"this is English"
this is common tongue
~this is elvish~
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Chapter fourteen
It did not take the fellowship long to realise that learning the art of transforming into animal was harder than it sounded, by the end of the first two hour long lesson only Hermione seemed to have understood the theory the professor was attempting to teach them.
The evening was somewhat dampened by the new that the detentions would be served that night
So it was that eight o'clock found the three peoples standing outside the door to this hated professors office.
~mellon nin I feel it is time to enter…allow not the orc to take your head~ Legolas muttered to his companions and knocked upon the door,
"enter" called the sickly sweet and thoroughly disgusting voice of the said teacher, "how lovely to see you all…do sit down" Legolas found himself disinclined to remain seated in the presence of this utterly foul woman, he remembered her treatment of hagrid, Hermione had explained to them the professor's hatred of half breeds, or humanoid creatures, he wondered if she would hate him also for being strange to her neat and ordered ways of life.
"Now I would like you to write I must not deliberately aggravate my elders,"
"Will we not need ink?" asked Legolas
"no…" the woman snapped, all three of them started to draw the necessary runes to form these words, Legolas heard a gasp of pain from the captain of Gondor and his friend Estel, he glanced over at the pair and saw that the backs of their hands where engraved with the same script that they had written upon the parchment, he glanced down to his own hand then upon the parchment, both of them were still unblemished. The toad looked up and said
"Now repeat it until the message sinks in" she made as if to turn back to the parchment but was prevented by Legolas
"Professor Warg, this quill would appear to be broken, it does not seem to wish to cut my hand open, what now should I do?"
"All three of those quills are in perfect working order," the woman growled without looking up form the essay she was marking.
"Well then it has either broken in the past light hour or it simply does not like my blood"
"carve-my-hand-up-cos-I'm-a-messed-up-psycho quills are unbreakable" though this time she looked carefully at the results of the first three minutes, she seemed a little disappointed that the two men of Gondor seemed to be quiet resistant to the scratching of the quill, then she seemed to notice that she did not recognise the script in which they wrote, Legolas suppressed a smile as she started to inflate herself showing yet another similarity with the breed of the greater crested toad.
"What are you doing," the scream came out at an incredible ear-splitting pitch, "why are you not writing in English"
"we are unfortunate in that our native tongues are not written with the same runes, thus we are unable to read them, the headmaster is seeing to it as we speak, it will be sorted by tomorrow morning I am sure, would you prefer that we did something else at this point time?" ~O ugliest of orc~ Aragorn spoke to the overgrown toad, Legolas raised his eyebrows
~mellon nin, yea even the goblin race may not match this toad for foulness of temper and mind~
~that is already decided, mellon nin, but beware for she becomes more angered~ Legolas replied, for the woman was standing behind Aragorn and was becoming a brilliant red hue upon her cheeks.
~then let her be, I highly doubt that the toad could deliver such a speech as Elrond, but it is I concede possible~
Boromir, do you mind engaging in a little toad teasing called Aragorn to the son of the steward.
no, I think that it would help to alleviate us from her presence sooner, I would that we knew some of the magic of this place, we could cause the most unfortunate things to befall her Boromir looked a little distant
what is to say that we can not use the magic of the wizards? It is well known that the elves of the forest are brought up to know at least a little of magic and the use thereof, Legolas was particularly good at this practise when I first met him, I seem to remember that it involved me turning into a horse and then Legolas riding me back to his father's palace…Legolas, do you think that you would be able to turn yonder fair maiden into a toad?
Legolas listened to this with interest, then turned his eye upon the said orc in the few minutes they had been speaking the woman had turned from brilliant red to a deep magenta
yes mellon nin, I would be able to do this…the more similar to the original the change is the easier it is to make the change, although I believe that only I or an istar would be able to remove the change, I think that it will not be a shame if she were unable to teach for a few moons
we could say that she angered you and you 'accidentally turned her into a toad, your father was forever telling mine of the havoc you caused when you were younger, did you not cause the steward to stick to the roof of the hall for several days, I believe that the istar had to be called to remove the poor elf from the roof Legolas thought back to the experience and felt himself smiling. It seemed that this was the final straw for the soon to be a toad lady
"talk in English, stop smirking and shut up" she seemed to have reduced in size somewhat, after having let out all the air she had been compressing into her stout frame. Legolas turned to wards her and presented him palm to face her, he allowed a slight frown to crease his brow and then allowed his magic to flow forth and act as he willed. With a faint murmur of elven melody the witch shrank and transformed. Legolas turned to face Aragorn,
yes it was far easier to transform her than you, I believe I understand a part of the theory that the lady McGonagall was attempting to teach us earlier, it is far easier to transform a person into the form of there animagus than it is to any other creature, the professor also said that it was impossible to show what type of animagus a person was…
you think that you could find out our forms?
yes I am almost certain of this, I believe that we should take this toad to the headmaster, we will be unable to care for such an ugly specimen whilst we work
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once they had presented the somewhat changed toad woman to the headmaster and apologised for her inability to teach they made their way back to the room of requirement to find that the DA was once more in session.
"hello, how did you get out of detention so quickly?" asked Harry from the middle of the room.
"elf boy here turned the toad woman into a toad" replied Aragorn, when he had finished the sentence the entire room started to cheer and clap.
"hey mate, why did you do it in private? Why not at breakfast? She will be uncharmed by the time we see her in the morning…"
"that," Aragorn replied, "is very unlikely, it would take another elf or an istar to break Legolas' spell, so she will be unable to teach for a while, though Legolas may have to undo the spell when he leaves…" Aragorn found himself unable to hear his own voice through the cheers that had erupted once more. He turned and saw one of the red headed twins calling, "party in the Gryffindor common room now, members of the other houses invited" this was greeted by another wave of cheering and a massive rush for the door.
~well that has cleared out our room a little~ Legolas called out to him, Aragorn then turned to see that Ron Harry and Hermione were still in the room. Hermione spoke first
"we have spent all evening looking up reasons why you would be unaffected by the killing curse, we have found none, except that the Arvada kardavra curse drains you life away, we thought that your being immortal would be the cause"
"it is highly probable"
there was an awkward silence
"do you want to come to the party? I am sure you will be the star guests" asked Ron
"we would but we must practise our weapons, Legolas and I are both betrothed"
"right see you tomorrow morning then"
"yes…also we have forgotten to tell you Legolas thinks that he has a method to show us what our animagi forms are…"
"but that is supposed to be impossible…" blurted out Hermione
"we will talk of the possibility after the morning meal" said Aragorn
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pIPPIN pIRATE ~like I tried to say before and type completely wrongly, nothing is set in stone in this story, but I am hoping to write a sequel
Cherry Blossom49 ~thank you as for when I am updating…I try to stay to a reasonable time frame
IrishDancer*elf~ I hope you are only joking about the lunatic asylum, if you aren't it's a place where they put crazy people, thank you for your kind comments
Pussin boots~ thank you very very very very much
The Grinch~ I will try, but,,,hmm…I will try, pussin boots says high
Boogalaga~ pussin boots says high, I'm not sure how much more voldie son we are going to meat not sure what you mean by pudate soon…
Fox of Midnight~ I thought it would make the journeys during ttt more…interesting
Nauroen~ isuppose he just found some spare time to have an heir…I mean come on it only takes what three seconds for a woman to pregnant
Yavie aelinel ~I couldn't kill legolas could I…
S* Quilltwiner~ I know the umbridge bashing was alright here…I know its not up to much…I have my moments and I have my non moments
Candidus-lupus-full moon~ thank you
I NEED HELP WITH THE ANIMALS…I KNOW WHAT LEGOLAS WILL BE BUT NOT ANYONE ELSE…SUGGESTIONS WELCOMED