Chapter 9: Things that were, Things that are, and Things that yet may be

The next day begin as did the day before the boys in the 7th year Gryffindor tower, they got up showered brushed there teeth and got dressed. On there way back from the boys bathroom Dean Thomas started talking to Isildur about the Lord of the Rings as he was a big fan of them too. He had read the books many times as well and he had seen both movies during the Christmas break.

When Isildur got into the common room he meant up with Ron, Harry and Hermione and they all went down to breakfast. During breakfast the post came as it always did. Isildur thought it was still a little odd (after all this was only his second day at Hogwarts with everyone there). Today two owls swooped down to where Isildur was sitting and dropped two letters and a small package in front of him. He opened the first one it was a letter from the Ministry of Magic, he quickly read through it then he looked at the trio (Harry, Ron and Hermione note from now on I'm going to refer to Harry, Ron and Hermione as the Trio) and showed them the letter that said he had been awarded the order of Merlin Fourth Class. Then he read the second letter which was from his parents. It said:

Dear Isildur
we got a letter from Dumbledore yesterday telling us what you were up to. We are both disappointed and pound of you. We are disappointed in you with the fact that you were fooling around with your sword. However since you have been awarded the Order of Merlin Fourth Class we can't be to angry at you. We understand that you were very busy last month but could you please write us soon. We miss you very much.
Love Mum and Dad

Ps. We noticed in your haste to leave a month ago you forgot to take extra contacts, so we sent you a year's supply.

Isildur opened up the package from his parents and saw there were four boxes of disposable contacts (each box contained about six for each eye, in separate boxes of course).

After breakfast Dumbledore stood up to address the great hall he told them all that because of yesterday's events Sirius Black had been freed and has been given a new position at Hogwarts, The Steward of Gryffindor House. Nobody even Sirius knew quite what that meant.

After breakfast they went up to the Gryffindor tower to get their things for their lessons that day. Well they were up there Isildur changed his glasses for his contacts as he felt much more comfortable in them. Then they went outside to the greenhouses for Herbology.

The rest of the week went by with out any incidents, until of course double potions on Friday afternoon. As always it was with Slytherin (why they always were scheduled together for that class no one could figure out) and Snape was really favoring them today. At the beginning of class he stated that they would be studying many advanced potions this year but they would not be making them as they would be too dangerous.

When the class ended Gryffindor had lost 20 points for probably the most ridicules reasons ever, ranging from not answering a question about the ingredients of Ventrusium to melting a caldron.

The trio and Isildur were glad to get out of there.

At dinner they begin to talk to the other 7th years about what tomorrow's first class with Lady Galadriel would be like. Everyone in 7th year thought that Saturday would never come, but it did. When it finally did arrive everyone in the 7th year common rooms woke early and went down to breakfast. The Trio and Isildur decided to go for a walk around the grounds as Isildur hadn't seen much of them yet. They walked past the lake and the Quidditch pitch.

Harry asked Isildur if he was going to try out for the House team as there was an opening for a chaser. Isildur told him that he wasn't really good a flying and that he had also hurt his knee and arm playing hockey when he was younger (Author's note: Isildur wears a knee brace on his right knee as a result of his knee injury, it may or may not come up again, but just so you know in case I do bring it up.) and really didn't want to injure himself anymore then he did during his first flying lesson. He fell off his broom and broke his wrist; Madame Pomfrey of course healed it for him.

Ron then asked "How come you didn't ask her to heal your knee for you?"

Isildur looked at him and said "Well she did but I refused because hey I've been like this for 5 years, so I've gotten used to it."

After they had walked around the grounds for awhile they started getting hungry.

Ron asked Isildur what the time was and he showed him his watch.

Ron looked at it stunned and asked "Which set of numbers is the time?"

Isildur laughed and realised that he hadn't really shown them his watch he then explained to them all about it. "The top set of numbers is the date," he said, "the second set is the time with the time zone, in this case GMT, and the third set is my GPS location."

Ron and Harry looked at him and said together "GPS what's that?"

Herminie looked at them all and said "Honestly haven't either of you heard of it. GPS stands for Global Positioning System, and is a system that was made by the United States of America military for navigation via satellite."

She then asked Isildur how it was working here as most muggle electrical devices didn't work at Hogwarts.

Isildur replied that Dumbledore had told him that there seams to be a weird exception to that when it comes to watches as student need to know the time.

After the discussion about Isildur's watch they headed to the Great Hall for lunch.

After lunch Dumbledore stood up and said "I would like to now ask that everyone 6th year and under please leave the Great Hall, as it is now time for 'Things that were, Things that are, and Things that yet may be' for the 7th years."

After his announcement all those 1st through 6th year left the Great Hall to study, or read in the library or other things like that, Dumbledore then stood once again to address the 7th years.

He said "This class will be taught every Saturday except those that Quidditch matches, and Hogsmeade visits are scheduled."

After that he left and Lady Galadriel was the only one left at the Head table. She then stood up and brought out a portable black board in front of the head table. She then walked silently beside each of the house tables, stopping at each student and speaking to them in there head in only words they could hear. When she came to Isildur she looked at him as he looked in to her eyes that seamed to contain all the stars in the sky, she said to him "I know what you sang the other night in the Gryffindor common room, you sang it very beautifully, I have not heard it sung that way since your middle names sake sang it."

She then continued to walk past the other students gathered in the hall. To Harry she said "I see you have had many trials in your past and you shall have many more in your future, you will also see the return of something you thought was gone."

After she fished her walk she returned to the front of the room. Then she picked up the chalk and wrote out some words in a strange language, she then looked around the room and asked if anyone could read it.

Hermione, Isildur and Dean Thomas all put up there hands as did several other muggle borns who had read the lord of the rings books.

However she picked Isildur and asked him to come up to the front to read it too everyone.

He went up to the front and realised what it was and began to read it aloud.

"Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thhrakatulk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"

As Isildur spoke those words two things happened, first the sky around Hogwarts became extremely dark as if a dark shadow had blocked out the sun and the second was both Isildur and Harry closed there eyes and saw a vision of the clocked figure of Lord Voldemort standing at the very top of the 3,000 foot tall fortress of Barad-dur, chanting the same words Isildur was, beneath a giant eye of flame.

When Isildur had finished he looked at Lady Galadriel and she looked back at him extremely horrified and said to him aloud in a somewhat angry tone "Never before has any voice dared to utter words of that tongue in my presence (Author's note Galadriel's words and Isildur response are based on the dialogue between Elrond and Gandalf at the Council of Elrond) Isildur Aragorn Taylor."

"And let us hope that none will ever speak it in your presence again. Forgive me oh beauteous lady of Lothlorien, but I thought that it best to say it first in the language written"

She then looked at him with a different look and she simply said to him "I forgive you, now I think you should explain what you just said to those who can not speak the black speech as you just did."

Isildur the turned to the class and said "I suppose I should began at the beginning of this before I tell you what I just said," he looked around to see if anyone had any objections but none did, so he begin to speak again "The Black speech is the language of the Land of Mordor and is a fowl form of elvish that is not spoken by many outside of Mordor. The words I spoke are part of a poem called the Ring Spell in the Lord of the Rings books. It goes as follows

'Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to Die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
'One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them'
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie'

The part I said in the black speech was 'One Ring to Rule them all, One Ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them' these words were spoken by the Dark Lord Sauron when he made the one ring of power."

After he had finished speaking Lady Galadriel told him to return to his seat and she said that they would learn more of the past of earth next week and dismissed the class.

Isildur then started talking to the trio about his experience well he was saying the ring spell in the black speech. Harry said he saw the same thing. Hermione then suggested that they go to see Dumbledore.

When they left the great hall they all went up to Dumbledore's office as they had all had a different perspective of what had happened only a few minutes ago in class.

When they reached the entrance to Dumbledore's office they saw him standing there waiting for them. He looked at them and said "I think you are hear to tell me about something that happened in Things that were, Things that are, and Things that yet may be."

They all looked at him amazed and bewildered at how he could have known. As they walked up the stairs to the office all of them said nothing.

Once they arrived in the office Dumbledore asked them all to sit down. He then asked them to tell him exactly what happened. First Ron and Hermione spoke telling how Isildur went up to the front of the room, read something that Lady Galadriel had written in the board in a language that no one understood, and how the sky had turned black.

Next Isildur spoke telling how when he begin speaking the 'Ring Spell' in the black speech he saw the sky grow dark and he closed his eyes and saw Lord Voldemort standing atop the tower of Barad-dur under the eye of Sauron chanting the 'Ring Spell'.

Harry told much the same thing. Dumbledore then spoke "It seams though my worst fears have come about. This is something that I have feared since the day I read Harry's letter. It seams to me that Lord Voldemort is becoming one with Sauron. This is not a good sign." Isildur agreed with him on that, as did all the others.