Chapter 14 The contents of the Letter

Gandalf then turned to Isildur and he nodded back to him as if to say ok go ahead. Then Gandalf begin to tell Dumbledore what the letter said.

"The letter is a warning to Isildur it says

'Heir of Ellendale

I know who you are. The gates of Minuis Morgul are open again the Nazgul are looking for you.
Voldemort/Sauron'"

Dumbledore then looked very disturbed by this news he then said to Gandalf "it's been a while since I have heard of them please remind me what the Nazgul are again."

Isildur then spoke up with a note of fear in his voice "They are the nine kings of man spoken of in the ring spell. They are the servants of the dark lord and seek only the one ring."

Then he turned to Gandalf and said "Why do they seek me shrilly this isn't the one ring," as he pulled out his replica of the one ring he wore around his neck.

Gandalf said to him "No you do not carry the one ring but I believe he has them tracing Narsil know."

Isildur locked down at his sword and was about to speak when Dumbledore spoke up "Is there anything we can do to protect him?"

Gandalf said to him the magic that protects Hogwarts will be enough. He also said that he will do some ancient magic to protect Isildur where ever he is from the Nazgul. Gandalf then waved his staff over Isildur saying some strange words that nether Dumbledore or Isildur understood.

Then Gandalf finished and said "Isildur you are protected from the gaze of the Nazgul. You may go now."

When Isildur left the office he went up to the Grifindor tower, he then decide to go to sleep for the night. Latter he woke up and he put on his glasses and looked at his watch it said it was 2:00 in the morning he couldn't sleep now as he had been woke by his thoughts of the contents of the letter. He walked down to the common room to sit by himself in front of the fire.

When he got there he saw James sitting there, he was about to leave when James spoke to him "What's wrong Isildur... it is right?"

Isildur walked over to James and said "Yes it is, and I just can't sleep because I have a lot on my mind Mr. Potter. What about you?"

James looked over to him and said "You can call me Prongs if you like, as to what I'm doing here about the same. I'm wondering if I can be a good father to Harry. Can I still be his father and be a marauder at the same time? Now what is troubling you, come sit beside me and tell me."

Isildur sat beside James and begin to tell him about the contents of the letter and how the nine were after him.

James then hugged him and said "Don't worry if Gandalf and Dumbledore said they won't let anything happen to you then nothing should."

Isildur just sat there with James for a while just saying nothing. They didn't notice that Harry, Ron and Lily were standing behind them, until they spoke up and asked what the two of them were doing. They asked them what they were doing there so late at night.

James just turned to them and said "comforting each other."

Isildur then turned to James and said "Yeah, you now Prongs you remind me of my dad in some ways."

James turned to him and said "Really and why's that."

Isildur looked at him and said "because you're a good listener and you know what to say to someone who needs comfort."

James then said to himself "So I can be a father to Harry then." They then all went back to bed.

The next morning they got up for breakfast. At breakfast Lilly and James announced their plans for there future. James was going to help Sirius and McGonagall teach the 7th year's transfiguration, and when he wasn't doing that he would be working with the Twins in hogshead. They of course would be moving back into Godric's Hollow there old home. James explained how Gryifindor had placed an ancient spell on the house that if ever a dark wizard used a powerful curse in it the house would full around itself and rebuild it self in 1 day. The rest of the day went by like any other day. James and Lilly decided it would be fun to have a picnic by the lake so just before lunch they went to the kitchens to talk to the house elves to get some food for lunch. Harry of course ended up introducing Dobby to his parents and friends. James commented that the kitchen's had dent changed much since he had been there last.

After there picnic they just sat by the lake doing nothing. Harry, James and Lilly sat by each other catching up on things and talking about things like what they should do for Christmas. Ron and Herminie were talking about how much happier Harry seamed now that his parents were back. Rumeus and Sirius just sat remembering their time at Hogwarts. Isildur sat humming a tune to himself. After a while the others heard him humming and asked him what he was humming and he begin to sing "

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
to heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
and many miles be still to go,
but under a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by."

Then Lilly and James joined in the song as they had both read it in the LoTR books. The others soon picked it up and joined in and soon they were all laughing at how good of time they were having when suddenly they saw something across the lake. Isildur realised they were of course the ring wraiths, he turned around and aimed Narsil towards Hogwarts and shot red sparks in the air. After he had done this they soon saw Dumbledore and Gandalf running down from the castle (which was amazing considering how old they appeared to be).

Within minutes they were there and they saw that the nine were about to cross the lake. Dumbledore then begin chanting something in elvish, witch caused the waters of the lake to rise, at the same time Gandalf cast a spell to make the waves turn into galloping horses. The nine turned around and headed off into the woods behind the lake.

After that everyone walked with Lilly and James to the main gates of Hogwarts were they left for Hogsmeade train station to get the Hogwarts express back to London and from there they would get to Godric's Hollow.

That night Isildur had a dream about the Nazgul and he woke up in a cold sweat. He got up and decided to go to the kitchens to see if he could get something to drink. However his plans changed when he stepped out of the portrait hole.

He stepped out and saw Lady Galadriel standing there he said to him "I Know what happened this afternoon and what you dreamt about come with me to my office."

Isildur walked with her to her office which was in the small room off of the great hall where the embers of the Trinidad tournament had assembled 3 years ago. Isildur looked around and saw many things that she had brought with her from middle earth and the grey havens were she dwelt.

She then led him over to a large stone bowl on a stone pillar and said "behold the mirror Galadriel."

Isildur looked at her and asked "What does it show?"

She said to him "it shows Things that were, Things that are, and Things that yet may be."

She then pored water into it and told him to look into it. When he looked into it he saw... ... the black gates of Mordor and standing before them were himself, Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sirius, James, Lilly, Rumeus, Gandalf and the men of Gondor and Rohan. The black gates begin to open and orcs and Deatheaters begin to pour out of them, a huge battle then begin. Suddenly the eye of Sauron papered in the water and it evaporated, the visions vanished.

Galadriel said to Isildur "I know what you saw it is on my mind as well, what you have seen my or not come true. This I can not tell as the fate of you and Harry is not yet determined."

She then said she was tired and Isildur realised he was too, he to went to bed.

When everyone woke up the next morning Isildur told Harry, Ron and Hermione all about the events of last night. Hermione was shocked about what he saw and she begin to doubt what he saw was really the future. Isildur told her that he beloved that it could be the future. From there one everything at Hogwarts continued normally, Gryifindor had there first Quidditch match versus Hufflepuff and won 200 - 50, James and Lilly came up to see the match as did Sirius and Rumeus. They were all very impressed by Harry's flying ability.

Also they had there first Transfiguration with James assisting professor McGonagall, she watched him just as much as she did the students as she knew what kind of pranks he was capable of when he and Sirius were together.

After class the boys (Harry, Ron, and Isildur) asked him how he did the trick with the armor.

James laughed and said "I knew you would ask that so I wrote it down for you. Here is the complete spell where the blank is were you insert the name of the battle you want them to fight."

Everything from there on continued normally until one day in late November when something happened that shock the very foundation of the wizrding world and Middle Earth