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I also hope to one day own Frodo, Harry, and others, but it will never
happen.
*********Tales of the Nine************************************************
Harry lay awake for quite a while that night. He was trying his best to think of what to say when he approached Professor McGonagall tomorrow on the subject of the Fellowship. He now knew they weren't bad people, just out of their element, and that they didn't deserve to be locked up. He sighed as he shifted from his right side to his back and ran his hand across his face; he finally knew what to say.
Meanwhile, several members of the Fellowship were still awake as well. The hobbits and Gimli had fallen asleep rather quickly, save Frodo, and by this time only Aragorn and Legolas were still awake. They were conversing in muted tones over their best course of action. They didn't want to endanger the inhabitants of the land by keeping the Ring there, but they didn't think that there was any plausible way to get to Mordor from their present location either. They pitched a few ideas to each other and finally decided on a course of action which they would tell to the rest of the company in the morning. The fire they had started in the fireplace had burned low by the time they reached a decision, so they threw a couple of logs on and decided to wait for the dawn. ************************************************************************
Harry, Ron, and Hermione met in the common room fairly early the next morning. The other students were bustling around the message board in a rather cheery mood due to the lack of classes that day. Harry slapped his forehead. Of course, the teachers were still conferring over what was to be done about the Fellowship.
Hermione had also been up thinking the previous night; she pulled Harry and Ron away from the ecstatic mass of kids chattering about what they would do with their free time.
"If the teachers are holding a conference, shouldn't we go and tell them what we think?" she asked.
Ron's eyes opened wide at her statement. "Have you lost your mind? We'll have to explain how we know they're not criminals, which means we'll have to turn ourselves in!"
"If it's between getting caught or something happening to them, I think we should try and get them out," said Hermione decisively. Harry nodded and said, "I have to agree with Hermione on this one, mate, we'll end up in a lot less trouble than they could."
Ron finally gave in, albeit reluctantly. The three of them headed for the portrait hole only to be stopped by Ginny and Neville.
"Have you guys heard? There're no classes today!" Ginny said happily.
"Yeah we've heard," Ron said.
"Well, I was wondering if you guys wanted to play Quidditch with me? I know you're not on the team anymore, Harry, but I could use the practice."
"We're busy," Ron grunted at his little sister. Harry nodded and headed for the portrait hole. Ginny threw a disgruntled look at their backs as they headed down the corridor. She held a debate with herself for a few seconds before racing after them, leaving a befuddled Neville looking at them through the closing portrait.
"Alright, what's wrong?" she asked as she caught up with them.
"What makes you think something's wrong?" Harry asked in an unconvincing voice. Ron mustered up a falsely cheery grin as though to support Harry while Hermione looked scandalized. She opened her mouth to say something but Harry ground his toe into her foot and she gave a small yelp before glaring at him. Ginny raised her eyebrows at him. "I'm not stupid," she said, irritated, "there's something going on or you wouldn't be pussyfooting around me." She stepped neatly in front of them, folding her hands across her chest and standing with feet akimbo.
"Now, are you going to tell me what it is, or am I going to have to find out through Hogwarts gossip?" she asked sweetly.
"Find out from someone else, then," Ron said savagely as he strode around her. She caught him by his robes and said, "I'd rather find out from you lot, gossip is, well.....gossip, so it's not entirely reliable. Besides, I won't tell anyone else, and I'd be willing to help you." She let go of Ron's robes and looked at the other two. Harry finally groaned and said, "I guess we'll have to, won't we?" Ginny nodded while Ron shook his head and made violent gestures behind her back.
Harry took a deep breath. "We're going to visit the people that were captured two nights back in the forest." Ginny looked at him strangely, while Ron threw up his hands in disgust and Hermione tutted at him and put on her, "it's all for the best" look. "We went to visit them last night, and they're innocent, they haven't done anything wrong."
Ginny continued to stare at him shrewdly before shrugging her shoulders and stepping aside. They started towards the dungeons, and Hermione said her thanks to Ginny. "That's alright," she chuckled, "I'm coming with you," she said as she followed them. Ron muttered something scathing under his breath and Hermione said, "Ron!" **********************************************************************
Pippin woke up to find several of the other Fellowship members awake. With the exception of the snores of the still sleeping Gimli, the room was rather quiet. Legolas, Boromir, and Aragorn were sitting around the wispily smoking embers of the fire in silence, and he went to join them. As he jumped down from the couch where he had fallen asleep, the young hobbit jostled his two cousins, who had fallen asleep on either side. Merry murmured in his sleep, "No thanks, fifteen mushrooms 's my limit...." while Frodo said tonelessly, "The road goes ever on....and.....on........hrrrmmm?" Frodo woke up and groaned before shooting Pippin a small smile from underneath bleary eyes.
Frodo slid down from the couch as well and he and Pippin crossed over to where the others were sitting. Legolas noted Frodo and Pippin's half conscious states and chuckled, "Tired, are you?" Pippin managed to nod while Frodo simply stared at Legolas for a few seconds before shifting back to reality. "What did you say?" he asked. Legolas laughed again. Frodo shrugged and smiled before returning to his own mushroom fantasies.
After a few more minutes of sleepy silence on the hobbits' part, the door to the chamber swung open. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and another red headed girl who was probably akin to Ron, stepped in. They greeted the Fellowship, waking up the sleeping forms of Merry, Sam, and Gimli, the last shouting, "Come get me, you scum!" at being woken up.
"Oh, this is Ginny, my little sister," Ron said distastefully as he motioned in the red headed girl's direction; Ginny waved slightly shyly at the company.
"So, you will still help us?" Aragorn asked the children, who nodded.
"We'll do all we can," Harry said.
"Good, I am sure we can convince the....professors, did you call them?.....that we did not mean to harm anyone."
At this, they settled down to talk more. They debated what to say, and how not to come across as bad people. An hour had passed before everyone was satisfied. During this time, Ginny, like Hermione, had taken rather a shine to the hobbits.
At the end of the discussion the children got up to leave.
"If all else fails," said Harry with a slightly malicious grin, "we could have the hobbits go on about their upbringing, about how they were abandoned by their parents, and how it turned them into street urchins." Sam and Pippin met this with scandalized and annoyed looks; Merry sighed and buried his face in his hands. But Frodo said, "I hope it doesn't come to that," and he looked rather upset. Harry noted this, but made for the door. As he laid his hand on the rusted doorknob, the warped wood began to move on its own. It pushed inward of its own accord. Everyone backed up and the Fellowship jumped to its feet; Snape had just appeared in the threshold of the room. He smiled thinly as he caught sight of the children.
"Good morning to you all."
*********Tales of the Nine************************************************
Harry lay awake for quite a while that night. He was trying his best to think of what to say when he approached Professor McGonagall tomorrow on the subject of the Fellowship. He now knew they weren't bad people, just out of their element, and that they didn't deserve to be locked up. He sighed as he shifted from his right side to his back and ran his hand across his face; he finally knew what to say.
Meanwhile, several members of the Fellowship were still awake as well. The hobbits and Gimli had fallen asleep rather quickly, save Frodo, and by this time only Aragorn and Legolas were still awake. They were conversing in muted tones over their best course of action. They didn't want to endanger the inhabitants of the land by keeping the Ring there, but they didn't think that there was any plausible way to get to Mordor from their present location either. They pitched a few ideas to each other and finally decided on a course of action which they would tell to the rest of the company in the morning. The fire they had started in the fireplace had burned low by the time they reached a decision, so they threw a couple of logs on and decided to wait for the dawn. ************************************************************************
Harry, Ron, and Hermione met in the common room fairly early the next morning. The other students were bustling around the message board in a rather cheery mood due to the lack of classes that day. Harry slapped his forehead. Of course, the teachers were still conferring over what was to be done about the Fellowship.
Hermione had also been up thinking the previous night; she pulled Harry and Ron away from the ecstatic mass of kids chattering about what they would do with their free time.
"If the teachers are holding a conference, shouldn't we go and tell them what we think?" she asked.
Ron's eyes opened wide at her statement. "Have you lost your mind? We'll have to explain how we know they're not criminals, which means we'll have to turn ourselves in!"
"If it's between getting caught or something happening to them, I think we should try and get them out," said Hermione decisively. Harry nodded and said, "I have to agree with Hermione on this one, mate, we'll end up in a lot less trouble than they could."
Ron finally gave in, albeit reluctantly. The three of them headed for the portrait hole only to be stopped by Ginny and Neville.
"Have you guys heard? There're no classes today!" Ginny said happily.
"Yeah we've heard," Ron said.
"Well, I was wondering if you guys wanted to play Quidditch with me? I know you're not on the team anymore, Harry, but I could use the practice."
"We're busy," Ron grunted at his little sister. Harry nodded and headed for the portrait hole. Ginny threw a disgruntled look at their backs as they headed down the corridor. She held a debate with herself for a few seconds before racing after them, leaving a befuddled Neville looking at them through the closing portrait.
"Alright, what's wrong?" she asked as she caught up with them.
"What makes you think something's wrong?" Harry asked in an unconvincing voice. Ron mustered up a falsely cheery grin as though to support Harry while Hermione looked scandalized. She opened her mouth to say something but Harry ground his toe into her foot and she gave a small yelp before glaring at him. Ginny raised her eyebrows at him. "I'm not stupid," she said, irritated, "there's something going on or you wouldn't be pussyfooting around me." She stepped neatly in front of them, folding her hands across her chest and standing with feet akimbo.
"Now, are you going to tell me what it is, or am I going to have to find out through Hogwarts gossip?" she asked sweetly.
"Find out from someone else, then," Ron said savagely as he strode around her. She caught him by his robes and said, "I'd rather find out from you lot, gossip is, well.....gossip, so it's not entirely reliable. Besides, I won't tell anyone else, and I'd be willing to help you." She let go of Ron's robes and looked at the other two. Harry finally groaned and said, "I guess we'll have to, won't we?" Ginny nodded while Ron shook his head and made violent gestures behind her back.
Harry took a deep breath. "We're going to visit the people that were captured two nights back in the forest." Ginny looked at him strangely, while Ron threw up his hands in disgust and Hermione tutted at him and put on her, "it's all for the best" look. "We went to visit them last night, and they're innocent, they haven't done anything wrong."
Ginny continued to stare at him shrewdly before shrugging her shoulders and stepping aside. They started towards the dungeons, and Hermione said her thanks to Ginny. "That's alright," she chuckled, "I'm coming with you," she said as she followed them. Ron muttered something scathing under his breath and Hermione said, "Ron!" **********************************************************************
Pippin woke up to find several of the other Fellowship members awake. With the exception of the snores of the still sleeping Gimli, the room was rather quiet. Legolas, Boromir, and Aragorn were sitting around the wispily smoking embers of the fire in silence, and he went to join them. As he jumped down from the couch where he had fallen asleep, the young hobbit jostled his two cousins, who had fallen asleep on either side. Merry murmured in his sleep, "No thanks, fifteen mushrooms 's my limit...." while Frodo said tonelessly, "The road goes ever on....and.....on........hrrrmmm?" Frodo woke up and groaned before shooting Pippin a small smile from underneath bleary eyes.
Frodo slid down from the couch as well and he and Pippin crossed over to where the others were sitting. Legolas noted Frodo and Pippin's half conscious states and chuckled, "Tired, are you?" Pippin managed to nod while Frodo simply stared at Legolas for a few seconds before shifting back to reality. "What did you say?" he asked. Legolas laughed again. Frodo shrugged and smiled before returning to his own mushroom fantasies.
After a few more minutes of sleepy silence on the hobbits' part, the door to the chamber swung open. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and another red headed girl who was probably akin to Ron, stepped in. They greeted the Fellowship, waking up the sleeping forms of Merry, Sam, and Gimli, the last shouting, "Come get me, you scum!" at being woken up.
"Oh, this is Ginny, my little sister," Ron said distastefully as he motioned in the red headed girl's direction; Ginny waved slightly shyly at the company.
"So, you will still help us?" Aragorn asked the children, who nodded.
"We'll do all we can," Harry said.
"Good, I am sure we can convince the....professors, did you call them?.....that we did not mean to harm anyone."
At this, they settled down to talk more. They debated what to say, and how not to come across as bad people. An hour had passed before everyone was satisfied. During this time, Ginny, like Hermione, had taken rather a shine to the hobbits.
At the end of the discussion the children got up to leave.
"If all else fails," said Harry with a slightly malicious grin, "we could have the hobbits go on about their upbringing, about how they were abandoned by their parents, and how it turned them into street urchins." Sam and Pippin met this with scandalized and annoyed looks; Merry sighed and buried his face in his hands. But Frodo said, "I hope it doesn't come to that," and he looked rather upset. Harry noted this, but made for the door. As he laid his hand on the rusted doorknob, the warped wood began to move on its own. It pushed inward of its own accord. Everyone backed up and the Fellowship jumped to its feet; Snape had just appeared in the threshold of the room. He smiled thinly as he caught sight of the children.
"Good morning to you all."