Albus Dumbledore: Miss Granger...
Hermione Granger: *stand up straight*
Ron Weasley: <Works on taping wand back together>
Ron Weasley: :Reparus!
Ron Weasley: *sigh*
Hermione Granger: *gives a sideways glance at Ron*
Harry Potter: *rolls eyes*
Ron Weasley: <Wand starts growing leaves>
Ron Weasley: 0_0
Harry Potter: lol
Albus Dumbledore: Reparo. Goodness.
Harry Potter: alright, mate!
Harry Potter: what did you do this time?
Ron Weasley: Well I sat on it.
Harry Potter: haha!
Ron Weasley: It was in my pocket
Harry Potter: that's great, mate
Hermione Granger: *mutters things about being more careful*
----meanwhile----
Gandalf: Oooh, Elrond, something is...wrong
*Elrond: *looks at Mithrandir*
Gandalf: did you not feel the momentary dizziness?
Elrond: Aye, I saw the sky change color, did you notice?
Gandalf: Yes, I did.
Gandalf: *comes out of trees* Well, at least we are almost hom....

Ron Weasley: :Repairo
Albus Dumbledore: *is walking across the grounds and sees the three children*
Harry Potter: dont think that works, mate
Hermione Granger: Ron, you should really be more careful with your wand
Harry Potter: Hi professor
Ron Weasley: Repairus!
Ron Weasley: OK Hermione, whats the word?
Hermione Granger: *notices the Professor*
Hermione Granger: *sigh*
Ron Weasley: Good afternoon Professor Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore: It is Reparo, Mr. Weasley, and Miss Granger is quite correct
Ron Weasley: <Sees 2 people come from the trees>
Gandalf: This is...not Imladris.
Harry Potter: *looks where Ron is looking*
Ron Weasley: Um Guys? <Stepping backward>
*Elrond: What have we walked into?
Hermione Granger: *looks also*
Harry Potter: *gets out his wand*
Ron Weasley: Is that.......
Hermione Granger: I do not believe those are students
Harry Potter: might be Voldemort
Gandalf: I do not know precisely what has happened, Elrond
Ron Weasley: <Holds broken wand>
Elrond: *looks back and sees a different landscape*
Ron Weasley: !REPARO!
Albus Dumbledore: When I was a lad, I recall my brother sitting on his wand, which started a rather unfortunate incide-- ah. You do not look as though you expected being here
Hermione Granger: Maybe we should see who they are first
Gandalf: Perhaps this is some evil of Sauron?
Elrond: I wonder... is this Sauron's doing?
Elrond: >.>
Gandalf: <.<
Gandalf: Children of Men...
Harry Potter: how did they get inside Hogwart's grounds?
Albus Dumbledore: *steps forwards*
Hermione Granger: That was what I was wondering
Ron Weasley: oops
Gandalf: ...and another wizard...but not of my acquaintance...
Hermione Granger: from what i have read they shouldn't have been able to
Elrond: hmm, this is highly unusual
Ron Weasley: <Wand repairs itself>
Ron Weasley: :Yess!
Harry Potter: sure is
Gandalf: Greetings
Albus Dumbledore: *folds arms, and tilts head, regarding the two strangers thoughtfully*
Hermione Granger: *follows slowly behind Dumbledore*
Gandalf: Do you serve the Dark Lord, or Iluvatar?
Harry Potter: we dont serve no Dark Lord!
Ron Weasley: :Dark Lord?
Ron Weasley: Does he mean.....
Gandalf: Sauron, of course
Harry Potter: are you, Death Eaters?
Hermione Granger: *looks at Ron*
Ron Weasley: You know who?
Albus Dumbledore: *laughs softly* I serve none and I serve many, but certainly not Voldemort. Not the Dark Lord
Hermione Granger: *shrugs*
Gandalf: On the contrary, young one
Elrond: *raises an eyebrow* What are you speaking about?
Gandalf: >.> who is this...Voldemort?
Albus Dumbledore: By the way, Harry, two points from Gryffindor, do remember your manners.
Hermione Granger: They must have a different name for him, maybe it is a code name
Harry Potter: *gasps*
Harry Potter: do you call him, Master?
Gandalf: Indeed not!
Harry Potter: how could you not know of Voldemort, unless you are a muggle?
Elrond: A muggle?
Albus Dumbledore: You are not of this place. Different magic surrounds you. How very odd.
Hermione Granger: *notices the mans ears behind the wizard*
Gandalf: Lord Elrond Peredhil and I have fought the Dark Lord through all the Ages of Arda
Elrond: and... we thought we were finished!
Harry Potter: you have fought Voldemort?
Ron Weasley: <Stares at wand>
Gandalf: We do not know of this Voldemort of whom you speak
Hermione Granger: I have heard of no Lord Elrond...is he from the East?
Gandalf: The Dark Lord of Mordor is Sauron
Ron Weasley: Mordor?
Harry Potter: is he a servant of Voldemort?
Gandalf: He was once a servant of the dark Vala, Morgoth
Elrond: nay, from the west young one
Gandalf: Until the rest of the Valar fought Morgoth and took him captive
Hermione Granger: I do not know, but what I want to know is why this "Lord" Elrond has such fine, pointy ears
Albus Dumbledore: *sighs* And before Voldemort was Grindewald, and many more before him, and I am certain, many after Voldemort. Evil always finds a shape...
Gandalf: *laughs* Because he is Half-Elven, child
Gandalf: It does indeed, my friend.
Hermione Granger: Half-Elven? What in the world is that?!
Ron Weasley: I remember seeing ears of that sort in storybooks
Albus Dumbledore: Obviously, him, Miss Granger.
Harry Potter: is this black magic?
Gandalf: But I should introduce myself and my companion
Elrond: *smiles at the young lady*
Hermione Granger: I have never heard anything about half elven in my studies
Elrond: there are many mysteries in the world
Albus Dumbledore: *eyes Hermione with a weary, amused patience*
Harry Potter: where do you come from, Sirs?
Elrond: *looks around*
Gandalf: As I have already said, this is Lord Elrond Peredhil, he who could have claimed the High Throne of the Eldar
Elrond: this place is a mystery to me
Gandalf: and I...I am known by many names.
Albus Dumbledore: *nods his head, a half-bow.
Elrond: this my friends, is my companion
Hermione Granger: *mutters under breath..I hope Voldemort isn't one of them*
Elrond: of many ages I might add
Gandalf: Mithrandir am I known to the Elves; Olorin was I, in my youth in the West, but most call me simply Gandalf
Harry Potter: how did you get on Hogwart's grounds?
Albus Dumbledore: *coughs softly*
Gandalf: We were returning to Elrond's home of Rivendell, when suddenly....
*Elrond: we must have stepped wrongly
Hermione Granger: Rivendell? were is this Rivendell?
Gandalf: we seem to have passed through an odd kind of...perhaps doorway, Elrond?
Albus Dumbledore: These three... are the ever-curious Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley, and Harry Potter.
Ron Weasley: <Notices object in Gandalf's hand>
Gandalf: Well, it SHOULD have been...here.
Gandalf: Greetings, young ones
Harry Potter: what is that, that you hold Sir?
Ron Weasley: Greetings sir
Elrond: *bows*
Elrond: it is good to make your acquaintance
Hermione Granger: *gives a small curtsie*
Gandalf: This? *holds up staff*
Ron Weasley: <Puts Wand away>
Gandalf: This is my wizard's staff
Gandalf: You might say it is the mark of my office
Albus Dumbledore: And I... am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Head of the Wizengemot.
Harry Potter: are you a true wizard?
Ron Weasley: It looks like a branch, when I first saw you, I thought it was a broomstick
Elrond: witchcraft?
Harry Potter: and I am Harry Potter
Ron Weasley: Ron uh... Weasley
Gandalf: Pleased to meet you, Headmaster
Albus Dumbledore: Yes, Harry. I *did* introduce you* <chuckles softly>
Harry Potter: lol did you forget your name, Ron?
Harry Potter: oh, I'm sorry Sir
Ron Weasley: Well, I AM nervous right now
Elrond: do not be afraid
Harry Potter: I was payin too much attention to his staff
Hermione Granger: *looks at Ron*
Elrond: there is no need to be nervous
Ron Weasley: <Feels wand growing>
Albus Dumbledore: Afraid? Merlin's beard, afraid of what?
Gandalf: Nay, we are only to be feared by the servants of the Dark Lord
Elrond: your young charges seem to be afraid of what they cannot understand
Elrond: I admit, I cannot understand it myself
Elrond: but here we are
Gandalf: As to the young one who asked if I were a true wizard, I am, child, for I am Maiar
Harry Potter: I don't fear the unknown
Albus Dumbledore: Better that than afraid of the questions I would ask about wandering so near the forest, eh?
Hermione Granger: I'm not afraid! but this does not make any sense...In all the books I have read, which have been many, I have never heard of the things you say and call
Ron Weasley: Well, I was taken aback by a .......
Ron Weasley: :Tries to recall the name of the creature
Hermione Granger: I will have to do some more research in the library
Albus Dumbledore: <looks stern> Miss Granger...
Albus Dumbledore: *laughs again*
Hermione Granger: *blushes slightly*
Hermione Granger: sorry sir
Elrond: Do you know of Arda?
Gandalf: so...where are we, precisely?
Hermione Granger: is it a person?
Albus Dumbledore: Ah. Well... you are at Hogwarts.
Gandalf: And is Hogwarts this school of which you spoke?
Albus Dumbledore: As for precisely, I fear I am not at liberty to divulge
Elrond: Arda is what we breathe, what we step upon, where we live.
Hermione Granger: oh, you mean the Earth
Gandalf: ah, that is understandable, for we do not openly reveal the whereabouts of Rivendell, either *laughs*
Gandalf: Yes, yes, children, Middle-earth
Gandalf: *beams*
Albus Dumbledore: *looks about, sighs. Conjures up six squashy floral chairs, a large table, a screen of bushes, and a tray of goodies.* Do sit.
Hermione Granger: in the Earth or..do you mean in the exact middle?
Gandalf: ah, thank you very kindly, Dumbledore.
Albus Dumbledore: Middle-Earth was once a term used for the world, Hermione
Gandalf: :sits
Hermione Granger: oh...
Elrond: *smiles* You must also be Maiar Mr. uh... Dumbledore
Hermione Granger: *sits down on one side of Dumbledore*
Ron Weasley: <Waits til Elders are seated, then sits>
Elrond: *sits*
*Elrond: *looks surprised at the comfortable chair*
Gandalf: :takes a cup of tea and a crumpet and begins to eat*
Gandalf: Most excellent fare, my dear Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore: relaxes in a chair. "I am not sure what you mean by Maiar. But I assure you I am human, and as mortal as any."
Gandalf: Indeed.
Elrond: Atani? mortal?
Gandalf: Elrond, perhaps he is a descendant of Arwen?
Albus Dumbledore: Indeed. Fizzing Whizzbee?
Ron Weasley: You are certainly not Muggles thats for sure
Gandalf: Oh, that sounds interesting, yes, I believe I will have one, thank you
Ron Weasley: *Watches Dumbledore conjure the whizzbee*
Elrond: *looks for resemblance of Arwen in the faces of the children*
Albus Dumbledore: *passes out butterbeer*
Hermione Granger: I under stand what the wizard is, but half-elven..what is that exactly?
Gandalf: Elrond has a long and distinguished history, my dear Miss Granger
Elrond: well... it is Elven and Atani of course, speaking strictly of the bloodlines
Hermione Granger: *thinks*
Elrond: and a small portion of Maiar for me as well
Ron Weasley: I believe I need to check something in the library
Hermione Granger: you?!
Elrond: Library? They have a library!
Gandalf: He is immortal, with ancestry of all the Elven races, as well as human and Maiar
Hermione Granger: library?
Albus Dumbledore: The... library, Mr. Weasley?
Ron Weasley: I want to see if I can find some mention of all thats happening
Elrond: I would enjoy seeing your library
Ron Weasley: Yes, in the school....
Gandalf: As would I
Hermione Granger: *eyes Ron*
Albus Dumbledore: *regards the strangers thoughtfully*
Ron Weasley: <Conjures up a small fire>
Ron Weasley: <Steps in it>
Ron Weasley: !Burrow!
Hermione Granger: what will the other students think?
Ron Weasley: <Vanishes in a puff of green smoke>
Ron Weasley has changed name to Ron is BRB
Albus Dumbledore: I will take you on a tour later...
Hermione Granger: Ron is going to get hurt using that stuff some day
Albus Dumbledore: Indeed
Gandalf: so, Miss Granger, does that explain your question regarding Elrond's half-Elf status?
Hermione Granger: for now, i may have more questions later
Elrond: also Miss Granger, Elves have pointed ears and different eyes if you will notice
Gandalf: Indeed. *smiles*
Hermione Granger: are there many elves in Middle Earth?
Albus Dumbledore: As they do here, though I think you will find little else in common
Gandalf: There are, although less than formerly
Hermione Granger: have some of them passed away?
Elrond: Elves are leaving to make room for the 2nd born
Hermione Granger: the 2nd born?
Albus Dumbledore: theses are... well... what we call elves... though I do not think they are the same...
Albus Dumbledore: Tolly! Tolly! *little House Elf appears*
Hermione Granger: now that i think about it..he IS tall for an elf
Albus Dumbledore: This... is an elf
Hermione Granger: *nods*
Gandalf: <.<
Elrond: an elf?
Hermione Granger: a House Elf
*Elrond: that is... a strange one
Gandalf: *quietly* That is an elf?
Harry Potter: are you related to Dobby?
Gandalf: who is Dobby?
Albus Dumbledore: *pats the elf kindly on the head and sends him off* They are all a bit strange... yes
Harry Potter: Dobby is a House elf
Gandalf: For I see that this appears to be...*glances around*
Gandalf: Elrond!
Gandalf: Look at this! The structures about us!
Elrond: *looks at Mithrandir then to where he is looking*
Gandalf: Do you recognize them?
Elrond: *smooths away leaves*
Gandalf: Is this not your own gazebo??
Elrond: Mithrandir, are you thinking that we ARE in Imladris?
Gandalf: I...believe so, Elrond
Elrond: then let us check further
Elrond: *walks over to column of stone*
Elrond: I placed the mortar here myself
Albus Dumbledore: *watches Elrond, his eyes narrowing*
Elrond: what do you know of these grounds Mr. Dumbledore?
Albus Dumbledore: The castle is over a thousand years old, raised by the four founders of the school. Some of the structures on the grounds... are far older.
Elrond: there should be a river down that expanse of grass
Hermione Granger: there is a lake!
Hermione Granger: it has a big octopus squid thing in it
Albus Dumbledore: There... is a lake. No river.
Elrond: no river?
Gandalf: If this is the far distant future, elrond, then landforms may have indeed changed
Elrond: Eru, no Bruinen!
Hermione Granger: bruinen?
Elrond: yes the river
Hermione Granger: I have never heard of one with that name
Elrond: what feeds the lake if not a river?
Hermione Granger: it is a special lake
Albus Dumbledore: Hrmmm... hrmmm....
Elrond: so if I make so bold as to speak, you teach children the invisible powers?
Elrond: *shakes head and looks at Mithrandir*
Gandalf: What, mellon?
Albus Dumbledore: Oh no, no, goodness no. Not until sixth or seventh year. Simply wouldn't do to have invisible students
Hermione Granger: I would love to learn however
Gandalf: *chuckles* I believe he refers to spells and magic, Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore: ah
Gandalf: Hidden arts
Elrond: aye, that I do
Albus Dumbledore: Well... yes. That is what we do at Hogwarts.
Albus Dumbledore: Harry, wand out.
Elrond: *grins*
Harry Potter: *takes out his wand*
Hermione Granger: *takes out wand just for fun*
Elrond: Mr. Dumbledore, I used to live here, many... many years ago
Albus Dumbledore: *points to the empty butterbeer bottle* Do turn that into a squirrel for the gentlemen, will you, Harry?
Hermione Granger: levioso! *lifts the table with everything on it up*
Harry Potter: *forgot the words for that spell*
Hermione Granger: *sigh*
Albus Dumbledore: Miss Granger, I do not recall your name being Harry Potter.
Hermione Granger: sorry sir
Elrond: *leans back in chair watching with amusement*
Albus Dumbledore: But... help Harry with the squirrel, eh?
Hermione Granger: *sigh*
Harry Potter: uh transformo?
Hermione Granger: no no hang on
Harry Potter: what happen to my best mate?
Albus Dumbledore: The emphasis, you see, being on /teaching/
Elrond: your magic makes me... uncomfortable
Elrond: for it seems frivilous
Elrond: and not to any ends or purposes
Albus Dumbledore: *laughs softly*
Albus Dumbledore: If all things were done for an end and a purpose and serious means, what a dreary world this would be.
Elrond: you may be right
Elrond: however
Elrond: use of these powers seems to always go hand in hand with those who want power
Harry Potter: um whats with the dancin bannana?
Elrond: you must have used the wrong spell Mr. Potter
Ron Weasley: <Stumbles through the underbrush>
Elrond: it was supposed to be a squirrel
Harry Potter: oh
Harry Potter: heh
Ron Weasley: I have returned!
Harry Potter: welcome back mate
Ron Weasley: Thank you Harry
Albus Dumbledore: *laughs again* Power. There are always those who want power. Frivolity is not the hallmark of those who want power, my dear sir Elrond
Albus Dumbledore: But those who *have* power, and have left behind all desire for it.
Ron Weasley: <Sits down again>
Gandalf: Indeed. *smiles* Why else do you think I so enjoy my own fireworks, Elrond?
Ron Weasley: Fireworks? :)
Ron Weasley: Cool!
Elrond: You also... smoke
Gandalf: heh, that I do.
Gandalf: *pulls out pipe and fills with pipeweed*
Elrond: and seem to have great delight in creating ships
Albus Dumbledore: *flicks his wand at a plate of bonbons, and watches as they turn into butterflies and dance in the air around their heads*
Gandalf: !Naur!
Gandalf: *pipe lights*
Ron Weasley: <Flicks wand at butterfly around my head, and accidentally turns it into a brick>
Ron Weasley: Ow!
Gandalf: *guffaws*
Elrond: *laughs then puts hand over mouth*
Albus Dumbledore: *flicks out Put-Outer and un-lights Gandalf's pipe. Eyes falling butterbrick*
Gandalf: *puffs calmly on pipe*
Ron Weasley: Im a 4th year at this school too. LOL
Elrond: are you well Mr. Weasley?
Gandalf: *waves hand over pipe and it relights*
Ron Weasley: I've never been better Sir, thank you.
Albus Dumbledore: *flicks Put-Outer. Eyes twinkle*
Elrond: I had some concern over that brick
Ron Weasley: I have had some trouble with a few spells.
Gandalf: Do you have a problem with smoking out of doors, Headmaster?
Albus Dumbledore: *chuckles* No.
Hermione Granger: orchideous *flowers pop out from the wand purposefully*
Gandalf: Very well. *pipe relights*
Ron Weasley: Ooooh I like that one!
Hermione Granger: lol
Ron Weasley: Orchideous *Stinkweed pops out of wand*
Ron Weasley: *SIGHHHH*
Hermione Granger: *sigh*
Elrond: *winks* you will do better with practice I am sure Mr. Weasley
Ron Weasley: I'm never buying a discount wand again
Gandalf: I believe we have established, my dear Elrond, that we are, indeed, in Rivendell...although perhaps not exactly when we intended to arrive...
Hermione Granger: lumos! *the end of the wand lights up*
Albus Dumbledore: *leans back, seeming to doze. Mutters*
Elrond: It seems we have passed well into the future
Ron Weasley: Lumos! *Flame shoots out of wand setting the end of Gandalf's cane alight*
Ron Weasley: ACK!
Ron Weasley: Im sorry!
Gandalf: indeed
Elrond: *puts out cane for Mithrandir*
Gandalf: Thank you, old friend.
Ron Weasley: I know I can get ONE spell right.
Albus Dumbledore: Three... rings... dwarf lords.... dark throne... yes, yes... in the darkness bind them... Merlin's beard... Aguamenti! *jet of water douses staff-fire*
Elrond: it would not do to have your staff blackened
Ron Weasley: Soon as I remember what it is
Elrond: <.<
Harry Potter: lumos!
Gandalf: !penio
Gandalf: *top of staff returns to normal*
Elrond: will we have fireworks then?
Elrond: I hope you children do not smoke!
Gandalf: <.<
Albus Dumbledore: Only if they have taken Madame Pomfrey's Pepperup Potion
Hermione Granger: *notices her tea is cold* relashio! *sticks the end of the wand in her tea and the tea heats up*
Gandalf: :overhears Dumbledore's earlier mutterings, and stares at him through the cloud of pipeweed smoke, but says nothing
Elrond: *waves hand to send away smoke and glares at Gandalf*
Gandalf: !gwaew
Hermione Granger: reparo! *fixes the chared end of Gandalfs staff*
Elrond: You must pay attention young Mr. Potter
Gandalf: *a gentle wind springs up and wafts the pipeweed smoke away, off over the forest*
Albus Dumbledore: *laughs*
Elrond: or your instructor will have to keep you over for additional lessons *grins*
Albus Dumbledore: Or Professor Snape will have you in detentions again...
Gandalf: *smiles as Hermione repairs his already repaired staff*
Hermione Granger: *points wand at Ron* rictusempra! *ron begins to laugh uncontrollably*
Ron Weasley: I think the entire Gryffendore house would love to see fireworks
Ron Weasley: <Laughing>
Gandalf: Dumbledore, I believe you have some recollection of our enemy?
Ron Weasley: <continues giggling>
Gandalf: headmaster?
Hermione Granger: *looks innocent*
Harry Potter: *stops Ron's laughin with his wand*
Albus Dumbledore: *points wand at Ron* Finite Incantatum.
Ron Weasley: <Looks around and returns to seat>
Albus Dumbledore: "Rings. Something about Rivendell and rings... and ships...
Gandalf: and how, Dumbledore, do you know about rings?
Gandalf: and WHAT do you know of rings?
Elrond: :more rings?
Gandalf: *glances meaningfully at Elrond*
Elrond: *Eru NO!
Hermione Granger: Harry, you are not supposed to fly, not with out permission
Harry Potter: oh
Elrond: fly?
Elrond: you have eagles?
Hermione Granger: Eagles?
Hermione Granger: eagles are too small
Harry Potter: we fly on brooms!
Hermione Granger: we use brooms
Gandalf: Eagles are too small??
Hermione Granger: yes
Elrond: :brooms?
Hermione Granger: brooms
Elrond: :Iluvatar save us! BROOMS
Hermione Granger: sir? may i go get a broom from the school and show them?
Gandalf: so, Headmaster, you have yet to answer my question
Ron Weasley: <Continues playing with wand>
*Elrond: Could I see your wand young Mr. Weasley?
Ron Weasley: <Creating little smoke trails>
*Elrond: I have never seen one before
Albus Dumbledore: Or use a summoning charm, Miss Granger. *laughs*
Hermione Granger: ok
Ron Weasley: <Hands wand to Elrond>
Hermione Granger: *summons the broom*
Ron Weasley: Be careful, I dont think its quite right. hehe
Albus Dumbledore: *looks at Gandalf* It is from an old, old book.
Elrond: *looks at strange stick*
Gandalf: *whispers* Be careful, Elrond
Gandalf: Indeed?
Gandalf: Describe this book, please?
Hermione Granger: *shows Gandalf the broom*
*Elrond: *holds wand in both hands* It seems to have power within
Gandalf: Did it have a red cover, perchance?
Albus Dumbledore: It was found by Godric Gryffindor, and preserved. But Muggles have even found copies, I seem to recall.
Gandalf: Really? How interesting.
Albus Dumbledore: Yes, red. A red book, bound well...
Gandalf: Elrond, it seems they have found Bilbo's and Frodo's old history of the Ring.
Elrond: *takes small silver cap off one end of wand and moves it to other end*
Elrond: *looks at Mithrandir, eyebrows going up*
Ron Weasley: <Watches Elrond>
Gandalf: In that case, you will know ourselves, and our friends
Elrond: *feels wand, power is concentrated now*
Elrond: try this now Mr. Weasley *hands wand back*
Ron Weasley: <Eyes widen slightly> <Takes wand>
Harry Potter: let us all join together to defeat the Dark Lords
Hermione Granger: now now Harry...
Harry Potter: can you take us to your place?
Albus Dumbledore: Harry, do sit down and have a Chocolate Frog.
Ron Weasley: Illuminus! *Wand glows brightly*
Harry Potter: *takes a frog*
Ron Weasley: YAY!
Ron Weasley: It works!!
Ron Weasley: I had it backwards all this time!
Elrond: aye it seems so
Elrond: I could feel it
Hermione Granger: feel it? how?
Elrond: energy within wanting to get out, but mixed up
Ron Weasley: Probably my brothers
Hermione Granger: interresting
Ron Weasley: They're always laying about fake wands
Ron Weasley: And this Ton Tongue Toffee of theirs. <Giggles>
Gandalf: :glances at the food
*Elrond: you come to know us through this book Professore Dumbledore?
Gandalf: :oh dear
Harry Potter: lol Ron
Harry Potter: did George give you that, Mate?
Hermione Granger: Ron, you shouldn't have given that candy to Harry's cousin
Elrond: but your students have not read it I suppose
Harry Potter: Ron didn't, George and Fred did
Ron Weasley: Greedy bugger couldnt resist
Hermione Granger: well, no matter, you shouldn't give it to people, no matter who they are
Ron Weasley: Made for a good laugh though
Ron Weasley: Would you like one Hermione?
Gandalf: So...
Hermione Granger: especially normal people
Gandalf: I wonder just how FAR in the future we are....
Gandalf: Young Harry, we have already defeated our own Dark Lord
Elrond: far enough for the Bruinen to dry up
Hermione Granger: *glares at Ron*
Albus Dumbledore: Sauron
Gandalf: Yes
Gandalf: we were returning home from the coronation of King Elessar when we found ourselves...here
Albus Dumbledore: His name was Sauron, and he most often appeared as a flaming eye. How melodramatic.
Ron Weasley: <Looks around innocently>
Harry Potter: we need help in defeating our Lord
Gandalf: Only in his latter days, Dumbledore. Elrond fought him in man-form, and lost several friends to his power
Gandalf: Harry, we do not know this new Dark Lord; how can we hope to aid you?
Elrond: how do you recognize your dark lord?
Albus Dumbledore: *thinks a moment, then flicks his wand. A silvery bird hovers for a moment as Dumbledore whispers, then flies off.*
Harry Potter: you will know him!
Ron Weasley: You-Know-Who has never appeared in person here, but his servants do
Ron Weasley: His favorite servant is called Wormtail though
Elrond: we know the end of Arda will be upon us when Melkor is released
Elrond: could this be a servant of Melkor?
Gandalf: it is possible, yes
Albus Dumbledore: Melkor--?
Elrond: *grins*
Harry Potter: lol
Elrond: there for a minute I thought I saw Frodo
Harry Potter: who is frodo?
Elrond: he is the halfling who saved Arda
Hermione Granger: hafling?
Elrond: who defeated Sauron
Hermione Granger: a child?
Gandalf: yes, a hobbit
Harry Potter: what is a halfling?
Elrond: a... a... small human
Elrond: with hairy feet
Elrond: and a love of good food
Gandalf: *chuckles* Indeed
Harry Potter: hmm does that mean Ron is a halfling? he has hairy feet
Harry Potter: and he loves food
Gandalf: VERY hairy feet, and truly great appetites
Elrond: he might be related I suppose
Hermione Granger: but, Ron isn't short
Hermione Granger: halfling sounds like a child to me
Ron Weasley: I'm 6'2!
Hermione Granger: though Ron does act childish at times
Ron Weasley: I'm not short, I go all the way from the ground up to here!
Albus Dumbledore: *shakes his head, and sips at his mug, seeming lost in thought*
Gandalf: Hobbits most certainly are NOT children, Miss Granger
Harry Potter: they're not?
Harry Potter: then what are they?
Elrond: they are small
Hermione Granger: then why do you call them halflings?
Elrond: but they are not children
Gandalf: Although they have the stature of a human child
Harry Potter: are they like garden gnomes?
Gandalf: because they are half the size of a human or elf
Elrond: well, they ARE children initially *grins*
Gandalf: even when full grown
Elrond: but they grow like humans also
Harry Potter: we throw away the gnomes
Gandalf: No, they are not

-------continued next week--------