Chinese students at Hogwarts

Chapter 65 Confrontation between old and new

"Principal Dumbledore? I didn't see you just now." Zhang Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked pointedly.

"Perhaps your attention is focused on this mirror and Harry, thus ignoring me as an old man?" Dumbledore smiled slightly, which made Harry relax. It seemed that the principal would not blame him.

No, actually I didn't. As soon as I entered the classroom, I habitually looked at all the places where people could hide.

Zhang Xiao complained silently in his heart. It was obvious that the principal did not want people to know that he had been hiding here for a long time. He might have been hiding here all morning and came out after smelling the beef pie and being so hungry that he couldn't bear it.

Who can be the first person in the wizarding world to secretly observe a young wizard looking at the Mirror of Erised? Is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality?

"So," Dumbledore said, sliding down from the table and sitting on the floor with Zhang Xiao and Harry.

"You, like hundreds of others before you, have discovered the joys of the Mirror of Erised."

"I didn't know it was called that, sir."

Little Harry still stared at the mirror reluctantly.

"But I assume you know its magic by now?"

"It - oh - makes me see my family -"

"And show your friend Ron that he won the Quidditch Cup and the House Cup."

"how do you know--"

"I don't need an invisibility cloak to be invisible," Dumbledore said gently.

Zhang Xiao complained crazily and blew himself up! Did you blow yourself up? He was obviously hiding nearby and peeping.

Why did we ignore it?

Suddenly Dumbledore turned the topic to Zhang Xiao:

"I'm curious, Zhang, what did you see in the mirror."

Zhang Xiao looked into his blue eyes. This time, the pendant on his chest did not get hot. It was probably because Dumbledore knew that Legilimency was of no use to him.

Rather than Legilimency, he believed more in the experience and his own judgment brought to him by time.

"Sir, all I see is myself, nothing." Zhang Xiao didn't even blink, and he didn't even have to type a draft.

Harry was startled: "What? Zhang, didn't you say you saw my parents last time?"

Dumbledore's eyes flashed with an inexplicable light: "This is an interesting thing."

Zhang Xiao smiled apologetically at Harry: "Sorry, buddy, I was trying to comfort you."

Harry wanted to say something more, but Dumbledore interrupted him: "Harry, your friend seems to be a very happy person."

He paused and said softly:

“Let me explain, the happiest person in the world can use the Mirror of Erised as an ordinary mirror.

In other words, what he sees in the mirror is his own image. Do you understand something?"

Harry was thinking, then he said slowly: "Mirrors make us see what we want..whatever we want..that"

Dumbledore smiled: "Obviously your friend is like this. I hope you can keep this happiness for a long time, Zhang."

There is something in your words

"Harry, take back what we just said. What you said is both right and wrong."

Dumbledore said with a hint of emotion, "It allows us to see only the most urgent and strongest desires deep in our hearts.

You have never seen your family, so you see them standing around you.

Ron Weasley desperately wanted to be recognized with his friends, so he saw you together.

Zhang, on the other hand, has no urgent desire, so what he 'sees' is himself.

However, this mirror can neither teach us nor tell us the truth.

People waste time in front of it, obsessed with what they see, and even driven crazy because they don't know whether what they see in the mirror is real and possible.

The mirror will be moved to a new location tomorrow. Harry, I ask you not to look for it again.

If you happen to see it one day, be prepared.

It is useless to indulge in illusory dreams and forget about real life. Remember this.

Okay, why not put on that amazing invisibility cloak and go back to sleep?

Zhang Xiao didn't listen to what Dumbledore was saying at all. All his attention was on the mirror, because the moment Dumbledore stood in front of the mirror, the mirror immediately started to split the screen as before.

The mirror image that appeared surprised him.

It was a living room with a very ordinary decoration, just like the country houses that can be seen everywhere in the UK. There were many people inside. Dumbledore was obviously much younger and looked very handsome.

But the thin young man sitting next to him was even more handsome than he was! They held hands together and laughed happily while sitting at the long wooden table.

Be good! Is this content I can watch without paying? ? ?

Zhang Xiao kept criticizing his behavior in his mind, but his eyes widened, just like the black cat police chief saw an ear.

The scene was not over yet. At the other end of the wooden table, another young man who looked very similar to Dumbledore had an unruly face, but there was a clear smile on his face.

Next to the young man was a girl with long blond hair and two braids. She was wearing an apron and holding a shovel in her hand, waving it around as if she was complaining about her brothers not helping.

There is also an eye-catching photo on the dining table. It is a girl in an apron and a boy who looks a little dull with a pothead. They are both wearing Hogwarts uniforms and they look like Gryffindors.

Tsk tsk tsk.

Zhang Xiao was like a little girl who covered her eyes and screamed, but her fingers were big enough to leak fish. She criticized and watched with relish.

"Zhang, I think my glasses are a little crooked when I look in the mirror, right?"

At this moment, as if the air was stagnant, Zhang Xiao turned around calmly and said:

"Sir, your glasses are not crooked, they are straight." At the same time, he could still see Dumbledore in the mirror from the corner of his eye - he was not wearing glasses.

Dumbledore's eyes were fixed on his face, and after a while he said softly:

"Really, maybe I feel wrong."

Zhang Xiao nodded towards Dumbledore:

"Mr. Principal, since you are here, I can leave with peace of mind. The new semester is coming soon, and I have to prepare some courses."

When he reached the door, Dumbledore's voice suddenly came again:

"That's a happy picture, isn't it? Zhang?"

Zhang Xiao felt sweat dripping down his back and his shirt was stuck to his back, but there was no abnormal expression on his face:

"Yes, it is indeed a happy thing to be able to face yourself."

Dumbledore smiled and waved his hand gently:

"A witty answer."

"Thank you for the compliment, sir."

Harry stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded.