The Traitors [HP6] *EDITING*

Chapter 19-The Guardian of Immortality

"Harry!"

A sharp voice suddenly rang through Harry's head. It was so painful, hearing it echo around his brain. Harry groaned and pressed hard against his forehead, to try and stop some of the pain. As he did this, he suddenly realized that his eyes were closed. Harry quickly opened them, revealing a strange sight.

Himself, Ron, Hermione, Malfoy and Ak were each in a room around the same size as the past ones they had been in. Except, this time, they were each in a separate cage, placed in random spots around the room, like some sort of human zoo. Harry stood up and grabbed onto the bars, to see if he could break them down since they should be quite old. But, they must have been enchanted or something, because no matter how hard Harry tried, the bars didn't move.

"Harry!" called Hermione again from her cage, sitting down. "You're up."

"Yeah," yawned Harry back, sitting down too. "Where are we?"

"Don't know," Malfoy shrugged.

"And we can't get out of the cages either," added Ak, examining his bars. "Someone's taken our wands."

Harry, not even thinking of using his wand, reached into his pocket, just to make sure. But, sure enough, there was no wand to be found.

"So what are we going to do?" sighed Harry, feeling lost.

Suddenly, a hole in one of the walls opened up, right next to a big red dot, revealing a door. It flew open, and through it walked an extremely hairy woman, who looked as though she hadn't had a decent shower or haircut for several years. Her bushy red hair went all the way down to her waist, and Harry could've sworn he saw something (or several things) crawling through it. She was quite tall as well, but very skinny, with most of her face covered by hair. Only her baggy eyes, small nose, mouth and a small, beaded necklace around her neck were visible, and those were almost covered as well. But, despite the hair that seemed to be a separate organism from the person, the most noticeable feature about the woman was the red glove on her arm. It shone brighter than intense rubies, and it wasso beautiful, the second Harry saw it, he desired it.

"So," barked the woman, stopping before them and crossing her arms, glaring. Her voice sounded odd, as if she hadn't talked in a while, and wasn't used to it. But, that was probably true. She must have been thousands of years old if she resided in this place. "Why do you want the Gomotornice?"

"What?" asked Malfoy, sounding flabbergasted..

"We don't even know what that is!" yelled Ak.

"Yes we do," sighed Harry. Now, everything was coming together. Bob the Ghost said that heroes tried their luck at the four challenges for the treasure at the end, to be immortalized. 

What better way to become immortalized than by making an Immortal Potion? The treasure at the end were the five legendary ingredients: the Ring, the Sorceror's Stone, the Gomotornice, the Havomotornice, and the Bomotornice. The Egyptians had been the ancients that created those items, and they had hidden them in the pyramid.....

"We didn't know that the Ingredients were in this pyramid," said Hermione, probably realizing the same thing as Harry. "And we really didn't know that you had the Gomotornice."

"Well, whether you knew it or not," growled the woman, "it is my duty to protect it. Ever since the last hero passed through the challenges, the Guardians of Immortality have not allowed anyone else to create the potion. So, even though you have passed the tests, I cannot allow you to take the Ingredient."

"That's okay," sighed Harry, just wanting to leave. 'We don't want to make the potion anyways, We just want to get out of here."

"Just wait a minute here!" yelled Ron suddenly, taking the woman's attention away from Harry and over to him. "Are you telling me that the red glove you're wearing is the Gomotornice?"