(The timeline is the day before the principal skips school)

At this time, Hogwarts had long since passed the scheduled time for its evening break, and there were only occasional glimmers of light in the dark corridors of the campus..... It was the teachers on patrol at night.

And the teacher in charge of patrolling today is none other than Alice.....

Alice was now holding snacks stacked taller than herself, looking around the hallway for something.

"By the way, that room in the Mirror of Eris! Professor McGonagall would never have imagined that I would be snacking there! ”

With that, Alice trotted to the most hidden corners of Hogwarts, and every now and then a few snacks fell on the ground and flew back on her own.

But when Alice arrived at the door of the hidden room, she found that the door was empty.....

Alice carefully placed the snack on the edge of the door, cast an invisible spell and opened the door with a cough.... If students find out that the principal is stealing snacks in the middle of the night, the majesty will be ruined!

Almost every year, curious freshmen find this room while exploring the campus, and it seems like it's time to consider changing the Magic Mirror.

However, to Alice's surprise, it was none other than Harry Potter, the most famous of this class of freshmen, sitting in front of the magic mirror....

Harry Potter was sitting cross-legged in front of the magic mirror with a happy face, even though he was only wearing a set of pajamas in the deep winter weather, and the cold did not stop Harry Potter from coming here.

"Here you go again, Potter. You, like many students in previous years, have found the Mirror of Eris a lot of fun. ”

Although Alice herself doesn't know if Harry Potter is here for the first time, it's true, well, for the majesty of the Headmaster!

"I'm sorry, Headmaster Dumbledore, I didn't mean to sneak out of the dormitory in the middle of the night.," Harry Potter stiffened in shock at the sound of Alice's voice, and then lowered his head like a child who had done something wrong.

Alice closed her eyes and shook her head, then looked at Harry Potter and said, "Potter, you shouldn't be immersed in the illusion of the Magic Mirror. During this time, Alice's gaze has been deliberately bypassing the scene in the magic mirror, as if there is something in the magic mirror that she fears the most....

"But, Headmaster Dumbledore, I see my parents in the mirror..."

Alice's mind kept chanting the names of those snacks, forcing herself not to imagine what might appear in the mirror....

At the same time, Alice stroked Harry Potter's head and whispered: "The happiest person in the world sees himself in the mirror." ”

"But Headmaster, it makes us know what we want—" Harry Potter was still trying to justify something, his eyes still on the vision in the magic mirror.

"Yes... Not right either. It illuminates the most repressed and urgent desires in our hearts. I also had a lot of time immersed in the vision of the magic mirror..."

"That's... Headmaster Dumbledore, what do you see in the mirror? ”

Harry Potter's question made Alice stunned, and her eyes still looked at the scene in the mirror....

It was an elderly couple, wrinkles crawling all over their faces, but they couldn't erase the happiness on their faces....

"It's a pair of socks."

"Socks?"

"yes, wool socks. Everyone gives me books for Christmas, but I still prefer wool socks to books, and there are never too many socks. ”

"What is there to be obsessed with socks...."

Just as Harry Potter was about to continue asking something, Alice interrupted Harry Potter's barrage of questions.

Alice crossed her waist and scolded: "The principal is not a complete collection of 100,000 whys!" It's time for this magic mirror to move somewhere else...."But Alice's gaze just couldn't help but look down at the scene in the magic mirror.....

"But the headmaster ....."

"Nothing, Potter. Now, immediately, go back and rest! Alice's tone hardened for the first time, as if to Harry as well as to herself.

And just after Harry Potter walked out of the room....

Alice fell to her knees in front of the magic mirror, tears dripping uncontrollably on the ground, her hand constantly grasping something on the mirror, leaving scratches one after another.....

"I'm sorry, Gellert, I'm sorry.... I didn't mean to...."

I'm sorry, it's like I'm saying it to the deceased person in the mirror, and it's like I'm talking about my duty as a principal....

.....

The next morning.....

"The Headmaster is missing !!"