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It is the week after Christmas, 1991, but for Harry Potter that is no longer true. Instead, he finds himself stepping off the Hogwarts Express at Kings Cross Station at the beginning of the Christmas hols. His parents greet him with hugs and Harry is drawn into a loving Christmas holiday at Godric's Hollow.
They have been dead for years but now they are alive-- and it's the best thing that has ever happened to Harry.
It is the week after Christmas, 1991, and Harry Potter gazes into the Mirror of Erised, unmoving. He will die, soon enough-- unless something is done-- for the Mirror has him in its power.
Takes Place: 1st Year
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Membership status: Member
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Reviews by Lemon Curd
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 May 2022 / 06 Nov 2021
Series: None - Challenges: A Mirror of Lies
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 May 2022 / 06 Nov 2021
Series: None - Challenges: A Mirror of Lies
| Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 3 | 21 Nov 2021 |
| Reviewer: Lemon Curd (Signed) |
- I like the premise ... Harry is so happy in this fantasy world, and Snape must prove himself a responsible adult by dragging them both out of it.
Even though to him it would, no doubt, be a dream come true that Lily is alive.
Many modern adults would, no doubt, have just let Harry stay in the mirror, his real body slowly wasting away, because after all ... Harry is happy there and wants to stay.
Interesting that James is so friendly with Severus. I can't imagine that it's Severus' wishful thinking that makes it so, so whose is it?
I would not have thought Harry would want his parents to be friends with Severus, but I suppose after his mother was friendly, which might have been influenced by Severus' wishes, he decided that both his parents would show the same attitude.
Author's Response: A nice long review! The readers on this site are just so kind :) I don't know if I would agree with you that many modern adults would just leave him to stay in the mirror-- though Harry probably would love to stay, especially at this age. But being on the outside of the mirror is very different to being inside it, and they can see what is actually happening to him. Probably there would be a pretty huge sense of responsibility for them, because really the only reason that Harry is so susceptible to the mirror is because he is without family. If he had a greater support system (cough Dursleys cough) then it wouldn't have happened-- and I think that the adults around him would be able to realise this. Of course they want him to be happy, but if they just left him Harry's happiness would come at the expense of his life, even if he didn't realise it. If they left him in there then they wouldn't even be giving him the dignity of knowing about the truth of his situation. That was kinda long but you got me thinking about it, which is good. And I just want to write a little about James and Severus-- this gets explained in the next chapter, but the mirror world isn't building itself off what Harry wants... rather, it takes the underlying premise of his deepest desire (for his parents to never have died) and builds the world based off that, using Harry's subconsious memories of his parents. The mirror extrapolates what James and Lily might have been like in 1991, using the data in Harry's head from when he was a baby-- and I like to think that the intervening years would have lead to a good deal more maturity in the relationships between James and Severus-- and also Lily.