During the Christmas holidays, Harry and Ron were so happy that they forgot all about Nicolame, so that Maple didn't feel guilty about delaying telling them the news about Nicolame.

Harry and Ron gathered around the fire, using the common room as a barbecue stand, and cooked all the bread, bread, bread, and mushrooms. It's a pity that I don't know how to put oil, cumin, and chili.

Then Harry and Ron played wizarding chess together, no, it should be Ron who unilaterally abused Harry, and these moving and talking chess pieces kept accusing Harry and knocking his head into a daze, which made Harry's interest in wizarding chess instantly drop to a freezing point. After having gone down with Ron the day before, Harry stopped touching them the next day.

"Merry Christmas!" The next day, both Harry and Ron received Christmas presents, and both happily opened them to look at them.

Harry received Hagrid's flute, fifty pence from his aunt and uncle, and a sweater from Ron's mother. Ron also received a sweater, but the color of the dress was dark fuchsia that he didn't like very much, and Harry's was bright green, which made Ron can't help but be jealous and hateful.

Next up is -

"Maple's! When he opened the gift, Harry was stunned on the spot, and although he had lost his parents since he was a child, Harry still recognized them as his own parents at a glance. The family portrait of his parents and now grown up self together, for a moment, Harry felt warm in his heart.

"Ah, Maple gave me a gift too, oh my!" Seeing the note that Maple gave him to Ollivander, Ron was also as moved as Harry.

"By the way, Harry," Ron suddenly turned to look at Harry and asked, "Did you have a gift for Maple?" ”

"No, what about you?" Harry was a little embarrassed, and Maple had carefully prepared a gift for him, but he didn't have anything, and he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

"Me too, I even forgot to ask my mom to knit him a sweater, he seems to be an orphan too!" For a moment, both of them were a little silent.

Harry's gift had one last pack left, and Harry picked it up and touched it, it was lightweight.

After opening the gift, something like a liquid, silver-gray slid down to the floor, clumping together in a heap and shining.

"I've heard of this thing." Ron gasped and said in a low voice, tossing aside the box of weird beans Hermione had given him. "If I'm right, this thing is very rare and precious."

"Cloak of invisibility! You wear it and try it out. ”

Harry put on the cloak of invisibility, and then only one head remained, and his body disappeared completely, even in the mirror, his shadow disappeared.

"There's a note!" Ron suddenly said, "A note has fallen out of it!"

Harry took off his invisibility cloak and saw on an unsigned note—

Your father left this thing for me before he died. It should be returned to you now. Use it well. I sincerely wish you a Merry Christmas.

Harry stared at the note, and Ron marveled at the Cloak of Invisibility. "If I can get something like this, I don't want anything!"

Yes, even if you add up all the possessions of Malfoy's family, they are not as precious as Harry's. This is the invisibility cloak of the third brother of the Grim Reaper inherited from Peverell, and the money you earn from working for ten lifetimes can't buy this thing.

And Snape, after receiving the gift from Maple, was stunned at once. His empty eyes, which seemed to have no trace of emotion, immediately made violent waves, and with tears in his eyes, Snape read the information on cloning technology given by Maple over and over again. I stayed in the office alone for a day, and I didn't even attend the Christmas party.

Hogwarts never seemed to be short of food, and even at the Christmas banquet of the few people, there were a hundred fat roasted turkeys, mountains of roasted meat and boiled potatoes, large plates of delicious sausages, bowls of buttered peas, and plates of thick and thick meat marinade and lingonberry sauce.

Harry then played with the wizard's colored packets, which, with the bonus of magical power, made the sound of bombs exploding, but only emitted colored smoke without hurting anyone.

And there were still living creatures in it, and Harry got a few guinea pigs, but these mice didn't know if they were the result of Transfiguration or real mice.

After the Christmas party, I spent the afternoon playing with the Weasley brothers.

"Hang the Admiralty upside down!"

"Armor protection!" Taking advantage of this holiday, the Weasley brothers wanted to break the ban and have a good time, but Harry was on guard and learned Maple's Iron Armor Charm, which couldn't help but disappoint the Weasley brothers. I can only have a snowball fight.

Harry tried his new piece from the Wizard Firecracker, but still lost badly to Ron. It seemed that he would not be able to find a game for the rest of his life, and Harry completely gave up his plan to play wizard chess in front of Ron.

The cloak of invisibility was undoubtedly a great temptation for young wizards who were new to magic, and Harry couldn't sleep at night, but finally couldn't help but wear it and wander out of Gryffindor to the campus.

No one could see him, and he could go anywhere on campus, including places that students were closed to and out of, and even the library's no-book section.

After a few days of playing crazy, it was only then that Harry remembered Nicolame, and then impulsively, no, it should be Nicolamay, wearing an invisibility cloak, went to the forbidden section of the library to find Nicolamay.

Unfortunately, the first book Harry found turned out to be a talking book. When he got his hands on it, the book let out a terrible scream of its own, which was particularly permeating in this dark night.

Harry staggered back a few steps, and the lights fell to the ground and went out. Harry immediately put the book back on the shelf and ran away.

Harry almost brushes shoulders with Filch, but Harry can't see anything in the Cloak of Invisibility. Harry slipped under Filch's outstretched arms and ran down the hallway, the screams of the book still echoing in his ears.

Harry suddenly stopped in front of a tall suit of armor, and even though he couldn't see Harry, Filch chased after him, probably following the sound.

"Professor, you said that if someone wanders around at night, they will come and report to you immediately, there is someone in the library just now, in the forbidden area."

Because of Maple, Snape was in no mood to come to the night patrol and skipped his shift. But Harry's situation was still not good, as he heard Professor McGonagall answer Filch.

Caught by her own hands or caught by Snape, Harry didn't know which would be worse.

"Forbidden book area? Then he can't go far, and we will definitely be able to catch him. ”

Listening to Professor McGonagall's tone, she seemed to think of herself as some kind of sneaking thief.

The Cloak of Invisibility could only be invisible, but it could not make Harry's entity disappear. Of course, even if Death's cloak had such a powerful power, Harry couldn't use it. Harry stepped back cautiously, trying not to make a sound, and then carefully squeezed into the door behind him.

Thankfully, he didn't get caught.

It wasn't until Professor McGonagall and Filch's footsteps had faded into the darkness that Harry began to take a look at the room where he was hiding.

Here he found the Mirror of Eris, a very imposing mirror that reached to the ceiling, with an ornate golden frame supported by two claw-shaped feet. Engraved at the top is the following line: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi. The reverse reading is "I show not your face but your heart's desire", which means "I do not show your face, but your desire."

Because of the gift he received from Maple, Harry quickly recognized his parents, and then probably his grandfather and other family members.

They all looked at him and smiled kindly. Harry slowly looked at the faces of the others in the mirror, and saw that they all had the same green eyes, the same noses, and a little old man with the same bumpy knees as Harry. Harry was looking at his family for the first time in his life.

The Potters smiled and waved at Harry. He stared at them hungrily, his hands pressed against the mirror glass, as if he wished he could pounce in and stay with them. He felt a sharp pang in his heart, half of joy, half of deep sorrow.

How long he stood there, he didn't know. The image in the mirror never disappeared, and he couldn't get enough of it, until some voice came from afar, and he came back to his senses. He can't stay here, he has to go back to sleep. Reluctantly, he looked away from his mother's face and whispered, "I'll come again." He hurried out of the room.

The next day, Harry took Ron to the mirror again, and Harry once again walked in front of the mirror and looked at his family obsessively, more real and fascinating than the porcelain statue of Maple.

Then Ron also saw the glamorous side he longed for in the mirror, becoming the student council president and captain of Quidditch. The two then boyishly fought for the right to view the Mirror of Eris. Then, just like last time, there was another sound in the hallway, as if to remind them that it was time to go back to sleep.

On the third day, Harry was in front of the mirror again. Dumbledore could only sigh helplessly and appeared in front of Harry. Professor Dumbledore, who had the same grief and was obsessed with the Mirror of Eris, could undoubtedly understand Harry's feelings, but Harry couldn't afford to indulge in it anymore.

Dumbledore kindly had a long talk with Harry, which he seemed to have wanted to do a long time ago. After sharing his experience of watching the Mirror of Eris, Dumbledore told the truth about the Mirror of Eris-

"It allows us to see only the deepest and strongest desires of our hearts. You've never seen your family, so you see them standing around you. Ron Weasley had been dwarfed by his older brothers, so he saw himself standing alone, the best of them all.

However, this mirror can neither teach us knowledge nor tell us the truth. People spend their time in front of it, obsessed with what they see, and even driven mad because they don't know if everything in the mirror is real and if it's possible. ”

"Tomorrow the mirror will be moving to a new place, Harry, and I ask you not to look for it again. If you happen to see it one day, you have to be prepared. It is useless to indulge in illusory dreams and forget about real life, so remember it. All right; Why don't you put on that wonderful cloak of invisibility and go back to sleep?"