A/n 1: Wowzers Oh I'm proud of me. Two chapters in one week. I guess I still feel guilty about not updating for such a long time. Stupid band. I hate band; it eats up all of your time.

2: If you couldn't guess the events in this story will NOT follow The Half-Blood Prince.

Chapter 7: Potions Accident and things get a little weird

Aragorn got out of his bed thinking about the last week. They had been at Hogwarts for a week and had met all the students they would be teaching 'of course I won't be teaching them because I'm too young' he thought bitterly. Besides the fact that he was still angry over being too young to teach he was having a relatively good time at Hogwarts. Being raised with elves he didn't spend a lot of time with humans until he left with the rangers, but then all of the rangers were older and more experienced. Here he was older than everybody but the professors.

His brothers and Legolas had finally stopped teasing him about being too young to teach, which he was eternally grateful for. Today was when the first representative would be here from the Ministry and, much to Legolas' and his brothers' dislike he would be spending the day "observing" Snape. The human couldn't figure out why the elves didn't like the man. They had protested loudly to the fact that he would have to spend most of the day with the man.

Aragorn chuckled at the memory of the elves' reaction when he had told them that he would be spending the day with the older man. The three elves had run to Dumbledore and started yelling at him that he should not spend an entire day with the dark haired man. It took Dumbledore nearly a half an hour to calm them down while Aragorn chuckled about it the entire time.

When the kindly old man asked why they didn't want him to "observe" Snape they couldn't say anything. So the headmaster turned towards the young man and asked him if he didn't want to observe the potions master. Aragorn didn't care, he was in fact looking forward to going to potions. He had heard a little about the class and was excited about going to the class. It had been his idea to "observe" that class fist, though he decided not to tell the elves that as it seemed they had a problem with the older man.

After some more arguments they were able to get the three elves to reluctantly agree to let him. The only reason why they had agreed was that the headmaster had promised nothing would happen and that Estel would be perfectly safe. Aragorn was highly annoyed by this because he wasn't a child any longer and he could take care of himself, but stayed silent because he knew that his brothers would just get worse and maybe even lock him in his room to stop him from going to Snape's class.

He went down to the Great Hall and ate a hurried breakfast and quickly left for potions class. When he got there most of the small class was there. He entered the room looking around for the potion's master. The rest of the students entered the class room and took their seats. When the last student sat the door banged open and Snape walked in with his normal attitude.

He looked at Aragorn, sighed, and pointed to a seat next to a bushy haired girl and simply said, "Take a seat next to Miss Granger please." He quickly made his way over to the seat and sat next to the girl. She looked up smiled and said happily, "Hi my name is Hermione, this is Ron, Harry, and Neville." They all had gotten in to the advanced potions class much to the boy's surprise. It seemed that Snape was the only reason why they all did so badly in class, they all had made O's on their O.W.L.'s.

"Hello, my name is Estel." Just then Snape started to put up the instructions for the potion they would be working on. "Get started," he simply said. He looked up at Aragorn and said, "Miss Granger, considering you are the know it all in class why don't you explain what you are doing to our visitor." Snape then started to grade papers and didn't pay anymore attention to his students.

The class was half way over and nothing had happened, but then a strange sizzling sound came from Neville's cauldron. Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Neville all stated to back away from the cauldron and signaled Estel to do the same thing. Estel got up and slowly started to back away from the now smoking cauldron when BANG. It had exploded and Estel got a face full of whatever was in the cauldron and knew no more.

Everything was dark. That was the first thing Estel noticed. The next thing was that there was yelling. His ears weren't working properly because he couldn't tell what they were saying. Then he wished that it wasn't so dark so he could tell who was doing all the yelling. Then he made a shocking discovery. It wasn't dark, his eyes were just closed. He opened his eyes just a crack and made another discovery. This wasn't his room or his ada's healing rooms. He looked t his side and saw Legolas, but his friend wasn't paying any attention to him and was busy glaring daggers at someone.

"YOU TOLD US NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN. YOU SAID THAT HE WOULD BE FINE. NOW LOOK AT HIM." Someone yelled. 'I wonder who they are talking about,' thought Estel.

"I know that I told you that he would be fine but something's are out of our control. This was unforeseeable," said a calm voice. Estel noticed that he wasn't yelling.

"Headmaster I have to go," said a greasy haired man clutching his arm.

Dumbledore looked at the man and said, "of course, I will take care of things here. Good luck."

The memories came flooding back to Estel and he remembered the reason why he wasn't in his own room or in the healing rooms in his father's house. He was at Hogwarts and as of now had no way to get back home. He also remembered the cauldron exploding but he couldn't remember anything else that happened after that. He also realized that this must be the healing room for the school, and the one's yelling were most likely his brothers. He tried to sit up to get a better look at what was going on, because his brothers had not stopped yelling at Dumbledore. When he tried to sit up he instantly thought that it had been a bad idea. His head exploded in pain and he made a small sound of distress when his head started to feel as if it was going to tear apart.

The sound instantly drew Legolas' attention. "Your awake Estel," he said.

The yelling stopped and before he knew it his brothers were by his side asking if he was ok. "I'm fine but I have a headache," he told his brothers tiredly.

Just then a woman came in with a glass of something held it up to Estel and ordered him to drink. Estel slowly took the glass and started to drink the concoction. He spit out the little bit that he had in his mouth and said, "that's worse than Ada's tea."

He brothers had to smile at that for they remembered their father's dreaded tea. "Come on tithen pen it will make you feel better," Elladan gently said with a small smile knowing his brother hated being called little one no matter in what language. Estel just nodded and downed the entire glass of whatever it was. He didn't notice the look of worry that passed between the three elves when he didn't respond to the name his brother had just called him.

Just then McGonagall walked in and talked to Dumbledore. The man turned towards the elves and human boy. "Elladan, Elrohir can I speak with you both for a minute please," he requested.

Estel look towards Legolas "what's going on," he asked. Legolas didn't say anything and didn't look him in the eye. He knew then that something was wrong. Just then his brothers nodded and turned towards him and Legolas Elrohir left for a second and returned with what looked like a mirror.

"Well Estel I hope that you feel better and I will see you all later," said Dumbledore as he and McGoanagall walked out of the room.

"What' going on," asked Estel again. This time the question was directed at his brothers.

"Well, tithen pen you see…." Estel noticed that the name that his brothers used to tease him now sounded caring like it always did when he had gotten hurt and his brothers would try to make him feel better. "When you got hit by that potion…" Elrohir said now fiddling with the mirror in his hands.

Elladan continued for his twin "Something happened." Both twins now looked very uncomfortable and were not looking forward to how their brother would react to the news they were about they were about to give him.

Legolas rolled his eyes turned to his friend and simply said, "When you were hit by the potion you were um…deaged I guess is the word for it."

"I was what," asked Estel.

"Deaged, you um, look like your sixteen again," said Elrohir waiting for his little brother to get mad.

"Oh I get it, this is some joke. Well it's not funny," said Estel.

"It's not a joke. Here look," said Elrohir holding up the mirror for his little brother to look into.

Estel looked into the mirror and sure enough his sixteen year-old self was staring back at him. Estel looked up at his brothers and friend all who were preparing for the yelling that was about to come. 'It's not their fault I'm stuck like this' thought Estel. 'Why do they look like I'm going to blame them or something?' Then he did something that his companions hadn't expected for him to do. He laughed, but quickly stopped due to the fact that his head still hurt though not nearly as bad anymore.

His brothers and friend all looked at him as if he had gone insane. "What? It's funny even though it's not a joke," he said. "What were you expecting me to get mad about something that wasn't anybody's fault?"

"Well you have before mellon nin," said Legolas cautiously. "Is something wrong you have been acting a little strangely sense we came here."

"What do you mean," asked the human.

"You have been acting strangely ever sense I found you after the orc attack," said Elladan thoughtfully.

"Orc attack? What orc attack," asked Elrohir and Legolas at the same time.

"The orc attack that left him apparently bleeding to death when that bird showed up and "saved" his life. At first when he told me I thought he must have been going into shock or something. Then you two showed up and he started to chase the stupid bird. Why did you do that Estel," asked Elladan

"It told me to," said Estel as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"You mean like it told us to follow you because you would need us," asked Legolas.

"It told you to follow me," asked the human curiously.

"What do you think that we would just let you go off by yourself," asked Elrohir.

"Estel, before we can get off topic anymore. The potion had another affect," said Elladan.

"What is that," asked Estel.

"Well Madam Pomfrey did some tests to see if the potion had any other effects and apparently it gave you magic powers, so Dumbledore and McGoanagall decided that you should become a student. You will be joining the sixth years considering that is the age that you are." explained Elladan.

"But I'll be behind all the other students, it's impossible," said Estel.

"Well they said something about a spell that will catch you up on most of the spells and that they can help you with the more complicated ones that you will have trouble with," said Elrohir.

"What classes will I take? Sixth years have certain classes that they have to get into," Estel thought out loud.

"Well they said that considering everything you will be able to take any classes that you would like to take," Elladan replied cheerfully. He was happy because his brother was taking this better than he had expected and easily accepted what was happening. He then saw his brother yawn. "I suggest you get some sleep. They want to perform the spell tomorrow so it would be a good idea for you to get some rest," Elladan stated.

"Okay," was the only response they got out of the now teenage human.

tbc- soon