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Q's & A's
A/N: Actually this is the end of the last chapter. I made it two parts cause it's really long.
Harry and Ron followed Ettelwen and Legolas down the endless corridors. As they walked, Ettelwen and Legolas talked in low voices conveniently enough in common tongue, so that Harry could understand what he managed to hear.
"Legolas," she said quietly as she led the guys down one of the tunnels that lead away from the throne room, "do me a favor, tell your father to stop addressing me as 'Lady Ettelwen'."
"As you wish," he replied, "Although, I do not understand why it troubles you."
Harry missed her response, having narrowly missed the wall.
At first the small group saw ten to twenty elves in each tunnel, but after many turns and many different tunnels the small group came to a deserted tunnel.
As they walked down the tunnel Harry noticed Ettelwen had her hand on the wall. About halfway down the tunnel, Harry had thought his eyes had deceived him, when he saw Ettelwen's hand go through the rock wall.
"This way," she said, beckoning them towards the place where her hand went through the wall. She glanced at Harry's and Ron's face. "Don't worry it just like going through the barrier between platforms nine and ten."
Harry and Ron relaxed after this statement but a slight look of incomprehension crossed Legolas' face. Legolas was first to walk through the wall then Harry, Ron, and Ettelwen last. On the other side of the wall a short tunnel led the way to a room, much like the one that held the book just with no book and podium. The room was pretty much empty except for a chair, a couch, and a three level bookshelf filled with leather-bound books and a few scrolls.
"Harry, Ron, Legolas, go ahead and sit," said Ettelwen awkwardly. "I must reseal the doorway."
She walked away as Harry and Ron sat down on the couch. Legolas sat down on the empty chair. After Ettelwen returned, she waved her hand and a second chair appeared opposite of Legolas.
"Now, I know you have plenty of questions. I will allow you to ask them now," she said after sitting down, "but please don't ask all of them at once."
"Um...Well..." said Harry not knowing where to start.
"Are we really in Middle Earth?" blurted out Ron.
"Yes," replied Legolas simply.
"In your world Middle Earth is just a story but it is real. It is a parallel to your world." Ettelwen added.
"What do mean by a parallel?" asked Harry. "Actually...forget I said that. Umm...Why all the privacy when there is barely any one here — And why were you wearing a Hogwarts uniform?"
"Well, there are never very many elves here during the day, they're all in the forest, but at night it's much more crowded," she said. "About the uniform...Basics, I was studying your world of magic."
"Oh...uh... how did we get here?"
"Do you remember the book you found in Flourish and Blotts?" Harry nodded. "Well those are 'linking' books that I created to travel through the different worlds. The book in your world connects to the seven books in this world."
"Where are the books?" asked Legolas.
"There is one in Mirkwood, Gondor, Rohan, Isengard, Rivendell, the Grey Haven, and one in Moria but I believe that one was destroyed years ago."
"So, we could just use the book to get back home?" asked Ron.
"Um...no you can't. For the safety of both worlds only one book goes to your world. And it is currently in your world."
"How did-?"
"Ron, how can you even think of going home?" interjected Harry.
"Huh? What do you mean," said Ron.
"Hermione! You're forgetting Hermione!" yelled Harry angrily.
"We don't know where she!"
"So, that's a reason to leave her!"
"I've heard stories about this place and I rather not find out whether they're true or not."
"All the more reason not to leave her here! Otherwise what would we tell her parents, 'Sorry to tell you but your daughter is trapped in a parallel universe'."
"But we don't even know where she is."
"We know where she is—" said Harry jumping up to strengthen his point.
"That's what you said when we went to find Sirius," said Ron jumping to his feet to face Harry. "You said you know exactly where he was in a room with shelves of little crystal balls in the Department of Mysteries. Well, all you know this time is she's trapped in some bloody tower! Somewhere in this place where we don't even know where we are!" Ron finished sitting back down, muttering quietly to himself, "in some bloody tower."
Ron's remark about Sirius hit a nerve and Harry said nothing in return. He stood there silently his eyes filled with anger and sadness.
"Did you say a tower?" asked Ettelwen breaking the tension.
"Yeah, it a tall black tower in the middle of a stone circle..." said Harry breaking out of his trance of despair.
"Isengard," gasped Ettelwen quietly.
"What's wrong?" asked Ron.
"Nothing, I hope," she replied. She quickly stood, "There is something I must verify. You two stay here and rest you have a long journey to Rivendell." She waved her hand and the couch Harry and Ron were sitting in turned into two small beds (Ron sat on one and Harry sat on the other.), a small table of food appear in the middle of the beds, a cloak appear in each bed. "That cloak will allow you to blend in a little better to avoid annoying questions. I should be back before you leave tomorrow. If I'm not stay with Legolas and I'll meet you at Rivendell. Don't leave this room without Legolas or myself unless you feel like getting lost." And with that she left the room.
"What was that about?" Ron asked Harry.
"I'm not sure," answered Harry.
"I must prepare for tomorrow. Will you two be fine here all night?" asked Legolas.
"Uh... we should be," said Harry.
"I shall summon you tomorrow. We leave at dawn," he said and walked out the door.
Harry and Ron lay in bed for a while until sleep finally took them.
A/N: Yeah! I' finally done. I apologize for this being a very long, boring chapter but every book has some boring parts. I don't what I'm going to do next, I'm making this up as I go along so, if you have ideas I wouldn't mind the help. Anyways please review. If you don't have anything good or bad to say about my story just review and say you read it. PLEASE!