Soon, the students arrived bleary eyed, yawning, still in their dressing robes, and utterly confused.
"What's going on professor?" said Hermione looking around yawning. Then seeing Aragwen raised an eyebrow skeptically.
Dumbledore chuckled slightly, " Please have a seat" said Dumbledore motioning them to some chairs as well.
"This is Aragwen," said Dumbledore indicating to the odd looking girl. "She has a very interesting tale to tell. I have not heard all of it but I have learned that she has journeyed here from the land of Middle Earth. Yes Hermione, apparently it does exist." Hermione had opened her mouth as though to say something but clamped it shut blushing slightly. "I will let Aragwen continue from here." said Dumbledore.
Aragwen bowed slightly to Dumbledore and then told all of what she had said earlier to the four students. There she paused, they all looked completely dumbstruck except Malfoy who had a look on his face that said plainly that he wasn't taking any of this seriously.
In fact he quite audibly muttered " What a nutter...when my father hears about this..." but Aragwen fixed him with such a glare that he was immediately quieted. Aragwen's eyes were one of the more remarkable features about her, they were grey, as were Malfoy's but they were not such a dead, cold grey like his, they were more bright and shockingly grey and they seemed to glitter or shine with some inner light.
Aragwen continued her story, " As I said we know of your Dark Lord Voldemort," Ron shuddered but overlooked it," Well, as shocking and unbelievable as it may seem, our two Dark Lords Garonath and Voldemort, have met." Hermione and Ron gasped, Dumbledore leaned intently forward over his desk, even Malfoy who came from a dark family seemed a bit shocked. But Harry was utterly petrified, now not only was their world in danger but Middle Earth too!
"How did they meet in the first place?" Harry asked.
"Well, you see there has always been a barrier, a veil so to speak between our two worlds," Harry felt a twinge of grief at the word veil but forgot it. " But recently a rip has been made in this barrier and Voldemort figured out how to get through. This rip was how I was able to reach you. Now that the two Dark Lords have met their combined powers will be able to wreak havoc on both our worlds. At the moment Voldemort dwells in Middle Earth in the pits of Bandigur with Garonath far in the East of Middle Earth so their combined power is only hurting Middle Earth. We know that Harry Potter is the only one in your world who can defeat Voldemort. In our world it is much the same way. There is only one person who has the power to defeat Garonath. Harry Potter must come to Middle Earth, for the sake of both our worlds."
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