Chapter 32: Forgetfulness and the Magic Mirror

Over in Gryffindor, Harry received an invisibility cloak from an anonymous person and excitedly walked around wearing it.

After playing snowball fight, Aiden came to the auditorium to have lunch.

When Harry saw Aiden, he wanted to scare him, so he slowed down his pace and covered his mouth and nose with his hands to lower the sound of his breathing.

Just as Harry was about to get closer to Aiden, Aiden suddenly turned back and pulled off his invisibility cloak.

"Heh~" Aiden let out a strange cry.

"Ah." Harry screamed in fright.

"How did you discover me?"

"Kid, the invisibility cloak can isolate your body, but you don't think that a wizard will feel nothing after being stared at by others, right?" Aiden said helplessly.

"Who said that? Ron didn't have any feelings." Harry was a little unconvinced.

"My dear, although it's not nice to say this about Ronnie, you need to enrich yourself with knowledge instead of using Ronnie to lower your bottom line."

“Harry, you are different from Ronnie, you are an opponent marked by Voldemort himself, while Ronnie is just a butterfly caught in the spider web of fate.

If things get really out of control one day, we can send Ronnie away, but you can't."

Aiden let out a long sigh.

"I'm sorry to talk to you about such a heavy topic on Christmas."

"It's okay, don't feel sorry." Harry also left as if he had realized something.

'Wait, I still have the invisibility cloak.' Aiden was about to call Harry, but then he changed his mind and decided to study it.

Aiden immediately rushed to the Request Room.

Here, Aiden used the perception spell to carefully scan the invisibility cloak.

"It's nothing special, but if you look at it from the perspective of an alchemical item, it doesn't even have runes." Aiden was amazed.

"Ding, go to the ocean of collective subconsciousness and take another look."

After listening to the system's words, Aiden put on the invisibility cloak and used suggestion to come to the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness, the zero layer of the deep world, and the hazy fantasy world.

The illusion created by the Room of Requirement turned pure white, and a huge rune wrapped around Aiden.

"This is the Deathly Hallows." Aiden murmured.

After Aiden recorded the rune, he returned to the real world.

"System, you knew this a long time ago, right?" Aiden asked.

"Ding, I saw it when Harry Potter used it. Algiz (?): This rune represents protection and defense. It can be seen as the spatial boundary of an individual or territory, protecting the inside from outside invasion."

"So being invisible in the physical world is not the most valuable function of this alchemical creation. Its function is to prevent attacks from the spiritual level."

"Ding, yes."

"That's very interesting." Aiden was interested.

After coming out of the Room of Requirement, Aiden found Harry and returned the Invisibility Cloak to him.

"Oh, I was just about to look for you, Aiden, but I didn't expect you to send it back first, and I just happened to need it." Harry said.

'It seems he is going to visit the restricted area at night.' Aiden thought to himself and handed the invisibility cloak to Harry.

"Then you should do your best." Aiden waved his hand and turned to leave.

At night, in the restricted area, Harry came to the restricted area wearing an invisibility cloak and carrying a small lamp. He pulled the door lever casually and the door of the restricted area opened.

"That's it. You've banned the book. With this level of defense, it will be like playing when you go out at night to read the banned book." Aiden, who followed behind with the Disillusionment Charm, was speechless.

"Famous Fire-Eaters. Fifteenth-Century Demons." Harry checked the title.

After searching for a while, he did not find any books related to Nicolas Flamel, so he randomly took out one and started reading.

The magic in the book was activated, and a human face seemed to rush out of the book. Aiden went forward to help Harry close the book.

“Imprison it quickly” “Silently” As the spell was cast, the book stopped shaking, and magic power formed a protective circle around the two people, isolating the transmission of sound.

"Aiden, why are you here?" Harry asked in surprise.

"To prevent someone from offering themselves to books as food." Aiden complained.

Fortunately, Aiden acted in time and did not alarm Filch.

"I want to find Nicolas Flamel, but I have looked through many books and found nothing." Harry said dejectedly.

Aiden smiled and handed Harry a Chocolate Frog card.

"It's Dumbledore. I already have this." Harry was a little surprised.

"Read the introduction above."

"...the defeat of the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in 1945, and his work with Nicolas Flamel on alchemy..."

! Harry reacted.

"It is Nicolas Flamel."

"You need to look up the name in magical history instead of wandering around without any clue," Aiden said.

Harry followed Aiden out of the restricted area, and the two of them walked down the corridor wearing invisibility cloaks.

Snape pressed Quirrell against the wall and seemed to be saying something.

Harry still didn't learn his lesson and was about to lean over to listen, but Aiden grabbed Harry, covered his eyes, and closed his own eyes, and the two of them leaned against the wall on the other side.

After a while, Snape ended his threat to Quirrell, and the two men left in opposite directions.

Snape's threat was heard by the two professors, and the two professors did not notice the crowd of onlookers in the corner.

"See, I told you Snape wasn't a good guy," Harry said to Aiden.

“First of all, you forgot again that you should not stare at powerful wizards, or you will be discovered.

Secondly, what we hear and see is sometimes not necessarily true.”

Aiden didn't know how to explain to Harry, so he could only be vague. He couldn't tell him that Snape had a crush on his mother and would never hurt him.

Looking at Harry who was distracted, it was obvious that he didn't listen to what he said.

On the way back, they passed by a mirror, and Harry was suddenly attracted by it. Harry walked forward and stared into the mirror, but saw his parents.

"Mom... Dad..." Harry couldn't help but stretch out his hand, wanting to touch the image in the mirror.

"I show you not your face but your desire." Aiden read out the sentence.

Then he said to Harry: "This is the Mirror of Erised. It can reflect a person's inner heart."

"But aren't those my parents? Look." Harry eagerly pulled Aiden to the mirror.

Aiden felt some force trying to break through his mental defenses, but unfortunately it failed.

He looked into the mirror, but there was nothing in it, not even Aiden himself was reflected.

"Wow, Aiden, you can't see yourself in the mirror. Are you the legendary vampire?" Harry looked a little surprised.

"Read less Muggle storybooks that trick children. If you really want to learn about vampires, the library has the corresponding Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks." Aiden complained.

'Old Deng, you have no moral principles and actually want to peek into my heart,' Aiden thought to himself.

"However, this is an interesting magic prop. Harry, take your time to look at it. I'm leaving first."

After saying that, Aiden turned and left the room.