Disclaimer: Rowbans is MINE but everything else is J.K.Rowlings. The plane I'm writing this in is JetBlue's.

Tis not the mt. we councore

It is ourselves

~Sir Edmound Hilliary~

First man to climb Mt. Everest and live

Chapter 14

Brujatodos

I don't remember the walk back to Gryffindor tower. I was still stunned at what I had just seen. My professor was bawling in front of a mirror, and she had seen into my cloak. That has shaken me most of all. There was defiantly something up with this woman. Or girl... whatever she was.

I do, however, remember Ron throwing up his hands in discust when he saw I didn't have any food for him. He stormed back up to the dorm, paisley pajamas and all. Oh well, we would be back together by morning. I walked over to the table Ron, Hermione and I had taken a claim to in our first year, and Pulled over the W.E.T.M.A. scroll and a quill. In my scrawl, I wrote

Rowbans

Mirror of Erised

Crying

Tracing people into glass

saw through cloak

I quickly perform a drying charm on the parchment, and rolled it back up. I put the roll back in its usual spot, and headed off to bed.

Once in the dorm, I pulled my fathers diary out, and started looking at all the pictures he had drawn in. I fell asleep, somewhere around the one of his closest friends. Little did I know then, that was the one picture I should have seen.

The next morning, Hermione came to me with interesting news. During charms she passed me a small note.

Harry-

There was only one girl who could

have been named Torry that year.

Victoria Rowbans

I folded up the note and turned to Hermione.

"Are you sure?" I whispered

"Positive" she said nodding. I ran my hands threw my hair. Rowbans wasn't sure a popular name, but could it be my teacher? Could she have known my father? And how could she be so young?

After charms we skipped lunch and went straight to the common room and our table. Hermione pulled over the parchment and spread it out. Grabbing a quill and ink bottle from her bag, she assumed the roll as dictator.

"Ok, so what do we know about Rowbans?" she asked us.

"She's 15" muttered Ron. Hermione scribbled looks 15 on the parchment.

"She's a Demiguise" I said. Hermione scribbled this too.

"And" added Hermione, "She's finished school and Dumbeldore trusts her."

"Hermione," muttered Ron "Dumbeldore trusts everyone. He'd trust a worm if it asked." Hermione chose to ignore this. She drew a fat, thick line across the page and wrote "Torry" under it.

"What do we know about her?" She asked

"She's a demiguise, she finished school, she knew my parents and her name is Victoria Rowbans."

Ron snorted "Well," he said sarcastically "I don't see any connections."

"So..." I muttered. "There the same person? But the ages. How could it be?" Hermione looked perplexed. After opening her mouth a few times, she pulled out a fat book entitled "Complex Charms and abnormalities."

"We look it up." she said "I doubt it's poly juice potion, as she drinks from a glass like everyone else. It could be a glamour, but they wear off too quickly. There is the possibility that she's immortal, but she would look much older by now." Ron grabbed the book and flipped to the index. Running his finger up and down the rows, he stopped next to the word "immortality: pages 4, 17, 976-978 and 1028".

"Might as well try the long one first, knock it out of the way, eh?" he said, flipping to page 976. It was a chapter on "Brujatodo". Seeing promise, we bent over and Hermione began to read aloud.

The Brujatodo are a small clan of Spanish witches. During the Black Plague, when witches were beheaded for causing the illness, A group of a dozen or so witches tried to create an immortality potion. But, most modern alchemists will till you this is impossible without a sorcerer's stone. The potion went wrong, and caused the Witches to become slaves to reincarnation. When each witch died, they discovered they were re-incarnated again, with there memories and skills intact. Each cycle can be broken, and most Brujatodo have now done so. Maria Mendez, leader of the groups, discovered the atomic make-up of emeralds is powerful enough to break the cycle, but not kill the Brujatodo. Today, it is rumored for only 4 of the original members to still be intact with there powers......

The three of us looked at each other with chesser-cat grins.

"Bin-go" said Ron