Chapter 17: The Coming of the Christmas Holidays!

That night after dinner the trio and Isildur retired to the dormitories early as they were tired from there 'many meetings'.

Later that night two of the 7th year boys had the same dream. They both dreamed that they were flying on the back of a black owl over a dark land that nit her had been to but seamed familiar all the same. They flew over the land in shadow and came to a large tower rising high an above the land. They saw many strange creatures gathering around this fortress. They then flew into the throne room of the dark tower were Voldemort sat on the throne. He took a note that the owl was caring and turned to the only other person in the room which was Bellatrix Lestrange.

He opened the letter and said to her "ah this is from Lucius Malfoy it seams that there was a meeting at the Ministry of Magic and there were people from Middle earth were there too. He says that he has no details of the actually meting but that Harry Potter was there with his parents and the new boy who killed one of my Deatheaters with his sword. They all will pay for what they have done.

Just then Harry woke up with pain in his scar he got up to write down what he had seen in a letter to Dumbledore that he would send in the morning.

At the same time Isildur woke up in a cold sweat he put on his glasses and went to walk out into the common room to sit by the fire for a little bit to think about his dream. It was wired because he had never had a dream like that before unless you cont the one he had in 'Things that where, Things that are, and Things that yet may be', but he really didn't think of it as a nightmare as it was darning the day.

When he got down to the comon room he saw Harry sitting by the fire writing a letter to someone.

He walked over to him and sat down beside him and said "Can't sleep either eh?"

Harry looked up from his letter and turned to look at who ever was speaking and said "Yeah I just had this dream about Voldemort in this really old and dark tower in a dark land that was all covered in shadow."

Isildur looked at him and said "I think I had the same dream too"

Then Isildur looked to the letter that Harry was writing and asked "who were you writing to?"

Harry looked at him and knew that he could trust him and said "I was writing to Dumbledore to tell him about my dream, but maybe we should write one together as we both had the same dream. By the way do you know where that place was?"

Isildur looked up and said "I think so. It looked like it was the fortress of Barad-dur in the land of Mordor."

Harry then asked him "that's that place where the dark lord from the lord of the rings books was right?"

Isildur nodded to him and said "Yes it is."

"I thought it might be as it looked like it something out of those Muggle movies that they made."

Isildur then looked at Harry and was shoked that he had seen them and he asked him about that. Harry told him that he had seen them with the Dursleys on the occasion of Dudley's birthday as Mrs. Fig was 'sick' at the time. Harry also told him that Mrs. Fig was only pretending so that Harry could have some fun for a change.

Isildur smiled and said "You know the Third and final one comes out in December maybe we could see it with my parents over the Holidays. Now let's get back to this letter to Dumbledore."

Harry nodded and said that he liked the sound of both Ideas and the two of them begin to write the letter to Dumbledore. Isildur helped with the spellings of Mordor and Barad-dur by summoning his copy of Lord of the Rings.

After writing the letter they looked up at the clock above the mantle piece and saw that it said 2 o'clock in the morning on it. They both felt very sleepier and went back to bed.

The next morning when they woke up they told Ron and Herminie about what had happened and they also showed them the letter they had writen to Dumbledore.

They then went up to the owlery where Harry woke Hedwig to send the letter to Dumbledore.

As they were eating breakfeast they saw Hedwig fly in with the other owls, she of course flew right to Dumbledore who opened the letter and read it. He then pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill from a pocket in his robes and quickly scribbled a note to Harry and Isildur and gave it to Hedwig who flew over to Harry and dropped the note on his lap. The note read

'Harry and Isildur
Please see me in my office after breakfast.

When they got to Dumbledore's office he asked them to have a seat.

He looked at them for a moment and then said "This is very odd, I have never heard of this before two students having the same dream. This really worries me especially because of the names you and Voldemort used in the dream. I wonder how Lucius found out about the meeting. I am now going to ask you if the two of you had ever dreamt the same thing before this."

They both shock there heads. Dumbledore then said "Please contact me if this happens again as it is very important. You may go now."

The two of them left Dumbledore's office an met up with Ron and Hermione who asked that watt Dumbledore had said, so they told them all that had happened well they were in his office and what he had said. Just as they were leaving the hall way in front of Dumbledore's office Dumbledore came out of the office with a piece of parchment in his hand.

He then called Isildur over to him and gave him the note and said "This is a note for you to get a book from the restricted section that I want you to read."

Isildur looked puzzled and said "The restricted section?"

Dumbledore then said "The book I want you to read is only kept there, because it is writen in a language that very few people can understand. So please go to the library and check it out."

So instead of going back to the common room they made there way to the Hogwarts Library where Isildur presented the note to Madame Pince who took it and examined it closely. She then went to the restricted section and came back a few minutes letter with the book and said "I don't know how he expects you to read it as he's been the only to check it out for a bout 50 years, except for Professor Gandalf and Lady Galadriel."

They then left to go back to the Grifindor Common room. As they were walking back to the dorms Isildur suddenly needed to use a washroom, he walked around a hall three times when suddenly a door appeared and he oppened it. The room seamed to contain old broken toilets and old toilet seats. Isildur looked confused and asked out loud "Why would anyone need such a room here?"

Herminie then realised where they were and said "Isildur this is the room of requirement." Isildur then remembered it from the fourth and fifth books and smacked himself in the head and muttered to himself "how could I be so stupid, now were is the nearest boys bathroom?"

He found one just around the corner and after he used it they headed back up to the common room.

Herminie then asked Isildur if he was going to read the book that Dumbledore had told him to read. He decider to take a look at it. When he oppened it he was shoked it wasn't writen in English it was writen in a script that was fiirmilire to him though.

Harry and Ron looked at it and said "It looks a bit like that Elvish writing on your ring Isildur."

Isildur looked at them and said "This is not the same writing as on my ring but your write it is elvish, and I don't feel like reading it now."

Ron then asked "What do you mean it's not the same it all elvish isn't it?"

Isildur then explained about the three types of elvish and how they differed. Quenya (High Elvish) and Sindarin (Grey-Elvish) and of course the Black Speech (which is an evil bastardization of elvish is only uttered by the armies of Mordor.

Isildur then turned to Ron and said "how about a game of wizard's chess? I've always wanted to play it since I first read about it."

Ron said "Ok sure but be prepared to lose big time!"

Isildur just looked at Ron and chuckled to himself and then turned to Harry and said "Hey can I borrow your chess pieces?"

Harry and Ron left together and came back with a chess board and there pieces. Ron and Isildur then begin playing. Harry and Herminie watched them as they begin eliminating even numbers of pieces from each other then Isildur began to beat Ron and all he had left was a Queen, his King and a Rook. Ron only had only 3 pawns and his king left; both Harry and Herminie were shoked they had never seen Ron losing this badly. Isildur then got Ron backed into a corner of the board and won the game. Ron was amazed the only people ever to beat him at chess were his brothers Fred and Gorge who admitted that they had cheated to win by doing some highly questionable moves that would not be allowed in tournament play. Ron then held out his hand to Isildur who grabed it and shock it.

They both said to each other "Good match."

Then Ron said "Bloody Hell that was amazing I never thought that I would be beaten like that. Have you ever played wizard chess before?"

Isildur replied "Nope only muggle chess. Want to have another game or are you scared I'll win again?"

They then played another game and Ron almost won when Isildur made a very surprising move that caught them both in a stalemate (essentially a tie as nether player could move there king with out going in to check with the others king).

Ron was amazed and just said "Wow your good."

Then Isildur thought of something even better and asked "Hey do any of you know if McGonagal Giant Chess set is still around in the castle?"

They looked at him as if he was crazy and Herminie said "Probably note as the Philosopher's stone has been destroyed and there's no need for it anymore why did you ask that?"

Isildur then said "Oh just a thought of beating Ron a larger board for fun that's all. Why don't we ask McGonagal she might know if it's still around after all she made it. Its note like something like that would be easy to get rid of eh?"

Ron then asked why he wanted to know that.

He (Isildur) replied that he thought it might be fun to play a game of chess with it.

Harry then spoke up and said "I think it might be a little dangerous as they do hit very hard."

"Good point" Said Ron, "My body hurts just thinking of it again."

Isildur then looked at his watch and realised the time and said that it's time for lunch so they all headed to the great hall when suddenly a voice called out to them.

"Hey Potty, Weasel, Mudblood and you the guy with the strange name."

Harry and Ron turned to each other and said "Malfoy."

Isildur turned around and saw Draco Malfoy standing behind them with Crabbe and Goyle.

"My father asked me to ask you something what was going on at the Ministry when you were there?"

Isildur then looked at Malfoy and said to him "That is none of your business Draco Malfoy son of a Deatheater."

Draco then drew out his wand and said "How dare you referrer to me like that. You should show me some respect."

Isildur laughed and said "Why should I show someone who doesn't even know my name respect? Answer me that Malfoy or are you scared of what I'll do to you?"

Draco stood there shoked and then said "Why do you hang around with Saint Potter and this disgrace of a wizard (he pointed to Ron) and the Mudblood."

The trio was shoked and they looked like they were going to Jump Malfoy Crabbe and Goyle, but Isildur said to them "let me deal with this."

He then turned back to Malfoy and said "I'll tell you why I am friends with them. I hang around with them because I am a Mudblood too. I am also the heir of Ellendale. Tell that to you father and warn him that he and Lord Voldemort will feel the sting of Narsil."

Isildur said as he drew his sword and held it out to Draco's throat as he did towards Grima Wormtongue. Draco then lowered his wand an took a step back and said "So you are the heir of Ellendale I'll tell my father that and I'll tell, him that you turreted me him and the dark lord."

Isildur then put his sword down and said to the trio "Lets go to lunch I'm hungry"

Herminie then spoke up "how can you think of food after what happened."

Ron then said "Easy Herminie he's hungry like I am, comon lets go to Lunch."

As they walked up the ales to the Grifindor table Isildur put his sword away and just sat and spoke to no one as he ate. His mind was on other things. For one how were they going to get to Mordor and second what were they going to do once they were there? He was also thinking of what Draco had said about telling his father and Lord Voldemort about what had just happened to him. He also thought of what he would do with the army of Gondor and the Rohirrim (the riders of Rohan) at his disposable, and would they really help him. His thoughts then turned to someone whom he had never met. He thought of Eowyn and wondered if she was as beautiful as the books said she was.

When they had finished lunch Isildur was still lost in his thoughts until Harry nudged him and said "Hey comon mate lunch is over."

Isildur looked over at Harry and just said "sorry I was lost in some thoughts of what were going to do over the summer."

Harry asked him what he meant by that and he said they needed to talk.

Harry suggested the common room, but Isildur said no too many people there.

Then Herminie suggested the Room of Requirement.

Isildur thought for a moment and said "No I want somewhere more secret then that."

Harry nodded and knew the perfect place they walked to Mooing myrtles bathroom and when they got too the sink which was the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, they found Fawkes Dumbledore's phoenix sitting there with a note from Dumbledore

Fawkes is here just in case he is needed.

Dumbledore.

Harry said the password and they all jumped down into the tunnel, which lead under the school.

They then entered the room with the dead basilisk in it and were completly horrified at it.

Suddenly Fawkes flew into the room and flew around them three times and they were in a diffrent room that they couldn't quite place.

It was decorated in Gryifindor colors (Red and Gold) and there was a giant statue of an old man that looked a little bit like Harry and James ridding on the back of a golden Lion.

James then stepped into the room and said "I see you have found the Chamber of the Lion."

Harry looked at his father puzzled and asked "how did we get here?"

James looked at him and said "You were brought here by Fawkes and the ancient magic of Gryifindor. You see Fawkes is no ordinary phoenix he has been in the headmaster's office ever since Hogwarts was founded. He was given the power by Godric Gryifindor to transport him and his heirs and also his faith full servants here when they were in danger or summoned by one of the above. I have summoned you here as I need to talk to you all about the summer. Dumbledore has told me that you were heading to the chamber of secrets to discus this matter and he told me that you would be brought here once you entered."

Harry was shoked about this, as were the others. They had been brought here by the power of Godric Gryifindor and his Phoenix.

Then Isildur spoke up and said "I have a plan, once we get to Middle earth we should start by meeting with the Hobbits and ask Sam and Frodo for directions to Mordor, from there we will go to Rivendale and on to Lothlorien and then to Rohan were we will begin organizing our Army. WE will take the Riders of the Mark and then head to Gondor where we will take as many men as they can spare and head for the black gate. Once there we shall fight the last battle of middle earth and defect the orcs, the Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort. We will then destroy the ring once and for all."

All of them were shoked by what Isildur had just said then James spoke up and said "I will tell Dumbledore of your plans. Now I need to ask you something about what happened before lunch?"

Isildur looked down to the ground and then turned to run out of the room if he could find an exit. James then said to him "There is only one way out of this room and that is for the person who invited you in to invite you to leave. Now please tell me what went on did you really threaten a Malfoy with your sword?"

Isildur looked up at James who had smile on his face and looked like he was on the verge of laughing, Isildur imminently perked up and said "Yeah and I'm proud of it. I don't give a dam who his father is or who he serves. I don't fear anything but fear it."

James looked at him and said "that is good now I want someone else to talk to you. Professor Dumbledore would you pleases come in."

Just then an arch way opened up in one of the walls it looked like it lead into Dumbledores office. Isildur was about to walk through it when Dumbledore griped him and said "I know what you did to Draco as I have gotten a letter from his father saying that he got one from his son saying that another student threatened him with a sword. Now I no doubt believe that you had a reason to threaten him but there is no excuse for threatening students with wands or swords as the case may be. Because of the severity of this I am going to contact your parents and I am going to suspended you from classes for the duration of the week. You are to come to my office in the morning and you will be tight by me all your classes with assistance wherever possible. You will eat in my office and you will be guided back to the common room by me. Do you understand?"

Isildur nodded and then asked Dumbledore if he could at least tell him his side of the story. Dumbledore then nodded his head and Isildur begin to tell Dumbledore all that had happened that morning before lunch.

Dumbledore then said "Given this new information I will change my punishment slightly instead of teaching you myself I am going to ask Professor Black to acumpinion you to all your classes from now until the end of the term. He will be with you at meals and with you outside classes. I hope the two of you will stay out of trouble."

Then he turned to James and said "I believe it is time for us to leave as it is near dinner time and we should get to the great hall."

James then said "I James Potter as master of the Chamber of the lion though my decedents dating back to Godric Grifindor command you to show us the exit."

Suddenly the wall opened up again and they walked out into Dumbledores office out his door and into the great hall for dinner.

The next week went by with out incident and every time Draco came near Isildur Sirius would steer him away.

Then Sunday came around again and Isildur's punishment was over true it wasn't much of one but he a still learned a valuable lesson. Isildur decided that he would apologise to Draco for what he did and what he had said to him, he didn't care if Draco excepted it or not.

On the way to breakfeast he took his opportunity. First he undid the belt that Narsil was kept on from around his waste and handed it to Herminie and said "Guard this with your life and do not draw it out unless you wish to die. Remember my warning at the Ministry."

Herminie took the sword from him and said "I shall take and guard as I do my own wand, and I shall heed your warning. What are you going to do?"

Isildur then mumbled something that sounded like apologise to Malfoy. He the called out to Draco and said "Can I have a word with you?"

Draco looked up and said "What do you want Mudblood?"

Isildur just simply said to him the same as he did before "I would like a word in private."

Draco then came up to him and said "fine then. Whereas your sword or do you not fear me?"

"I gave it to Hermione," he said "for safe keeping and so I can't threaten you with it. Now do you trust me enough to leave your wand with someone?"

Draco looked him in the eyes and saw that he wasn't going to do anything so he called for Crabbe (who was actually the smarter of his two cronies) and said to him "Hold this for me," pulling out of his wand.

Isildur then went to a door to the left of the doors of the great hall. Draco followed him and entered and said "so what did you want to say to me?"

Isildur looked at him and said "I want to apologise for what I said to you and did to you last Sunday afternoon."

Draco was shoked that some one was apologising to him.

Also during that week Isildur begin reading the book he had gotten from the library which was writen in Quenya (or high elvish) using the Tengwar alphabet.

One night he was reading it when the book fell from his hands and begin flipping through the pages by itself. It stopped on a page that appeared to be blank until words begin to form on it the weterian tongue (that is the common speech) using modern English letters. It said in blue ink

In the middle of the fourth age of middle earth a new power will come from the Grey Haven and summon the Ring of Power from the crack of doom. The new evil will mingle with the old and shall create an evil not seen in ether world. He shall command the armies of Mordor and his army know as the eaters of Death. Then two heirs shall come to fight the dark lord in his land of Mordor. They shall be the heirs of Godric Gryifindor and Ellendale. They will come wielding he swords of there ancestors and will end the reign of the dark lord thus freeing the peoples of middle earth forever.

Isildur ran down to the comon room to show this to Ron, Herminie and Harry. He left so quickly that he forgot he was wearing nothing but a t-shirt and a pair of boxers with little smiling maple leaves frozen in blocks of ice on them. He went over to the trio who looked at him and he said "What I just got up ok and I need you to read this."

He passed the book to them and Herminie said "Um none of us can read this it's writen in that elvish stuff isn't it. He then opened the book to the last page and showed it to her. She looked at it and was shoked that it was writen in English and read it, she then passed it to Ron who read it and passed it to Harry who also read it.

Then they all begin to say at once that he should go tell Dumbledore about this right now. Isildur then said "What go out in the hallways in nothing but my underwear, what are you Cray, or do you think I'm crazy or something eh?"

He then went back up to the dormitories grabbed some clothes his contacts and went to go take a shower. He then picked up the book and took it to show Dumbledore.

Of course when he got to Dumbledores office he had no idea what the password was because Dumbledore semed to change it every now and then just so that the few students who did know what it was couldn't get in all the time. He was about to start trying names of candy when professor McGonagal came up behind him and said "What are you doing here young man?"

"I need to see Dumbledore about something but I don't know the password to get into his office."

Professor McGonagal the said to him "alright Isildur I'll tell you it. The password is Fainting Fancies."

Isildur chuckled at this as he thought it was funny considering that it was one of the Wesley Twins' creations.

McGonagal smiled at him and said "He seams to have taken an interest in there business as they also stock some of his favourite muggle sweets."

Isildur said the password and stepped onto the moving stairs and they took him up to the headmaster's office. He was about to knock when Dumbledore's voice was heard saying come in.

Isildur walked into the office and Dumbledore motioned for him to sit down and said "and what brings the heir of Ellendale to my office today,"

Isildur looked up at him and said "You've never called me that before. Why do you call me that now?"

Dumbledore looked at him and said "I'm sorry I was just thinking of what is to come in the summer. Now what do you want to see me about Isildur?"

Isildur showed him the book and opened it to the back page. Dumbledore looked at it then looked up and said "I see you have unlocked the Prophecy."

Isildur then looked at him puzzled and said "Then I am destined to kill Lord Voldemort with Harry right?"

Dumbledore looked at him and said "Yes it is so. Now I would like to ask you has anyone else seen this."

He said pointing to the page of the book open to the prophecy. Isildur told him that he had shown it to Harry, Ron and Herminie. Dumbledore was pleased by that and then asked him if there was anything else he wanted to know.

Isildur then said "Yes since I am the heir of Ellendale, do I have the same power to heal as King Elessar has?"

Dumbledore then said "That is something that I cannot answer but there is someone here who can."

With that he walked over to the fireplace in his office and threw some powder into it and said "Gandalf the White" Gandalf's face was then seen in the fire and asked Dumbledore what he wanted.

Dumbledore then said "Isildur has a question that only you can answer, can you come to my office please?"

Gandalf's face diapered from the fire and then, two minutes later there was a knock at the door. Dumbledore got up and opened the door and in walk Gandalf the white.

Gandalf then walked over to Isildur and said "What questions can I answer for you?"

Isildur than asked Gandalf the same question that he had asked Dumbledore.

Gandalf hen looked at him and said "It is possible that you have the powers of the true king of Gondor as you are a descendent of his. Why do you ask this?"

Isildur then looked over to Dumbledore and said "I want to try and help Neville."

Dumbledore looked at him and said "I see, but you must know that evrything know to the wizrding world has been tried to cure his parents."

Isildur then said "If I truly am an heir to the true king of Gondor then I should be able to use the power of athelas to try and heal them."

Dumbledore then looked at Gandalf and said "What is he talking about I have never heard of such a thing before."

Gandalf then said that it was plant that can be found in middle earth but it can also be found in rare places in this world. He then said that it is also know as kings foil.

Isildur then said "Do you think that Professor Snape may have some?"

Dumbledore then said "I don't believe that that is something that he keeps in his stores but Gandalf may be able to get a hold of some for you. Now if you are going to do what I think you are going to do with it should I summon Mr. Longbottom here or are you going to speak to him alone about this matter. I would also like to make it perfectly clear that it should be his choice and not yours, after all they are his parents."

Isildur then said "I will talk to him in private and I will let him chose."

Dumbledore then said "You may go and inform me of what his decision is as plans may have to be changed or altered."

With that Isildur left Dumbledore's office and headed back to the Grifindor common room to talk to Neville. When he got to the Gryifindor common room he walked over to Neville and said "Hey Neville can I have a word with you in private?"

Neville looked up shocked that Isildur wanted to talk to him and he wondered what it was about. They headed up into the 7th year boys dormitory. When they got to there Isildur asked Neville if he had ever read the Lord of the Rings books, specifically the Return of the King. Neville said he hadn't and asked why he (Isildur) wanted to know. Isildur then explained to him that he is a decedent of King Elessar the true king of Gondor and being a descendent of his may poses the power to heal those where there is no hope left. Neville then realised what Isildur was telling him and why he wanted to talk to him.

He then said to Isildur "Can you heal my parents then?"

Isildur then looked at him and said "I'm not too sure but I would like to try with your permission of course."

Neville then said "I want you to try. But one question how can you do it when the best healers at ST. Mungos can't do it?"

Isildur then said "With an ancient plant found in Middle earth and really in our world called 'athelas'."

Neville looked at him and said "I've never heard of a plant called that before does it go by another name?"

"It also goes by the name 'Kings Foil', perhaps you have heard of it by that name."

Neville then went to his trunk and pulled out a very large Herbology bock he had in his trunk. It was a book that his Gran had given him for get such high owls in Herbology. He flipped through it and came to the section for plants begging with K and then said "Look there it is. It says

'Kings foil (or athelas as it is sometimes called) a fairly uncommon weed sometimes used in teas. Rarely found in this world. Most often found in the world beyond ours known as Middle Earth. Seams to have no magic properties what so ever, but legend says that in the hands of the King of Gondor or his ancestors it can heal those whom no one else can help.'

So what you said is true then."

Isildur looked at Navel and down at the book and was shocked that such a thing was in there. After all this was a plant from Middle Earth, so why should it be listed in a book here. Neville then said "One problem with using this plant it isn't fond to readily in our world, how are you going to get a hold of it?"

Isildur looked to Neville and said "I have already talked to Professor Gandalf about this and he sad that he would try and get me some from Middle Earth."

"So when will you try to cure my parents then," Neville asked. Isildur replied "I will try as soon as I get some Kings foil."