Chapter 3
Gandalf and Dumbledore had decided that while the fellowship was at Hogwarts they should have a chance to recuperate their strength, Gandalf had also decided that the ring should not be allowed to walk around the school as most of the students would be unable to resist the pull of the ring, luckily Dumbledore had a safe of sorts one that could only be opened by the person who put the thing in there (like the security vaults at gringotts) so while Dumbledore took Frodo to the safe, Dumbledore had entrusted Dobby with the task of finding the fellowship rooms, he had sent Harry and co back to their care of magical creatures class.
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dobby was happy because the headmaster had entrusted him with a very important task, he was bumbling along the halls thinking of where he could put them, that took a little of the bounce out of his step…then he remember the room of requirement, there was a charm he could use to make the room stay the same for a while…he led them up the corridor and past the tapestry of Barnabas the barmy training trolls in ballet and stopped opposite the blank wall.
"what do you reckon we are doing here, merry this doesn't look like bedchambers…"
"this is the entrance to the room of requirement…masters must think of the room they want and then the door will come…"
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Pippin was thinking hard about the room he would want to be in…a hobbit hole type bedroom like the one he had stayed in last time he was in bag end… with a nice comfortable hobbit bed…he looked around at the other members of the fellowship and then at what was his name…dobby…was this all a joke…he found himself thinking…he looked at the wall and gasped…he poked merry in the ribs
"look merry there's a door just appeared in the wall" he ran forward and burst through the door…there was a very large room behind the door… there were ten beds…one four poster bed…that would be Boromir's, an elvish bed…Aragon probably…a small strongly built bed…Gimli, he probably didn't want the bed to break like the one he had slept on in Rivendell…there were four hobbit beds all of which could have come from bag end, they were in an alcove, like a little tunnel going of from the main room, it was decorated in a similar style to bag end, there was also a tree in the corner of the room.
"is this to the masters satisfaction?"
"yes" said Boromir "but there are only ten beds…"
"Boromir…wood elves don't sleep on beds…"said Aragon pointing at the tree which was growing up from the ground… the corner was a balcony
"oh…right"
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half an hour later Frodo was shown into the room, he was glad that he had been able to take of the ring and know that it would be safe he need a break from the weight of carrying it, apparently dinner was in half an hour the rest of the fellowship was in the room, reclining on there beds with the exception of Legolas who had gone for a walk outside, in the grounds and merry and pippin who had gone on a look around the school.
Frodo went over to the little alcove/tunnel in the corner; he found Sam there snoring gently
"hello Sam…dinners in half an hour"
"oh right, its safe right…"
"yes,"
"I wonder what type of mischief Merry and Pippin are getting up to…"
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peeves was floating in the great hall he was a bit bored all the students were in poltergeist protected rooms, wait could his ghostly ears be deceiving him there where two voices coming from up the marble corridor…
" I'm starving…"
"me too…"
"i wonder where the kitchens are…"
"merry watch out…you stupid Took…watch out its going to…." The rest of the person's word were lost in crashes and clangs peeves turned himself the right way up and saw to his delight a 15th century suit of armour toppling down the stairs. He looked up at the top of the staircase and saw two of the smallest people he had ever seen peering down the stairs after it…
"well now who would you be? Naughty little first years perhaps?" said peeves in his mock teacher voice
"no" piped up the smaller of the two, "we are hobbits"
"rob its! So you go around robbing people?"
"no except when me and merry used to go and steal farmer maggots crops…we Hobbits are decent folk…well merry and me are the local menaces…"
"shut up Pippin, your getting us in to even more trouble…"
"oops…do you know where the kitchens are?"
"maybe but you do know that dinner is soon…"
"no but thanks"
why the hell am I being nice to them thought peeves I am supposed to create havoc and make peoples life a misery not help them…may cos there menaces and I am a menace too
"you want to meet the weasly twins they'll help you with the menace part, they are the mischief makers in chief"
"thanks…"
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Legolas was walking through the grounds, on top of the snow toward the place where they had appeared just half an hour earlier…the group of children had not come back from their class yet…they had gone into the forest, he tracked their footsteps, humming an elven melody to himself, he had his bow on his back and his knives in their boot sheaths, he could hear and sense a strange herd coming towards him, he strung his bow, and then continued walking, they were coming closer, he caught a flicker white ahead and black to the left.
"I mean you no harm so pray stop dancing and come into the open"
"you are human and we do not like humans"
"I am not human…"
"really you look like one to me…" a man with a white stallion body to the withers and a human torso stepped out from behind a tree, "if you are not human then what are you?"
"I am a wood elf…"
"you are a friend of the forest,"
"yes,"
"you are tracking the footsteps of the wizard class…"
"yes…"
"tell hagrid his attempt is failing…"
"who is hagrid?"
"the tallest one" with that the centaur left
so the centaurs don't like what hagrid is doing in the wood…I wonder why…Legolas puzzled this over…a short while later he heard a call like that of a monsterous bird, but made by a man, he ran along the trail and found himself in a clearing, the class who they had scared by appearing in the middle of were now accompanied by a man who was as taller than Legolas. There was what looked like half a dead deer on the floor of the clearing, the class was standing around the edge of the clearing some of them were looking absolutely terrified, in fact only the three student who had taken the fellowship up to the castle did not look afraid, there was a swish of wings over head and a what looked like a dragon crossed with a horse landed by the meat and started eating it. Legolas looked at the students only three of them were looking at the horse, the dark hair boy was one of them, the other had an air frustrated ability and the third stank of evil
"righ now who can see em?"
"excuse me" drawled another of the students, "but what are we supposed to be able to his see?" in answer to this the tall man pointed at the meat, one of the girls gave a startled squeal,
"good morning,"
"er..hello"
"so you are studying threstrals, you do know that the ministry of magic considers them to be dangerous
"they migh tak a chuck outa you…,"
the toadlike woman who had come out of the forest took out her quill and said "seems to enjoy the idea of violence"
"a dog ll bit yeh if yeh mistreat it"
"difficult to understand" her behaviour towards this man was likened to the behivour of Boromir at the concil of Elrond, just because aragon was a ranger Boromir immediately assumed that his information would be useless.
"I am going, to walk around the students" she said accompanied by ridiculous sign lanague.
Hagrid blushed red under his beard. Legolas followed her around the group with his eyes and ears
"do you ever find it hard to under stand what hagrid is saying?"
"yes it just sounds like grunting"
"can you see these thresterals?"
"yes are you scared of them?"
"no"
"students are too scare to admit there true…"
"I am not scare of them…"
the woman moved on from him straightening up to find her next target, her eyes landed on Legolas
"you can see the tresterals as well?"
"yes"
"do you find them scary?"
"no I have seen much worse things in my life one of which is you,"
the entire class gasped at this remark
"you rude child dentention for you and 50 points from…which house are you in?"
"I am not in a house at the moment I am in the middle of a wood I do not know what detention is…"
"why are you carring a bow and arrows?"
"for protection…I merely came here to ask hagrid if I could ride on one of the thresterals"
the toad womans mouth dropped open
"may I hagrid?"
"sure…come over here" Legolas walked over to hagrid, Hagrid turned to him and said in a whisper "I dunno who yeh are but thankyeh, watch out they ken be lil…"
"I know I can tell…" with that Legolas went up to one of the horses taking of his ring at the same time
~fair horse~
the horses ears picked forward
~will you let me ride you?~
the horse walked over knelt before him
~I wish to go up to the tree tops will you take me there?~
the horse stood up and nodded its scaly head, Legolas vaulted on to the horses back, the horse spread its great wings and soared upwards
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harry watched with amazement as one of the strangers who had arrive less than half an hour ago walked up to one of the horses, he spoke in a melodic tongue and the horse he had approached knelt down at his feet,
hagrid was looking at the scene with amazement stamped on his face
"might proud are thresterals, never bow to any one cept royalty"
Legolas had now climbed on to the thresteral's back and was being born upwards, he stopped, hovering next to the topmost branches of an fir tree which was laden with snow, he jumped of the thresterals back and landed crouched on the highest branch…half the class screamed, the thresteral was making its way back down to the ground, for a last bite to eat. Leaving Legolas on the top of the tree were he stayed for all of two minutes before sliding down the tree to land gracefully on the forest floor with the entire class including harry staring at him. Harry turned his attention back to the tree the branches of the tree were still laden with snow. Harry also noticed Legolas put the ring back on his finger that Dumbledore had given him.
"as you can see, my lady, these thresterals are very safe to be around"
"the ministery of magic has labelled them as dangerous…if you don't watch out mister…"
"my name is Greenleaf I am very interested to see what punishment you are going to inflict on me…"
harry found himself wondering what type of person would be so brave against umbridge when he already had a detention…which with umbridge was always worse than lines…well at least umbridge would be so mad at legolas that she wouldn't give hagrid a bad report…he looked at his watch the lesson was over five minutes ago.
Harry got hagrids attention and pointed to his watch…
"ok everyone we's goin back now…I would suggest tha yeh keep quiet the centaurs ent to hapy at the momen,"
harry wondered why the centaurs were upset
legolas had been having a quiet word with Hagrid and had caught up with harry ron and Hermione
"hey mate give us a warning when you are coming up behind us" said ron when Legolas started talking right next to him
"I am sorry, I will try…what happens now"
"supper time," said Ron with the enthusiasm Legolas would expect to see on a hobbits face when those two words were uttered
"then I had better go and get ready,"
with that he left the path trodden by the students and walked across to the tree up to his room.
"hey" yelled ron, "your not leaving any foot prints"
harry looked in the direction in which Legolas had walked off there was no sign any footprints and yet he stood in the middle of an apparently untouched snow field.
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