Summoned to Middle Earth

AN: "I See Fire," song by ED SHEERAN.

Ch. 13

Hermione Granger had just came back to her room; from her extortion with Gandalf, Lord Elrond, Balin, Bilbo, and Severus Snape, who gathered within Lord Elrond's grand library to desirer a map. The map only ended up being read from the night of a cresset moon before Durin's Day; which happened to be that night that Hermione and the Dwarves had reached Rivendell.

Hermione was surprised that she was able to read, for they looked like the runes from her Study of Ancient Runes class, back at Hogwarts. She was so excited that she had interrupted Lord Elrond from reading it himself.

Thorin was both shocked and mad that Hermione was able to read the old language of his people, for he had lost his way of reading it; from the time that the dragon had took over his family's kingdom. He had told Hermione before she left the library that she would be staying close to Gandalf in the morning, and told her that she must not go after him and his men, if they happened to leave Rivendell.

Hermione was angry with Thorin that she really didn't care if he left without her; she was going to end up saving him in the end, as far as she was concerned about it.

As she was getting ready for sleep that night; she had noticed that Professor Snape had stayed away for the night, and she was glad for at least one night of not having him watching over her. Once she had laid down; she had to do some deep breathing exercises in order for her to clear her brain enough to fall asleep.

As her breathing deepening; she was lost in her way of dreams, where she heard a song flouting to her ears.

"Oh, misty eye of the mountain below

Keep careful watch of my brothers' souls

And should the sky be filled with fire and smoke

Keep watching over Durin's sons"

Hermione asked within her dreams, "As in Thorin and his nephews."

"If this is to end in fire

Then we should all burn together

Watch the flames climb high into the night"

"Dragon's fire," whispered Hermione.

"Calling out father oh

Stand by and we will

Watch the flames burn auburn on

The mountain side"

"During the time of fall, fire will burn the country far and wide."

"And if we should die tonight

Then we should all die together

Raise a glass of wine for the last time"

"All the men shall die, as they fight for what they believe is right."

"Calling out father oh

Prepare as we will

Watch the flames burn auburn on

The mountain side

Desolation comes upon the sky"

"The sky will burn, as the dragon comes near."

"Now I see fire

Inside the mountain

I see fire

Burning the trees

And I see fire

Hollowing souls

I see fire

Blood in the breeze

And I hope that you remember me"

"Many will die, as the dragon comes; no matter where anyone is at."

"Oh, should my people fall

Then surely I'll do the same

Confined in mountain halls

We got too close to the flame"

"Thorin will fall, if his people will fall with him."

"Calling out father oh

Hold fast and we will

Watch the flames burn auburn on

The mountain side

Desolation comes upon the sky

"Now I see fire

Inside the mountain

I see fire

Burning the trees

I see fire

"Hollowing souls

I see fire

Blood in the breeze

And I hope that you remember me"

"All the people who manage to survive, will hope to remember the ones that fought off the dragon."

"And if the night is burning

I will cover my eyes

For if the dark returns

Then my brothers will die

And as the sky is falling down

It crashed into this lonely town

And with that shadow upon the ground

I hear my people screaming out"

"No matter who lives within the town; your fellow solider/neighbor, will die as you fight off the firing dragon."

"Now I see fire

Inside the mountains

I see fire

Burning the trees

I see fire

Hollowing souls

I see fire

Blood in the breeze

"I see fire (oh you know I saw a city burning out) (fire)

And I see fire (feel the heat upon my skin, yeah) (fire)

And I see fire (uh-uh-uh-uh) (fire)

And I see fire burn auburn on the mountain side"

Hermione then woke up at the dawn of a new day; painting as if she had ran a marathon, for she knew that not many people will survive from a dragon's fire or the attack that it would be bring upon a lake town from her dream. She really had hoped that it would not come to it, but she has hoped that she could stop the dragon before it had left the Lonely Mountain. She could not live with herself if many died because she had done nothing to prevent the outcome of a lose dragon.

Hermione knew that she had to get dress and find Gandalf that morning and talk to him about her dream, before the Dwarves had left Rivendell without either her or the grey wizard. She had hoped out of her bed and gotten dressed; which she was wearing a sky blue tunic with silver threads and design, with darker blue looking trousers underneath and packed the rest of her things within her beaded bag, plus a few clothes that the elves had provided for her and ran out of her room.

Hermione had ran into one of many servants upon her floor and they helped led her to the gathering place; where Gandalf was meeting with Lord Elrond and a few guests that morning. When she had reached the meeting area; she had found another looking wizard there, but dressed all in white and was told that his name was Saruman the white. Who Hermione had a dark feeling coming from that wizard, even though he wore white; she was starting to think that not all good people wore white and not all bad people wore black.

Then she glanced over to a very beautiful looking lady of the elves; who looked like a goddess from where Hermione was standing, which Hermione was told that the lady's name was Lady Galadriel. Who was also known as the Lady of the Wood or even few have called her the Lady of the Light.

Hermione glanced around and also saw Severus; as he was flouting within his mirror, glancing at Saruman of which she was glad to see that her old professor was not believing anything that the white wizard was telling the group, about Middle Earth being safe.

As Saruman was lecturing Gandalf for his misconduct of following the Dwarves; she found herself watching Lady Galadriel and Lord Elrond glancing at each other, as if saying that neither one of them believes any of Saruman's tall tell stories of a save world. Then she saw movement from her old Headmaster, as he was working about bringing something from underneath the table; which he brought out something long, wrapped in something like leather. The bounded item was laid upon the table for all to see.

Lord Elrond was about to unwrapped the item, when Gandalf said, "It's from the Old Fortress."

The Elf Lord had posed for a moment and then unraveled the leather and saw a long sword, as he breathed out, "Morgul-blade from the Witch-King of Angmar? How did you come by this sword?"

"Radagast the Brown had found this at the Old Forest; when a necromancer was trying to DE head him," stated Gandalf.

Saruman with fire within his eyes growled out, "Radagast wouldn't know a necromancer from a man in shadow! His head his full of mushrooms and wouldn't know what is going on in the world around him."

At that moment a servant elf came into the meeting area and stated, "Lord Elrond, the Dwarves are gone."

Saruman growled; as he gotten up from his seat, "You better go after them Gandalf and stop them from reaching their mission or the entire world will end in fire for nothing. As for the witch-king; his is buried within the earth, where no light will ever reach his tomb. This business has gone far enough!" Then the white wizard left the area in a whirl wind of robes, more so than Professor Snape had ever done in Hogwarts.

Lord Elrond sighed, "I too must go and prepare my people for a possibility of war, shall I?" Then he too, was gone.

Hermione sighed; she really had no idea what truly was going on in Middle Earth, but she knew that the world was going in Hell's Fire soon because of her dream about a lose dragon. She then glanced up and saw Lady Galadriel leaning into Gandalf, whispering in a lover's embrace before she too was gone, as if a puff of wind had taken her away.

Gandalf; after a moment, looked over to Hermione, "Let's go find those Dwarves, shall we."

"Are we truly going to stop them from reaching the Lonely Mountain?"

"No my dear; why should I do that, when we have evil to stop from taking over Middle Earth," stated the grey wizard.

Hermione smiled, "I still glad to see that you have not allowed other to control you, Gandalf; for it would be truly heart breaking to find out that you would allow someone like Saruman to persuade you otherwise?"

The old wizard smiled, "I don't need his permission to do what I know is right; besides, I have the Lady of the Wood's blessing to do what needs to be done."

Severus then had piped up, "Grand; we have another long journey a head of us."

"What do you see in the near future, Severus?"

"I see ugly goblins for the Dwarves."

"Oh dear, then we must get the move on, for I fear that we won't make it in time to save our friends."

Hermione then followed Gandalf out of the peaceful village of Rivendell, with Severus following in his flouting mirror; as they traveled through the rocky paths, to head towards the mountain passes out of the Elven territory.