DESIRE MIRROR.
这篇闲谈。
在《哈利波特与魔法石》中,哈利第一次看到厄里斯魔镜时,被镜中景象深深吸引,他见到了自己的父母,而后每天深夜去镜子前。
邓布利多发现了哈利对镜子的迷恋时对他说:
"The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror,that is,he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is."
世界上最幸福的人,在照镜子时看见的就是他自己。

"However,this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it,entranced by what they have seen,or been driven mad,not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible."
这面镜子没法给我们知识或真理,人们在他面前虚度时光,甚至发疯。

Erised倒过来,就是Desire.
被欲望侵蚀后,不再能看见自己的,我们的心。