Change the world from Hogwarts

Seeing this scene, instead of feeling any joy in Connor's heart, he felt strong uneasiness.

What's going on? Why?

With the uneasiness emerging from the bottom of his heart, Connor's eyes gradually looked towards the center of the circle.

Then, what he saw was a young man wearing a black coat.

Although he was not wearing a wizard's robe and was still an adult, Connor recognized the young man immediately as himself.

What exactly is going on?

Facing the wizards' kneeling worship, he just opened his arms, as if he was preaching something loudly.

It was supposed to be an illusion in the mirror, but Connor found that he could hear some sounds.

"The wizarding world is sick, and so are the wizards."

As for the rest, Connor could no longer hear clearly.

He was just impassioned, raising his arms and shouting, and the wizards who were originally calm started shouting like dynamite barrels detonated by sparks.

Even if Connor didn't understand anything, he could feel the almost overwhelming fanatic atmosphere.

But before he could see clearly what happened next, the scene changed again.

He saw wizards and ordinary people coexisting in harmony, various high-rise buildings and floating cities, and various vast forests.

There are horsemen galloping past in the jungle, mermaids sticking their heads out in the lakes and oceans, and giant dragons flying recklessly in the sky.

Scene after scene emerged, and finally the scene was fixed on a high platform in the sky that seemed to overlook the entire world.

The same young man, with his hands behind his back, looked down at the whole world, as if he was standing above the whole world.

Is this the future?

No, the Mirror of Erised only shows inner desires. It has no function of predicting the future.

In other words, the current situation is also my inner desire?

Do you desire to stand above others?

Yes, I long to rule.

There seemed to be such a voice in his head, conveying his innermost thoughts.

Stand above all men, be their savior, remove the dross, save them from their present filthy and corrupt state.

Gradually, Connor's eyes became blurred, and he subconsciously wanted to obey that call.

Maybe this is your inner desire?

Yes, this is my inner desire. Isn't it that I came to school just to win over those peers and the families standing behind them?

Is this my ambition...?

Facing the Mirror of Erised, a gleam of clarity suddenly appeared in Connor's originally blurred eyes.

And soon, a gentle voice directly pulled him out of the half-dream state:

"Connor."

For Connor now, this voice was like a guide to the road of survival, and he quickly cheered up.

And when he came back to his senses, he found that the magic mirror showing desire did not contain the things he had seen before.

Some of them are still the familiar scenes that I saw before, showing me living in the forest and living in seclusion with my family.

Instead of looking at the magic mirror, Connor just subconsciously stared at the old principal who called him before.

"Principal Dumbledore..."

"Yeah, I'm here."

His attitude was still unhurried, and his half-moon spectacles shone with wisdom.

"How are you, kid?"

"...I have nothing."

After hesitating for a moment, Connor shook his head.

Although he knew that this kind of thing was a blatant lie in front of Dumbledore, but when he really asked him to say it, it only made his throat dry.

"Nothing happened. Maybe it was because it was late and I was a little sleepy."

He just found an excuse so casually, and Dumbledore just nodded.

"It's really too late today, kid, for you to run up and down with an old man like me."

Dumbledore looked like he didn't know anything, and smiled.

"No, it's nothing...where are we going to move this mirror?"

"An abandoned classroom on the fifth floor."

"Then...how do you move this out?"

After taking a look at the relatively small door of the principal's office, Connor asked.

The Mirror of Erised is very tall, much taller than the door.

"If it always looks like this, it won't be easy to get out."

"So we're going to make it smaller."

Dumbledore did not recite any spells or take out his wand. He just gently touched the magic mirror.

Soon, a strange force enveloped the mirror, and it gradually shrank into a palm-sized model.

And it didn't fall to the ground, but was suspended out of thin air.

The silent spell cast before was not only a shrinking spell, but also a levitation spell.

"Let's go, kid."

The principal walked in front, while Connor, whose head was inexplicably confused, walked behind.

What was it that I saw in the magic mirror before?

He didn't know, and he was even less willing to share the scenes he saw with the relatively conservative old wizard.

But, does this mean that he knows nothing?

He had awakened himself from that inexplicable mirror illusion before.

Just staring at the old wizard's back, Connor just remained thinking and silent.

But just as the two walked out of the principal's office, he saw the old principal turning his head.

"Children, no matter what happens, you must be firm in your ideas and goals."

That slow voice seemed to be a kind of ordinary life advice, but also seemed to mean something.

"……I see."

After responding like this, both parties seemed to have returned to the original silence.

This time there was no tea or cookies. The old man and the young child just kept going down the stairs, slowly walking from the eighth floor to the fifth floor.

Along the way, Connor actually saw a lot of abandoned rooms.

Hogwarts itself is so huge that even if there is a separate room for each class and each grade, there will still be room left over.

As the classrooms gradually became fixed, some rooms were abandoned over time.

Not many students knew what was in those rooms, and all Connor saw now were old and simple door locks.

Soon, they stopped in front of a room on the fifth floor. Dumbledore calmly opened the simple door, revealing the scene inside.

It's just ordinary inside, and there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.

The tables and chairs were stacked together and covered with a piece of cloth.

The whole room looked empty.

How long has this place been abandoned?

"When I was studying here, it was used as a classroom for a course."

Just as Connor was subconsciously wandering around, he heard Dumbledore's emotion.

"The scene around here has not changed much. It has remained the same for decades. It seems that this place has not been opened since I left."