Harry Potter and the Eyes of the Elves
King Eldred and Queen Elswyth had just been discussing what to do with the situation with Voldemort and his Death Eaters and their alliance with the Rogue elves when a call had come from Eremir, the elected leader of the Dark elves. He asked to meet the king and queen at the gates of Edlandris for a counsel with their highest officials. The meeting was to be well guarded and as a symbol of peace the elven Warriors and Guardians of the king were to be allowed within the white marble and golden halls of Edoras, the official meeting hall of the elves.
Sensing no harm from the invitation, Eldred and Elswyth went to the gates with three of their best Warriors and three of their elite Guardians. Eremir was standing calmly in front of the gates with his hands clasped behind his back. He was clad in elvish uniform of earthy greens and browns. Beside him were his wife and three sons, the youngest at the age of thirteen, and all garbed in the same fashion. As soon as he saw the approaching group, he held out his hands, palms upward, in the typical elvish show of peace.
"Eremir, I have not heard or seen hair or hide from you in many months or a few years it seems. What brings you to our city now?" Eldred ask the elf standing in front of him.
"My family and I wish to speak to you of the Rogue elves. In former days, the Imperials and Dark elves fought together to defeat the common enemy. Unfortunately, we let old feuds, arguments, disagreements, and petty differences keep us from being permanent allies. We may have come to a mutual agreement to not kill our brethren but now our common enemy has risen again and we have arrived here in hopes to honor the former allegiance of our two great societies."
Eldred smiled and held out his hand for Eremir to take. "I would be pleased to discuss such things with you and your family as my family has also been under a personal threat of our common enemy. Will you come with us to Edoras? I am sorry that we cannot transverse into the city but as you know you cannot enter at this moment due to the wards."
Ernia, Eremir's wife, asked, "If you will pardon me asking this, but being that I am not native to this vicinity of the elven world, how will we be able to enter Edoras? For isn't that also inside the city gates?"
"No, my beloved, Edoras is a meeting room where many counsels have taken place. It is a place to be open to all for none would dare destroy it for it is sacred."
Elswyth sighed, rather sorrowfully, at that declaration. "We have had to guard the sacred halls of Edoras as of late."
The Dark elves all looked shocked. "None of our people would dare to try to harm Edoras!" the eldest son, Eriador said, while his two younger brothers, Elgan and Eamon, both nodded as well.
"We never did say that it was your people that have attack the counsel hall." Elswyth said, quietly and gently.
"It was the Rogues." Eldred stated, wearily running his fingers through his hair. "Those damn beasts are doing their best to destroy the world that we live in. In fact, we received word the other day that they joined the evil humans under the promise to get to torture our children once we fall."
The group arrived at Edoras and quickly sat down around one of the many circular, oak tables in the center of the historic hall.
Ernia gazed about her in rapture as did her youngest two of her three sons. All of the others had been there two years earlier for the order of the cease fire*.
"What can we do about the Rogues?" Eremir asked bluntly, getting straight to the point of the discussion. "They have broken any old tradition that is imaginable to our people. They have broken laws that both of our clans hold dear. We cannot let this abominable behavior continue! This is more of a monstrosity than in the time of Grindewald!"
The others about the ancient room of Edoras all quickly agreed and set out to find a way to fight off the Rogues without giving away their secrets to the humans or any other creature being that that was the one key commandment that neither of the Imperials or the Dark elves would dare to break.
It was at the point in time that Eremir agreed to send a hundred of his warriors to Switzerland, where intelligence had found that Voldemort was located along with the heads of the Rogues, when a apparition appeared to the center right side of the table of which the group sitting at. The figure in the apparition was instantly recognized by all of the Imperial elves sitting in the room but the Dark elves gazed at her curiously.
"They let people interrupt their important meetings?" The youngest son, Eamon, asked. "Is that not thought of as improper here?"
"Hush, Eamon." The others said instantly to him. They were gazing intensely at the eight Imperial elves that were all at an instant alert by the appearance of the message and its messenger.
"Ewyne!" Elswyth was sitting forward and gripping the edge of the table. "What is it? What has gone wrong? Why have you contacted us? Has something happened?" Eldred quickly grabbed his wife's hands off of the table being that bright sparks were coming from her fingertips at her apprehensive disposition.
"I greet you, my lady and lord. I am afraid that I do not bring good news."
Elswyth made a choked sound at the back of her throat and Eldred quickly stood up and asked, "What is it?"
Ewyne's message spirit looked around quickly noticing the Dark elves but not giving them a second glance. "I must say, my lord, that it would be best if you were sitting when I give the news that I bring," Eldred sat down without a second thought. Ewyne gulped. "My lord and lady, the unthinkable has happened. It appears by the slightest evidence, only a single strand of hair, that led us to believe a single or small group of Rogues were here at Hogwarts… And, my lord and lady, Elle has disappeared along with them—"
Elswyth and Ernia both put their hands to their faces at this statement and Eldred swiftly stood up again. "When and how did this occur?" he demanded angrily.
"Elle had forgotten her Herbology book in the class that we had just left and had gone back to get it. I am sorry, my lord, for not staying with her at all times as was instructed, but it seemed such a little task that I did not think of the harm and danger that could have happened which now has. I shall understand if you wish to expel me from this group and of the organization of the Warriors for my lack of common sense and duty."
Eldred and Elswyth rapidly agreed that that was not necessary for now, "but if that same temporary lapse of good, strong judgment occurs again, we will be forced to expel you."
"We shall be there in a few minutes." Eldred said as he turned to leave.
"No, Majesty! You must not do that!" Ewyne cried out from her ghostly form. "We do not understand the motives of this abduction but it may be so that you do leave the general vicinity of Edlandris! You must not do that."
The king sighed at the comment which he knew to be correct. "What is going on and where is Emrys? Why is he not the one talking to us?"
"Is he quite alright?" Elswyth asked, just as urgently.
"Majesties, your son is currently safe from outside attacks but he is attempting to do the tracking spell."
"He is attempting to do the tracking spell?" Elswyth repeated back as if to make certain that she had heard correctly. "One of us should be the one to do it!" she gestured between herself and her husband.
"That is as was said to the highness but he would not listen. He says that you are to be too busy to even try to complete the spell and that he would do it because—"
"Because of what?" Elswyth asked as Ewyne paused, seemingly not wishing to continue her sentence.
"Because he blames himself for her capture, my lady."
Eddris walked around the circle in which Emrys was still sitting after three hours and a hurriedly eaten salad, water and toilet break. The tracking spell had it where you could not bring anything else inside of the circle than what was necessary to start the spell and could not leave the circle for more than a quarter hour at a time although you were allowed to sleep inside the ring.
The spell was actually not that difficult in theory to complete. But in actually performing the spell, while you are sitting inside the circle you must go into minute detail of where you want to search. It is very much like a satellite photograph from outer space where you must keep zooming in on one area to see if the one you are searching for is there. As was stated, the spell is very complicated to perform because it needs extreme amounts of patience. But the spell can zero down into a certain area of about three hundred miles around or near the region where the one being traced can be found, should the caster have a very close possession of the one being searched for.
Emrys was lucky enough to have one such item, the ballet shoes of his sister.
As he sat in the ring of blue and white light, he finally found exactly what country she was in; Switzerland right in the midst of the Alps.
End Chapter Fourteen
*: In the times before and during the time around Emrys' birth the arguments and battles between the Imperial and Dark elves had been massive; which is what led to the fleeing of the Imperials to Edlandris. But because of the wards surrounding the city (which is like a country unto itself, with rivers, farms, etc.) none of the Dark elves could enter. Due to the fact of them being out of contact with each other, the two groups came to a mutual cease fire agreement 'you leave us alone, we leave you alone'. But should anyone travel into the area surrounding Edlandris after sundown were captured.
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