Chapter 57 - The Mysterious Throne Room (1/2)

”Alright kids, do you have any questions for us?” Helga asked.

”Yes we have a lot! How are you still here?” Kristine asked.

”Do you three understand what a soul is?” Helga asked.

The three nodded.

”Good. This'll be a lot simpler then. While we were still in the other world, we have found a way to safely inject a sliver of our soul into an object,” Helga said.

”Founder, I have heard of a method very similar. It is called a-”

”Yes a Horcrux. I am extremely surprised you know of this,” Helga said. ”However, our method is slightly different. A Horcrux forces the person to put in 50% of however much of their soul is left in their body after killing someone and doing a specific ritual. However, we found a method where we were able to put in 1% of our soul without murdering anyone or doing a ritual. This allowed our main bodies to be unaffected by the soul transfer, but we were completely disconnected from our main bodies making our main bodies vulnerable to death,”

”Then why add your souls in the statues?” Chris asked. ”I mean it's not like you four were able to do anything inside here,”

”I suppose in our hearts, we all did not really want to die,” Rowena said. ”While we knew that we would have to die eventually, we just wanted to live eternally in another place and we have done that. Like we said, we even got to go to your world every so often to see what's new and how we can improve our humble cabins,”

'I guess even the powerful Founders of Hogwarts are scared of death,' Chris thought.

”So since we have answered some of your questions, it is time to answer some of our,” Godric said. ”So how exactly did you three get in here?”

”We have a diary. We don't exactly know whose it is or what its purpose is. However, we found it in Hogwarts and using the Philosopher's Stone, we were able to enter,” Chris said taking out the diary and handing it to Godric.

”Hmm.. Rowena do you know where this is from. If it is from our school and allows three random people to enter this place with just the Philosopher's Stone, it has to be something very old and powerful,” Godric said as he handed it out to Rowena.

”I don't know,” Rowena said. ”Like you said, it is a powerful artifact, but I don't know its origin nor do I know its power. All I know is that it knows about us being here and we have never told this to another soul. We never had an entrance to this place either so that means it forcefully created one to allow three people from the other world to enter. The creator of this artifact must be a lot stronger than we are,”

”Scary scary scary!” Godric said jokingly. ”So what are you looking for that's in here? We literally have nothing to give you,”

The diary in Rowena's hand started to shake.

”The diary. Words are starting to form,” Rowena said.

To the four heroes,

Gather your sacred treasures for the young ones.

For they have the burden to fix the mistakes of the past.