Disclaimer: Sorry, people, I don't own Harry Potter.

Harry whispered, "I am about to die." And the golden sphere opened.

At that moment a strange feeling passed through him – something he didn't recognize – something implacable, and absolute, and so vastly alien as to make him worry for a single moment, for surely such a feeling could never have come from any human being. But then the knowledge that he was walking to his death filled his thoughts once more, and the feeling was forgotten.