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Thanks to everyone who's reviewed. And no, I haven't abandoned this series. It got a little sidetracked by "Girl with Six Brothers," but it's still going. I have a thought for a new chapter. A thought that was an idea given to me by one of you lovely reviewers. So the moral is... Read. Review. Inspire me.

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What could they do to him? What could be done to a man who had lost all for which he would have once gladly given, for which he had gladly given, his soul? What could they do to him when they had taken everything? He had thought they could do nothing. Nothing that could add to the pain that was already his.

He was wrong.

They had found a way. They did not show him his fears, or the horrors of his past. They showed him what might have been. Every day, they would bring him to the Mirror, the accursed Mirror, the Mirror of what his heart desired.

And he would see his son. His dishonored son, his traitorous son, his disgraced son, his lost son. His loved son. In the Mirror he would see his son, and his son would stand beside him as his equal.

He could see his son who followed in his footsteps, the son who was his mother's pride and joy. But only in the mirror.

His son had left, betrayed them all, disgraced his family. His son and spat on all he had once believed, all he had once stood for.

But in the Mirror his son stood by him. In the Mirror son and father stood together, side by side, faced down their foes, and triumphed.

But that had not happened. His son had left them all, sold them out. And caused their downfall.

The father did not know if his son were alive or dead. Sometimes he did not know which he wanted. But the Mirror did not lie. In the Mirror, Draco was always alive.

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