A/N: And here is the long awaited (three days, i think, SO long.) Next chapter!
"This means either Common or English"
This means Sindarin, which only Legolas, Aragorn and Gandalf are fluent with.
I am so sorry if this seems a little cliche.
In the HP world let's just say that Dumbledore is alive and for some unkown reason, as yet, Voldermort is not a huge threat. It is set post-HBP, but the world's worries with Voldermort are kept secret from the Fellowship, and they don't find anything to show that Voldemort is gaining power. It all makes sense if you just enjoy the story rather than analysing it and how it fits into canon. It Is FanFiction. Don't scream with frustration, please, because it doesn't tie in perfectly with the HP timeline. It is Humour!
Disclaimer: I don't own, you don't sue, i do the writing, you do the reading, everyone's happy.
Shopping, Chapter two of The Fellowship Hits Hogwarts
All ten grabbed the large quill, and each felt a peculiar tug behind their navel, before spinning uncontrollably and finding themselves hitting the ground, hard, on a square of pavement outside a rather dismal street of houses, seemingly in a city.
"Wow." Sam said, awed, yet dizzy.
"Now I want all of you to repeat this in your heads, The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix can be found at number twelve, Grimmauld place. Got that? Excellent!"
Each thought it over in their heads, puzzled as to the reason why. "The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix can be found at number twelve, Grimmauld place"
To the amazement of all but Dumbledore, and apparently Gandalf, another house appeared between numbers eleven and thirteen. The wizards led them through the new door, and Dumbledore whispered, "be silent, we don't want to wake up Mrs. Black, she's a right nasty piece of work, that one."
Dumbledore silently led the nine Fellowship members down a dark hallway, and then into a kitchen, where, sitting at the table, was a huge Man, along with a few others.
"Hagrid, Mrs. Weasley, Tonks, Remus Lupin, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron and Ginny Weasley and Minerva McGonagall, please meet my brother, known as Gandalf, Gimli, who would like to become a sort of apprentice to Hagrid for the year, the hobbits Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Sam, and Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas. These last seven are going to be going to Hogwarts until my brother and I can open a new link between our worlds, which will take almost a year." Dumbledore said by way of greeting.
The Half-Giant, Hagrid, said to Gimli, "C'mon over 'ere, lad, let's size yer up."
Gimli nervously walked over. "Sorry, but what are you? I'm a Dwarf, and you're more than three times my size!"
"And I'm an 'alf-Giant. An' proud of it!" Hagrid added.
"Well, Off to Diagon Alley, Tonks, would you and Remus take the new students? Thank you."
Tonks, who had bright pink hair today, walked over with Lupin, and said to the group, "Let's be off!" she rubbed her hands together excitedly; "Let's take the Knight Bus!"
"Might as well." Sam replied for them all.
Outside once more, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Boromir, Legolas and Aragorn watched in confusion as Lupin raised his right hand, and then jumped back from the curb as a giant, purple, thing appeared, moving impossibly fast, coming to a halt in front of them.
Tonks stepped in the door, and said, "Nine to the Leaky Cauldron. How much?"
The conductor replied, "Nine sickles each. Tha's eighty-one sickles!"
Tonks handed over four Galleons, and thirteen Sickles, and they all crowded onto the contraption.
"What is this thing?" Legolas asked.
"The Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. But," Remus grinned, "beware when it stops."
A few seconds later, the conductor yelled out, "Wales, ten seconds!"
And precisely ten seconds later, thuds sounded from all three levels of the bus, and Merry said, "I think I've broken something," before pulling a broken candlestick from underneath him. "Oops." He commented.
"London, next stop!" The conductor yelled gleefully.
"Thanks Stan!" Tonks yelled back.
The bus stopped again, but this time they were a little more ready, and only flew forwards three metres, rather than the length of the bus. Climbing out, Legolas said to Aragorn, I don't like the Knight Bus, not at all.
To which Aragorn replied, I think Pippin's going to be sick!
To the relief of both, Pippin's stomach settled quite soon. They entered a dreary looking pub, and Pippin asked if they could stop for some ale, when he received one "yes!" and seven "no!"s, he seemed a little downcast.
Lupin led the group out the back, and tapped his wand on a certain brick in the wall. To the utter amazement of the Fellowship, the wall seemingly wriggled open, to reveal a crowded street of shops.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley. Here, you will buy your school things, with our help. Let's go to Madam Malkin's for robes first, what say you?" Lupin said.
"Ok." Sam replied.
When they had battled the crowd to get to the small shop, a short witch greeted them. "New robes, I suppose?" she asked.
"Yes, for all of them, Hogwarts." Tonks replied.
Legolas tried his on first, and bought three sets of plain black robes. The others all followed suit.
They went into numerous stores, and bought many things they would need, before turning to an old, dusty shop called Ollivander's. "Now, you need wands." Tonks said. "Each is different, and the wand chooses the wizard. Let's go!"
"Uh-oh," Sam muttered.
Once they had all bought wands, after each trying out what seemed to be the entire shop, Frodo had an eight inch, dragon heartstring, beech wand, Sam had an eight-and-a-half inch mahogany with phoenix feather wand, Merry had a seven inch oak with a unicorn hair wand, Pippin had a holly, nine inch dragon heartstring wand, Aragorn's was twelve inches, pine with a unicorn hair, Boromir had an eleven inch, mahogany and unicorn hair wand, and Legolas had a wand of twelve inches, made of oak with a phoenix tail feather.
"Let's go to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor and have an ice-cream each." Tonks suggested. "Tab's on me."
"What is ice-cream?" Boromir asked.
Tonks stopped and stared at him. "You don't know what ice-cream is?" she asked in disbelief.
"No." Boromir returned.
"This is ice-cream." Tonks said, walking over to an ice-cream store. She ordered nine ice-creams, all chocolate and in waffle cones.
"I figured that since you have never had it before you might as well taste the best, Remus and I both love the chocolate." She explained her choice of the mud coloured ice-cream.
"I like this, why don't they make it in the Shire?" Frodo commented.
"It's probably because they need to make it from certain things that aren't found in the shire, and it has to be kept cold." Legolas observed.
They all finished their ice-creams, and then went back to the Leaky Cauldron. "Can we please not take the bus again? I'm sure I'll actually throw up if I get on that thing again." Pippin requested.
"Let's use the Floo Network, then." Lupin suggested. "Now, take a pinch of the powder, throw it in the flames, and say very clearly number twelve Grimmauld Place, then step into the flames. Like this," and Lupin demonstrated. They all gasped when he disappeared within the flames.
"Okay, let's do this in pairs, that way there is less chance of going the wrong way. Aragorn, Legolas, bon voyage!"
As they threw their powder onto the fire, and said "number twelve Grimmauld Place" they stepped onto the flames and disappeared.
Aragorn hooked his elbow around his best friend's, and they span uncontrollably, seeing glimpses of rooms beyond fireplaces, and getting dizzy, whirling in the green flames. After a few seconds, they tumbled head over heels out of the grate in that dismal kitchen, and Lupin helped them to stand up. A moment later, Merry and Pippin flew out, and then they were helping up Frodo and Sam. When Boromir whizzed out with Tonks, she barely kept him on his feet.
Looking around at the dropped parcels, Legolas counted them to make sure that they had not lost any. All were accounted for, lying scattered throughout the kitchen. The boys Harry and Ron helped the group to bring their parcels upstairs, and showed them to rooms, the Hobbits all in one, the Men and Elf in another with Gimli.
They were to have two weeks of lessons with various teachers to be up to standards among the seventh years, and all proved to be fast learners, but they still weren't entirely up to scratch. It was the best they could do, and they had found a solution to reading, if not writing. McGonnagal had charmed several pairs of delicate glasses to translate written English to Common, but they had no way of writing English without properly learning the language, which would be too much on top of six years' study in two weeks.
Two busy yet boring weeks later, it was September the First, and the Fellowship along with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Hagrid, McGonnagal, a hobbit-like professor called Flitwick and a strange girl called Luna were on their way to Kings Cross. It was a half-hours walk to the train station, and they left Grimmauld place at ten o'clock, arriving half an hour before the train was to leave.
"Pippin, go through the wall! Grab my hand, come with me." Hermione was exasperated with Pippin refusing to walk through solid brick. Harry led Merry through, Ron led Frodo, and Ginny led Sam. Luna walked through with Boromir, but didn't have to grab his hand to force him through.
Ready? Legolas said to Aragorn.
Ready. He replied. They each grabbed their trolleys securely, elbows hooked around each other's, and ran at the wall, going through smoothly to see a huge scarlet steam engine, and quickly boarded with the Hobbits and their friends. They all barely managed to fit into one compartment, and said goodbye to the teachers and adults, who would be getting to Hogwarts by Apparating to Hogsmeade.
Soon the train left the station, and Merry and Pippin found out how boring a train ride can be. Within an hour they were otherwise occupied, plotting practical jokes.
I wonder if we'll get in trouble if we get someone stuck in a high tree? Aragorn said to Legolas.
Let's find out. First target, Merry and Pippin. Legolas replied.
Luna had left to sit with her Ravenclaw friends, and Hermione had explained about houses at school.
Eventually, they arrived at Hogsmeade. Hagrid's voice yelled out, "Firs' years over 'ere! All firs' years 'ere, please!"
And then Gimli yelled out, without his bracelet on, "That includes Fellowship members!"
"Coming!" Boromir called, also removing his bracelet momentarily.
"Good luck with the Sorting." Hermione whispered to Legolas, who whispered back, "Who needs luck?"
VVVVVVV
Sorting ceremony, Great Hall at the Hogwarts Welcome Feast.
"Baggins, Frodo!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Brandybuck, Meriadoc!"
"It's Merry!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
A few names later, "Denethorion, Boromir!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Elrondion, Aragorn!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
After a number of first years names, McGonagall called, "Gamgee, Sam!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Greenleaf, Legolas!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Some more 'ickle firsties', then, "Took, Peregrin!"
"MY NAME IS PIPPIN!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Did you say that Hufflepuff is the duffer's house? Then Pip definitely belongs there." Boromir commented to Harry.
"Hey, Ron, are there any chief troublemakers around here?" Legolas asked innocently.
"No, but there has been a competition since my brothers left."
Now, the competition is between us and the Hobbits, Estel.
Aragorn smirked. They won't know what's hit them. After all, when we travelled together we weren't rowdy teens. We were respectable adults.
"I don't think I want to know." Harry commented. "You seem to be plotting to take over after Gred and Forge."
What do you think? I have no problems with changing it slightly, and PLEASE tell me if it sounds too similar to another HP/LOTR xover you have read! I am trying to make this original, but i haven't read all, so i don't know all that has already been written.
