Chapter 4: You have my magic
Author's note: I am FINALLY back. *avoids Cruciatus Curse* I'm so sorry that I haven't written in so long. I moved a while ago and it took a while to settle in and I've been having a lot of problems with the computer(Damn technology) and it's also the end of the year and everything so I have so many huge projects and so much going on in school unfortunately. -.- So I am very sorry that it took so long. In my absence I have revised all the chapters so far and you know Katy and Britney? Well I decided I'd work on something so I started that story and I have a few chapters on that so I'll post a preview of that maybe the firs 500 words of something like that. Once again I'm very so-*Avoids incoming piano* Okay, really! Just kidding on with the story.
The next few days passed quickly. Arwen and I became good friends and she told me about Middle Earth and she also started teaching me elvish and I have to say I think I'm doing pretty well I also met Gandalf(who I thought was Dumbledore for a minute. I asked him if he could help me find a way back but he said he didn't know if I could ever go back), and also Merry and Pippin who remind me so much of Fred and George. Seemed like everything reminded me of home. I thought of home almost every second. I wish I could at least tell them I'm okay, make sure that they're okay. What if it's just a big cliff hanger? What if I never figure out what happened to Harry? Or to Bellatrix? Or if Katy lives? It's like a book that has this huge cliff hanger and you can't wait to know what happens. But what if I never do and I just have to guess what happened to them? I felt my eyes fill with tears. And now I'm stuck here. A whole new hate, a whole new evil growing and a whole new war. It just seems my whole life all I've ever known is death and hate. I just want to go home. That's all I want. After everything that's happened can't the world just give me that?
"Lady Hermione. The council is starting momentarily." A voice I knew to be Arwen's said. I quickly wiped away my tears hoping she wouldn't notice I had been crying.
"Please Arwen, I told you before. Just call me Hermione." I said turning around to face her.
"Okay La-I mean Hermione...Well, Hermione you better go. The Council is going to start in just a few moments." Arwen said smiling at me. I smiled back at her trying to hide the fact that I was actually really nervous.
I walked with Gandalf to the Council since he was the only one there who I knew. I sat between Frodo and Gandalf.
Okay just don't say anything and you'll be fine. The last thing you want to do is make a fool of yourself or draw any attention to yourself for that matter. Hermione had never been this nervous since the Sorting Ceremony.
Elrond spoke
"Strangers from distant lands, friends of old. You have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle-Earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate this one doom. Bring forth the ring, Frodo." A hobbit who I knew to be Frodo got up and placed the ring in the middle of the pedestal.
"So it is true." She heard a man she knew to be Boromir say.
Hermione couldn't take her eyes away from the ring. And no one else appeared to be able to either.
"The Doom of Men" One man said.
"It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring? Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe! Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him!" Boromir said pacing. Hermione had the strong urge to stand up and tell him that was not a good idea.
With the brief information she had about the ring she knew that no man could use it. But she decided to continue her tactic of not speaking at all. Hermione rarely felt the way she felt right now. She felt stupid. It was like when she first found out she was a witch and had no idea what anything was. She felt like a small child. Back home she was known as the brightest witch of her age but here? She was nobody. Her vision blurred. No. She told herself you can't cry. Not now. Luckily she was still ignored.
"You cannot wield it! None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master." Aragorn said.
"And what would a ranger know of this matter?" Boromir asked and Hermione decided right then and there that she didn't quite like Boromir.
"This is no mere ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance." A elf said standing up angrily. Hermione knew this elf to be Legolas who caught her attention when he arrived not long ago. Hermione had seen many guys in her day. She has seen cute guys, hot guys, sexy guys but Legolas was just plain beautiful and captivating.
"Aragorn? This... is Isildur's heir?" Borimir said in shock and Hermione's eyes widened.
"And heir to the throne of Gondor." Legolas said
Hermione noticed Frodo looking wide-eyed at Aragorn as if seeing him in a new light.
"Havo dad, Legolas." Aragorn said which Hermione was pretty sure meant sit down because they both sat back but not before Boromir said
"Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king."
"Aragorn is right. We cannot use it." Gandalf said moving on.
"You have only one choice. The Ring must be destroyed." Elrond said.
"Then what are we waiting for?" One of the dwarfs said grabbing a axe and running to the pedestal. And Hermione might not have been here long, not what half of these people were talking about but Hermione knew for a fact that that was a poor decision.
He struck the Ring with full force and was thrown to the ground, leaving the ring unharmed. More like the Horcruxes than I though Hermione thought to herself. Hermione noticed Frodo wince in pain as he clutched his forehead.
"Are you alright?" Hermione said touching Frodo's shoulder gently. Remembering the countless times Harry's scar had pained him. Frodo nodded but still looked startled. Shards of the axe all around the ring.
"The Ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Glóin, by any craft that we here possess. The Ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came." Elrond said calmly looking at all of us.
"One of you must do this." He continued on.
Silence.
"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep. And the great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland. Riddled with fire and ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly!" Boromir said angrily.
So the whole fate of this world that I'm stuck in is in the hands of these guys? Hermione said looking around her. If being here isn't bad enough and now you have to add in that ten thousand men wouldn't be able to destroy it. Thanks, Boromir. Thanks a lot. Hermione thought to herself sarcastically. Every passing minute she seemed to like Boromir less and less.
"Have you heard nothing Lord Elrond has said? The Ring must be destroyed!"Legolas said standing again.
"And I suppose you think you're the one to do it?" Gimli said jumping to his feet.
"And if we fail, what then? What happens when Sauron takes back what is his?"Boromir said standing up once more.
"I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an Elf!"Gimli yells.
And it all went downhill from there.
Everyone stood up and started fighting with each other except for Frodo and Hermione. Look on the bright side, at least you didn't cause this fight Hermione thought looking around at the commotion, while Frodo sat staring eyes transfixed on the ring.
Then Frodo rose and took a few steps toward the arguing crowd.
"What are you doing?" Hermione whispered urgently to Frodo but he didn't seem to hear her.
"I will take it!" Frodo said. No one paid him any attention.
"I will take it!" Frodo said a lot louder this time and the arguing stopped instantaneously.
"I will take the Ring to Mordor. Though- I do not know the way." Frodo said in a small voice.
"I will help you bear this burden, Frodo Baggins, as long as it is yours to bear." Gandalf said walking over to Frodo.
"If by my life or death, I can protect you, I will." Aragorn said rising and kneeling before Frodo.
Hermione could not believe what she was witnessing. She just sat, mouth wide open in shock. Even though she didn't know Frodo well she worried for him. And she felt a upsurge of affection for him.
"You have my sword." Aragorn said.
"And you have my bow." Legolas said joining Frodo and Aragorn.
"And my axe!'" Gimli said.
Hermione didn't know what compelled her to do this, she was wondering if she was about to make the biggest mistake of her life, she had no idea why she did this but she said something that got everyone's attention and for the first time they acknowledged that she was even there.
Hermione Granger stood up and said
"You have my magic."
End of chapter 4. J Please review and tell me what you think. Think it's good? Please review? Think it's shit? Still please review because I really want to get better. Once again thank you to anyone who reviewed. It means a lot! And I shall publish the preview of my next story and I will work on it but now that my internet is back up this is my main priority.
