Chapter 3: Dumbledore's Research


Chapter 3: Dumbledore's Research

Albus was tired but he had a few things that must be attended to before going to bed he rose from his desk and raced after Severus having come up with a brilliant idea. He managed to catch him at the bottom of the stairs leading to the great hall and dungeons and hailed him to hold up for a minute so he could ask him something very quickly. Albus gasping for air for a few minutes said "Severus you have not been home to Forks since you and Lily's early days of marriage the house could probably do with some significant cleaning how would you feel if we sent about 30 house-elves of Hogwarts to your house and cleaned it from top to bottom so that you and the kids do not have to do it otherwise you will be cleaning it for a year?" Severus stood nonplussed by Dumbledore but after a minute he said "yes Albus that would be wonderful I would greatly appreciate it, thank you." Dumbledore merely nodded and said "no problem my boy now I am going to go speak with the house-elves and then I am going to be in my office the rest of the day please before you leave drop in and let me know I would like to give my farewells to all of you."

Severus nodded and said "we will headmaster."

Severus then turned and slowly descended to his dungeon knowing as he went that he would be lucky to get any sleep at all with his children having already been asleep for several hours and knowing that he needed to be coherent for what he was going to have to talk to Hailey and Draco about.

Meanwhile Albus ran down to the kitchens so that he could speak with the house-elves about cleaning the Snape Manor in Washington State. When Albus entered Dobby and Winky ran forward to see if he wanted or needed anything from the two of them as the other 25,000 house-elves came bustling over to the headmaster to speak with him. Albus smiled and said "oh excellent you are all here I have a request of the house-elves and I need some help with it I would like 30-40 house-elves to go to Professor Snape's house in Forks and clean the place up as most of you know he has not been there since the time of his marriage to Lily but it is still in the same place it was when you were all there last. Do I have any volunteers?" Albus Dumbledore waited a few minutes and suddenly 60 house-elves said they would go to the residence immediately and begin to straighten and clean it and asked "would it be ok for us to use magic and some of the supplies from Hogwarts to clean the place Mr. headmaster Dumbledore sir?" Albus laughed and nodded saying "yes go ahead." At that Albus turned and said "well I will see you when you get back oh by the way I am not going to be eating this morning I have to get some sleep and do some research on an important area but I should be finished for lunch so if one of you will bring my lunch to my office I will greatly appreciate it. Thank You." Dumbledore then left so the elves could fix breakfast for the teachers and the remaining students before the students headed home for the summer.

Albus returned to his room and took a small vial of dreamless sleep potion so that he could get a few hours of sleep and then do some research on the Sect of Magic he wanted to study up on convinced that it might be the thing that would return the late Lily Snape to the land of the living.

Albus drank his potion and went swiftly to sleep.

2 hours later

The students were eating and Professor McGonagall noticed that the headmaster had not arrived to see the students off and for that matter Severus was not among the teachers either. Professor McGonagall leaned over to Hagrid and said "Hagrid I am going to go and check on the headmaster and see if he is ok will you alert the students that term will start next year and that they need to be down by the train station in exactly 30 minutes otherwise they will be walking home?" Hagrid nodded and said "yes Professor McGonagall." Professor McGonagall smiled and left the great hall racing upstairs to see Professor Dumbledore.

As Minerva entered Albus' office she noticed he was in bed sleeping peacefully. Minerva smiled and thought "well maybe he did not get to bed to early last night and needed to get some rest I should return later today and let him rest for the night after all he has many things that he is going to be doing this summer." Minerva turned and left Albus to his sleep as she returned to the entranceway she heard Hagrid bellow "alright students it is time that you start making your way down to the train station and please note that Hogwarts will be open next year you will be notified by the usual method and everything as the time to return approaches, but now it is time to head down to the station you baggage has already been loaded on to the train thank you and we will see you next year."

Minerva smiled and saw the students start to file out of the great hall to make their trips home after everybody had filed out she returned and sat next to Hagrid to finish her breakfast and said "Dumbledore is sleeping, but you did remarkably well with the announcement Hagrid I could not have done better myself."

Hagrid blushed and said "thank you Professor McGonagall."

Around 10:30 AM Dumbledore slowly awoke from his sleep and rose from the bed thinking "ok I have gotten a few hours of sleep now I need to find that book and start my research because if I am correct what with Lily being an elf and elves being immortal I may be right in thinking that it is possible that she could return to the land of the living."

Albus dressed and went about gathering his books that he would need so that the research would be complete.

By 12:00 Noon Dumbledore was so immersed in his work he did not notice Winky had arrived brining his lunch until she cleared her very small throat saying "Headmaster Dumbledore I brought you your lunch and something to drink." Albus nodded and sat his work aside and said "thank you Winky I greatly appreciate it you should go and get some sleep I am giving the rest of the house-elves that are not cleaning Snape Manor the next 72 hours off." Winky bowed low and disaparated back to the kitchens to let the other house-elves know of their treat by the headmaster.

Dumbledore sat at his desk upon finishing his lunch and pulled the "Immortality of Arcadia" to him thinking if he was right it might be good to check through everything. Dumbledore flipped through countless pages until he found the section on the immortals, and scrolling down he found elves with a whole section to them. Albus sighed and started flipping through the 15,000 page book and sighed when he discovered that elves had roughly over 3,548 pages just to them. Albus sighed and said to himself "great this is going to take a long time it is a good thing I did not mention this to Severus I did not want to get his hopes up about Lily."

Dumbledore began reading and read through the rest of the day and through the night only stopping to eat some dinner and he was back to his book. Around 4:45 AM the following morning Albus reached the section in the book he had needed it read is followed:

Immortality of Arcadia

By: Elvis Brightstone

Of all the things in Arcadia the only thing that scares the elves is dragons

Due to the fact that dragons are the master race. When elves due battle against darkness they

Are always prepared for death however the elven race is immortal and the only way for them to

Truly be killed is for them to exhaust their magical capabilities.

But there is hope once the magic that is used to destroy them once it is dealt a fatal blow then

The possibility to restoration may begin.

Through the citation of the following spell by one who is more than man but less than a god:

ENUR KILDARA MILO DAINO

And the use of powerful restorative incantations of both dark and light can restore the Elven

Order.

Dumbledore smiled to himself and thought "wow that spell is very complicated and will take many days to prepare it and ready everything so that I can try and bring Lily back from the realm of dead. Dumbledore thought "since Lily was an elven princess she was immortal and from what he had read prior to the incantation and what Lily had told him

Flashback:

"Professor Dumbledore there is something I must discuss something with you immediately" Lily said. Albus turned and said "what is it Lily I mean don't you have 2 children at home that need their mama?"

Lily smiled and said "yes, but I had a dark vision that I may not live to see my children reach the beginning of their teens and if that occurs due to Voldemort there is something you must know."

Dumbledore led Lily to his office and upon arriving he said "what is it that you have to tell me Lily?"

Lily sighed and said "Professor, if I die at the hands of darkness I may be able to return to the land of the living with a complicated spell since we both know that I am an elf and Elves are immortal (not house-elves.)"

Dumbledore gaped at Lily and said "how?" Lily smiled and produced a book that Dumbledore would need to bring her back, but Lily said "the only way to return me is that the one responsible for killing me would have to pass into oblivion I cannot return with him still among the living."

End Flashback:

At that Dumbledore thought that might work but I will not start it until after Severus and his children have left Hogwarts at that Dumbledore rose from his desk and retired for the rest of the night and for the first time he smiled in true hope for both Hailey and Draco.