Wizardry System - Chapter 57

“Alright kids, do you have any questions for us?” Helga asked.

“Yes we have a lot! How are you still here?” Kristine asked.

“Do you three understand what a soul is?” Helga asked.

The three nodded.

“Good. This’ll be a lot simpler then. While we were still in the other world, we have found a way to safely inject a sliver of our soul into an object,” Helga said.

“Founder, I have heard of a method very similar. It is called a-”

“Yes a Horcrux. I am extremely surprised you know of this,” Helga said. “However, our method is slightly different. A Horcrux forces the person to put in 50% of however much of their soul is left in their body after killing someone and doing a specific ritual. However, we found a method where we were able to put in 1% of our soul without murdering anyone or doing a ritual. This allowed our main bodies to be unaffected by the soul transfer, but we were completely disconnected from our main bodies making our main bodies vulnerable to death,”

“Then why add your souls in the statues?” Chris asked. “I mean it’s not like you four were able to do anything inside here,”

“I suppose in our hearts, we all did not really want to die,” Rowena said. “While we knew that we would have to die eventually, we just wanted to live eternally in another place and we have done that. Like we said, we even got to go to your world every so often to see what’s new and how we can improve our humble cabins,”

‘I guess even the powerful Founders of Hogwarts are scared of death,’ Chris thought.

“So since we have answered some of your questions, it is time to answer some of our,” Godric said. “So how exactly did you three get in here?”

“We have a diary. We don’t exactly know whose it is or what its purpose is. However, we found it in Hogwarts and using the Philosopher’s Stone, we were able to enter,” Chris said taking out the diary and handing it to Godric.

“Hmm.. Rowena do you know where this is from. If it is from our school and allows three random people to enter this place with just the Philosopher’s Stone, it has to be something very old and powerful,” Godric said as he handed it out to Rowena.

“I don’t know,” Rowena said. “Like you said, it is a powerful artifact, but I don’t know its origin nor do I know its power. All I know is that it knows about us being here and we have never told this to another soul. We never had an entrance to this place either so that means it forcefully created one to allow three people from the other world to enter. The creator of this artifact must be a lot stronger than we are,”

“Scary scary scary!” Godric said jokingly. “So what are you looking for that’s in here? We literally have nothing to give you,”

The diary in Rowena’s hand started to shake.

“The diary. Words are starting to form,” Rowena said.

To the four heroes,

Gather your sacred treasures for the young ones.

For they have the burden to fix the mistakes of the past.

This is your final quest as heroes. Succeed and you’ll live peacefully for eternity. Fail and you will all perish.

“Is this diary threatening us?!” Salazar asked angrily.

“No it is merely prophesying what will happen in the case that we decide to not do what it has asked. The diary will not be able to do anything, but the force that is against this diary is able to kill us,” Helga said.

“I refuse to use my locket to help these kids, two of whom are Muggle-born and one who dares to insult me!” Salazar said angrily.

“Salazar, we have all sacrificed a lot for the sake of benefiting the Wizarding World. I do not think your disdain for these kids is better than any of the reasons we have made to try not to sacrifice what we did forgo to improve the Wizarding World,” Rowena said strictly

“She’s right,” Helga said. “You have sacrificed things much more important than your locket even though you had reasons far more important than dislike for Muggles,”

Salazar clicked his tongue and threw his locket towards Helga who caught it without getting angry. He then left the house in a huff.

“I suppose that when it comes down to it, that snake will do the right thing after all,” Godric said.

“Let’s not insult anyone here,” Helga said. “Now you have your sword, Rowena has her diadem, and I have Salazar’s locket and my cup. Now what do we do children?”

“More specifically, what did you do with the Stone to come in here?” Rowena asked.

“We put the Stone on the diary and it allowed us to come in,” Hermione said.

“Well then, let’s do the same. It seems like it is the most logical method,” Rowena said. The three founders put all four of their treasures onto the diary. The diary soon shook once more and a bright light enveloped everyone in the room and like before, Chris was forced to close his eyes.

“What’s going on? Where is this? Why am I here?” Salazar asked.

“The book must’ve been able to bring you by using the magic imbued in your locket,” Rowena said.

“While sitting on a throne is nice, I don’t want to be here,” Godric said. He tried to get up, but he realized that he was stuck.

“Sorry, I suppose getting out of here was a slight bit harder than I thought,” Godric said. He used a bit more of his power to get up to no avail.

“Alright I’m getting a bit angry now,” Godric said as he started to use most of his power. Once again, he was unable to get up.

Godric decided to use all his power, but he could not even get his buŧŧ an inch off the seat.

“I suppose we’re stuck here,” Godric said.