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Title: Reflection Upon Reflection
Author: bonfoi
Rating: PG
Pairing: Remus Lupin/Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore
Summary: The Mirror of Erised shows one’s greatest wish…but will it show to those whose wishes have been fulfilled?
Challenge: snupin100 ~ Challenge #250: Outsider POV
Word Count: 100 x 3
Genre: Alternate Reality; Marauders’ Era – Post-Hogwarts; Post First Voldemort War
Warnings: Established Relationship
A/N: Alternate Reality arc:

1 ~ Sorted	2 ~ Under Observation	3 ~ Shadows at the Willow	4 ~ What Rita Missed	5 ~ The Auror's Call	6 ~ Angel’s Eyes
7 ~ Reflections	8 ~ Phoenix Memories	9 ~ In the Headmaster’s Office	10 ~ Bedstead	11 ~ The Robe	12 ~ Whither Goes the Wand
13 ~ Flying Time	14 ~ Traitorous Musings	15 ~ Release and Recognition	16 ~ Set Free	17 ~ Written Suspicion	18 ~ Hallowed Hogwarts
19 ~ Charmed, I’m Sure

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Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter, its characters and settings are the copyrighted works of J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros., her publishing companies and affiliates. No profit was made from the writing of this story nor was any malice intended in any way, shape or form to the author or the actors/actresses who so brilliantly have brought them to life.

This author is not responsible for underage readers. Please observe the ratings, warnings, and age of legal consent for your country.

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I reflect that which one wishes but I’ve never before met three wizards whose wishes were so simple and thus, not mine to reflect.

The young one found me and brought the other two to me. I vaguely remember the dark lad, still thin, still strong, but tempered now. He peeked at me once, in his Third or Fourth Year and ran screaming from the room Albus had hidden me within.

The Wolf and Man, him I never reflected before. He cast two reflections that wavered from one to the other, but always with the dark lad at the center.

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They visited me once more and I let the young one—their son—take the Philosopher’s Stone from his reflection. The dark lad pulled out a potion bottle and dropped it inside while the Wolf and Man surrounded it with a heavy layer of spells.

Albus roared when he couldn’t find it. Inside myself I saw his dark desire: A dead or dying Wolfman and a subjugated, broken dark lad. Their son cried and moaned. Then his true face appeared.

I reflected the powerful pair at this face and, in the manner of magic, they vanquished it from my surface.

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The dark lad and his Wolfman found the true Albus Dumbledore hidden away in a dank cellar, inside a crazed trunk.

They came before me once more, the real Headmaster in their company, desiring truth to be revealed. As always, I gave them their desire…

I showed them the shining, flawed heart of Dumbledore and their own strange bond of magic, man, wizard and beast. When Albus hugged them with tears in his eyes, they glowed in my glass.

I gave them another glimpse and colored it with true light. The dark lad had to turn away, his cheeks red.

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