cup. And bloody hell! I'm Quidditch captain too! I look good."

He turned to Harry. "Harry, do you think this mirror shows the future?"

"How can it?" He asked, sadly.

"Both our parents are dead." Nora finished, looking down, hair dark grey. She had been so excited to see her mother and possible other family members too.

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"Do you like yours, Ron?" George asked, but Ron kept changing glaces at Nora and Harry who were sitting a few metres from them, looking at the fire.

"Ron?" Fred asked, but then looked to where his younger brother was looking. "What's wrong with Nora and Harry?" Fred asked, worriedly.

"I'll be right back." Ron spoke, laying his fork down and making his way over to the two.

"Wanna play chess?"

"No." Harry spoke softly.

"Wanna go and visit Hagrid?" Ron tried but Nora just shook her head.

"Harry, Nora, I know what you're thinking, but don't. There's something not right about that mirror."

They nodded their heads and Ron walked away as the two looked at each other and directly knew what the other one was thinking.

Later that night the two met up in the common room, after Ron had fallen asleep, sneaking out for the mirror.

As they were sitting in front of it, both saw different things. Harry only saw his parents, while Nora saw the whole lot.

"Back again, Harry, Nora?" Dumbledore asked, making the two stand up immediately. "I see that you two, like so many before you, have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised. I trust by now you realize what it does."

"I do not trust that man." Elijah declared.

"Me neither brother." Klaus agreed.

He walked closer to them. "Let me give you a clue. The happiest man on earth would look into the mirror and only see himself exactly as he is."

"So then, it shows us what we want. Whatever we want." Nora said.

"Yes." Dumbledore answered. "And no." The twins looked confused at him.

"It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest and most desperate desires of our hearts. Now you, Harry and Nora, who have never known your family, you see them standing beside you. But remember this. This mirror gives us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away in front of it. Even gone mad."

The two looked back at the mirror. "That is why tomorrow it will be moved to a new home." Their heads snapped back to the headmaster.

"And I must ask you not to go looking for it again. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Promise me you will not go looking for it again."

Harry nodded, immediately, even though he felt sad, he probably never would see his parents so real standing with him, again. But Nora looked everywhere except for Dumbledore.

"Nora." Dumbledore spoke.

She looked at Harry, who nodded softly at her.

"Fine, I won't go looking for it." Dumbledore raised his eyebrow at her.

"I gave you my word, professor." She said, quietly.

Three things she would never do. Number One was never, ever, but she means like ever, leave Harry behind. Number Two was never ever leave Ron and Hermione behind. And Number Three was never break your word. She didn't know why it was so important to her, but it just mattered to her. If one of these rules got broken, she would never forgive herself.

Oh she did have a fourth rule. Never ever lose a Quidditch game.

"That's the spirit." James cheered, happily.

"Indeed!" Kol cheered with James.

Rebekah had the feeling these two would be besties soon enough.

Lily gave a tired look to the blonde, who returned it.

Maybe she could be friends with the redheaded spirit?

Elijah, Klaus and Finn were all speaking quietly about not liking and definitely not trusting Dumbledore.

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It feels weird to write a Christmas chapter in the middle of February. Idk why?

Question: do you all prefer the movies or the books?

Me: the books

Words: 3179

Posted: February 14, 2024

Be sure to comment. I love reading them and it keeps me motivated!

x Kat