Eisoptrophobia

Harry Potter. That was the name.

His hair was messy, his sleeves stained with mud, his knees scraped and never healing. And, above him, the air of having crawled out of some narrow and uncomfortable rabbit hole, of being one bad comment away from jumping out of a window and never being seen again. Like someone who was born sick and weak, and grew up fighting, fighting like a mouse in a world too big, too cruel.

If his smile wasn't so cunning and a fierce flash of blue didn't still linger in his eyes, she wouldn't have believed it.

Hypocrite, tyrant, bastard.

How could he, after all, still be alive?

Eisoptrophobia: noun. Irrational, overwhelming fear of seeing one’s reflection in a mirror.