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A/N: THIS CHAPTER IS NOT BETA READ….
Chapter 23: New world, and wonders
Harry's eyes went wide as he stared at the tall figure in front of him. This was NOT professor Snape.
"Harry" Ron chocked "Is that what I think it is?"
Harry just nodded dumbly,
"Dobby. I thought I just told you to bring Mr. Potter back with you"
"Dobby is very sorry sir. But Harry Potter sir not going with out his friends"
"Alright. You can go back to work now. So which one of you is Potter?"
"I am" Harry breathed at the elf that stood there.
The elf was tall. And he had pale yet elegant skin, high pointed ears and red brown hair that reached his mid back. He had small eyes that were light purple. He was dressed in a impressive cloak that matched his hair color. There was a gold symbol on the cloak where his hart was, and Harry thought that he the symbol must have represented something. The elf was also wearing what seemed to be a short dress under the cloak. It was tied over his shoulder and looked like something that the people on the mid ages in Rome wore. He had a crossbow over his left shoulder and arrows on his back. There was a dagger that hung loosely at his side.
"The son of the princess?"
"No, my mother's name was Lily"
"You are Harry James Potter?"
"Yes"
"Then you are the son of the princess. The king wishes you to see him"
The others just gaped and Harry stared at the elf,
"What do you mean the king wants to see me? I thought I was supposed to see my grate grandfather, and what are you on about my mom being a princess"
"The king is your grandfather. And therefore your mother is the princess. I gather you are not her, for you are not Elvin nor human." The elf said glancing at Angel "But we must hurry, the wards can not be taken off for too long. Now come"
"You mean with you?" Harry asked, still in shock that he was a prince
"Yes, to our realm"
"But I can't just leave. I don't even have my things and I can't leave with out telling anybody"
"Your friends can notify your parents"
"We aren't leaving Harry alone to go somewhere unknown" Ginny growled
"We do not have time for this. We must leave now. I was just told to bring prince Harry. You must stay"
"Harry is not leaving without us"
"You have loyal friends young friend. Dobby" The elf then yelled
"Yes, master elf"
"Please collect their trunks"
Dobby snapped his fingers and the teens trunks appeared in front of them and the elf shrunk them and they pocked them.
"Come, we must leave"
"Ok. Wait, Dobby, can you please go back to the Hq, and tell Dumbledore, and everyone that something has come up about my mothers letter and that me and my friends will be gone for a while but that we will defiantly be here for the feast. And then tell them that Angel will make sure that we'll be save"
"Yes, master Harry Potter sir" And with a loud crack the colorful house elf was gone and shortly later the elf and Harry, Angel and the teens were also gone.
The Weasley's, Dumbledore and Remus where finishing their lunch when Dobby interrupted again.
"Dobby? Is something the matter?" Dumbledore asked
"Not at all professor Dumbly sir. Dobby is just here because Harry Potter sir told Dobby to come and tell professor Dumbly sir and his Wheesy's and his Remy that Harry Potter sir is not be coming back yet"
"Ok, will he be here for dinner right? And what about Ron and the others?" Mrs. Weasley asked
"No, you are misunderstanding Dobby ma'am. Harry Potter sir telling Dobby to say that something has come up with Harry Potter sir moms letter and he is saying he promises to be back before the feast and that you is not needing to worry because Angel will be watching over them"
"What letter? What did Snape say" Fred asked
"What did I say what?" Snape icy voice said from the door "I need to talk to Potter Albus, where is the brat?"
"Wait, he was just with you wasn't he?" Remus said confused, "And how would you know about the letter?"
"What are you babbling about Lupin, I've been working on potions all day. Where is Potter?"
"Dobby" Dumbledore said not taking notice of Snape question. "Wasn't Harry seeing the professor"
"No sir. Harry Potter was not be seeing him. Dobby never said that he was, Dobby just saying that professor Snapy was the only one at Hogwarts. Dobby is not allowed to say any more, but you not needing to be worrying. Harry Potter sir is fine" And with a loud crack the house elf was gone.
"Wow" Was all Harry could say. He along with his companions were standing on a high hill above the Elvin city. It was a magnificent sight. The houses all small and pretty, fountains here and there, horses walking around along with animals Harry had never seen before.. Birds flying everywhere and singing their hearts out. The atmosphere was bright and friendly, and a huge forest covered the large city from all sides and when Harry looked over from where he was standing he never saw the forest end. There was one side though that the forest didn't cover, and that was where the castle was, straight ahead on a huge mountain.
The castle itself was huge and looked like something Harry would have imagined in a fairytale. Then the castle was surrounded by a beautiful yard and then walls came all around. Nothing was near the castle, but lower and further away from the mountain other large houses were placed. Houses like mansions and such.
This place was truly beautiful and Harry loved it here. It felt like home.
Harry was cut out of his musings by a hostile voice that was arguing with the man that had collected them. Harry didn't understand what they were saying since they were talking in elvish but he understood a word here and there after his lessons with Angel.
After a while they seemed to calm down and the elf told them to follow him.
They went threw some sort of secret passage and they ended up in front of the castle where more elves where.
All of the elves were dressed in cloaks like the first elf, with the same symbol on it as well. That same symbol was also on the front door on the castle. And later Harry was told it was the symbol of the king and those who wore it were the warriors.
Harry was followed in the front Hall and was told to wait in front of the huge golden door in front of him and then the elf retreated into another hallway.
Few minuets later the door opened and let Harry and his friends in a huge room that was mostly empty except the four chairs in the far end of the room and the red carpet that led to the chairs.
Harry saw an old looking elf sitting in the largest chair and next to him was an old looking woman elf. In the two smaller chairs no one sat, but a young handsome elf stood in the corner,
"Welcome prince Harry" The king said in a friendly voice and Harry shook his head and bowed respectfully and soon his friends did the same,
"Please rise children" The queen said
"Do you know who I am Harry?"
"You are the king sir" Harry said hesitantly feeling like an idiot.
The king grinned and nodded, "Yes but that was not what I meant"
"Oh" Harry just said,
"I am your grate grandfather prince Harry"
Harry's jaw reached the floor. Of course the other elf had said the same thing, but it seemed so much more real when the king said it and now Harry had no doubt he was a prince.
The king chuckled but then rose,
"This has been a long journey, you must feast and rest and then we can talk. Come" And then the king led them to another door.
"All rise, the honorable king and his queen have arrived, with their guests and Lord Sufi" An elf that stood at the door said loudly and all the other elves that had been sitting down at the huge silver dining table rose.
Harry was seated next to the king and Angel sat on his other side.
"Feast" The king said and Harry ate. He hadn't released how hungry he was until he saw all the delicious food.
"So tell me young prince" A beautiful elvin woman said "Who are all you mortal friends here. I was only informed that there would be one visiting us"
"Er, well this is Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco" Harry said pointing at each of them "They are very good friends of mine. My family really. And she" Harry said pointing at Angel "Is also a friend of mine"
"She is not mortal like the rest of you"
"How did you…?"
"We elves can sense it in your aura. I can also sense a grate bond between you and your friends here. But it is this being that interest me"
"She is… well… I guess you could say she is my trainer. She appeared before my birthday and has helped me a lot since" Harry said avoiding answering what exactly she was.
"You are the one? The one who trains them all, the one created especially by god? And then you" The king said in awe looking at Harry's friends "Must be the knights"
"How do you know so much about us?" Harry asked,
"We have our ways" The king just said, "But at least this explains why they are here. It is hard to separate the guardian from the knights"
"You mean he is the next one?" The queen asked a bit surprised, "He is so young"
"That he is. But you are more are you not? That is why we have brought you here my son. But now is not the time to talk about these dark subjects. Tell me how is your mother? I've missed her so much. A true elf she was. So beautiful and pure. I whish she was here"
"Er… Harry just said uncomfortably. "You don't know what has been happening in our world?"
"We know of this dark creature that is terracing the world once again. We feel it. He has grown stronger."
"Yeah, Voldemort" Ron said with out a thought
"But what has that to do with your mother?" The king asked confused
"Well you know his downfall happened when I was young"
"Yes"
"It kind of involved me and my mother"
"It did"
"Yes. And my father as well"
"How is he? A nice man he is. I remember when I went to see your mother, I offered her to come and live here with you. But she said no because she did not want to leave your father. Of course I would have loved to have him with us but alas the law forbid any humans to come here. It was hard enough to convince the council to allow your mother here. But as much as we bonded and as much as she wanted to come the love she had for your father and you overcame the love she had for the elves"
"Yes, such love she had for him. How are they?" The queen said
"They," Harry looked down, "They died"
There was silence and then the King was furious,
"What? How did that come to be"
"That night, when Voldemort fell. It happened at our old house. Voldemort came there to kill me. My father told my mom to take me and run, but before she could Voldemort killed him. Then he turned to my mom and told her to move, so he could kill me. She wouldn't move. She died protecting me. Then he tried to kill me but the killing curse didn't work. It hit me where my scar his on my forehead and then she went back to him and he lost his body and disappeared for fourteen years.
And the day he returned. I was there as well. They had tricked me so I was there. Wormtail tied me to a tombstone and then he used my blood to bring him back"
"My god" The queen breathed
"This is… she cannot have died. What of the thrown. She is the princess and even if she choose to live a normal mortal life she held the thrown. It has now passed to you prince Harry. You are now the heir of the elfish kingdom"
"What? I thought my mom had declined it"
"She did. In words. But it was never sealed. I did not expect this. I wanted to help you yes, by bringing you here and train you for few years, but now. They cannot get away with killing the princess with out angering us"
"Wait a minuet. What do you mean by few years? I have to be back at school in five days"
The king looked at Harry sharply, "You must be trained young one. I know that your guardian here will do everything she can to train you and your friends but she cannot do everything. She cannot train you to fight like elves and that is a huge advantaged in this war. You must as well learn the customs of our people. And in the light that" His voice faltered a bit, " That my darling granddaughter is no longer among us, you must be accepted by the people so one day you can accept the crown. I am old and soon I'll move on"
"I thought elves were immortal" Hermione said confused
"Nothing is immortal. We live longer then you humans. The average age of female is about seven hundreds years, and the average at males are about six hundred years. I am six hundred and twelve years old. I do not have much more to live"
"With all due respect my king, the prince cannot stay here that long. Like you said, he has a destiny in his world, where he truly belongs. If he turns his back on them the elves will not accept him" The elf that had stood in the corner in the other room before said, although it didn't sound like he was trying to help to Harry, more like he was trying to get rid of him,.
"Sufi" The king said warningly, "I would never ask him to abandon his world, especially after I hear that my granddaughter has been killed. She must be revenged, as does her husband. And since she is elven we will not stand by and let our prince do the job alone. But when it has been finished, he shall return and fulfill his other destiny"
"My king" Harry said carefully, "As much as I love this realm and want to stay to be trained. I cannot. I have a responsibility to the people. I will revenge my mother, and my father. As will I revenge my godfather and my fellow companion who died when Voldemort returned. But there is little I can do now. I must return to make an appearance so people will not panic, and I must train and I must prepare. Ever since Voldemorts first defeat I have been a symbol of hope in our world, as much as I dislike it it is the way things are and if I fail or disappear people will loose what little hope they have left"
"We will meat the council tomorrow where we will discuss things young one. But keep in mind that there is more at stake. So much more. Now rest. Guðrun lead them to their rooms"
The next morning Harry awoke early when the sun shone in his window. He sat up slowly trying to figure out when he had bought a new bed and sheets when he remembered what had happened the day before.
His room was very pretty. It was large, all in royal blue. There was a huge white fireplace there. His bed was king size, in the middle of the room. There was a wood desk in one of the corners. Then there were shelves full of books but none that Harry understood for they weren't exactly written in English. There was a walk in wardrobe full of all kinds of elven clothes. And then here was just the bathroom.
The others rooms were similar as well. Harry got dressed in a nice white elven silk cloak and then left with the elf that had arrived to escort him to meat the king and the council.
He was escorted back to the hall he had first been to, but instead of the four thrones there had been earlier now there was a long table in the middle with a lot of old elf's there and the king. There was only one woman in the group.
Harry walked slowly up to them and bowed.
"My king, honorable council" He murmured, not sure how to act.
"Prince Harry" One of the oldest elf said, "Do you know why you are here?"
"Er, no not really sir"
"You are the one are you not?"
"I am the guardian of the key although I do not hold it at the moment, if that is what you mean?"
"I mean you are the golden knight are you not?"
"I am"
"Do you know what it is that you are supposed to do prince Harry?" Another elf asked
"Well, I know that I have to kill Voldemort because no one else can. I know that I have to do something to determent the final battle between Satan and God, but other then that no"
"There is more young one. You are not ready to fight yet. You must train that is why we allowed the king to bring you here"
"May I ask a question?" Harry asked softly. Some how he got the feeling that these people were not someone that you should mess with
"You may"
"Why did you bring me here? I mean I know I am the prince but from the little I know the elves don't seem to like us mortals so much"
"We don't. You are weak and corrupt. You are the first mortal to enter our kingdom for over five thousand years. We have trusted you to many times and each time you betray us. And we have learnt not to make that same mistake again but you must relish that you are not like any other"
"But I don't understand sir. Elves are peace making creators, because you are pure magic right? So why do you involve yourself with the war when you don't have to"
The elves looked at Harry sharply,
"There is much you do not know. Yes we are pure magic. Well mostly. But not all magic is good, pure or not. The reason we elves are light as you call it has nothing with our nature to do. It is how we live. Here it does not matter how much power you hold, or how rich you are. Everybody are equals here, everybody accept everybody. Everybody are friends. But even with us occasionally some of the elves want more. Most often the elves who work for the King or us. The warriors. Only the best are here, but all of them are still treated the same. Some find this unfair and turn on us. I must perhaps warn you young one. Seven elves have turned since the Dark Lord returned and look to join his ranks in hope to be better treated then here and most likely more will go.
"This happens every time a war brakes out with you human but never before have we interfered, but this is different. This war involves us. It has been seen, that if the dark shall prevail the elves will be enslaved and like it or not, you are our only hope. Only you can save us.
We cannot fight. None of us are trained to fight except the warriors and they cannot protect everyone"
"But, how can you be so sure? I mean Voldemort was around before"
"I think you should know that the Dark one is more powerful then he seems, as you are also more powerful as you seem. You will need every help you can get and we are offering ours"
"This is a wonderful offer and I am very flattered. I am sure this would come as a grate asset in the war and I would love to train with you but I ask you to please understand that I also represent the people. You may not care but I do. I agree there are many people who are corrupt and evil, but there are also so many who are innocent and don't deserve this unfairness. I, even if I don't like it am the only hope they have got. If I just disappear we don't have a chance. I need to be back in four days"
The elves looked fairly angry at his denial but the king spoke up,
"May I come with a suggestion. I was going to propose this later but I suppose I can do it now. I would like to send out a team with few of our best elves to help in the war until-
"What??" The female elf said scandalized
"because yesterday prince Harry informed me that my granddaughter and the heir of the crown was-
"I thought she denied it" One of the elf sneered obviously not impressed or fond of Lily and the king seemed fairly hurt and angry by their behavior.
"She did deny but it was never sealed so it is still in her hands, and I would appreciate if you would not insult my granddaughter. She is a truly wonderful person, my favorite by far even if I don't like admitting it. And I believe that she proved herself more then worthy when she denied her stay here. She was so thrilled when she thought she could move here, and she was so in love with our culture but her love for her husband was deeper, and that should say something about the person she was" The king said upset.
"She denied her heritage. Her husband was unworthy, a mortal for gods sake"
"Not every mortal is that bad"
"Perhaps, but even if we were to give her husband a chance the population would never agree. This has not been seen for over five thousands years. Maybe they can visit if they keep unnoticed but for now we must focus on other things. Like sealing that deal"
"It cannot be done" The King interrupted, "For my granddaughter and her husband are dead"
"What"
"The dark Lord killed them"
"The princess was killed? How dare he kill an royal elf" the one that seemed to be the head elf of the council said extremely angry. Harry thought this rather funny since he had before sneered at the mentioned of his father.
"That is why I propose we send out a team. We can send them back with the prince and they can help train him there and then they will follow him in battle when he and his knights are ready"
"But he is the heir now, that changes everything. He must be kept safe. He cannot forfeit the thrown until he is of age and if he dies before that the thrown will fall out of the family and everything will fall into chaos"
"Won't just the next one in line receive it?" Harry asked,
"No. You must forfeit it if you don't want it, otherwise Geirmundur will be the last King and the land will not survive with out a leader"
"What shall we do? We can't keep him here and we must revenge the princess" One of the younger looking elf said,
"Ég segji að við gerum alveg eins og kóngurinn sagði nema við sendum tvo eða svo álfa til að passa hann þar til hann er tilbúinn" The oldest elf said in elfish
The elves talked about the consequences and other options for a while until everybody agreed
"Alright young heir. You can go back in four days time, but we will send a team with you and they will train you in your school and follow you into battle when the time comes. But since you are the heir we must be sure of your safety and therefore two guards will come and they will not leave your present at anytime"
"Yes sir" Harry said
"You are dismissed" The king said
"Yes your highness" Harry said bowing and leaving.
"What do you mean gone?" Tonks said at the order meeting where Dumbledore had just announced that Harry was missing.
"I mean we don't know where he is. Dobby won't say anything but that he will be perfectly save. What puzzles me the most though is this letter Harry mentioned"
"I might be able to help you there" Remus said awkwardly,
Dumbledore looked at him sharply, "Do you know something"
"I don't know where he is if that is what you mean. But I do know what letter he was talking about. I don't see how this will help but on his birthday I gave Harry two letters. One form his mom and one from his father"
"What?"
"They left them with me and asked me to give them to him on his sixth teen birthday if something were to go wrong" Remus shrugged,
"So what did the letter say?"
"I didn't read it Dumbledore" Remus said shocked, "It was his private things and it wasn't mine to mess with. But for what it is worth I don't think he is hurt. He said it had something to do with the letter and Lily would never say anything that would harm him in any way"
The next four days went away in haste. Harry was seeing new things everyday with his friends and he was really getting to know his grandfather. He found out that the annoying Sufi he really didn't like was actually related to him. The king had had three daughters. His mothers mom being the oldest so the crown had gone to her, and from her to Lily and from Lily to him. Sufi was the son of the king's second eldest child and would become the King if it weren't for Harry. And because of that Sufi really hated Harry.
Sufi then had three younger siblings, all of them younger then Harry. And the youngest child of the king had four children. One girl who was about Sufi's age, another girl that was Harry's age and two boys that were nine and seven.
The girl that was Harry's age was called Lilja and she and Harry had become rather good friends.
But while Harry and his friends had been having fun the King and the council had been looking for the best elves meant to go with him back.
Finally it was time to leave and Harry was standing at the same hill where he had arrived.
There were ten men that were supposed to come back with him, and two of them were to guard him.
Harry looked at Linda who had come with them to say good-bye,
"good bye Harry. I'll miss you a lot."
"We'll see each other again Linda. I'll be back later when all this is over, I promise"
"I'll take you up on that"
And then they hugged, and then Linda left to say good bye to the others while Harry had time with the king,
"I'll miss you too Harry. I'm proud of you, and I want you to know that I love you and you are family and if you ever need a place to stay you are always welcome here, whichever you decide to rule the kingdom or not"
"Thanks Geiri" Harry said. Even after four days there he still could not say the King's name.
"There is one other thing. The council wanted to send one other person with you to observe and report back to us. The person who is going with you as well is Sufi"
Harry was a bit stumped at that. Sufi really didn't like him, "Why? I mean he hates me"
"It's nothing personal Harry. It's just he loves power to much, that is why I want you to think very carefully before you give him the thrown. I love Sufi, he is my grandchild after all, but I just don't think that a ambitious person like him could rule well"
"I'll think about it"
"Take care and we will see each other soon. And listen to your trainers, they are the best"
"Yes" Harry sighed.
And with a bright flash they were standing in front of Hogwart's gates.
This was it. The feast was about to begin about now, so everybody would see them.
Harry had asked his grandfather to reconsider often because sending the elves with him meant exposing themselves to the world. It could be end of their peace.
Two elves, that Harry knew as to be twins, Emilía and Friðrik, although Harry always just called them Em and Freddy, took their places next to him, each at either side. Harry's friends also took their places each around him and Angel walked in front and the rest of the elves following.
When they reached the door at the Great Hall Harry stopped and took a deep breath before opening the door.
Meanwhile inside the Hall Harry and the rest of the trio was the main topic with everyone while the Slytherin prince was the main topic at the Slytherin table.
Each of the death eater children had been informed that Draco had gone missing but everybody believed it was not of his own choice.
The staff table was full, and there everybody was worrying as well but everybody looked up sharply when the door opened.
First the most beautiful woman any of the student body and half of the staff had ever seen walked in and then shortly after Harry walked in with Ron and Hermione walking a bit in front of him, Ron at the left and Hermione at the right, and at Harry's left Ginny was and at his right Draco was and then about step behind him what seemed to be two elves were.
But before anyone could react more entered the grate Hall. Nine elves came and shattered around Harry.
At first no one moved, almost everyone sure this was some sort of prank after all elves were only myths. Finally Harry and his little group along with the pretty lady walked up to the headmaster and whispered something.
Harry ignored the stares and walked up to the head table and stood right in front of Dumbledore.
At first Dumbledore only stared at the two elves at either side of Harry until Harry whispered at him,
"I don't think they think that is very comfortable"
"Ah, yes terribly sorry about that" Dumbledore said softly, "I think we need to talk after the feast Harry" He said seriously
"Yes headmaster" Harry whispered back before turning at Angel, "Could you?"
"Sure Harry. I'll meet you in an hour" And then Angel ushered the elves out.
The hall was still staring at Harry and the two remaining elves although they were mostly focusing on Draco.
"Erm, what now?" Draco whispered,
"You can sit with us" Harry just said before walking off to the Gryffindor table where he and the teens sat down and ate ignoring the stares.
About fifty minuets later the desert cleared out and Harry finally looked up at the head table and much to his shock he saw a number of people he wasn't expecting to see.
Dumbledore stood up and smiled before speaking up,
"Dear students, I think it is time to present some of your newer professors. First I would like to meet your new DADA professor, Mrs. Doodle. And since Madam Hooch has unfortunaly retired, we have new flying instructors which some of you older students might recognize. Please welcome back Miss Angela Johnson, and Kate Bell. And this year we have decided to hold a new class the older students which is healing with madam Pomfrey.
Given the return of Lord Voldemort, some aurors will be stationed here for your safety, and all students must be inside their dorms after dinner and at weekends nine o'clock at, except fifth years and above who will have to be at their dorms before ten on weekends. And I must please ask you not to wander much on the school grounds in the dark"
The students were very happy about the new professors, and went to bed smiling that night. Well almost all of the students. Harry, Draco, Ron, Ginny and Mione had a meeting in the headmaster's office.
When they entered the other elves and Angel were already there, along with, Remus, Mcgonagall, Fred, George, Snape, Tonks, Kinglsey, Moody and the headmaster.
"Harry mate, what was all that about? We were really worried" Fred exclaimed and hugging each of them in return.
"Yeah, don't do that ever again" Fred agreed, slapping Ron on the back
"I will try not to. But what are you guys doing here?"
"We needed to talk to the headmaster a bit. You see after much nagging from our dear mother and a bit from our father we have decided to take our NEWT'S however that means we will have to take few classes, and if all things go well we will be gone by Christmas"
"Mr. Potter, could you please explain this to me? Start why you left in the first place" Dumbledore interrupted
"First I want to say I'm sorry. I didn't know that I was leaving when Dobby came. I really thought professor Snape just wanted to see me so you can imagine my surprise when I find a high elf instead"
"High elf? Elves aren't real Potter. They are myths, don't you pay attention to any of your class" Snape sneered,
"Then explain them" Harry retorted,
"This is some sort of bad prank"
"Children" Dumbledore said, "Harry please explain here"
"Fine. I guess it all started at my birthday with my letters"
"That is something I can't understand. What has any of this anything to do with your mother?" Mcgonagall asked
"There is something Dumbledore never told you. He didn't tell me or my mom either" Harry said glaring briefly at the headmaster, "My mom isn't a muggle-born"
"Excuse me?" Mcgonagall said in disbelieve
"It is true. Lily is adopted. And before you begin Minerva Harry is still related to his aunt. What puzzled me when I researched this all those years back was that there are very little information on your mother family Harry however I was able to find out that your grate grandmother is the sister grate grandmother of Petunia. They both however were squibs " Dumbledore explained to the stunned people, "But how do you now this Harry? I never told Lily and I am fairly sure that no one else knew"
"She didn't, not until she got a surprise visit." Harry said "You see in my letter, my mom told me that her real grandfather had visited her and told her the truth. Her grandfather is an elf sir. She told me that sometime shortly after my sixteenth birthday they would come for me. And they did"
"So you are a part elf?"
"Yes. I am almost half elf"
"How can that be? If your grate grandfather is just an elf"
"My grandfather is also an elf"
"Oh"
"Yes. Lord Helix was his name. He is in prison now for raping a mortal"
"Oh" as just the response again.
"So, er continue your explanation Harry. What are these fine elves doing here? I thought they were pure magic beings an there for not into war and such things and they don't like humans do they?"
"They don't. They are here as to honor the memory of my mother. They are here to train me of their ways and then help me"
"So the elves will help us? Wonderful- Dumbledore started but was gut of by Harry.
"You misunderstand. Just because they want to kill Voldemort, doesn't mean they will become one of your army. They are proud beings and don't work under anyone, so don't order them around. They are soly here to train me and then to help me in my fight to revenge my mother. Then when that has been done they will return to their home again"
"I see" Dumbledore said seriously, "I guess I should find you a classroom then. Oh and Harry, your schedule will be very tight this year, between school, quitted and occulemcy lessons with professor Snape so don't get into to many detentions"
"Wait, you want me to train again even after the whole disaster last year? Forget it"
"Harry you need to learn"
"He doesn't teach it anyway so I don't have to. I can get someone else to teach me, he is not getting near my mind ever again"
"Harry" Dumbledore said with a hint of anger in his voice, "It is time you stop acting like a small child and face up to what is a head of you. I don't trust this Angel for this task so you will train with professor Snape. And that is it"
"I'll train him" Remus said
"Remus I-
"Look professor" Remus interrupted, "Harry told me everything so I know. And now I am going to do what I think is best and this is it. Now I'll train him or no one will"
"You told him Harry?" Dumbledore asked shocked,
"Yes I did. And you know what else, I also told Ron and Hermione as well Ginny and Draco. Oh and guess what, Angel knows too"
"Harry do you really think it is wise to tell so many people"
"I trust every single one of them and I know for a fact that no one can brake through their minds, and besides it is mine to tell who ever I want. Why doesn't the council of the order know?"
"How do-
"I know about the council? It wasn't all that hard to figure out. I also know that, Snape, professor Mcgonagall, Moody, Kingsley, Remus and five other people are in it. They were the ones that were mostly involved in protecting me and that stupid thing and yet you didn't even tell them the risks or what it was. Do they even know it was a prophecy"
"We didn't at the time but eventually Dumbledore was forced to tell us at least that. All we know is that it is a prophecy that somehow involves you and for some reason Voldemort wants to hear it" Mcgonagall said
"Of for the love of humanity headmaster"
"The less that know the better"
"So you think that they'll all tell on it?"
"No of course not, but if they are caught then,
"Then they would rather die. If it would so unlikely happen that they would tell then we would just have to deal with that. I mean he's got to figure it our eventually. But I really don't want to fight about this since it doesn't exactly matter anymore anyways"
"I want to know what I was risking my life for all last year" Snape insisted
"You risk your life everyday so what does it matter"
"I actually agree on professor Snape this time. I want to know what is going on. Why is Harry on our top things to take care of? I mean I know he is important and what he means to the world. And of course he would have security but why so much?" Mcgonagall said
"It really doesn't matter anymore" Harry said softly
"Hey you were the one that started this whole mess by saying we deserved to know"
"That was before I knew it Snape. I don't want anyone else to know"
"Don't you trust us Harry?" Mcgonagall asked softly,
"It's not that. I just don't want anyone's pity" Harry sighed,
"I am confused" Mcgonagall just said,
"Oh, for Merlin's sake just bloody well tell us. No one else has to know about it Potter" Snape said." There are only the eight of us here that don't know. No seven since Lupin knows"
All of the people looked determent to know what Harry was hiding and finally Harry sighed. All these people had risked their lives so many times just for him. They deserved to know.
"Alright. But I want a wizards oath that this will not leave this room"
Everyone agreed to that and then it was time for Harry to spill, "Snape wasn't exactly right about his theory before. The prophecy doesn't exactly involve me somehow, it is about me and… Voldemort. Voldy already knows the first half but he doesn't know the second half and he cannot find out. Not yet anyway. Anyway, so after the battle in the ministry Dumbledore send me here, shortly later he arrived and he told me… what the prophecy says. Basically is says that I am the only one able to kill Voldemort and that if I fail the world is doomed"
First there was stunned silence but then Fred asked frightenly calm" What do you mean you are the only one? There must be someone else who has the power to kill him"
"No. I must kill him or die trying. But I have told you all about the elves and other things so now I am off to bed. See you in the morning. Good night"
And with that Harry left the stunned people behind until George turned around to face Dumbledore with a angry glare, "So that's why he isn't so fond of you anymore? You knew all along about this… prophecy and you waited to tell him until about ten minuets after his godfather died? What the hell is the matter with you"
"Mr. Weasley" Mcgonagall said out of force of habit but then she also glared at the headmaster, "But really Albus, was that really necessary? Why didn't you tell him when he returned? Why wait and deceive him all year long. The poor boy had no clue and you practically lead him on his ears somewhere he doesn't really want to be"
Dumbledore looked slightly hurt that his long time friend was putting him down like that and was about to speak up when surprisingly Snape spoke up, "So that explains it"
"Explains what?" Tonks asked still in shock.
"His first year. How you allowed him to go down there alone with his friends to face Voldemort. Eleven Dumbledore, and you lead the boy to that. And it doesn't matter you had arrived later, because you still arrived late. And is second year. You probably had your ideas about what was going on? But you let him go wild and kill a Basilik. What would you have done if your phoenix hadn't healed his bite? And his third year when you send him back in time. And then there was his fourth year. Sure you hadn't planned on having Potter in the tournament but hey since he was why not use it to your advantages. I know for a fact Albus that you could easily have withdrawn him from that. And don't you start with I'm sorry, it was an old mans mistake" Snape said furious when Dumbledore was about to speak, "You knew exactly what you were doing. You knew about the dragons and about the second task and even if you didn't know that the cup was a portkey or that he would actually win the game you still knew the maze was full with all sorts of dangerous things. And you still let it all happen. And if it isn't enough that he was a small school child, to top it off he was your grandson. Do you not care about anything but your goals Albus?"
Dumbledore looked down slightly ashamed, "I only did what I thought was best at the time. He needed to be trained"
"Yes he did" Moody said, "But he needed to know it at the same time. I'm sorry Albus, you are an old and dear friend but I agree with Severus and Minerva on this one. What you did was more then a old mans mistake. You made a large mistake and now you'll have to fix it"
And then everybody left the room.
The elves had settled down in his rooms, although Angel had to move into his room and add a few beds for the elves.
Em and Freddy did not leave Harry's side and even slept with him in his dorm. Much to his annoyance and his friends excitement to have a myth creator in their dorm.
The next day Harry woke up at six am after a good night sleep. He showered and got ready before waking his best mate. At seven the trio and Ginny were sitting at the Gryffindor table eating breakfast.
"Em, Freddy, please will you sit down and eat" Harry exclaimed at the elves,
"I am sorry my prince but it is not proper. We eat while you sleep"
"Oh, see they are my guards as well and at least they sit down and eat" Harry said annoyed pointing at his friends
"We are not hungry" Freddy answered,
"Then sit down"
"I'm sorry prince"
"I wasn't asking you I was telling you to sit down. Everyone are staring and you can't possibly find that comfortable"
The elves conjured two chairs right where they were standing and took a seat each with their own apple.
Harry just rolled his eyes and went back to eat. All to soon the Hall began to fill in and Harry saw Draco walk in all by himself before the door at the Hall closed, which meant he was the latest student to arrive.
Draco seated himself at the corner of the table alone. Away from his old "Friends" who just gave him confused stares.
Breakfast was fairly silent, because everyone were staring at the elves, Harry and Draco. And the twins got a fair bit of stares as well since they were not supposed to be there but most were on Harry and the slytherin prince.
Finally Pancy and Nott stood up and walked up to Draco and seated themselves against him so Draco disappeared out of sight.
Harry got a feeling of foreboding go through him and he quietly stood up and of course he was soon followed.
They walked quickly but softly to the Slytherin table but Harry stopped a bit away listening to the conversation.
"The dark Lord will know what is to do" he heard Nott whisper.
Draco walked in silently, and alone. He had pretended to be a sleep longer because he didn't want to meet up with his old friends.
But clearly that was not quite possible as he had not been seated that long when Parkinson and Nott walked up to him.
They didn't seem angry, only confused but you could never really tell with Slytherin's.
"Malfoy" Pansy greeted him softly,
Draco just nodded back
"So are you going to tell us what is gong on or will we have to drag it out of you" Nott grunted,
"What?" Draco just said turning back to his food acting as they weren't important, in hope that they would just leave.
"Don't act all I'm the slytherin prince and you better do what I say or else Malfoy. I demand to know what is going on here. I though we had come to an alliance and were going to work together and become the next inner circle for the dark lord"
"It wasn't going as planned" Draco said plainly,
Confused looks came over the two. They obviously thought he was still on their side although they seemed to be angry to be misinformed,
"The dark Lord will know what to do, but I thought everything was going to plan until you started acting strangely this summer and then just disappeared"
"You misunderstand me" Draco said looking up and he noticed that Harry was hearing everything they said and was filled with pride that he trusted Draco enough to act on this himself,
"How so?" Nott asked,
"Boys" Pansy interrupted," I don't think this is the right place to talk about such things"
"I have placed a notice me not charm and a silencing charm on us and although nothing the professors would notice the students won't. And I think professor Snape will make sure no other people will hear us" Draco simply answered, "And so let me explain this new plan to the two of you here,"
"Shouldn't we bring the rest of the gang?" Pansy asked,
"That won't be necessary. You can inform them at the same time you will inform them that I no longer am the leader of this little group of yours, but the two of you are"
At first the slytherins looked confused about this, since it was not like Draco to give away such big positions like that. On the other hand they were delighted to finally become what they truly deserved.
"I wouldn't be getting to happy about it though"
"Why not"
"Because I have yet to inform you the reason I will not be running such important task. The reason is really simple, as you have probably seen I was with Potter last night-
"Why?" Nott interrupted. "I mean I know the Lord will be pleased with what information you have to pass but we were really worried. You should really have seen your father"
Draco sneered before continuing, "I won't be informing no one of anything and that includes you. You see I have found another place for me. And it is not with you. It is with the winners. But unlike when I formed this group I did not join the other out of fear that they would backstab me otherwise. I did so because I respect, and I mean truly respect the leader and his actions unlike what you all fear Voldemort. I have learned that there is more to this world then to be blackmailed by my father in a dangerous service of the dark lord. I can be happy if I choose to be and that is what I prefer. So you see you can be thrilled that you now are important to the dark lord but be unhappy because when you fail, and mark my words you will, then it will be taken out on you. So if you would excuse me" Draco said standing up but before he could go anywhere the other two furious teens stopped him,
"You are not going anywhere Malfoy. I thought you were one of us, but clearly you are a backstabbing traitor yourself, and we don't like those now do we. No we will deal with you and then dispose you and- But Pansy never got to finish because at that moment Harry intertwined.
"Is there a problem here?"
"I don't believe I invited you over here you bloody freak"
"Are you threading another student?" Hermione asked
"It is none of your business mudblood"
"Don't call her that" Draco said
What?" Nott said with wide eyes, "Your standing up to Granger now? This is it " and
then he pointed his wand at Draco but Harry calmly spoke up before he had the chance to do much of anything,
"I don't think that will be good idea. I don't take it lightly when someone curses one of my most loyal followers in front of me you know"
"Wait, he's with you now?" Pansy said in horror
"Yes I am"
"Fine. Then go and run away Malfoy, but remember that Potter won't be here all the time to protect you" Ad with that Pansy and Nott left calling a slytherin meeting.
Draco went back to the Gryffindor table with the rest a bit pale,
"You know I don't think you are save there anymore so I think I'm going to ask Dumbledore for a resorting or something. I don't feel well knowing you are there"
But they had little time to talk about that since breakfast was almost done and Snape and Mcgonagall came to give them their timetables.
As to the tradition they had double potions first.
Harry didn't have all that many classes this year; he had advanced potions, advanced DADA, Advanced, charms and transfiguration. Then he had Care of magical creators, which he mostly took because of Hagrid. But then he also noticed that he had some new class called, history of war and magic. But for Harry this was more then enough since DADA was six classes a week, potion six as well, charms five, as well as transfiguration and Care of magical creators, three times and magical history two times.
On Fridays like to day, he had double potions, followed by a single charms, then lunch then double DADA, and lastly double class with Mcgonagall.
Harry groaned and said, "I swear they do it on purpose. Hermione how are you going to survive this year? I mean my schedule is rather full and you have what? The same classes as I plus runes, Astronomy and herboligy?"
"Why on earth? You took all that before" Ron said shocked. He had just the same classes as Harry and as did Draco. Ginny of course had more classes, but had them fewer times since she was a fifth year.
Hermione blushed and said, "I had decided my class course before that Ronald"
Then they said good bye to Ginny and the other four teens headed to potions. With Ron and Hermione biggering all the way over there and it wasn't until Snape made his dramatic entrance they stopped.
"Have a seat" He snapped, "I feel it as my duty to warn the most of you, not half of the dunderheads in here will last the week. Not only are the half of you completely incompetent and only succeeded to enter this class by going behind my back and therefore do not have the skill to be here. This class will be six times a week. We will be covering much more harder potions this year and I will not tolerate any distraction, whatever the reason might be for it. Is that understood?" Snape said in an icy low voice and everyone in the class nodded.
There were four Gryffindors this year, Harry, Hermione and Ron being three of them and much to Harry's joy Neville being the fourth. There were three Rawenclawes, Terry Boot, some girl he didn't remember and another boy who was familiar but Harry didn't find out his name until later when the name call was. Apparently the girl was Sara and the boy was David. There was only two Hufflepuffs and they were Hanna Abbot and Ernie. The Slytherins however were more. There was Nott, Parkinson, Zabini, Draco and one other girl sitting with Zabini away from the others like Draco.
"Good, this week we will be covering the dawn of the sun, does any one here know what it is?"
Surprisingly Harry and Ron were both among those who knew. It was one of the harder potions they had learnt in the past.
"Mr. Potter, care to enlighten us who are so unfortunate to know?" Snape sneered
Harry simply answered the question, "It is a healing potion, used for serous internal bleeding. The side affects are that some of the ingredients happen to be very strong and many people are allergic to them and there for often get rashes and such"
Snape sneered, "Ten points for showing off and pretending to know better then a teacher. Now as Potter so kindly said, the dawn of the sun is a healing potion. It takes three days to make if done correctly and if you do a mistake and someone actually drinks the potion the consequences will be heavy. Now instruction on are on pa- Snape faltered off there for a minute and Harry saw he was looking in his direction but still not at him. Harry looked behind him as well and then cursed. The two elves were there as it was an every day thing.
Slowly Harry faced his now fuming professor.
"What is the meaning of this Potter? I am trying to teach a class here"
"I'm sorry sir" Harry said softly,
"For what? Interrupting my class, offering some mythical creators to be in my class with out my permission or something else?"
"The two first one I guess"
"You guess?" Snape fumed, almost red from his anger. "That will be fifty points from Gryffindor and months worth of detention, taken with me and Filch"
"Yes sir" Harry agreed.
"Now you two there, out of my class room this instant" Snape growled.
Harry almost sighed, he knew they wouldn't leave, and right he was. The elves didn't budge,
"So elves are deaf now? I said get the hell out of my classroom"
Still nothing.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" He yelled
This time the now angry elves looked at the potion master and replied.
"Nothing is wrong with us sir. But we are not moving"
"What do you mean?"
"We were hired as to ensure the safety of Mr. Potter and we will be doing just that until we will be told otherwise from our employer" The male elf said firmly "Potter" Snape spat,
"Yes sir"
"Tell them to get out"
This time Harry did sigh and it didn't go unnoticed,
"What?"
"It's just that I can't do-
"Potter" Snape interrupted "I don't care that you think you need extra protection because you think everyone are out to get you. I will not have it in this class. Now out with them, you can regroup after classes"
"But-
"No buts, otherwise you will be forced to leave, and I don't give a damn what the headmaster says. Like it or not you are not on a hero mission at the moment but preparing for the future. So act like it" He practically yelled much to the surprise of everybody,
"Sir, I'm sorry I really can't…. But again Harry was interrupted by Snape,
"Then get the hell out of here and don't think of coming in here again"
"But-
"No buts"
"B-
"No. Buts" Snape said slowly and finally Harry huffed and said fine, closed his books as he glared at the elves and was about to make his way out when he saw his elves weren't following so he said, maybe a bit more forcefully then he attended,
"Well, are you coming or not?"
The elves bowed but Freddy looked back at Snape, "If I may make one comment before we leave?"
"Be quick about it"
"Mr. Potter is not our employer"
It seemed to take a minute before Snape got it into his head but then he said,
"And what of it, he is still your boss"
"In a way yes. He can give us orders under a surden limits. He can however not tell us to leave our post, under any circumstances as Mr. Potter was trying to tell you. He can not order us to leave because he has no say in it. And believe me if he did we wouldn't be here right now. He spent half an hour trying to make us stay at his dorm this morning"
Snape didn't seem to know what to do. On one hand he could throw him out now and be done about it but then he really didn't have a reason to ban him from classes.
"Go to the headmaster's office and wait for me there. I'll be there shortly" He finally spat.
Well then…. I was actually going to post it three days ago but I've been very lazy since Christmas eve, so you'll have to forgive that I'm just posting it now. Better late then never ;) Anyways, this wll most likely be the last chapter I post for the next weeks or so, so I hope you enjoy it. Now read and review.
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