Observations: 0:20

Results: Finally, individuals are showing differing emotion and motives. That was the thing I wanted to see, now, I need to think about a plan that would exclude the leader.

Ginny

"What would happen if we turn around?" Proposed Ginny, "we never tried it before."

To their surprise Draco was one to turn around and go backwards, lately he was acting hidden and quiet, like he was plotting something, and kept huge distance as Hermione appeared. Ginny gave him a cautious eye.

Draco walked a distance until he smashed onto something invisible and fell. That made Harry burst into uncontrollable laughter even when the situation was dire. Draco hissed and raised shakily to his feet and slammed into nothingness again.

"There's something blocking us." From coming back, "Some sort of a glass or..."

Hermione sprinted and slammed her fist into invisible blockade. Yet blue sparks raised, air crackled and force threw both of them on solid ground.

"A shielding charm?" Hermione suggested. "Guys there's a force filed following us." Harry walked towards them to inspect it, his arms touched nothing, a thin air, but he could not continue going, as if invisible glass, or a force filed was blocking him.

"Well, the filed is behind us and would follow us, meaning we cannot come back from where we came from." Everyone eyed the leader. "Only option is to go... Forward... And never look back."

Observator

I look at them from my hidden observatory, they don't know anything about my existence, but Know that they are being watched.

They know that they are trapped, I wonder if knowledge of that would affect my study... I don't think so... Let's continue with the scenario, what's next... Ah... Favourite of mine!

Harry

Appearance of Hermione gave them a lot of hope, she knows her stuff, she's like mother to Harry in dark situations, he is glad to have her around, also she keeps Draco at the distance what is a plus.

The fact of force field blocking their returning way didn't bothered him much, he wasn't sure why, maybe he was sure that they would find way out of this... Maze/nightmare/death/test/cave thing, is to go forward.

"Let's keep going shall we?" Girls and his nemesis followed him without a second word, he smiled, he was a good leader.

They walked alongside warm river without a source, and stopped as they reached the dead end. What! Dead end! This could not be over!

"Is that it?" Draco hissed behind them. "Trapped by field and wall with mud blood, farmer and idiot! Father help me!"

Harry slammed his fists on rocky surface, it was too thick to dig through, he looked at his compass, worthless as always. Hi bit his upper lip, everyone looked at him hopefully. But he could not think of a words that would support their desire for hope.

He slowly faced them. Wanting to say, this is over, we are going to die here, but words couldn't escape. He just spit out "let me think" but really he wasn't thinking, his mind was crying. They are really trapped in the middle of nowhere!

Then world started to crack, below his feet lighting shaped rows cut, more and more like on thin ice. The ground started to rumble and soon it snapped, letting entire four fall, down down into darkness, their fears muffled by their screams.

Falling was nothing like flying, Harry noticed, only thing those two have on common is letter F.

Wind blew and their bodies were accelerating to the glass like basement. They aren't going to die, they would just access another part of the cave.

Everybody painfully landed on shiny surface, they were still in a cave, but this one was made out of mirrors.

"Crystals!" Hermione exclaimed happily, raised and sprinted towards shiny surface. Entire cave was decorated with them, different shades and shapes, sizes and styles. Harry raised to his feet and trudged forward, seeing his tired reflection in different colours.

"How are crystals formed?" Harry asked Hermione, maybe this piece of info would add resolving puzzle to their jigsaw.

"The conditions for diamond formation to happen in the lithospheric mantle occur at considerable depth corresponding to the requirements of temperature and pressure. These depths are estimated between 140..." Hermione burst with extract from a book, none of words she said made any sense, he sighed and noticed that path in front of them continues to go forward.

"Guys, I know this place is pretty, but we have to keep going forward." He informed them and without any hesitation they started to move in desired direction. Lustrous carbons had indeed improved their mood. Harry looked forward to discovering more of the caves, Hermione was fascinated by their molecular structures, or something, Ginny searched for sharp ones that can be useful, while Draco, slowly following the group, tried to sneak some into his pockets and admired his looks once in a while. That made Harry roll his eyes, then world shook, again.

They stopped as if on command.

Observator

I never tried that spell before, hopefully it would work.

I raised my wand and observed as crystals in monitor started to move and change.

Ginny

"Guys, the diamonds, they... Move?" She quickly looked around the group, looking if anybody has a wand and creates magic causing this to occur, but no, no one held anything. "Who's doing this magic?"

There wasn't time for answer, crystals joined and sticked forming a great, moving structure that resembled a snake. It was made out of translucent crystals, only it's eyes were blood-red rubies. There was no need to command, all of them broke into a sprint.

Crystal snake charged at them, hissing and showing arrange of his diamond-sharp teethes. It snapped and leaped at ones close to him, trashing glass-like surface that acted like land.

They speeded up, air rustled in their ears, and Ginny herself felt like flying.

Snake charged, it was really close.

"Solid land!" She heard Harry shout. "In front of us."

Ginny then realised that glass surface she was running on started to crack, she had to reach Solid Land or she would fall into the darkness.

They ran, they were jumping distance from solid rock, ending the glass surface, with corner of her eyes she noted that Hermione slipped, and serpent was close to her, she quickly changed directions and ran towards the beast.

"I am fine!" She said stumbling to her feet. "Run! Run!"

Ginny snapped and returned to run into direction of Solid Land, surface beneath her started to crack and smash, she jumped and with outstretched arms reached for rocky surface, Harry caught her and dragged towards. Then her eyes moved to Hermione, she was still struggling on smashing glass, when she was about to take a leap forward, she let out a petrified scream which was drastically cut, as snakes jaw closed on her.

Crack, bones shattered and flesh was pierced.

Air was knocked out of Ginny, Hermione lifelessly hanged from serpents mouth. No, no, no, she could not die, she didn't deserved to! No!

Behind her a tiny voice mumbled, Ginny automatically jerked for her dagger and reached for her speaker, to her surprise it was Neville, shielding himself from her blade.

"Neville?" Harry asked, then looked at Hermione, or lump of flesh that once was Hermione.

Dun-dun-duuuun.

No, I am really upset about her death... Really!