He was walking down a long, darkened corridor. He had been walking for a very long time, but he seemed no nearer to his goal. He began to run. When he reached the door, he was winded, and had a painful stitch in his side - but he was almost there! He put his hand up to the door, and as though waiting for him to come, it swung open.
Yes! The circular central chamber! He stepped inside, onto the shiny black marble floor, and gazed around at the handle-less, unmarked black doors. He was finally inside - finally, after so long…. Suddenly the chamber began to rotate, and the burning candles on the black walls became blue streaks around him. Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the chamber ceased its revolution.
This time, he knew what to do. He called out the name of the chamber he needed to find. A door to his left opened - he stepped forward and entered the rectangular room, looking down twenty feet to his goal. Quickly he moved down the stone steps, narrowly avoiding slipping off of the crumbled edge where Lucius Malfoy's spell had hit it.
He slowed as he reached the dais, he could hear them whispering now - so close….He halted in front of a large, ancient looking stone archway, cracked and crumbling. It was hung with a black veil, which fluttered constantly in an unseen breeze. He stepped forward, raised his hand to push the veil aside….
He felt a rush of cold, dank air on his face, and suddenly he was being pulled forward, by a force much stronger than himself - he struggled to step backward, he was painfully afraid, but at the same time, he wanted to keep going. He could just surrender, be pulled in…so easy…NO! He tried once more to break free - he couldn't - he fell -
"SIRIUS!"
