Harry Potter and the One Ring of Power
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Harry Potter and the One Ring of Power By Technomad 1 Table of Contents Harry Potter and the One Ring of Power ................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1 -- An Unwelcome Visitor ...................................................................................... 3 Chapter 2 - Hogwarts to Rivendell....................................................................................... 10 Chapter 3 --- Meetings at Rivendell..................................................................................... 17 Chapter 4 -- -‘Tis Evil In The Wild To Fare........................................................................ 25 Chapter 5 -- -Into the Doors of Durin .................................................................................. 34 Chapter 6 - In the Halls of the Mountain King .................................................................... 45 Chapter 7---The Lady in the Wood...................................................................................... 52 Chapter 8---The Lady and the Mirror .................................................................................. 60 Chapter 9---On the Anduin River......................................................................................... 68 Chapter 10---Farewell to the Fellowship ............................................................................. 75 Chapter 11- - What Is Courage Now?.................................................................................. 82 Chapter 12 --Candlelight in Marshlands .............................................................................. 92 Chapter 13—To the Gates of Mordor ................................................................................ 100 Chapter 14---On the Borderlands of Mordor ..................................................................... 107 Chapter 15---The Battle With the Southrons ..................................................................... 116 Chapter 16 .......................................................................................................................... 127 Chapter 17---Nasty Bony Fish ........................................................................................... 134 Chapter 18 .......................................................................................................................... 142 Chapter 19 -- Up the Dark Staircase .................................................................................. 149 Chapter 20 .......................................................................................................................... 160 Chapter 21 -- Where the Shadows Lie ............................................................................... 168 Chapter 22 -- The Dark Night of the Soul.......................................................................... 176 Chapter 23 -- Provisions and Premonitions........................................................................ 183 Chapter 24 -- Run Rabbits Run.......................................................................................... 190 Chapter 25 -- Death-March in Gorgoroth .......................................................................... 198 Chapter 26 -- Endgame in the Shadows............................................................................. 207 Chapter 27 -- The Doom That Came To Orodruin............................................................. 215 Chapter 28 -- The Flight into Light.................................................................................... 226 Chapter 29 -- Many Farewells............................................................................................ 235 Epilogue ............................................................................................................................. 243 2 Chapter 1 -- An Unwelcome Visitor Hogwarts Castle, Great Britain Albus Dumbledore stared in horror at the small leaden box that had been put on his desk. He glanced up at the Ministry wizards. "Are you sure about this?" he asked quietly. Soberly, the wizards nodded. "Quite sure, Professor Dumbledore. The four---hobbits, are they called? The four hobbits appeared quite suddenly, in Knockturn Alley, unconscious. Several wizards Apparated in to grab them, but we had undercover Aurors there on duty, and they managed to drive off the others and bring the hobbits to safety." "Only to find that they're hopelessly catatonic, and unlikely to recover in any reasonable time," murmured Dumbledore. He had visited St. Mungo's Hospital before, and although the mental wards there were quite comfortable, he still had unpleasant memories of the place. The sadness seemed to have sunk into the very stones of the walls, very much like Azkaban. The thought of four such harmless, friendly people immured there, locked in the prisons of their own minds, was horrible. "Have you penetrated the barrier to find where it came from yet, sir?" asked one of the younger Aurors, a coldly beautiful woman with a Welsh lilt to her voice. "We know it's highly magical, and literally emenates Dark energies of a sort not seen here before. The MoM is all agog over the chance to study it." "I know where it came from," Dumbledore murmured. Opening the box, he chucked the contents into the blazing fire in the hearth, heedless of the cries of the wizards. Several of them took out their wands, but Dumbledore stopped them with a gesture. "Wait a few minutes and you'll see what this is all about." Muttering rebelliously, the wizards subsided, staring into the flames intently. After about five minutes, Dumbledore pointed his wand into the fire, murmuring "Accio Anulus," and something small and golden leaped toward him. Stepping nimbly forward, surprisingly adroit for someone of his years, he caught the glittering thing in the leaden box. He looked into the box, nodded to himself, and held it out for the Aurors to see inside. Inside, resting on cushions marked with arcane symbols, lay a golden ring. Glistening against its background, it did not seem to give off any heat, despite having been in the hottest part of a fire for five minutes. Tiny glowing letters could be seen on the side. "As you can see, it took no harm at all from my fire, although it's easily hot enough to melt most jewelry. The letters you see are not in any script used in our world, but I know what they say. They are proof that what we have here is easily the most dangerous magical artifact ever made---one that could make Voldemort powerful enough to seize power entirely on his own, even with all his Death Eaters, the dementors, the hags, the giants and his other allies ranged on our side against him." 3 The Aurors gasped, both at hearing the Dark Lord's name said aloud and at what Dumbledore had said. Since regaining his body, several months previously, the Dark Lord had been on a rampage, as though he had a quota of atrocities to fill and was over a decade behind. Attacks on wizards had become almost routine, and the Aurors were stretched to their limits trying just to keep up with the Death Eaters, succoring their victims and performing hasty Memory Charms to ensure that the existence of wizards did not become generally known. Even with the best the Ministry of Magic could do, the Muggle newspapers were in hysterics, and Questions in Parliament were being asked about what could be done about this apparent upsurge of terrorism. "Where did it come from?" Several of the Aurors asked it, looking at the golden ring in its ensorcelled box as though it were a gun pointed at them. "How did it get here and why is it so powerful?" "It comes from one of the other worlds---continua, time-lines, call them what you will---that go to make up our universe. You know, although the general wizarding community does not, that we here are in only one of many possible time-lines. In some continua, Tom Riddle died young, or never turned evil. In others, he may already be ruling the world openly, oppressing wizard and Muggle alike." Dumbledore paused for a moment, taking a sip of his tea. "The other world from which this came is called ‘Arda,' and is more magical, in general, than ours is, although magic works differently there in some ways. Broomsticks don't fly there, just for starters, so Quidditch is right straight out." "How do we know this?" asked the Welsh Auror. She brushed a lock of hair back out of her eyes as she stared at the ring. Dumbledore shrugged. "Nicholas Flamel's researches in search of the Philosopher's Stone took him many places, and into many worlds. So far, although Voldemort can reach into other worlds and pull things to him---as, for example, this object---he cannot travel there himself." Dumbledore shook his head. "Which, I must say, is very fortunate. Some of these worlds contain---or are ruled by--- people who would be delighted to help Voldemort take over this world, in return for his help on their own projects. Others would happily send him such help as he needed, only to turn on him and betray him for the chance to rule here as well as in their own home worlds." "So, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named can reach into other worlds and bring things from them here. What has that to do with this? Is this ring somehow useful?" Mad-Eye Moody shuddered at this question, and turned both his magical and normal eyes on the questioner, one of the younger Aurors who had come to the Department after the Voldemort years. "This ring, Auror Cornelius, is one of the most powerful magical artifacts in any