A/N: Here's the next chapter and I've decided on eight characters and have everything already planned out, most of the pairings will be between the Harry Potter characters, but at least two won't, and a reminder this is NOT slash. The lotr movies were good, the books better, but although this will follow a lot of the main plot, it will have many unique added scenes and an additional plot, this is going to go through the fellowship, the two towers, the return of the king, and will go on a bit after that. I may decide to do a sequel, but for the moment it will just be those four. Yes four, four is after rotk and is pretty much my own. Let me know if you think I should do all of them in one story or split them up according to book/movie? This is a little longer, and as it goes on it will just get longer and better. Hope you enjoy the next chapter, middle earth is next chapter, so be patient.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, if I did I probably wouldn't be here right now. Therefore don't sue, only for fun.

Harry Potter and The Battle for Middle Earth

Chapter 1

The survivors. Many had died because of the war. Many of his friends survived, but many more people close to him had died. The first loss was Sirius, then came Dumbledore, followed by McGonagall, Hagrid, Seamus, Dean, Lavender, Terry, the Creevey brothers, Smith, and Zabini. The Families had been killed as well, for most of these students. Hermione had lost her parents, Ron had lost his brothers Charlie, Percy, and the Twins, Harry had lost his relatives not that that was a big deal, but it seemed he was the cause of their death, it was a birthday present from Voldemort. Neville had lost his gran who ended up taking down two death eaters for good before being struck by a killing curse, and Luna had lost her dad due to a very encouraging article in the Quibbler. Draco Malfoy had gone into hiding with Severus Snape and neither of the two had been seen or heard of since, but Harry was sure Voldemort was keeping in contact. Many other families and people he didn't know had also been affected by the war, for every death eater killed it seemed twenty wizards died. Lately the death eaters had been quiet, no one had seen high or low of them for the last two months. Harry now knew why the death eaters hadn't been seen, Voldemort sent them somewhere else. Harry had a bad feeling about what Voldemort had said, he had begun to disappear only to stick a sword through his own chest saying he would return and be more powerful than ever before. At first Harry had thought that the war would be over, that Voldemort was truly dead, but in the back of his mind as he replayed the incident he was fearful. The only way Harry could ever see Voldemort killing himself is if it would make him stronger to do so. He looked around at his living members of the D.A. who had fought the very small amount of death eaters and giants who had attacked the school. He saw Parvati who had gone slightly mad at the loss of her sister angrily kicking an already dead death eater, she had used a killing curse no doubt, many of the students did, but not all, he for one couldn't. He saw Ginny and Ron both bruised helping pick up the fallen students, as well as an injured Hermione who seemed to have a broken leg and arm. Susan Bones the last member of the Bones family was staring around in a daze, probably not believing what she saw. Neville and Luna both looked right at him and gave him an encouraging smile. She saw other members most injured or at the least exhausted pick themselves up and head inside to let the others no, Voldemort was gone. Most thought that the day that Voldemort was finally vanquished, would be a happy glorious day, but not for the survivors, they had lived through so much, and they like Harry didn't think it was over.

"Hey, mate so he's really gone. Gone for good. You did it, see you had what it took after all, and what's with that sword?" Ron came over with Ginny slightly limping behind.

"Yeah, he's gone." Harry whispered. "At least we think he is. I for one, think he planned on killing himself all along."

"What do you mean?" Ginny asked worriedly.

"I didn't kill him, sure I was close, but before I could he put his sword in his own chest, but not before saying he would be back, more powerful than ever before. I think that he wasn't just saying that, something in m heart tells me he is alive somewhere else. If that is the case I need to follow, so I can end his existence, before he becomes more powerful hopefully."

"We're with you, mate. Don't worry, if V-Voldemort is still alive we will fight with you till the end." Ron said stubbornly, though doubt was evident in his voice.

"Thanks, it means a lot. Now let's try to fig-augh" Harry suddenly collapsed and though he didn't notice, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna, and Susan did as well.

(Snape Manor)

Draco Malfoy was miserable, he was now wanted by both Voldemort and the Ministry. He had failed to kill Dumbledore and then his chance to redeem himself he failed to kill Potter. He had been stuck living in the manor for the last year and frankly he was sick of it, a little action, adventure, heck anything would be better than this. Snape had left about a month previous. Draco knew even if no others did, that Snape was not loyal to the Dark Lord, never had been and never will be, but since killing Dumbledore, Snape thought that he could continue to spy on the Dark Lord and hopefully come up with enough information to eventually redeem himself. The aurors very rarely ever caught any death eaters, and when they did Snape usually had something to do with it. Snape wasn't with him right now, nor the past month, he and Voldemort's top death eaters had been sent a new mission, Draco never found out what it was, but he remembered the paler than usual look on Snape's face when he had returned from the death eater meeting. Since Draco was wanted by too many people and since the Dark Lord killed his mother he had no loyalty to the Dark Lord, he would have preferred revenge. He was stuck in Snape Manor and was becoming bored out of his mind. He had heard that Voldemort was planning on attacking Hogwarts in a months time, that was the same day Snape left, Draco had anonymously sent Potter and owl, warning that Voldemort would be attacking soon, hopefully they would be alright, he couldn't care less if the Gryffindors were gutted, but Voldemort would attack the Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs, and even Slytherins as well. That was something he couldn't allow, so he sent it, he could just imagine the look on Potter's face when he received the letter. Priceless. Draco continued to just walk around the manor, he had seen all the rooms already, but not Snape's true home, the place he lived now, he often went searching for it, this was just one of the places he had inherited.

"Minty." Draco called out, and with a sudden Pop noise Minty appeared in front of him.

A small worried looking with larger than average ears, house-elf appeared. She wore clothes and she was a house-elf of the Snape family, had been for years and could or could not be considered a slave, she voluntarily served Severus Snape, whether it was true for the others members of the Snape line, Draco didn't know.

"Yes, Mister Draco Malfoy, sir?" Minty said in a slight squeamish voice.

"Could you get me something to eat?" Draco asked the house-elf, this was a free elf he had to be polite.

"Yes, hold on just a moment Mister Draco Malfoy, sir." Minty said and with another pop vanished. She returned with another pop a few seconds later, carrying a large chicken roast. "Here's you go Mister Draco Malfoy, sir." Minty said.

"Tha-augh" Draco felt a strange feeling in the pits of his stomach and suddenly collapsed, and unknown to him he disappeared.

(valar)

Harry Potter awoke and was extremely surprised at his surroundings. He looked around and saw that he was in a room, off to the side was a window and through the window he could see a large ancient city. He continued to look around before walking towards the large chair seated at the opposite end of the corridor, or room. The closer he got, and it was about five minutes walk, the easier to make out the form sitting on the chair was. It was a man dressed in orange robes, a long white beard, and half-moon spectacles. Harry looked again in shock.

"P-professor?" Harry asked in a low whisper.

"Come now Harry, surely we know each other better than that. We've known each other long enough, call me Albus." Dumbledore said with a smile on his face and then was extremely surprised when the boy ran up and gave him a hug. "It's alright my boy, it's alright." Dumbledore said affectionately.

"B-but how?" Harry asked finally wiping away the tears in his eyes.

"Ah, no I'm quite dead." Dumbledore said watching as Harry flinched and looked at him strangely.

"D-does that mean I'm dead? Did Voldemort kill me after all?" Harry asked weakly.

"No, you're quite alive. We of the Valar rarely take humans to this realm, consider yourself lucky, you may even get a chance to come here yourself, but given the choice would you take it? That I don't think even you are ready for." Dumbledore said sadly.

"Valar?" Harry questioned.

"Yes. The Valar makers of the earth, both regular and middle. I rarely take the form of a human to help out man's problems, but Voldemort and Grindelwald were to great for a regular mortal to vanquish. I had been on the earth before as well, my name at that time was Merlin. Don't look shocked, I am one of the Valar, but not a true Valarian, I like my six cousins are known as Istari, we go to earth every now and then and help the inhabitants until we are killed in that form. Normally it isn't allowed, but exceptions are made. I wasn't even an Istari until after my first self Merlin died, he was my real form, I did so well against the forces of darkness that they offered me a job and I chose it. You may be wondering why you're here?" Dumbledore said to Harry who finally found the urge to speak up.

"Oh, err yes. If you don't mind?" Harry asked.

"You're here to be offered a position as-"

"A position? But, I'm still alive? How can I-" Harry was interrupted.

"Listen to what I say first. The position is that of a temporary Istari, for the place that Voldemort has entered is a place where wizards and witches are not known, only Istari are there and they are few, at the moment there are only three. Your job would be to help the peoples of Middle Earth, which is the place you would be going, against the forces of evil both their own Dark Lord Sauron, and a Dark Lord we both know very well."

"Voldemort." Harry hissed.

"Indeed. He has entered the realm of Middle Earth and unlike our earth there are many fowl forms of evil, I fear he has already allied with a few. You would be sworn to help protect as many peoples as you could, do you accept?"

"Do I have a choice." Harry muttered under his breath.

"There is always a choice. At the moment your seven allies are being talked to all at the same time by myself."

"What? How?" Harry asked curiously.

"A gift of being a true and dead Istari in the realm of the Valar. If you meant your seven allies, this is growing to dangerous for just one to handle. Your seven allies are all from your world and are also being made temporary Istari, or at least that's the name that will be given to them by the peoples of Middle Earth. I'm not sure, but if you agree and when we send you, you may be split up. It depends on the place where they are needed most and can do the most good, you do know your allies, they all went to Hogwarts." Dumbledore said with the annoying twinkle in his eye.

"Very well, you got me. What do I need to do?"

"So you agree? There's no backing out, you must help the peoples as you see fit. Are you sure you're up to the task?"

"Yeah. I'm sure."

"Very well then. I wish you luck, there's more than one evil in the land and even if one of the Dark Lords is defeated, your job won't be finished until both of them are. I'm sorry to place this burden upon you, once again, now hold still while I send you." Dumbledore said and when Harry was totally still Dumbledore took his wand and out of the wand came a flash of colors a stream and he heard one last thing Dumbledore said before he left. "When you get there you're name is no longer Harry Potter, it will be 'Harrod the Black', but you prefer the name Harry. Farewell." with those final words Harry felt something tingle across his whole body and then he blacked out knowing that when he woke up, he would be somewhere in 'Middle Earth'.

A/N: There it is, the first chapter not including prologue, it is a bit short, but it will eventually get longer, next chapter will be longer for sure. Each Harry Potter character is going to end up in different places, you won't know until you see them, but Harry is the character whose journey we will follow, until the two towers anyway. Then we follow three journeys because I do indeed split them up, after they find each other. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I want to thank Ril and wolf awaken for reviewing. The next chapter should be up within a week or less, and anyone reading Core or To Annoy chapters for those will be up later today, you may not see them until tomorrow though. Please continue to read and review and have a good day.