Chapter 7

Hearing Harry laugh made Lord Elrond feel better, seeing the nightmare had not had lasting effects on his new son "Of course not little one, why would I try to keep you from your brothers?" Harry giggled again and said "Ada I like learning from the twins, it teaches me what to expect when it comes to those two's pranks and I could protect you from falling into one of them so you won't need to worry and we can prank them back with their own tricks and that way I won't get punished for pulling pranks, we both win." At this lord Elrond laughed and said "Now that is a worthy cause, I suppose this means we are a team?" harry hugged his ada and said "deal" Laughing Lord Elrond said "Why does that sound like I just made a deal with the devil?" to that Harry answered "cause, you just did, all I need is a tail and some horns, maybe I can I get the royal tailor to make some. What do you think?" "Little one I think she would make you anything you wanted if you ask. You are just too cute." Harry pouted and said "I'm not cute Ada only babies are cute and I am definitely not a baby I would be able to walk properly by now if everyone would just stop carrying me all the time."

Lord Elrond knew that it would be a while before Harry's legs were strong enough to carry him enough to walk. He was still a baby in elf terms. He probably would have been able to walk by now if he had been born around other elves. His speech told his true age. He knew it would have to be frustrating for the young elfling but in the interest of keeping him safe Harry was not allowed to be left alone or allowed to attempt to walk without someone watching him. In human years his body would be compared to a child several months old, Elrond hoped that his late development would pass and he would begin to develop as he should. He was already much smaller than he should be.

As Harry fell asleep that evening he found himself back in his nightmares with the Dursley's. It felt so real to him he forgot his new life with the elves. He lay in his cupboard and it was dark as usual. The sudden familiar rapping and screeching at his door seemed to bring him out of his Melachony. "Up get up! Now! Breakfast isn't going to make itself you lazy freak."

Harry pulled himself up and crawled out of the cupboard he was forced to call home. It was strange he had thought he had been in another place. Of course it must have been a dream considering his circumstances. Had his relatives not let him know that no-one would want him? Dreams were one thing and reality was another. He walked into the kitchen where his uncle and cousin were sat at the table. They looked at him as he entered the room and his uncle's face twisted into one of rage as he began to tell him how useless he was, a waste of space and how he deserved all the bad things he got. Harry woke up suddenly as his uncle seemed to reach to grab him. He was in his own bed in his room. A soft glow in a corner of the room provided a little light in the otherwise darkened room. Harry looked around the room which was beautifully furnished in colours that reminded Harry of the woods he had woken up in after he arrived. After calming down Harry sat up and decided to get out of bed. It was unusual for him to be left alone and he wondered at the change. Despite that he decided to take advantage of the freedom. He crawled to the edge of the huge bed he was lying on. It was actually the size of a normal double bed but to Harry it seemed massive due to his size. Grabbing his courage he stated to shimmy down the side of the bed. It was further down than he had imagined and landed on the floor on his bottom with a painful thud. Rubbing his now sore bottom which he was sure would bruise Harry held onto the side of the bed and attempted to pull himself up onto his legs.

He hadn't really tried walking again after that first time when he woke up in the new world, but the whole being carried everywhere he went while nice was beginning to make him feel irate and fairly useless. He had to get a hold of his independence. Walking didn't feel the same to Harry as before. He kept overcompensating on the steps and it gave him a feeling of vertigo. His legs felt too light and he wasn't sure what he was doing wrong. Moving one leg in front of the other while still holding on to the bed Harry was determined to get it right, after a little while of walking from one side of the bed to the other Harry began to get used to how his legs felt as he walked. He didn't need to hold on as tightly as he had when he first begun and decided to let go and try to stand without holding on to anything. It worked for about two seconds before he went down. He kept trying till he could stand on his own even if for short periods of time. He was beginning to feel how tired he was and wanted to get back into his bed. He was also sore from all his attempts at walking, it was then he realised he had not thought about how he was going to get back into bed.

He crawled over to the door which was always partially opened so that the adults could hear him if he woke up at night. Pulling it open and crawling through it Harry found himself in the corridor outside his room. His Ada's room was a few doors down to the left of his but when he arrived the room was empty, then he decided on looking in the study and that room was empty as well. This was very strange there was always someone here with him. Crawling his way out of the room Harry went in search of anyone he could find. Every room he entered was empty, he finally made his way outside to find the glow that was always present in his home absent. It was eerily quiet. Even the usual sounds of the night could not be heard. Harry had been afraid before when he could not find anyone but now he was in full blown panic. There was no life around him. Where was everyone? Did they abandon him? Maybe they decided he was a burden and left him behind moving somewhere else. Tears coursed down his face as his worst fear was realised. No-one wanted him he would be alone forever, he did not want to go back to what his life was like before he changed worlds. He reached out with his magic as far as he could from where he was all over the city. What confused him though was that he could sense his Ada, Glorfindel and even the twins as if they were in the same room with him. If he could sense them, then why could he not see them? He started to think back to when he woke up. Is it possible that he actually hadn't woken up? Was he still asleep, if he was then how could he explain how real everything felt? A gasp beside him made him look up to see who it was that had suddenly appeared. It was lady Galadriel. He was not sure what to make of her. His current fear made him forget his previous apprehension with her. He felt relieved that he was not alone in whatever it was that was going on. "Hello young one! I see you possess the gift of spiritual astral projection as well. I thought I was the only one with it." Harry's tear stained face continued to look at her and then he spoke "You know what's happened to me? I don't understand where is everyone?" Lady Galadriel made a gesture silently asking if it was okay to pick him up. Harry gave his consent and she picked him up. He felt relief as his arms and legs hurt from all the crawling and attempts to walk. The bruises he had acquired were not helping either. "Well little one you are currently in your bed in your room. However I think because of what happened when I arrived I unlocked a hidden potential in your mind. The power of astral projection, right now we are on another plane of existence, well our astral selves are. Everything around us is an exact copy of the real world except without people in it.

It is a latent power that elves used to have a long time ago and they used to use it to communicate with each other over long distances. The number of elves who had this power diminished over the years as some were killed in battles that came up, while others faded or left for distant shores away from middle earth." Harry was glad that he had not been abandoned. He felt his fear leave him as he now understood why he could sense his Ada although he couldn't see him. "How do I get back?" Well do you remember how and when you got here?" Harry shook his head and said "I woke up here but then I wanted to practice walking when I realised that there was no-one in the room to prevent me from trying, I got out of bed and did it, although I did notice that it was the longest time I had been left on my own since I came here."