The next morning Estel and Harry woke up to find that Ron had already left. "I guess there's a first time for everything," said Harry.

Estel laughed as he and Harry made there way downstairs. When the reached the common room they found Ron and Hermione sitting together talking quietly. "Hey guys what's up," Estel asked. Both Ron and Hermione jumped and Ron fell off the couch.

"You scared us," said Hermione glaring at Estel who was now laughing at Ron.

"Sorry Hermione. Let's go eat so we can go," said Harry trying not to laugh as well.

"Well, Harry, Ron and I were thinking that you can show Estel around for the morning and then we can all meet up together after lunch to go to the Shrieking Shack," Hermione said.

"Why," asked Harry and Estel at the same time.

Ron and Hermione's faces both went red "Well you see."

"I asked Hermione to go with me to Hogsmeade tomorrow, just me," said Ron lowering his head feeling guilty that he wanted to leave his friends out.

"So you two are going out," asked Estel raising and eyebrow, a habit he picked up from his father.

"Yeah," said Ron sheepishly.

"Looks like we win Estel," said Harry with a look of triumph.

"Yeah, so why don't we go find Fred and George and get the money they owe us," said Estel.

"You two placed bets on when we would start dating," demanded Hermione outraged.

"Oh come on it's a bit obvious you both like each other. I haven't been here for that long and even I could tell," Estel said.

"Well you didn't have to place bets on it," said Hermione.

"Why not? Everyone else is," said Harry.

"How much did you guys win," asked Ron.

"None of your business," Estel yelled back as he and Harry made their way towards the twins' office.

"Looks like I'll have to show you around with those two, oh well. 'Bout time they started dating. They we driving me nuts with all their fighting," said Harry.

"You mean they fight like they have been all the time and it's just not a recent thing," asked Estel.

"Yeah," Harry responded as they reached Fred and George's office. Harry knocked on they door. A few seconds later the door opened not only Weasley twins but also Estel's brothers and Legolas all wearing smiles that made Harry and Estel nervous.

"Yes," said George

"Can we help you," Fred finished.

"You owe us twenty Galleons," Harry said simply.

"What for," asked George.

"Ron and Hermione are going out today," said Estel.

"See I told you we should have said it would be sooner," Fred whispered to George.

"Yes well here is your money, don't spend it all at one place," said George.

"Unless its at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes then feel free to spend as much as you can," added Fred.

"Goodbye," said both as they closed the door.

"Well see ya around then," said Harry to the close door.

When they made to leave the door opened again and the three elves came out all looking a little nervous. "Estel are you alright," asked Elrohir.

"Yeah why wouldn't I be," he asked.

"Well yesterday in the Hospital Wing you seemed a little out of it," said Elladan, worry clearly shown on his face.

"Oh that. Yeah I'm fine. I need to go eat now so I'm not late for the trip. I'll talk to you later okay," said Estel as he turned to walk to the Great Hall.

"Estel," he turned to look at his brothers. "How about we go to Hogsmeade together we hadn't had much time to spend together and I'm sure that with Fred, George and Harry there it'll be fun," said Elladan still feeling guilty for making Estel feel bad yesterday.

Both Harry and Estel had raised eyebrows at this commit. "What don't you trust us," asked Fred's voice from behind the elves.

"About as far as I could throw you," Harry responded.

"Oh come now Harry I thought that you would at least be able to trust us a little," said George.

"Not when we are in the middle of a war," said Harry.

"Oh that. I say we call a trucejust for today," said Fred a little to cheerfully. Holding out his hand for Harry to shake. "Come on mate it'll be fun, and if it's not we'll go find Ron and Hermione and throw stuff at them while they try to make out."

"Sounds good mate," said Harry shaking Fred's hand. "So how about we meet at Zonko's at nine."

"See you in an hour. Bye-bye kiddies," said George as the Weasley's and elves all turned to leave.

Harry and Estel hurried down to eat breakfast and then made their way towards Hogsmeade. They met up with the Weasley twins and Estel's brothers they spent the morning going to every shop that seemed the least bit interesting. By the time noon came they all had a lot of shopping bags and almost all the money the elves had made teaching was spent buying stuff for themselves and Estel who had no money except what he just won from the twins.

At noon they walked into Three Broomsticks where Harry and Estel were going to meet Ron and Hermione for lunch. It didn't take them long to locate their friends off in a corner. "Hey," Harry said when they all got to the table.

"Hey mate, did you guys have fun," asked Ron.

"Yeah we went to a lot of the stores and now that's left is the Shrieking Shack and maybe another trip to Honeydukes," said Harry happily. "So what did you guys do?"

"Oh nothing much," said Hermione blushing.

"Sure," Harry responded sarcastically.

They all ate lunch quickly wanting to go to the Shrieking Shack. "So what's so special about this shack," asked Legolas.

"It's haunted," the Weasley twins replied.

"Really," Estel asked not quite believing that it was haunted.

"No that's just what they used to want everyone to think," replied Harry.

"Whose they," asked Legolas.

"Dumbledore and a few of the teachers," Hermione answered.

"Why," asked Elladan and Elrohir.

"Because a werewolf used to go to Hogwarts and this is where he would go every month for his transformations," she answered.

"Isn't this where you first met your godfather Harry," Estel asked.

"Yup right after he dragged Ron through the passage that lead from the Whomping Willow," Harry laughed.

All of a sudden there were a series of pops and they were surrounded by people in long robes and masks. "Who are they," Estel asked noticing how tense the others had gotten.

"Death Eaters," Ron whispered.

The elves drew their weapons and the wizards drew their wands. For some reason this made the Death Eaters laugh.

"Put those away children before you poke your eye out," drawled one of the Death Eaters. Harry thought the voice sounded oddly familiar. "We are here for Potter now if you all put your wands away we will let you all live. For now." The Death Eaters seemed to be ignoring the elves.

"Like we would let you take Harry without a fight," George yelled.

"Fine then we'll do it the fun way." The Death Eater said as he shot a curse at the group.

The group from Hogwarts dodged the curse easily. Only problem was the Death Eaters had them surrounded now. Harry instantly pulled out his wand and started firing any spell that came to mind that would help.

The others quickly pulled out their wands and started firing defensive spells as the Death Eater hurled curses at them.

"Crucio," Estel heard one of the Death Eaters say. He knew that it was one of the unforgivable curses but couldn't remember which one it was. Then he heard Ron's scream fill the air as the curse hit him and he remembered.

Fred and George instantly started hexing the Death Eater that had attacked their brother their faces turning red with anger. Most of the spells missed their targets because they were so mad. This isn't good, Estel thought. Their aim is off and it will only hurt if they continue this way. Just then a curse whizzed by his head. He ducked and looked around. Harry was a few feet to his left while his brothers and Legolas were getting Ron to safety so that he could recover from the after effects of the curse, and Fred and George just randomly fired curses.

A few minutes later they were not doing to well. The elves were trying to get Fred and George, who had been stupefied, to safety, Hermione was trying to protect Ron, who was weakly trying to defend himself, and Harry and Estel were now cut off from the others.

Just then Estel heard the torture curse once again. He didn't know how he knew, but he knew the curse was headed for Harry and did they only thing he could think of at the moment. He jumped between Harry and the speeding curse right before it hit.

At that moment his world exploded in pain. He couldn't hear, or see all he could do was think 'who's screaming?' He suddenly realized that he was the one screaming. It was the most painful thing he had ever felt. More painful than the time he broke his leg. More painful than the time he broke half his ribs trying to jump across that ravine. It felt as if every bone in his body was on fire. And suddenly it stopped.

It still hurt but the majority of the pain was gone. He looked around and saw Elladan standing over the crumpled body of the Death Eater that had thrown the curse, blood on his sword. Legolas was by Estel's side his eyes wide with fear. Elrohir it seemed was finishing off the Death Eaters. Most of the Death Eaters lay on the ground blood seeping from their wounds and over half of them had arrows imbedded in their chests. He hadn't realized that Legolas had even had his bow and arrows with him. Probably some Mirkwood thing, he thought.

Estel noticed that the remaining humans, including Fred and George who had just been revived, were looking at the elves with a little bit of fear in their eyes. Estel tried to sit up only to be pushed down by Legolas. How did I end up on the ground? He realized he probably fell when the curse had hit. Just then Legolas tensed up and his eyes glazed over.

Tbc…

Sorry that it took me sooo long to update and that the chapter is shorter than usual but I had a few problems and I had a lot to do over the past few months.

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