A/N: I am tremendously sry about the very long wait. I started school and I had a lot of things to do. I know it isn't an excuse. Sry and here is the chapter ;)
Chapter 5- Breakfast Breakthrough
"Oi! Get up Harry. Breakfast!" Pippin said. "You don't want to miss breakfast do ya?"
"Wha…" Harry said. "Harry looked around to see Merry and Pippin jumping up and down on his bed trying to wake him up."
"Guys! Guys! Stop it."
"Well we had to get you up somehow now didn't we? Come on there is breakfast in the Great hall."
"What! The great hall?"
"Yeah anything wrong with that?" Pippin asked raising his eyebrows.
"N…No. Just that that is where we eat in my school." Harry said.
"Didn't you tell us last night that your school was in a castle?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Well of course it would be in the great hall you dummy! You lived in a castle and now you live in a castle. What did you expect?"
Harry hit himself in the forehead. "Of course! How could he be so stupid." He thought.
"Aww…anyway. Lets go Harry!" Merry yelled from halfway out the door.
Harry followed the halflings to the Great Hall. He was amazed at how much this castle was like his castle. The statues were in different places…but everything else looked alike. He just passed it off. All castles looked the same. Right?
"Have a seat here Harry." Pippin said pulling out a sea for him. Gimli was sitting down the table a ways and Merry was sitting across from him.
"So what's for breakfast?" Harry asked.
"Eggs and Porridge." Gimli said form down the table.
Harry looked around the Great Hall and wondered where the food was going to come from. This place was so different from his school. He didn't know how he was going to get along here.
As he looked around he saw four rows of tables. They were horizontal to the raised section for the king and queen. In that section there were two small round tables. One for each the king and queen. He looked up and saw an enormously high ceiling. It arched up till it looked like it was going to disappear. At the top of it's dome it was all glass so that you could see the beauty outside.
"Or the ugliness!" Harry thought. The more he thought about it the more it looked like his school. The tables were arranged differently but it was still the same room. The passageways had looked the same but he hadn't noticed because the statues and armor were arranged differently. Could it be? Was this his school?
"What's wrong Harry? Don't like the food?" Pippin asked.
"Wha…?"
"Your food don't you like it?"
"Oh…" Harry hadn't even realized his food had come. He took a bite. "Oh it is good. I was just looking around and…this may sound really weird but…I think this castle is the castle my school is in."
"What! Your Gandalf? How…how is that possible?" Legolas said shocked.
"Calm down my friend. It is possible because I am a very good wizard. There is more than one way to keep ones self alive for a long period of time."
"So does that mean that you are immortal?"
"I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I could still die. It would just be very difficult. Why don't you have a seat? I will tell you the whole story."
"After I had gone across the sea I was met by many elves. The folk were very nice. I talked with them and soon many became my friends. A long time passed. So long that Frodo had dies and his grand children were old and decrepit. That is a long time seeing as Frodo married an eleven woman. Their children had half the life span of an elf. Being a wizard I had a long life myself. It is what happens when you have the old magic running in your veins. But I was slowly dying and I knew it. I was content to let myself go. I had been on the planet long enough.
But it was not to be that way. As I started to drift off a part of me balked at the idea of leaving. That part finally overcame the rest of my thoughts and I sought some one to help me stay alive. I don't know why I needed to stay alive but I just couldn't die…not yet. So I went to he eldest elf. The one who knew the most. He was reluctant to help me at fries. But then I persuaded him. Actually I don't know if I did persuade him. He just decided to help me. I had to perform a ritual that would make me sleep for 100 years. After I did I would come back refreshed. I didn't like the idea but if that was the only way then so be it. I had to find a secluded place and make myself comfortable. After I did I performed the spell. It was horrible. It felt like I had died. I couldn't move and all I could do was think. Soon my thinking died away until I slept. I didn't wake up until a long time after. It felt as if it was only a second and truthfully it was only a blink in all time. But I felt refreshed. I could live again for a long time. I didn't need to sleep for another thousand years. I did all I could in that time.
The second time and third time I went to sleep it was much the same, but after waking up the forth time things were very different. The elves were dying. All of them seemed to be sick with some disease. It tried to help. It didn't work most of the time. But a few lived. That is why there aren't many elves in this time. From the race of old many elves became to be. Like house elves. They area a pigmy race descended form the old race. After that many changes began to happen. The balance of nature shifted and many animals died. It was the beginning of the first ice age. The planet shifted its continents in preparation for the new group of settlers.
This preparation took four ages. In the first age everything got dark. The sun was covered by the rising gasses that mage huge clouds in the shy. Towards the end of this age the gasses finally dissipated. I went to sleep. In the second age I woke up and found myself floating in endless water. As far as I could see was water except for the sky. Above me was an endless deep blue sky. The night sky had also changed. The sun, moon, and stars had changed their positions. I spent a great deal of time studying hem. It passed the time more quickly. The third age was filled with many new trees in the beginning of their new life. I soon realized that other people had survived the age of water, not many but just enough. And finally in the forth age the birds, fish, and animals came back. After this long time the world seemed right again. No one remembered the world that was before except me. I knew now that I would need to change my identity every so often so as not to gain suspicion. These people had no idea of magic. I tried to show them once. But they were frightened of it. So I pretended to die or move away and I would change my name and move in with another group of people. Sometimes I was a great political leader and sometimes I was a farmer. It wasn't until the Middle Ages that I found a place for magic. I had been around all of England searching for someone who could possibly be magical, and I found him…Merlin.
His magic was crude and he was not trained well, but I helped him. After his popularity grew many people started claiming they were witches and wizards. Only half of them were truly what they claimed to be. After that I taught many of them. The wizard population grew. I taught others how to find and teach wizarding children. I pretended to die. I changed my form to that of a little boy. I then grew up. I put myself in the position so that I could be found but 'older' wizards. They did find me and took me in. My name at the time was Godric Gryffendor. After that it was easy to accomplish my goals. I got together with several other talented witches and wizards and made this castle. I actually made it in the spitting image of Aragorn's castle. Except for the chamber of secretes of course. That was built with out my knowledge. I guess it makes me feel a little closer to that time. The rest of it is history. I became a few more people and helped a few more places, and now I'm here." Dumbledor ended.
Legolas sat there thinking everything over. This was just too much for him to handle.
"So you are Gandalf?"
"That is correct."
"And you went through all of time and are still here. My I ask why you had to live."
"That question I have yet to answer myself. I would expect because I am supposed to something before I truly die, but I have no idea what that is yet."
"I am sorry sir but I will need to think about this some more before I can except this."
"That is fine Legolas. It is a process. But now we must go on to why I called you here. The tree you came from must have transported you here and Harry there. So I would like you to tell me everything you know about both trees."
Legolas tired to remember everything he could of both trees. He gave a very vivid description of both and didn't finish until half an hour after he started.
"Thank you Legolas. You information has been very insightful. I think I will have a look at this tree tomorrow and see if there are any magical properties to it. You can go now if you would like to. I'll have someone open your door."
Legolas went down the spiral staircase and out of the door. The statue jumped back into his spot after Legolas walked through. He made his was to his sleeping quarters and good to his word Dumbledor had sent some one to open it. He walked into his room, sat down and started to think.
