Chapter eighteen
"Take him to Azkaban"
It took a few moments for the aurors to acknowledge that this was a command and not merely a love crazed man wishing ill upon the man who had harmed his loved one, and a few more to remember that as minister for magic Fudge was able to do this without even a trail.
"I do not believe that you would be able to take me by force," Legolas said in very relaxed manner, "but I think that I would like to see the wizarding prison for myself, though I doubt it can be any better than the prisons of our homeland, now how would you favour to travel there? I personally feel like riding but I am your to command, although I would hesitate to call me a prisoner as I fear that I will have to escape fairly soon after you have taken me to this prison, I can not miss history of magic can I now, not to mention divination, potions and transfiguration"
"You are very sure of yourself boy, take him away" said fudge
It may be deemed a little unfortunate that Legolas knocked out all of the aurors at once before calmly renovating them and declaring that a ride was very much to his taste and if the aurors would care to accompany him, thus being unable to capture him it seemed that the aurors would have to be obedient to his plans. Although this left Fudge apoplectic with rage and having yelled himself hoarse in the general direction of the people remaining in the room he flooed himself back to the ministry of magic.
"Well it would seem that Mr Thundril's plan has worked remarkably well" commented Dumbledore
Here Aragorn felt it necessary to ask a question of the good headmaster, "head master, may I venture a question" Dumbledore inclined his head, "why do the teachers all have to call us by the names of our fathers?"
"The professors call the students by their surnames, I take it you believed that your sire's names were necessary…ah ha, that would explain many things, but I believe that there is no need for you to wait in this room until he returns"
This said and acknowledged the five students made their way out of the room "headmaster, I find the good Mr Thundril to be a very irritating wizard" said Snape as soon as the door had snapped shut
"That is hardly surprising as he is no wizard he is an elf…" although Dumbledore said this with all seriousness Snape seemed to be amused
"How is he an elf, he stands taller than I?"
"laugh at him if you will but he is different to the elves we keep in our kitchens I would be wary of him, look at what he did in anger" Dumbledore pointed towards the tank in which the toad still hopped, in his anger fudge had forgot to retrieve her although he had promised them a new teacher, Snape looked if possible paler than normal
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as Legolas had made his way down to the forbidden forest he had found that the aurors were on the whole people of a pleasant sort, at this moment in time they were discussing the prison of Azkaban,
"personally I think having dementors there is stupid, maybe potter is crazy but surely it is better to be safe than sorry" one bold witch was saying, backed my murmurs of agreement from the whole of the aurors who walked with them
"but theirs no way to destroy them so they will only go to you-know-who if he has returned…and there are no wards which will hold criminals otherwise" said a tall man next to Legolas, they were on the outskirts of the forbidden forest
"So what do you wish to ride?" he asked casually
"Well..." said the bold witch, "I've always wanted to ride a thresteral"
"No I would prefer a hippogriff" said another
"And what pray is a hippogriff?" asked Legolas
"Half horse half eagle"
feeling a little curious Legolas looked around and found that in the bushes there was a magnitude of creature, among them he saw a creature whom he thought resembled what the witch had described, once he had convinced the hippogriff to come out from the shade of the trees he found that this creature also felt the need to bow when it reached him which Legolas found acutely embarrassing as the witches and wizards stared at him when this happened.
After a very short while each of the aurors were mounted upon either a hippogriff or a thresteral, the bold witch spoke once more
"What are you going to ride?"
"There is a creature that calls to my heart and which also I will be able to ride with ease" ~but will she let me? ~ this last part was addressed to the creature whom had caught his eye, with a faint whinny the pure white horse came forward but did not, for which Legolas was grateful bow at his feet, Legolas though did bow to him then settled himself upon the horse, only to turn to the aurors once more to find them staring at him.
"Do I have the head of a goat now? Why do you stare at me so?"
"You do realise that you are riding a unicorn?"
"In our homeland they are called the meras (SP?)"
"No male is allowed to come near them an no human has ever ridden one"
"Then it is self explanatory, but let us make haste for there are things that must be done in this night" with this said they rode towards Azkaban
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it was coming on for the setting of the moon when they finally reached the prison, upon seeing it Legolas waited a little way out to sea and from his distant position placed the new wards upon all the cells and while he was as it created an island a little way of shore on which he created an environment which resembled that of the forest in which the unicorn had lived previously, had spoken to the meras on his way and had found that he was in favour of this task, he felt that the island which Legolas was to create would be better for his herd than the forbidden forest as much evil rested in the once pleasant forest, the island had a clearing in which no creature other than a unicorn stand without dying, once he had placed the new wards on the cells which could only be released by one of the unicorns coming and placing their horns in the keyholes, the unicorn had to be alive to this to work as part of the ward was telepathic, having done this he followed the aurors to the island, they seemed a little surprised by the new island but did not comment on it, they were a little surprised when the dementors started to burn, they turned to Legolas, who seemingly shrugged and said "forgive me I forgot to mention the effect my species has upon these creatures, I have place new wards so worry not"
Soon there was not a single dementor left in the prison
"Please do not tell me that that was your sole purpose in coming here" said one of the wizards despairingly
"I am afraid that it was…I think I should return now to Hogwarts," he turned to the bold witch, "I believe that I will be seeing you again soon, as the new defence against the dark arts teacher, rather the replacement until such a time as the good toad umbrage can be restored to the good toad woman Umbridge," with this said Legolas thought to attempt something he concentrated hard upon his tree in the gardens of Hogwarts and next moment found himself there.
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pIPPIN pIRATE-thank you hope you liked the chappy
Yavie Aelinel- patience is a virtue keep it if you can…I have a lot of coursework at the moment I cant write enough for two chapters in my free time
Candidus-lupus-full moon- hope you enjoyed it but it aint much good is it
Naurien- telling me you have had your braces tightened is something nasty…are they better now? I have written as you so kindly requested *note the sarcasm*
Boogalaga- sorry think I forgot to tell the law that needed to be changed clearly enough…basically in this story fudge can send anyone to askaban if he feels like it…but if he does it too much then people think of him as a power freak…thanks
The grinch- thank you