Mirror or Erised

Relationships: Draco/Hermione, Blaise/Ginny

Description: Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini were walking through Hogwarts until they found the Mirror of Erised. Not knowing what it is but enjoying what he saw, Draco began to visit it every night with Blaise sometimes coming along. Hermione Granger noticed this and followed him one night only to find the mirror herself. What will happen when she overhears what the two really see?

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One night the Head Boy of Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy, and a prefect who happened to be his best friend, Blaise Zabini, were doing their weekly patrols through Hogwarts. It was a seemingly normal Tuesday night, the two Slytherin's were talking about the things they usually do and had no idea their lives would soon take a hard turn in the right direction.

"Ok its been long enough Draco, its already a few months into the school year and I'm dying to know," Blaise said.

"Know what?" Draco said hoping he wasn't going to ask what he thought he was.

"Oh, I think you know exactly what I'm talking about," Blaise pointed out.

"I really don't know," Draco said feigning innocence.

"What's it like living with the Head girl of course!" Blaise said but upon Draco's sudden silence he continued, "C'mon you've been avoiding talking about it unless you want to complain about it. Which I have noticed you haven't been doing very often."

"Wait, you're asking me what its like living with Hermione know-it-all Granger?" Draco responded. "Well, shes bloody annoying and she acts like she knows everything, what else did you expect, Blaise?" Draco told him.

"Don't give me that crap. And don't you think that I haven't noticed how you look at her, hell how you've looked at her since what fourth year, because I have. As you're best friend, I tend to notice these things. Things like you fancying Hermione Granger," Blaise said finally telling him.

"Shhhh! Would you bloody well shut up? We're supposed to be patrolling, not giving waking up all of Hogwarts," Draco said. "And, by the way, I do not fancy Granger," he added.

"No I will not shut up, you do like her and-" Blaise began to say before being cut off by a crashing sound.

It had come from one of the abandoned classrooms, the two boys figured that it was from two students sneaking out of bed so they can snog. It surely wouldn't be the first time they've caught students that way, hell, both of the boys on separate occasions have been the ones to be caught before. So, Draco shot Blaise a death glare before they both went to investigate.

They quietly crept through the halls towards the door from which the noise was coming from before hearing some rustling in the room. Putting his hand on the door, Blaise quickly opened the door and scanned the room with his eyes to see what he could see. But right before he turned to Draco confused..

A rat scurried to get away from the tall boys and ended up knocking over a lamp and frightening the boys in question.

"Just a stupid rat," Draco muttered.

"Yeah, lets go," Blaise said with a sigh. He's always been amused by the horrified looks on student's faces when they caught breaking the school's rules. But just as Blaise was walking out of the old classroom, Draco noticed something odd on the other side of the room.

"Oi Blaise, come look at this," Draco said without taking his eyes off of the object.

"What is it?" The Italian asked.

"I don't know, it looks like some weird mirror," the blond answered as he moved closer to it.

They didn't exchange another word until both of them were in front of the mirror and seeing the wonders it showed them.

"What the bloody hell.." Blaise whispered in awe.

While Blaise was delighted by what he saw, Draco was very confused.

"What is this?" Draco exclaimed.

"I don't know but I like it," Blaise said.

"You like it? Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Draco asked.

"With that tone of voice, I doubt it," Blaise answered. "Why? What do you see?" He asked curiously.

"No no no, you tell me what you see first," Draco insisted.

"Fine. I see myself, handsome as always, with erm a pretty girl standing beside me and my mum standing and smiling at us," Blaise told him. He chose his words so that he wasn't lying to his friend, but he was keeping his crush on a certain red haired girl secret. "Now, tell me what you see," he said.

"I-I uh, I see myself and a uhh a beautiful woman by my side holding a child with my mother and father proudly standing by our sides," Draco vaguely describes. What he really saw was him standing with his arms around Hermione Granger's waist while she held a little girl with his blond hair and her big brown eyes. Narcissa Malfoy was making silly faces at the child to make her laugh and Lucius Malfoy was clasping Draco on the shoulder in a sign of support. He saw himself with a happy family.

"Do you think this thing shows us the future?" Blaise said hopefully.

"I highly doubt it," Draco said with a heavy sigh. He knew there was no way his parents, particularly his father, would never approve of a mudblood nor would Hermione Granger ever be his wife or the mother of his child. "Lets go," Draco suggested and Blaise decided not to push the subject.

The two went on with the rest of their patrol without further incident, they took points from 2 Ravenclaws, 3 Gryffindors and even 1 Slytherin student. They stayed very quiet before telling each other goodnight and going their separate ways to go to bed. After each had gotten ready, they both lay down in their beds thinking about what they saw in the Mirror of Erised.

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Hermione Granger was sitting in the Head boy and girl's common room reading a book when she noticed the head boy was about to leave. She has noticed over the course of a week that Draco Malfoy has been doing this, even when it isn't his turn to patrol. Normally, the Head girl couldn't care less about what he's doing but the curiosity was driving her insane.

So, she couldn't help but investigate.

"Hey Malfoy, where are you off to?" Hermione asked politely.

This wouldn't seem too strange because after they got back to Hogwarts after the battle, Draco had become a lot nicer towards her and others. He's even made it a point to apologize to the entire Golden Trio. While Hermione had seen first hand how much he has changed and agreed to give him another chance and Harry Potter had trusted her judgement and given him another chance as well, Ronald Weasley still didn't trust the blond boy but eventually agreed to tolerate him.

"Just down to the kitchen, I could use a midnight snack," Draco responded.

"Can I join you?" Hermione asked not quite believing him but not letting it show.

"Uh actually no, I'm sorry but um I can grab you something if you want?" Draco said apologetically.

"Oh..sure," she said.

"Any requests?" He asked.

"Nope, surprise me," she said giving him a smile so he knows she didn't take offense by his refusal of letting her come along.

He gave her a smile back, not a smirk, but a real smile. He doesn't do that often, but when he does, its almost always for her to see. "Alright," he said.

"Should I be afraid?" Hermione asked her smile not faltering.

"Oh yes, be very afraid," Draco teased making the brunette laugh before walking out.

Hermione waited a few seconds before following after him. Before the portrait closed, she cast a disillusion charm on herself and silently went through it.

Luckily, Malfoy was already walking down the corridor and didn't notice anything strange. But a minute into her following him he stopped walking, pulled out his wand, and pointing it an inch from her face. Hermione backed up away from him before he could accidentally touch her.

"Is anyone there?" He called out into the empty corridor. So he could feel her following him.

Malfoy gave the hall a skeptical look before continuing to walk, there were no more incidents other than the occasional looking over his shoulder. Hermione couldn't help but notice this wasn't the way to the kitchen.

Instead they came up to a door she wasn't familiar with just as another figure came into view. This began to give Hermione the creeps. As the figure walked closer, she recognised it as Blaise Zabini.

Her and Zabini had also called a truce, especially with how much time Malfoy spends with him. But it was still so..strange.

"Hey Blaise," Malfoy greeted.

"Hey Draco," Zabini returned. "Can't stop thinking about it too then?" He asked solemnly to which Malfoy nodded.

"It just seems...so good, I don't know. Let's just talk about it inside," Malfoy sighed.

"Yeah, good point," Blaise said anxiously looking around.

"So I did some research in the library and found out what this mirror is," Malfoy said as they were getting inside.

"Someone sounds like Granger," Zabini teased and Hermione could feel her cheeks getting red. She was glad she wasn't visible to them.

"Do you want to know or not?" Malfoy said and he looked like he was trying to hide...a smile?

"Yea," he answered.

"Ok, it's the Mirror of Erised. It shows you your heart's desire, hints the name being desire only backwards," Malfoy explained.

"Huh," was all Zabini said.

They both went inside and Hermione silently followed them, it seemed to only be an abandoned classroom. That was what she thought, until they walked up to this rather large mirror.

And they both simply...stared at it.

Hermione knew the two were pretty vain already but they can't be that vain.

"So what do you really see?" Zabini said out of no where.

"What do you mean?" Malfoy asked confused.

"I don't think you lied when you told me what you saw, but I want more details," the Italian boy said putting his head in one of his hands.

"Pfft you're such a girl," Malfoy teased.

"Whatever, just tell me," Zabini said.

"Only if you do the same," Malfoy proposed.

"Fine deal," Zabini agreed.

"The girl holding the child was," Malfoy took a deep breath to steel himself before saying the next part, "Hermione."

"I knew it!" Zabini exclaimed making Malfoy blush?!

At this point Hermione was frozen. Draco Malfoy's heart's desire was her? And her hold a child?! And Blaise Zabini knew it.

"Mother and Father approved of it too, that much I could tell. Father was even proud of me.." Malfoy said looking down.

Hermione was so shocked she stepped back a few steps only to bump into a table making things fall and clash. Both boy's eyes darted to her and their wands came out in a flash.

"Revelio!" Malfoy said doing the proper wand moments.

And there she was, fully visible.

Malfoy paled.

Something seemed to move behind them and there she looked into the Mirror of Erised and staring back at her was...

Draco Malfoy.