Chapter eleven

By the time they had come to the eating halls it seemed that the entire school had heard of the demise of the potions teacher, it also seemed that very few of the students were sure of the exact happenings in dungeon thirteen, all that was generally known was that professor McGonagall had made her way down to the dungeon to ask if Snape had a potion ingredient she required, the potions professor was now lying inert in the hospital wing , some rumours had even said that Dumbledore had been trying to awaken the professor with no success

~Mellon nin do you think that we should help to awaken the teacher? ~

~I would be otherwise inclined but if the man is a spy he may be needed for his skills before the potion wears off, it will be especially potent for the altheas leaf~

~I had not neglected the matter, ~

"Why are you two looking so grave? You should be rejoicing" said Ron their left

"The potion which we brewed is very strong, normally"

"What do you mean? Aragorn"

"What he means is that I made the potion more potent than before, the potions teacher could be resting for a greater number of years than you have lived"

The red headed Ron looked elated but the other two seemed worried

"We were wondering whether we should go to wake him, he is an important asset to the side of light is he not"

"How did you know about that? It's supposed to be a secret" asked Hermione

"Being an elf can help in matters of these sorts, we will go to the teacher aid"

The red headed child seemed crest fallen

"It is for the best" said Aragorn with a sigh; he had really disliked the man

"We will see you in care of magical creatures; I know how to reach the place where you are taught"

"Alas we do not know how to reach the place where the teacher is kept"

Harry looked around and then with drew a piece of blank parchment from a pouch within his robes, Aragorn looked at it and wondered what the purpose of this gift was, he turned to Legolas he was little surprised to see that the elf was looking upon the parchment with far more interest than his

"I would praise the makers of this map, but I think that I am not likely to find any of them in the near future"

"How could you see it?"

"I am very resistant to spells"

"Then I don't need to give you the spell then"

The boy handed the parchment them

"We will return it to you in the next lesson"

With these words said Aragorn and Legolas made their way up to the hospital wing.

Upon entering the hospital wing they were not surprised to see that the rumours were true, all of the teacher, apart from the toad woman were standing in the room around the bed on which the teacher had been laid.

"…it would be easier if we knew what had caused it sighed one of the teachers dispiritedly"

"Then we may be of aid" said Legolas, most of the teachers therein jumped at least a foot in the air, a few spells were sent in their direction but luckily none hit Aragorn

"Mr Thundril and Mr Arathon do you know what has caused this?"

Aragorn spoke out in haste to finish the statement as fast as possible, "it was the dreamless sleep tincture we brewed…it is the elven recipe, and there is only one antidote,"

"Do you have it with you?" asked the headmaster

"Even a small child may administer this treatment; I fear that if we awaken him he is liable to be very angry towards us, especially if it is us who administer the treatment"

"Would it be safer to let him sleep?" asked the headmaster his eyes laughing

"Normally it would be the safest course but unfortunately he will sleep for a great number of years" replied Legolas, Aragorn heard a resigned sigh in his voice and made his way over to the bed that sat next to the potions teachers; he picked up the pillows and threw one to Legolas then returned to the bedside

~are you sure this is wise? ~

~yes, three two one...~

Both pillows were brought down upon the teachers head with a muffled thump, which was followed by an earth rending screech that resembled that of an orc,

~mayhap we should have let him sleep~

~what is done can not be undone, though I would that it could be~

the figure that had lain upon the bed was now standing and still appeared to be as angry as he had been before taking the potion,

~I think mellon nin, we should take our leave now~ muttered Legolas, then turning to the headmaster he said "we will take our leave, headmaster"

with that they ran flight of foot to the window, Legolas pushed Aragorn in front of him as the wizards started to throw spells in their direction, Aragorn jumped out of the window to land in a deep snow drift that had collected its self below the window, he looked up to see his elven friend take flight from the window ledge to land lightly on the snow beside him. He heard a voice call in distress from with in the room they had recently left.

"Those stupid students, they will have broken their legs" it was the voice of a woman

having cleared his mouth of snow Aragorn called up to the window to ease the woman's distress

"milady we are perfectly well," looking to the window he saw that several heads came out through the open window, he turned then to his friend who was laughing at his plight

~mellon nin, are you enjoying once more bathing in the snow~

so they made their slow way from the castle to the place where the care of magical creatures was to take place

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boogalaga- I was thinking about that but it will have to wait until after the detention with Umbridge

Naurien- oops sorry

Yavie Aelinel- that might happen…we'll have to see

Kata Malfoy- sorry not much Boromir in this chapter either…will be more in the next chapter

The grinch- thank you

The grinch (who was really pussin boots) sorry about the writing thingy, um…will work harder on the elvish thingy

Jessi Malfoy…sorry I have REALLY BIG problems with those, you should see my English eassays…hehe, I think my English teacher is headed for a nervous break down

AN~~sorry this is so short