A/N: This is the sequel to "Unexpected Allies", categorized under the Harry Potter section of this wonderful website. In case you hadn't figured it out, this is a LOTR/HP hybrid. Read the first part to understand this part better
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Chapter 1: Surprise Guests
The Fellowship stared at their surroundings. No longer were they at Hogwarts, but exactly where they had been pulled from when they'd been mysteriously called to the school by a spell. A feeling of sadness coursed through the group; they missed their new friends terribly.
Gandalf had grown fond of the young wizard named Harry Potter, even though the boy had hardly ever stopped staring at the Maiar's pointy hat. Aragorn and Legolas missed Ron and talking battle skills with him. Legolas had also formed a friendship with Hermione and was desolate in the absence of her cleverness. Boromir and Gimli missed everyone equally, although the dwarf had grown rather fond of the Gryffindor girls. The hobbits were beside themselves with missing the house elves and their delicious platters of food that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
Gandalf turned his weary face to his companions and said, "We now have no choice. We must face the deep dark of Moria."
And off they went into the mines. The group was solemn; not even Pippin was cracking a joke or smiling. That fool of a Took should have said something by now. I wonder if he's feeling ill, Gandalf thought. He continued on this train of thought for quite some time.
All of a sudden, he stopped short. He'd run into something that he swore wasn't there a second ago. It was a black-robed figure with an exact replica of his own hat on its head. Behind the figure, three more heads bowed under hoods (no hats), so he couldn't see who they were.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" Gandalf demanded. No one's inhabited these mines in decades. Who are these strangers that would defy all reason?
The hatted figure murmured, "You know us." It raised its head slowly. "You left our company just a few hours ago."
With those words, Gandalf knew who it was underneath that hat. When the light from his staff illuminated the startling green eyes behind black-rimmed glasses, Gandalf bent down and embraced the young wizard.
"Hello Harry. That's a wonderful hat you've got there."
Harry grinned up at the Maiar. "Thank you, Gandalf. I believe you know my companions as well."
With that, the other three figures revealed their faces. Hermione and Ron beamed at the Fellowship, and the odd group of travelers smiled right back. Aragorn shook Ron's hand, and Legolas gave the back of Hermione's hand a suave kiss. At this, the girl's face turned a remarkable shade of red. Ron winked at her. Embarrassed, Hermione punched Ron playfully in the arm. Everyone laughed.
The person that no one had expected to be there was Professor Snape. He came complete with assorted potions in his bag. Gandalf gave the man a questioning look, and Severus replied, "You told me to look after him, Sir Gandalf, and I will perform that duty to the best of my ability."
The old wizard smiled and said, "Please, just Gandalf. I'm glad to see you cam along, Professor."
Snape smirked. "Please, just Severus."
Harry grinned proudly at his potions teacher and said to Gandalf, "Haven't I done a good job softening him up?"
Severus gave Harry an indignant look. The younger wizard had to bite his tongue to keep from bursting out in laughter.
Aragorn was confused. "I don't understand. Why did you follow us?"
Ron, breaking up his play-fight with Hermione, responded, "Because you helped us with our big bad guy problem, so I'll be bloody damned if we aren't going to help with yours!" He ducked as Hermione threw a fake punch at him. Aragorn and Legolas broke up the fight; they didn't want their friends to hurt each other, especially when it would be accidental. Ron looked disappointed, but Hermione graciously suffered being pulled from the fight in Legolas's arms. She still squirmed, to make it seem like she was trying to get out of his strong grasp, but obviously wasn't truly attempting to escape. Harry rolled his eyes.
"'Moine, if you're going to flirt with the elf, please don't do it where we can all see!"
Everyone but the girl snorted with laughter. She looked more embarrassed than Harry had ever seen her before. She turned a brilliant shade of scarlet, but made no effort to leave the elf's embrace. Harry noted that Legolas wasn't too quick in letter her go, either.
Gandalf, still chuckling over the young wizards' antics, turned and led the group onward. Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked behind him, the boys teasing the girl mercilessly. However, when she suggested that Harry and Ron had crushes on Gandalf and Aragorn, respectively, they shut their mouths.
Severus, walking behind his students, couldn't help but grin at their foolishness. The smile looked as if it were on completely alien territory. He thought of Potter having a crush on the old man…Harry, not Potter, Harry…He would never get used to calling the young boy Harry. Six years of one thing takes a while to change to something completely different.
As Severus mulled over this, Aragorn and Legolas were walking behind him. They were discussing something that had become evident during the youngster's fight. "Legolas, you shouldn't get too attached to her. You may like her, but she can't stay here, you know that."
"I know, but alas, I cannot say that I do not adore her cleverness. She's one of the most fascinating people I've ever met, and am likely to ever meet, and I'd like to at least have a decent friendship with her before she returns to her world!"
"But will it stay a friendship, Legolas? Will you be able to keep it from becoming more? If not, then it will only hurt more when she departs."
Legolas frowned. "I'm aware of that, Elessar. If it goes to more, then we will decide together what should be done. If not, then it is of no consequence."
Aragorn gave him a pitying look and said nothing. The elf scowled. "Auta miqula orqu."
Strider whipped his head around. "Mani ume lle quena?"
Legolas shook his head, refusing to repeat that he had directed the man-who-would-be-king to go kiss an orc, and dropped his pace enough that he fell back to even with Gimli. The dwarf had, in his boredom, begun singing the Britney Spears song that some of the girls in Harry's realm had taught him. The girls had taken as much of a liking to Gimli as he had to them. Perhaps they just had fun braiding his beard and tying the ends off with little pink bows. Gimli sure seemed to enjoy it.
Legolas listened to the dwarf with amused interest.
"I'm a slaaaaaave for you…"
"Really now, Gimli? I'm flattered."
The dwarf, who had been completely oblivious to Legolas's presence, turned to look up at him with obvious surprise evident in his eyes. Clearing his throat, Gimli said, "Oh, er, didn't see ya there." He muttered under his breath, "Damn poncy pretty-boy elf…"
Legolas glanced at the dwarf, who quickly went to whistling innocently. The made-up tune eventually turned to the Britney Spears song again. Growing weary of the same repeated tune (Gimli only had time to learn the refrain of the song, not the verses), the elf slackened his pace yet again to fall in beside Boromir. They both, by silent agreement, fell into their own deep thoughts.
Behind them, Merry and Pippin were entertaining themselves with a game of "I spy", which was way too easy, because it was quite dark in the Mines, so most of the games went as follows;
"I spy something…grey."
"The walls!"
"You got it!"
"I spy something…grey…"
Further back, Sam and Frodo were discussing their time spent in Harry's world. Sam was questioning Frodo, "Do ya think that Professor Dumbledore will notice he's gone, Mister Frodo?"
"I don't know, Sam. How did he manage to get in your pact without you noticing?"
"It was probably that last day, at breakfast. Do you think the house-elves knew something was going to happen?"
"No, Sam, I don't think anyone expected that. But of course, those creatures are pretty odd." Frodo sighed. "I just wonder when the best time is to reveal Dobby to them."
End Chapter 1
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