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The Mirror of Erised
The Mirror of Erised is a mystical mirror discovered by Harry in an abandoned classroom in Philosopher's Stone.
On it is inscribed erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi. When mirrored and correctly spaced, this reads I show not your face but your heart's desire. As erised reversed is desire, it is the Mirror of Desire. Harry, upon encountering the Mirror, can see his parents, as well as what appears to be a crowd of relatives. The last thing Harry saw in the mirror was Voldemort defeated.
Ron sees himself as Head Boy and Quidditch Captain holding the House Cup, revealing his wish to escape from the shadow of his highly successful older brothers. Dumbledore cautions Harry that the Mirror gives neither knowledge nor truth, merely showing the viewer's deepest desire, and that men have wasted their lives away before it, entranced by what they see.
Dumbledore claims to see himself holding a pair of socks he always wanted, telling Harry that one can never have enough socks, and lamenting that he did not receive any for Christmas, since people will insist on giving him books.
The Mirror of Erised was the final protection given to the Philosopher's Stone in the first book. Dumbledore hid the Mirror and hid the Stone inside it, knowing that only a person who wanted to find but not use the Stone would be able to obtain it. Anyone else would see themselves making an Elixir of Life or turning things to gold, rather than actually finding the Stone, and would be unable to obtain it. What happens to the mirror afterwards is unknown.
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Two-way mirrors
In Order of the Phoenix, Sirius gives Harry a mirror he originally used to communicate with James while they were in separate detentions. That mirror is a part of a set of Two-way Mirrors that are activated by holding one of them and saying the name of the other possessor, causing his or her face to appear on the caller's mirror and vice versa. Harry receives this mirror from Sirius in a package after spending his Christmas holiday at Grimmauld Place. Harry, at first, chooses not to open the package, although he does discover the mirror after Sirius' death, by which point it is no longer functional. It makes its second appearance in Deathly Hallows when Mundungus Fletcher loots Grimmauld Place and sells Sirius' mirror to Aberforth Dumbledore, who uses it to watch out for Harry in Deathly Hallows. When Harry desperately cries for help to a shard of the magical mirror (which broke in the bottom of his trunk), a brilliant blue eye belonging to Aberforth (which Harry mistakes for Albus' eye), appears and he sends Dobby, who arrives to help Harry escape from Malfoy Manor to Shell Cottage.
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and I ask you not to go looking for it again.
If you ever do run across it, you will now be prepared.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
Now, why don't you put that admirable cloak back on and get off to bed.
Albus Dumbledore
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