[spoiler=Toby]
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Felixir 
Toby gave a shrug of shoulder when the boy beside him spoke up, and he continued peering into the room he saw through the mirror.
"Dunno," he said. "Probably not even an intentional thing. Maybe it's a really big two way mirror that goes to an empty place." Toby kind of liked that idea; that he might be showing up in mirror on a wall in another place entirely. "Or maybe it looks back in time to where it was first put on a wall." He spoke a little more enthusiastically now, his vivid imagination really kicking in. "Or maybe to a different dimension. Or...-"
Tobias stopped there, because he was sure he'd heard the boy mutter something. Maybe a spell of some sort? No... no, it didn't really sound like one at all. The Hufflepuff looked around just in time for the other boy to say 'hi' to him, and he automatically grinned in response.
At that moment, Bludger, who had been playing with his shoelaces, suddenly and inexplicably went for his ankle. "Ow! Bludger, what even..." Gently, very gently, Toby shook his leg in an attempt to get his sharp-toothed cat off of him. When that didn't work, he started wiggling the end of the string in Bludger's face again, which duly distracted the black cat.
The boy was talking again, so Toby looked up. "Hi Simon." Frieeeeeeeeeeeeeend? But wait, hang on... Simon knew his name. This wasn't the first time this had happened recently though, and, thinking back to that interaction, Toby suddenly realised what was happening.
He was generally very unobservant, a boy who was easily distracted by the little things and his mind often going far too fast and in absurd directions for him to make connections with the here and the now. But now Toby DID stop and think, and he remembered the name 'Simon', and what he'd heard about a boy with that name. It was only when he actually paid attention to the face of the boy in front of him that Toby realised that THIS was the kid he apparently looked just like. According to Ethan anyway.
It was difficult to tell, only having immediate access to a mirror that didn't even show their reflections, and Toby always found it hard to remember exactly what he looked like. It was no surprise that he had probably walked past this kid dozens of times and not made the connection.
All those thoughts occured to him in a split second, and soon Toby found himself nodding.
"Yeah," he said simply, really taking in the other boy's face properly and realising that yes...they really did look very similar, from what he was remembering of his own face anyway. The difference being that this other kid was a good couple of inches taller, at the very least. "And you're Ethan's friend, aren't you, Simon? The one that looks like me?" Just getting straight to the point there.
Suddenly remembering something, Toby started patting at his pockets, looking for a particular possession of his that would be quite useful right now.
Simon raised his eyebrows excitedly when Toby said that perhaps the Mirror looked back in time? "
That would be wicked! A different dimension? Do you think it'd be possibly to find a way to enchant it so we could actually visit that dimension? I wouldn't want to mess up any time continuum or fabric of reality stuff though. That'd be horrible," admitted Simon, thinking about the countless amount of Doctor Who episodes where people were constantly warned about parallel universes. Yes. Parallel universes could destroy the time-wimey stuff. And that was what Simon had learned from that show as a kid.
Then the Hufflepuff kid, his uncanny doppelgänger, was bitten by the adorable kitten. Merlin. Despite knowing that the cat was only playing, Simon eyed the cat carefully and decided not to pet for he didn't want to be bit. Not today. He had already received plenty of biting marks from friends and neighbours pets over the past years. He enjoyed animals but not biting ones. Then he just waved at Toby when the other boy said hello.
Errr.. Yeah. This wasn't awkward, was it?
Simon watched the shorter familiar boy nod at him now. Was that a good sign or was Toby also freaking out? Merlin. This was one of those times where Simon wished that he had mind-reading powers so he could tell what another person was thinking.
He nodded and gave Toby Tempus a thumb's up. "
Yes, I'm Ethan's mate. We're dormmates." Well he was also more than Ethan's mate. They were close. They were dormmates. They slept practically a few feet away from each other. But it probably would have been weird to point that out to someone he just met only a couple seconds ago or something so Simon filtered his thoughts. Also, he wasn't going to point that out cause you know he liked Toby. Toby seemed like a cool guy. Plus if Toby and he looked alike and he was awesome then Toby had to be awesome. Besides, people said Toby was really nice anyway so it was a bonus looking similar to the other guy. "
Who said I looked like you? What if you look like me?" teased Simon, turning the question around with an amused smirk. "
Nah, I'm pulling your leg, mate. Apparently, we do look quite alike or so Cutty likes to point out all the time."