AN: Set just before OotP

At number 4 privet drive, a Mr. Harry James potter was having a particularly bad summer, not that his summers were usually good, no this was just worse than usual. The nightmares he was having every night about Cedric's death were leaving Harry with very little sleep. He looked gaunt and ghostly, this only served to increase the Dursleys' comments about his freakishness, but as Harry only came out for meals (though he sparsely ate) he could avoid trouble.

Harry was desperate for news of the world he longed to return to. The letters sent to his friends were hardly ever replied to and when they were they left him more frustrated than before. Hedwig was his only company but even she was not there mostly, at night she flew off to stretch her wings and when she returned in the day she just slept.

The record hot summer made it no better. Alongside the nightmares, the heat made Harry toss and turn, he woke up early. The pale morning light gave the room a greyish tinge. He crept across the landing to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

Harry crept in and closed the door behind him. He jumped when he looked in the mirror and saw another person in the room. Harry was forced to put his hand over his mouth to stop any sound from escaping but when he saw the person on the mirror do exactly the same he could not help but cry out a little.

As soon as Harry let out the sound he immediately froze. Next door he could hear uncle Vernon's snores, for precious few seconds it seemed like Vernon would wake but he merely grunted and laid still again.

With that little drama over Harry turned to the mirror and stared in it again. It was then that harry noticed that he could not see himself in the mirror, he turned around expecting to find a figure behind him but the only person in the room was himself.

It took Harry a couple of seconds to work out what that meant. The person in the mirror was himself.

AN: Thanks for reading, sorry this was a short chapter, the others will be longer. Camelot will come in later chapters! Thank you to njchrispatrick for the suggestion. Please review!

Leo Evans