Chapter twenty four
Legolas heard a muffle thwump from behind the door to the room, curious he crept over to the door and opened it, looking down he saw the crumpled form of Severus Snape lying on the floor into front of him. He heard footsteps behind him and turned to see Aragorn standing beside him
Legolas what has happened?
I am not sure but we should heal him or he will be unable to teach upon the morn
"What are you two doing out of your house at this time of night," spat Snape from the floor.
"Professor, we heard you fall outside our room and decided to open the door to see who it was" said Aragorn quietly, as he helped the master to his feet, "are you well?"
"Not especially, the amusing hair style I was given earlier did not amuse the dark lord"
"Can you walk?"
Legolas watched Snape nod his head take a few clumsy steps and fall over again, he picked the man up again. "I do not think that you can," Legolas said with a slight chuckle, "mayhap you should rest for a while?"
Legolas watched amused as the potions master attempted to stand again.
Legolas, why are you standing here? came Sam's voice from behind the door
One of our teachers has collapsed out side the door, we are trying to persuade him to rest but he seems anxious to get somewhere
"Would you please be so kind as to speak in English" came Snape's voice once again
Sam looked around the door and saw Snape sprawled on the floor,
"What are you doing in there, house elf?"
"I am not a house elf I am a hobbit"
"Sound like a house elf to me" grunted Snape
"You've dropped something," Sam said, reaching for the bottle of rats skulls
Snape looked around and saw the hobbit touch the rat skulls and disappear.
There was a short shocked silence
"Merlin…oh Merlin"
"What has happened what was that?" asked Legolas nervously
"It was my new portkey to return to the dark lord's castle"
"It was what?!" yelled Aragorn
"You are telling us that Sam is now in the hands of the dark lord?"
"Pretty much I am afraid, but also I have no way of returning to the dark lord's castle"
"This is not good" grunted Gimli
"No it is not, we must go to the headmaster" said Snape trying once more to stand, Aragorn came over to him and poured a potion in his mouth, Snape swallowed
"What was that?"
"A potion to relieve pain," replied Aragorn
"How do you tell them all apart? So many of them are colourless…"
"We have our ways…come on now…I am sure that haste will be of the element if we are to save Samwise."
"Then let us make haste" said Boromir from behind them all, giving them all a start
"Let's," piped up pippin
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Sam looked around where he had landed, that had to have been one of the most horrible things that had happened to him recently, looking around he saw that the room he was in was decorated with macabre skulls and blood red drapes. In the corner there was a bed of gigantic proportions, it seemed at least to the hobbit, he could see a figure on the bed. He crept over to where he could see a door, he opened it, this was a bad mistake light flooded into the room and struck the sleeping figure across the eyes.
"who dares to disturb my slumber" called an enraged voice from the bed, Sam darted out of the door and closed it behind him, then he ran as if Sauron was behind him, he dashed around a corner and saw to his left a space in the wall that looked as though it could hide him he crept in and found himself sliding down a thin tunnel
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"so…one last time…the portkey was faulty took you to outside the room of requirement, the portkey fell out of your pocket and Samwise has now ended up in the Voldermort's castle" Dumbledore felt suddenly weary
"Ai, tis true" spoke Legolas
"And Snape has no way of returning to the castle?"
"I do have a way but it is less than pleasant…I could of course say that it was an overly exuberant house elf who touched the portkey while they were cleaning…the method is simple, I will have to ask Lucius Malfoy for help…urgh…very well I will take my leave…oh no…he is calling…Albus may I use your fire?...Malfoy manor"
Snape disappeared
"I hope he is successful, he really is our only inside source"
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"Severus, what have I told you about flooing here?" asked Lucius Malfoy in a cold voice.
"Sorry, if I was to tell you the reason for this call would you let me share your portkey?"
"Yes"
"One of the house elves at Hogwarts was overly exuberant in their cleaning and touched my port key…at this time of night the dark lord will be in his bedchamber will he not?"
"So the elf scared Voldermort and he's capture it and wants us to watch him torture it"
"Probably…"
"Come on or he's going to torture us as well"
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fox of midnight- I didn't know the name and I didn't have my copy of lotr so I made it up…sorry
Deno Archi- who says you have to love any one to have a son? Any decent dark lord will have an heir, voldemort just wants a chance to scare someone. In the fifth book if you ever get round to reading it you will find that snape attends death eater meetings. That line of plot sujested is so unsubtle I hadn't even thought of it…and if you live near to Prague…sorry I've had a bad week
Yavie Aelinel- thank you and I would be so so so grateful she just gets so stressy…
Bev Baudelaire- u just do it on the word document…if u have windows…well that's what I do
Jeanne2- thank you
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