AN: Hi everyone! Thanks, as usual, to my two reviewers.

Lindiel: The identity of the guests will be revealed soon. (Actually, in this chapter.)

PixiePea000: Cliffhangers are the best! I like to write them. Again, the characters are based on people I know and I'm not one of them! By the way, GOLLUM!

Disclaimer: I own nothing! My characters are the extended Dolan family, the Americans witches and wizard, and everything about Hound's Hollow. I'm just a broke college student who writes for fun and to pass time between classes. I only own my Pointe Shoes.

Telling the other wizards he would introduce them later, Patrick requested that only Dumbledore and McGonagall to stay. Since they were the headmaster and deputy headmistress at the school, the Irish wizard figured that they would want to meet the group first and make sure they were alright.

"Um---Albus, Minerva these are some of my friends from Middle Earth. The two in the robes are, for lack of an easier explanation, wizards. The one in white is Gandalf and the one in brown is---um---wait I know his name--- um---Radagast. Now, the rest of these guys are either elves or half elves or humans, I'll spare you the details until later. That's Elrond over there with his two sons---yes they're twins---his daughter. That's her husband and her daughter. I know why they're here but I can't explain why these other elves are here. Anyway, that's Legolas and his sister and, truth be told, I'm not sure who the other woman is," Patrick said, pointing out each person in turn.

After a tense moment of silence, Dumbledore got up and said, "It is a pleasure, and honor, to meet all of you."

He, then, shook everyone's hands with Minerva following suit. Patrick sighed in relief and slumped against a wall.

He was joined by a little girl with silvery-blond hair. She was wearing a long greenish dress and she looked very uncomfortable. She crouched on the wall next to Patrick and waved.

"What's going on, Emma?" the wizard said to the child.

Then he added, "Shouldn't you be out there with your brother?"

Turning his head ever so slightly to the right, he noticed her older brother standing next to him. He had crept up so quietly that Patrick didn't notice he was there.

"But, then again, elves are always very quiet," Patrick thought to himself.

This elf was much taller than his sister and was dressed for woodland travel. He even carried weapons with him.

"What brings you here, Prince?" Patrick asked, knowing that calling him that would bother him.

The elf turned to the wizard and smiled. Though he liked to tease people, the elf felt he owed a great deal to Patrick. The wizard had saved his sister when she was just a baby.

"I don't remember sending a hawk to Mirkwood. Why did the two of you come? Not that I'm not happy to see the two of you," Patrick asked.

"There aren't two of us," Emma, happily, said, "there are three of us."

"So there are. Who is the mystery woman, Legolas? Is she your girlfriend?" Patrick inquired.

"Girlfriend? No, not at all," Legolas started but he was interrupted by his sister.

"There is this girl at home he likes but his dad wants him to like someone else," Emma said.

Legolas shook his head and continued, "She is far from being my girlfriend, as a matter of fact. Her name is Alagernil."

"Alagernil? Wasn't that your mother's name?" Patrick wondered, aloud.

Legolas nodded, somberly.

"But how? I thought Niphredil was forbidden from going to retrieve spirits of elves," Patrick said.

"She is but she said that the spirit came to her and asked to be taken out. There was nothing she could do but take her out," Emma said, giving the explanation she was given.

Legolas told Emma something in elvish, causing the little elf to run off and go stand with Elrond's sons.

"What's the real story?" Patrick asked the elf, curious to find out the truth.

"No, that is the truth. I told her that story," Legolas replied.

"How are they getting along?" Patrick asked, referring to the prince's mother and Emma.

Patrick knew that Legolas and his father didn't really see eye to eye and he had heard that the prince's father hated Emma with a passion. He knew that Emma was often sent with her brother just so her father didn't have to look at her.

"Surprisingly well. She doesn't look down on her or anything like that. As a matter of fact, she decided to accept her as her daughter," the elf told the wizard.

"That's good for both you and Emma. You get your mother back and Emma gets another person in your family to accept her as a princess," Patrick said.

The wizard then added, "Actually, it also good proof of Niphredil's ability. Dumbledore will probably want to meet with your mother."

The wizard took leave of the elf and began searching out Niphredil. He wanted James, Chris, Daisy, and Lily to meet the elf that had helped them. He knew that they had already met, the day they she had saved them, but she wasn't herself that day. He found her talking to Minerva McGonagall. The elf was trying to explain what she had done to rescue the Potter's and the Dolan's.

"But I'm not evil, really. My great-grandmother says that it's a skill because all elves have some magical ability," the elf told the wizard.

"Excuse me, Minerva, but can I borrow Niphredil for a moment?" Patrick asked the other wizard.

"May I ask why?" Minerva asked.

"I just want her to meet the people she rescued and their kids," Patrick answered.

"Where are we going?" Niphredil asked Patrick, as they walked.

"Don't worry, it won't be far," Patrick replied.