Chapter 6: Isildur First Month at Hogwarts

After leaving Diagon Alley Isildur appeared in a large fire place in what looked like a very large room. He stepped out of the fire place to see where he was. He saw four large tables sitting in the middle of a huge room; he looked to the front and saw a slightly smaller table on a raised platform. He then looked up at the ceiling and thought for a moment that there wasn't one, then he relished he was standing in the great hall of Hogwarts. It looked exactly as it did in the movie which he was really amazed at as they had used a church at a university in England for it. Just then Dumbledore walked into the great hall and smiled at him and said "welcome to Hogwarts Isildur, now before we begin your lessons I need to ask you something."

Isildur looked at him and asked "What do you want to ask me Professor?"

"Well I want to ask you to make a choice about something, I can have you put on the sorting hat now or wait until September 1st to be sorted with the new first years," Dumbledore said this as they left the great hall and walked up several flights of stairs to Dumbledore's office.

Before Isildur could give his answer Dumbledore stopped at a stone gargoyle and said "chocolate frog."

The Gargoyle moved out of the way to reveal a spiral stair case. They went up it and through the door into Dumbledore's office.

In there Isildur saw the sorting hat, Fawkes (Dumbledore's Phoenix), the sword of Godric Gryffindor and of course the pictures of all the previous headmasters of Hogwarts. Dumbledore looked at Isildur and asked him for his answer.

Isildur looked Dumbledore in the eye and said to him that he would like to wait and be sorted with the first years.

Dumbledore nodded and said that he may sleep in his office at night until then. Then Dumbledore took him on a tour of Hogwarts and showed him where all the class rooms where and also showed him where all the common rooms were too. When they got back to Dumbledore's office Isildur felt tired and he looked at his watch (which was a really neat one that displayed your location with the help of GPS and could reset it's time to whatever time zone you were in.) He looked at it and saw it said 10:30 pm GMT (it normally said GMT - 5). He then turned to Dumbledore and asked him if he could look at an atlas, Dumbledore knowing full well why Isildur wanted it promptly said "Maybe in the morning, right now I think you should go to bed as you will have a very busy day tomorrow." Isildur did as Dumbledore told him and went to bed, however he had one last question for him, Isildur looked Dumbledore in the eyes and said "How come my watch still works even though Muggle devices don't work in Hogwarts because of all the magic in the air?"

Dumbledore looked at the teen and said to him "There seams to be one odd exception to that rule, watches are not affected as they are used to tell time, which is very important here at Hogwarts. For example the clock in the clock tower above the main entrance always keeps perfect time and is one hundred percent accurate, it even resets it self for daylight savings time. Now as we are on the subject of time I do believe it is time for you to go to bed as you have had a busy day today and will have an equally busy one tomorrow."

The next day when Isildur woke he looked around and thought he had dreamed everything from the day before, but then he realised that it was all true. A few minutes latter Dumbledore came in with a house elf caring a tray of food for Isildur, he introduced the house elf as Dobby. As Isildur ate his breakfast Dumbledore told him that his schedule would be very full for the next month but he would get a day and a half off every week. His schedule would be as follows:

Monday Morning: Potions with Snape,

Monday Afternoon: Transfiguration with McGonagall,

Tuesday Morning: Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid,

Tuesday Afternoon: Divination with Trelawney,

Wednesday Morning: History of Magic with Binns,

Wednesday Afternoon: Charms with Flitwick,

Friday Morning: Defense against the Dark arts with Dumbledore,

Friday Afternoon: Astronomy,

And Saturday morning: Flying with Madam Houch.

Since today was Friday August the 1st that meant that Isildur had Defense against the Dark Arts and Astronomy. After having breakfast Isildur had a bath in the prefect's bathroom and got dressed, put his contacts in and went back to Dumbledore's office for Defence against the Dark Arts.

Dumbledore explained that he would be teaching him this subject just because the new teacher would not arrive until September the first.

Dumbledore said that today he would actually not teach anything but he would explain to Isildur why he was summoned here.

"Isildur are you familiar with the book series The Lord of the Rings."

Isildur looked at him and said "Yes I am very familiar with it as I've read it ever since my parents gave me the deluxe leather-bound hardcover edition for my 12th birthday."

Dumbledore looked at him and said "That's good because what I am about to tell you will be somewhat shocking."

Dumbledore waited for a response from Isildur but got none other then a look of puzzlement on his face.

Dumbledore began by explaining about how the story contained in The Lord of the Rings was real history and not just a made up tale. He also explained that the wizrding world had no idea how J.R.R. Tolkien found out about it. He looked at Isildur and saw a look of amazement on his face. Isildur looked back at Dumbledore wondering if he was going crazy or if what Dumbledore was saying was true, then a voice in his head said "you can see that Hogwarts exists, why not believe this."

He asked Dumbledore to continue. Dumbledore then explained about Harry's dream and how Voldemort had fulfilled the prophecy of the second coming of the ring of power, and how he was rebuilding the fortress of Barad-dur and gathering the Death eaters there. He said all of the information he has just given him came from both a dream that Harry Potter had and their spy (professor Snape). Somehow all of Dumbledore's explanation had taken all morning and it was now noon, so they headed down to the great hall where there was just a single table set up.

All the teacher's walked in and Isildur was amazed at how they looked a lot like the actors who played them in the move. He noticed that professor Trawlaney was missing but he figured she never came down from her tower.

After lunch Isildur went with his Astronomy professor up to the Astronomy tower to learn about the wizidering theories on astronomy. He learned many things about the universe and stars that he had never known or even heard before. He was instructed to return after 10:00 Pm for stargazing.

After he was finished with that Dumbledore came to take him to the library were he showed Isildur a muggle atlas. Isildur looked at it and searched through the map of The United Kingdom for the GPS coordinates he had from his watch, he then looked at Dumbledore, pointed at a spot on the map and said "That's where Hogwarts is right?"

Dumbledore nodded and said that he was correct and he was to show no one outside this castle where it was on a map, as they wished to keep it a secret from the muggle world.

Isildur's first month went by relatively quick; he went to all of his classes and found that of them all Transfiguration and potions were the hardest. Potions were hard only because Snape seemed to think that Isildur must be taught everything that the other seventh years would know. So because of that Isildur got the feeling that Snape didn't really like him. Divination was kind of fun as he discovered that all he had to do was predict the worst possibly events happening to him. There was one thing he did not enjoy about divination and that was professor Trawlaney always predicting his death. He realised why this drove Harry crazy in the books as it was entertaining the first time but after that it lost its lustier.

Just when Isildur thought that his classes and homework were hard Dumbledore announced he would be taking all 6 years worth of exams on the same day, plus his O.W.Ls. He would have these tests on August the 30th so he could have a day off before the stat of term. So on Saturday August 30th Dumbledore woke Isildur early for his exams. They were the hardest exams he had ever written in his life because they basically contained 6 years worth of knowledge that he had learned in a month and then he had to do his O.W.Ls on top of that. He nearly went crazy with all of them. After he finished his Last exam he was so tired he went to bed.

When he got up in the morning he decided he would explore as much of castle as he could. He came across a picture of a bowl of fruit and decided to tickle the pear in it, immediately the door to the kitchens opened and he saw all the house elves in there cleaning it from top to bottom. He guessed they were getting it ready for tomorrow. They all turned and looked at him and then one of them came up to him and Isildur immediately recognized him as Dobby. Dobby asked him if he would like a cup of tea. Isildur said that he would and immediately a couple of house elves brought over a try of tea and biscuits, but Isildur noticed there were two tea cups on the tray he wondered why. Then he turned around and saw Dumbledore standing behind him. The two of them sat at one of the tables in the kitchen and talked about many things from the truth in The Lord of the Rings to odd rooms containing large collections of chamber pots in them at Hogwarts.