Chapter 19 The Tale of Two Old Fools

Gandalf then began by asking Isildur if he knew what happened after Frodo destroyed the ring.

Isildur looked at him and said "You mean after Gollum fell in with the ring?"

Gandalf looked at him and said "Ah so I see the true account was used in the book after all."

He then said "You obviously know that after that everyone went there separate ways and returned to there lives as much as they could. Some where in new lives that they had to get used to others were just retuning to the ones they had left behind. A year then passed, in the shire it was called the year of plenty for the crops were plentiful. Now according to Bilbo's book that JRR Tolkin published by some partnership that formed between the two, though I no not how or when as these things all happened many thousands of years ago by your time, the year after 'the year of plenty' Bilbo, Frodo and myself left with Galadreiel and Elrond for the grey heavens."

Isildur nodded and asked Gandalf to continue.

Gandalf continued his story by saying "Some how none of that has happened and somehow Lord Voldemort traveled back in time. He showed up in middle earth in the second year of the forth age. He made his way to the ruin of Mordor with what remained of the armies of Mordor. He then went to the crack of doom and summoned forth the ring. I believe he was able to do this because it was not destroyed willingly. I then received an urgent message from King Elisar saying that the fires of Mount Doom had reignited and the black tower of Barad-dur had risen again overnight. Also at this time Elrond saw a vision of you and Harry fighting the armies of orcs and death eaters at the black gates."

Isildur then looked at Gandalf and smiled and said "I wonder if it is the same thing that I saw in the mirror of Galadreiel."

Gandalf then looked at him and said "when did you see that?"

Isildur replied "One night when I couldn't sleep I was going to go down to the kitchen to see if I could get a drink or something like that, when Lady Galadriel stopped me and told me to follow her. So I did and she lead me to he office where she poured water into a basin and told me to look into it."

Dumbledore then looked at him and said "so you saw yourself and Harry fighting with orcs and Deatheaters at the black gate. I wonder if that will happen."

Isildur looked at Dumbledore as if to question him about his last stament, but then Gandalf continued his story. "Elrond then contacted me and told me of what he saw. He also said he saw you (Isildur) baring Narsil and using it to cast spells. He then went to King Elisar of Gondor and told him of this. Elisar then said to him 'as you have seen this young man fighting with the great sword of my ancestors then I will give it to you to present to him in whatever fashion you see fit.' So lord Elrond took the sword traveled into this time period went to Olivander's wand shop 'borrowed' one of his phoenix feather wands and then went to a knife shop in Toronto that he knew your parents would come to looking for a replica of Narsil for you. He posed as a clerk and made sure that they bought you the 'Extra special one'. So that is how 'the flame of the west' end up in your hands.

Dumbledore then spoke up and said "Now is the time for a little bit wizard history."

Harry and Ron groaned hoping that this was not going to be like one of Professor Bins' class.

Dumbledore guessed what they were thinking and said "I will be brief and will not carry on as a certain professor does." He then gave them a little wink. He then began his story. "The history of wizards begin a few years after the elves left middle earth for the grey havens, which we now call the earth, the elves begin intermarrying with the peoples of the world and from these unions came men and women with extraordinary powers. They became some of the first winches and wizards in this world. A few years later two young ladies found there way to the grey havens and they married two wizards. Now these were no ordinary ladies for they were the Daughter's of Elisar (the king of Gondor) from the oldest came a very powerful line of wizards and winches, but at some point during the late 17th century this line of power ended and many squibs were born from it. So many squibs were born of this line that they begin to think of themselves a muggles. The second of the two ladies also produced a powerful line witch can be trashed to the greatest of all wizards Merlin as well as both Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryifindor. Now as you know there were two other founders of Hogwarts Rowena Ravencalw and Helga Hufflepuff they came from the first line of wizards, the union of elves and man.

Harry as you father told you the Potters come from the line of Godric Gryifindor who only had one heir a daughter, she grew up to be just as powerful as her father and married another great wizard that she met a Hogwarts when she was there, the man she married was James Harold Potter, and thus the long line of the Potter family begin.

Now Isildur your story is diffrent as you are the first wizard to be born in your line that comes directly from one born of the Numariens and Dunedain, long life and immense power run in your blood lines as it does in Harry's but you have a much more direct line to the King of Gondor. Now as I said you are the first wizard to born on to you line since the 17th century."

They were all shocked by this information and then Ron asked so where do the other wizrding families fit in with all these lines of wizards?"

Dumbledore then said "Well the Weasly's come from the union of the youngest daughter of Ellendale as do the Malfoys, the Longbottom and the Blacks. The lupines, the Pettigrew's and many others come from the first wizards of his world. The Grangers also have a link to that line too."

Isildur then said "When we were at the ministry of magic I asked you if there was a prophecy about me in the department of mysteries you told me to ask you about it another time?"

Dumbledore smiled at him and said "There is a prophecy that concerns you in there, it is also passed down from Hogwarts headmaster to headmaster since the day that the great seer of Hogwarts Rowena Ravencalw said it to Godric Gryifindor. The prophecy says

"There shall com a time when the evil of this world shall combine with the evil of the world of the past. An heir will be summoned from a line of squibs to help the heir of the greatest of the Hogwarts four. They shall battle with the heir of the serpent of Hogwarts."

From that day on a fund was established by Godric Gryifindor to pay for this heirs schooling as he would becoming from a long line of squibs it was thought that he might not have access to any wizard money."

Isildur then said to Dumbledore "So if I'm the first wizard in my line since the 1700 why did I only get my letter when I was 17,and also why didn't I get one from a school in Canada?"

Dumbledore looked at him and said "The answer to your first question is that both the British and Canadian Ministries of Magic did not feel that you were magical enough to attend a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As for a school in Canada well that is another matter. One did exist at one time but as many of the Wizrding families from Canada came from the U.K. they were all educated at Hogwarts and therefore wished to send there students there. So because of this the one school for young magic folk such as yourself closed in the early 1900's."

Dumbledore then stood up and said "Today has been a long day for all of us and it is time for Gandalf and myself to return to Hogwarts, I wish you all a good night and Isildur I wish you success with the Longbottom."

After Dumbledore and Gandalf had left everyone begin to fell Hungry and went down for dinner where the whole tale ended up getting told again over another one of Mrs. Potter's delicious dinners. After dinner everyone returned to there bedrooms and didn't wake until 10:00 the next morning.