Chapter fifteen

At breakfast the next morning Legolas was greeted as a hero, although he gave most of the credit to Aragorn for the idea. As they sat down at the gyfindor table they noticed a distinctly sleepy air over the table.

"the party went well last night I take it?" Aragorn asked Ron

"yeah great…"

Aragorn was about to start eating the food when Legolas stopped him

~there is something amiss with the food~

~how so?~

this question was answered not by the elf but by the squawks of brightly coloured bird which all of the hall had become, save for themselves. Moments later the hallwas once more full of witches and wizards. Legolas Aragorn and Boromir found themselves surrounded by irate professors. Snape was first to allow his feelings known

"stupid ignorant children you will pay"

"why?" asked boromir

"why because you have just turned me into a parrot"

Legolas stepped in for their defense, "professor how can we turn you into a parrot when we have never seen such a creature in our lives, before now that is…I personally have no doubts of who was the perpetrator of this crime"

"who is it?" called George from further up the table, "we might like to buy the spell of them"

"they put ingredients in the food, I could eat it due to my race and I warned my friends of it"

"so" hissed the potions professor in a dangerous voice

"so what?" asked Legolas, with a glance at the very angry man who stood glowering down at him

"who did it"

"it is not the custom of my people to give away information freely or to answer to directly threatening actions with anything other than threats…if you do not wish to end up as a toad in a cage with the toad woman I would suggest you leave me be"

the man suddenly turned a pale shade of green and left Legolas in peace. George reiterated his question.

"try in the kitchens, asked for brandy and took"

"we have pranking house elves?"

"no but I would suggest that you pay them a visit" the twins dashed off to the kitchens

argorn turned to face Harry Ron and Hermione who were muttering to each other.

"mellon nin, as the first lesson is the one normally taught by the toad we could attempt to see if legolas' method works"

the three of them nodded and then returned to their conversation, Aragorn elbowed Legolas in the ribs.

~of what do they speak~

~Harry has had a nightmare, Hermione wishes for him to tell the headmaster~

it seened that the argument had been ended and since none of them wished to beturned into what was it again, carrots? They were not eating.

"mellon nin," Aragorn called once more to the three of opposite him

"why do you call us that…just as a matter of interest" asked Hermione

"it means my friend or friends"

"oh…Ron thought you were being…in English a melon is a fruit…"

"oh…well then we offer our apologies for the insult caused, shall we go to the room in which we are staying, Gimli will be there he does not need to go down to Hagrid until midday, we could also pass the kitchen and pick up the hobbits"

Ron's eyes lit up at the mention of kitchens.

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once they had made their way down to the kitchen they found fred and George deep in conversation with Merry and pippin, it seemed that they had come across a book in a room, it was this that had shown them how to perform the prank, Harry at once asked who had written it, it was fred who answered,

"its by the maudauders, you remember the ones who wrote the map…this book is amazing…I wish I knew who they were…"

"you have met two of them" Harry said, this cause the twins heads to whip up to stare at him,

"who, who?"

"that would be telling, but Prongs is dead"

"old age or you-know-who"

"Voldermort…if I told you Prongs was a animagus stag?"

"wait a moment…you patronus is a stag…" enlightenment shone on his face as his twin continued

"padfoot is Sirius, Moony is Lupin and wormtail…"

"is peter petigrew" there was an extremely awkward silence which was broken by Boromir who had found Frodo and sam

"come on or we wont have time to try…"

fred cut across him, "I wish we could be animagus…"

"it would be so cool"

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once they had all made their way up to the room of requirement Legolas started to explain what he had in mind, soon all of them were in agreement and one by one they made their way forward to the front of the room, first Harry went forward, Legolas preformed the same gesture had he had done the previous night and Harry grew to a golden creature with a long tail, Legolas turned to Hermione for an explanation of the creature

"desert lion" she flicked through the book she was holding on her lap, what your animagus form means, "the desert lion, this form normally comes to wizards with great destines, noble and brave…can you change Harry back and see if he can do it himself?"

Legolas nodded and a moment later Harry was standing infront of them and then with a concentreated expression he disappeared and the lion stood there once more. Hermione's eyes widened with shock

"this is amazing this would normally take five or six years to complete…may I go next?"

she danced forward and moments later was flapping around as a barn owl

"Harry, what does the book say for the barn owl" Ron asked

"no suprises here, extreme intelligence but also a prowess in necessary battle"

as with Harry Hermione was able manage a transformation on her first attempt.

Ron eagerly went forward to face his form, as with Harry Ron grew rather than shrank into his form. Once again the people from middle earth were unable to identify this creature, Hermione once more came to their aid

"the Bengal tiger…symbolises strength and honour, but also rashness"

after Ron there came Fred, as he was subjected to the change a most extraordinary thing happened, george also started to transform, although Hermione looked perplexed Legolas found himself unsuprised, whenever he had pranked the lords Elladan and elrohir the other had been subjected to the same circumstance no matter how many leagues apart the pair were, it had become apparent that the pair were magically bonded, and thus they were perfectly identical. He was still unable to identify the creature into which they had transformed,

"the greater oran-u-tang" Hermione started to speak, " the book says pure mischief makers"

now that it was the turn of the fellowship none of them seem to wish to be the first to go until glimli was pushed forward by Merry and Pippin, Legolas almost consider turning him in to a pig but felt a little mercy towards the dwarf, it seemed inpossible to him but the dwarf actually shrank, then something started to go awry, he split into two separate creatures one was a mole and the other was an otter, Hermione looked like she might faint but managed to pull herself together and start flicking through the book,

"the mole, aptitude to underground residence and blindness in areas of the heart, the otter symbolises aptitude to battle and lucidity of movement and mind"

once glimli had been returned to his normal state he was found able to transform into both.

Sam stepped forward, with out having to be forced, he was surprisingly to most a cat with brindled fur and lethal claws, "a wilds cat" announced Legolas,

"gentle unless threatened, brave and strongminded," Hermione read

after him came Frodo, it was the turn of the wizards to look baffled, Hermione explained this time to them,

"he is a polecat or Mustela putorius one is able to tell a polecat by the white mask upon its face, resilient and good at keeping your mind on the tasks of your life"

Boromir came forward the next, he also ended up flapping around on the red backed wings of a kestrel, "loyalty and honour but slight weakness for things that sparkle"

At this the entire fellowship seemed to gasp.

After Boromir their came merry, he developed the creamy throat and rich brown body fur of a pine martin, "normal percecuted for deeds which it has not preformed, but a fighter brave, also likes a good joke.

Pippin came after merry and had to grow a little to become a badger, courageous but this courage is often hidden, good sense of humor.

Last there came Aragorn, he split not into two forms but three a golden eagle, a wolf with pure white fur and a bird which only Hermione seemed to recognise, "the golden eagle symbolises prowess in battle nobility and honour, the wolf hidden truths and persecution and lastly the shadow phoenix, mistaken throught out time as thee servants of dark wizards the shadow phoenix burns with as bright a flame as the common phoenix, it can choose to remain unseen if it wishes to the healing powers of its tears are stronger than those of the normal phoenix, although its plumage is dark it shines also brighter than the common phoenix"

Legolas raised his eyebrows at Aragorn, ~mellon nin you are the man of many names and also the animagus of many forms, I am not sure whether I should even try upon myself, yet what have I to loose?~

~come on mellon nin~

Legolas shrugged his shoulders and with a little complex spell work set the spell so he would be returned to his normal form after an eith of a light hour, suddenly he found himself seeing no trou one pair of eyes but many thousand pairs of eyes. Never had an eighth of a light hour passed so slowly, once he was returned to his normal state he found that the wizarding population of the room was staring at him open mouthed.

~I suppose that due to immortality elves are able to turn into any creature that is not of the dark at will, with this he transformed himself into a unicorn then a wolf then and elf.

He noticed Harry glancing at a piece of metal on his wrist and then muttering,

"do you guys realise we have just missed transfiguration?"

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