Chapter 20 A Family Reunited

After everyone had showered, dressed and had breakfeast James, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Isildur headed over to the Longbottom house to speak with Neville and his grandmother.

Once they got there they were greeted by Neville's grandmother who ushered them into the sitting room.

Isildur then said to Neville and his Grandmother that he had a plant in his position that could possibly cure Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom.

Neville's Grandmother looked at him as if he was crazy or something and said "How can you be sure that this will work? After all they have been the way they are for 16 years and the healer at St. Morongo's haven't been able to do anything for them. What exactly makes you a young man of only 17 believe he can cure what professionals can't?"

Then Isildur explained to her all that he knew about the plant kings foil and how in the right hands it could heal many diffrent types of wounds and injuries both magical and mortal.

Neville then told her that he had read about it in one of his herbology books and it said that only a descendent from the ancient kingdom of Gondor from Middle Earth could use kings foil or Athelas as it is sometimes called to heal those who have been wounded.

Isildur then spoke up and said "I am a descendent of the king of Gondor and I can prove it the Sword that I carry with me and use as my wand is none other then the legendary sword that was broken and was remade. I speak of the sword know as both Narsil and Anduril."

Neville's Grandmother looked at him and said "I reluctantly give my consent but I believe that Neville should have a say in this as well."

She turned to Neville and said "The choice is yours, there your parents and your of age now."

Neville then looked his grandmother in the eye and said "I want him to try", she then looked at him and said "very well then I guess we should get over to St. Marengo's to see what he can do."

James then said "we can take my car as it's the biggest or we can go by train or floo powder."

They decided to go by floo powder as it would be the easiest why to get there and also the quickest.

Once they got up there they went up to the special word where the Longbottoms and Gildroy Lockhart were. They then talked with the healers who were a little apprehensive about allowing someone who wasn't a qualified healer let alone a fully qualified wizard attempt to heal two of the worst cases of spell damage they had in the hospital. However after they were reassured that no harm should come to them if it didn't work they agreed to help as much as they could.

They asked Isildur what he required and all he said was two large bowls of hot water. They were puzzled by this but did as he asked.

Once the water was brought into the room Isildur removed the kings foil from his pocket which were partly withered from there journey from middle earth and also from spending time in Isildur's pocket so he 'breathed on them, and then he crushed them, and straightaway a living freshness filled the room, as if the air itself awoke and tingled, sparkling with joy'. (Authors Note the previous quote and any following ones in single quotation marks are taken from page 161 of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King chapter VIII The Houses of Healing)

Isildur then 'cast the leaves into the bowls of steaming water that were brought to him, and at once all hearts were lightened. For the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world of Spring itself but a fleeting memory.' But Isildur 'stood up as one refreshed, and his eyes smiled as he held a bowl before' Frank Longbottom's 'dreaming face.

Suddenly Frank stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Isildur who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love kindled in his eyes, and spoke softly.

"My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?"

"Walk no more in the shadows, but awake!" said Isildur. "You are weary. Rest a while, and take food and by the way I am no king just a very good friend of your son, who loves you very much."

"I will then young man "said Frank. "for who would lie idle when they have just been woken from the worst time of there life?"

"Farwell then or a while!" said Isildur. "I must go to another who needs me."

He then did the same for Alice Longbottom her response was just the same.

Isildur then walked over to Gildroy Lockhart and took pity on him and held a bowl in front of him and said "I release you from the curse put on you by yourself." His memory returned to him immediately, although he wasn't quite sure where he was.

Ron then looked at him and said "what the hell did you just do that for?"

Isildur looked at him and said "I didn't believe he deserved what happened to him."

Harry then looked at him and said "You don't think he deserved to have his memory erased for erased all those other witches and wizards?"

Just then Dumbledore then walked into the room and said "What are you three arguing about?"

Harry then said "after he helped the Longbottoms he healed Proffessor Lockheart and we were telling him that the git disserved what he got."

Lockheart then looked up and said "I resent being called a git after all I am Gildroy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League and five timers winner of Witch Weekly's Most - Charming - Smile Award - but I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at her!"

Isildur then looked at him and said "that's because you didn't do it a all. All you did was go and visit some which or wizard who did do it talk to them plagiarize there story and then you wiped there memories."

He then looked at Isildur and said "Who are you and why are you being so rude to me."

Isildur then looked at him and said "My name is Isildur Aragon Taylor and I am the first wizard in my family for about 300 years, and also I just relished you from the spell you cast on yourself. Also I am begging to relies why they called you a git", he said as he looked over his shoulder to Ron and Harry.

Lockheart was about to speak when Dumbledore interrupted him and said "we will have to look in to these allegations and see if they are true. In the mean time, Isildur I must ask you were you successful with the Longbottoms?"

Suddenly there was a voice from somewhere else in the room that said "Is that Albus Dumbledore the Head master of Hogwarts in the room?"

Dumbledore immediately recomposed the man who was speaking as Frank Longbottom and said "Indeed it is. It is good to see you awake and talking once more. As soon as you and your wife are able I would like to ask you to join the Order again. Only if you feel up to it."

Isildur then said to Dumbledore "I believe it is now time for me to take my leave of this place."

Dumbledore nodded and said "I will deal with Mr. Lockheart here and Neville and his Grandmother may stay with Frank and Alice. I think it is best if you James, Harry, Ron and Herminie return to Godric's Hollow I shall see you all there tonight."

James then walked over to him and said "Do you mean to join us for dinner then Albus?"

Dumbledore smiled and said "If it is alright with you and Lilly if it is not just send me an owl."

They all left the Hospital again using floo powder.

When hey returned to the house they had lunch and then Isildur said he was tired and would like to have a rest for a little bit.

On his way out of the Dinning room James called after him and said "Why don't you use the elevator?"

Harry, Ron, Herminie and Isildur all turned and looked at him and said "There's an elevator in this house?"

James then said "Yup we had a muggle company come in and install it."

Isildur then asked "Where is it?"

James said "I'll show you."

Harry, Ron and Herminie got up and followed him into the front hall. James then opened the door next to the closet which held an elevator about the size of a phone both in it.

They all looked at James; Isildur then spoke up and said "Why is it so small?"

James then said that he had seen one like it in a muggle movie that he and Lilly had seen called 'The Producers' which had in one scene an elevator in a small closet, and that he had wanted one after that. He also said that Lilly had it installed for him when they returned home after 16 years and also as an anniversary gift to him.

Then they all got into the elevator that was very cramped. Harry, Ron and Herminie were reminded of the visitor's entrance of the Ministry of Magic.

When they got out of the elevator they all walked over to the boy's room where Isildur took off his sword and lay down for a nap. Well he was sleeping he had a dream that

him, Harry, Ron, Herminie, Sirius, James, Lilly, Gandalf, and Dumbledore where riding houses out of an out cropping of rocks along with four hobbits three dressed in the armor of Gondor and one was dressed in the armor of Rohan. There were also three other men dressed in the armor of Rohan.

Ron then turned to Isildur and asked him what land this was.

Isildur then said "this is the land of the Rohirrim, the home of the horse lords."

The Riders of Rohan nodded and pointed to a plateau in the distance surrounded by mountains and said "there is edoraus the home of the Golden hall. Come the King awaits our arrival."

Isildur woke up and told Harry, Ron and Herminie about the dream he just had. Herminie immediately suggested that he should tell Dumbledore, just as he (Isildur) was about to pull out a quill, some ink and a piece of parchment to write a letter James came into the room and said that Dumbledore would be coming to dinner with the Longbottoms.

Isildur turned to Herminie and said to her "I will tell him tonight then."

James looked puzzled and asked "Tell who what?"

Isildur then told him all about his dream.

About an Hour later Dumbledore was knocking at the door to Godric's Hollow and he was not alone he was with the newly reunited Longbottom family. As soon as he walked in Isildur asked Dumbledore if he could have a word with him in private. James suggested that they use his study, which was a large room that was the full highest of the house with more books then even the Hogwarts library, the room was decorated in red and gold, and the fire place was shaped like the mouth of a lion. Above the mantelpiece was an extremly large picture of Godric Gryifindor.

Isildur and Dumbledore sat down on one of the couches in the room where Isildur told Dumbledore all about his dream. Dumbledore listened to his story closely and offered no interjection just as he did after Harry returned from the third task of the Trinidad tournament in his forth year.

After Isildur finished telling his tale Dumbledore looked at him and said "so we shall be heading to Rohan then."

Isildur looked at him and said "So my dream is the future then?"

Dumbledore looked in to his eyes, Isildur met his gaze and looked back into Dumbledore's eyes that seemed to twinkle in the light, though not as much as Lady Galadriel's did, Isildur thought to himself. Dumbledore then looked up and said "One can never know if the things that are seen in dreams will become a reality or not. Many people have wasted a way wanting there dreams to come true without doing any work getting there."

Isildur looked at Dumbledore puzzled at what the old man had just said to him. Dumbledore relished this said to him "the interpretation of dreams is up to the dreamer and only them. I want you to take your dream to mean whatever you want it to mean. I can not tell you anymore then that, nor can anyone else."

With that Dumbledore walked to the door and said "Come Lilly's wondrous cooking waits." Isildur got up suddenly relishing how hungry he was and also walked towards the door. At dinner no one spoke of Insiders dream.

When dinner was finished the adults sat in the living room well the teenagers went into the study along with Fred and George. They begin to talk about what was going on at Hogwarts and the Magical world. Isildur sat in silence listening to it all and only talking when he was spoken too. The others noticed this to and when they questioned them about this, he told them about his dream and all that Dumbledore had said to him.

Just as he had finished telling them all this, the adults walked in and said that the Longbottoms were going to be leaving.

They all gowned and Neville spoke up saying "can't I stay with my friends a little longer."

His Mother and Father smiled at there son and said "Will come back soon I promise. Perhaps you might even want to invite your friends over to our house. But for now we must be going."