Chapter 10

Those 6 questions are still floating around my head, and I still have no answers. It's been over a month since we found the hidden room. We decided before we left we would come back and see if there were more memories in the pensieve, but we hadn't had a chance yet. Mainly because Lily was in detention for the first 2 weeks because of a prank she helped James and Fred pull, and Frank was in a detention for the next 2 weeks for getting in a fight with Hugo (because he saw Hugo trip me down the stairs to the dungeons before potions). Cael and I have been coming up with ways to keep Lily and her family out of detentions; me by making sure that all the houses are equally pranked so it is harder to tell who is being targeted, and Cael with devising escape plans using the secret passages we seemed to know about without using. We stopped being surprised that we know things about the castle after we found hidden room.

It is now the last week of October, which means Halloween! I love Halloween! Even though witches and wizards don't dress up and get candy, it is still a holiday full of fun and mischief. Cael and Lily devised an incredible prank for the whole school for dinner, me and Frank had agreed to help out. That wasn't scheduled until after dinner though, and it again was a Saturday, so we had all day to relax and do whatever we wanted.

We were sitting at the Slytherin table for breakfast today. We had added it to our rotation last week when Dorothy had invited us to. Dorothy was good friends with all of the girls in our class group now, so we agreed it would be fun. Gryffindor we are still avoiding, basically because Frank doesn't like me being around Hugo, Trent and Victor Hannigan (the third member of Hugo's gang). Lily had realized that Hugo was in fact targeting me and Cael and had even hexed him a couple of times, so she agreed to avoid the Gryffindor table. The rest of her family would join us a couple times a week though so she was happy.

"I was thinking, maybe we should go back to the hidden room today while we are free," Cael said.

We all turned to look at Cael, he didn't usually bring up the pensieve since the last memory. We weren't sure why but it had affected him the most of all of us.

"I think that's a great idea mate," Frank said.

We finished up and headed down to the hidden room, making sure no one followed us. For some unexplainable reason we all had the feeling that it was of the upmost importance that no one else knew about the room.

Once we entered the room we took the same places as last time and looked at Cael. We knew this was hard for him so we wanted to be sure he was ready. He looked at the three of us and took a deep breath before nodding and we dove in.

We spent the day exploring memories. We watched as the Founders decided they were going to divide students into a house for each of them. We watched as Godric Gryffindor suggested using his hat to sort the students. We watched as, interestingly, Helga Hufflepuff suggested that the spell mimic her "abilities" and how Rowena Ravenclaw jumped at the chance to create a spell that was as "amazing as my best friend." We watched as Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin went all over France and England and Scotland looking for a place for the school. Between each memory we would leave the pensieve and talk about what we saw, still completely confused as to why we needed to see them.

"Guys, we have an hour and a half until dinner, do you think we have time for 1 more memory?" Frank asked cautiously.

"I think so," Lily said, thinking for a minute. "Most memories take about an hour, which would give us time to get back to the Great Hall in time."

We took our places again, and dove in.

This time, it was Frank who froze staring straight ahead. Strange, he'd had no emotional responses in any other memory. I looked ahead to see what he was looking at and felt myself freeze as well.

We were back in the cottage from the first memory. Rowena and Salazar were arguing.

"I don't understand why you would refuse entry to students. Just because their parents are muggles does not mean their children should not be trained!" Rowena yelled at Salazar.

"But they were raised by muggles! They will want to burn the students, hunt them all. We can't endanger our children!" Salazar shouted back.

Godric and Helga were sitting on the couch, tears running down Helga's face. They were staring at a portrait above the fireplace I hadn't noticed in the last memory. It was a family portrait of Helga, Godric and Viella. Suddenly, Viella moved in the portrait and Helga screamed. She had not enchanted the painting, how could it move?

Salazar and Rowena immediately drew their wands in preparation for whatever Helga had seen. They turned and looked at the pair and followed their eyes to the painting. Their jaws dropped as they saw Viella waving at them.

"Viella, my Viella," Helga cried in agony. This was her only child, she didn't understand.

"Mother, do not fear, I am here. Do not cry, Father, I have made my choice." Viella said in a beautiful lyrical voice. I felt tears running down my face along with Helga, my heart breaking along with hers. I felt Frank's arm around my shoulder and I leaned into him for support.

"Why are you here my darling," Helga said brokenly.

"I chose not to let Uncle S save me, I knew that muggles needed to do it. They needed to be saved from fear, they still do. I am here to guide you with your school." Viella said calmly.

"How do you know about our school?" Rowena interjected. I could see the confusion on her face mirrored on Lily's. "If you are an enchantment you shouldn't know about our plans."

"I am no enchantment," Viella said turning to Rowena, "When I chose to be a sacrifice I chose to watch you. I have seen your plans, and I have seen your goals. Your school needs a Heart, something to keep the magic alive, and I have chosen this. I am a part of this portrait now. Through it I live. Through it your school lives."

Rowena looked like she was trying to figure out how it happened, but Helga had relaxed. Her daughter's heart would live on in the dreams of the students who crossed through the hallways.

Godric stood up and opened his mouth to speak -

Suddenly we were out of the pensieve. Looks of confusion covering all of our faces.

"What happened? Why couldn't we see the end of the memory?" Lily asked. The rest of us had no way to answer.

"Should we try and go back in?" I asked. I couldn't leave the memory there. There was so much missing still.

"We should try," Cael said. We all dove back in, only to be pushed back out.

"Look," Cael shouted, pointing to the door. Words appeared on the wall of the room to the right of the door.

The Heart is mine, you shall not have it! I have waited long enough! Give up before you make me act! This is a warning from The Shadows, I will not give another!

Fear shot through me. What had we done?

A/N: Yaaaayyy another chapter :D Please R&R and tell me what you think. What do you think is going to happen?

Until next time,

missmysterygirl out!