A/N: another one, hope you enjoy it. Nothing really happens in this chapter, it's just a connector for night and morning.
Disclaimer: This applies for all the rest of the chapters…I own absolutely nothing.
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Chapter 5: Transition Chapter
After a pit stop at the kitchens, where Dobby had been more than happy to oblige the visitors in their need for nourishment, the group headed up to the portrait of the Fat Lady. Harry gave her the password ("chuckleberry") and led his companions into the common room.
He turned to them and said, "I'll stay down here with you tonight, to answer the inevitable questions that will come up in the morning. Don't talk to anyone else until you've woken me. No doubt Dumbledore will make an announcement about you tomorrow at breakfast. By tomorrow night, there should be enough beds empty for you all to have one. Get your stuff set up for the night, I'll be right back.
Harry went to put his cloak away in his trunk, changed into his pajamas, grabbed a pillow and blanket and went back downstairs.
The hobbits were toasting the biscuits Dobby had given to them over the fire. Their things were laid out in a corner. Gimli had taken his own corner and was already asleep, and snoring very loudly. Boromir was sandwiched in-between the couch and the wall, also snoring, but no where as loud as Gimli. Gandalf had claimed one of the couches. His hat was on one of the armchairs and his staff lay on the floor next to the couch, barely within his reach. Legolas was gazing out the window at the moon, not seemingly tired at all. Aragorn was staring into space with the oddest expression on his face from one of the other armchairs. Harry chose to sleep closest to the dorm staircases, so he'd probably be woken first by students coming down them. He laid his stuff out, climbed under the blanket, and was lost to the dream world.
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The sound of footsteps on the girls' dorm stairs woke him the next morning. He got up quickly, even though he was still exhausted from his short sleep. Ginny Weasley came into view and almost screamed when she saw the total strangers in their common room. Harry stopped her just in time. Hermione came down the stairs within the next few seconds and gasped at the view of the people sleeping in the common room. She turned to Harry and asked, "Harry, who are these people?"
Harry just gave her a small smile and said, "I'm sure you'll find out at breakfast. Help me get them up, will you?"
Ginny, a little intimidated by the other strangers, offered to go rouse the hobbits. Hermione insisted on getting Aragorn and Legolas up, for some reason unknown to Harry. So the boy took care of Gimli, Boromir and Gandalf, and together the three students hustled the Fellowship down to the Great Hall.