The Boy Who Lived and the Hobbit. (A Harry Potter/Hobbit Crossover.)

Chapter 21: The Aftermath.

Smaug may have fallen for good, but the danger was far from over. For another threat was coming. The threat that was coming from Dol Guldur. And Gandalf who was hanging in his cage. He had not contact with anyone else after he sent Radagast off. Until he heard a voice in his head.

"You are not alone, Mithrandir..." Gandalf looked up with a start to wonder where that voice came from and he recognized it as the voice of Galadriel. "... Ae boe i le eliathon, im tulithon." (not translated onscreen: If you should ever need my help, I will come.)"

It was early morning now on the banks of the Lake that was filled with Lake Town refugees and wreckage heading for shore. With people screaming and crying, as well as burnt objects. And also dead bodies washing up on the shore. And also Alfrid. "Will somebody help me? HELP!" He clambered over a dead body, only to realize that the person was still alive. And then Alfrid rolled over him into the water.

"HELP!" He shouted again.

Tauriel, Sigrid, and Tilda walked forward with Ginny as they looked for Bard, Neville, and Ron. 

"DA!" Both girls screamed.

"Ron! Neville!" Ginny yelled. She then looked at Bard's Daughters. 

"I'm sure they're around here. Let's keep looking." Tauriel assured the two.

"WHY ME?!" Alfrid yelled out to the sky while there was screaming and crying all about, as people pulled the bodies of their loved ones out of the water onto the shore. 

It was also at that moment that the Dwarves, Oin, Bofur and Fili grabbed a boat and began to push it out into the water. Ginny saw them. "We can't just leave! Ron and Neville are still out here!" 

"We have no choice. We have to get to the Lonely Mountain to see if Thorin and the others survived." Fili sighed. But Ginny did not get on the boat. 

"I'm not leaving without my brother." She said sternly. She also took the boat of the water with Wingardium Leviosa and put it onto the banks. "And you're not going anywhere in that either until we find Ron and Neville." And she gave a glare to the Dwarves too.

Fili sighed again. Ron and Neville wouldn't just ditch them either. "Alright. We'll find them first."

"Just when I thought for a second that you wouldn't make it, Ginny." Ron commented coming up behind Ginny with Neville by his side. 

Ginny turned to see Ron and Neville. "Ron! Neville! Oh thank Merlin you're okay!" She ran over to embrace them. 

"Found them." Bofur said. "Wow, we're good."

"Thank Merlin we're okay? Thank Merlin that you're in one piece." Ron replied. "Mum would kill me if anything happened to you. How's the arm?" He asked.

"Getting stronger." Ginny answered. She looked over at the refugees. "But all these-" She didn't finish her words. "We never should've gone after that Dragon. If it wasn't for-"

"Hey, let's not worry about that right now." Ron said comforting Ginny. "We can't save them all, Ginny. I'm sorry, but we can't." And the two turned to see the people of Lake Town start to approach Neville. And for a split second. The Dwarves and the Weasleys were all worried they would tear poor Neville to shreds. But instead they started surrounding Neville and almost bowing to him and touching his arms.

"You saved us, Mr. Longbottom. Thank you." One said. 

Neville just nodded. "Where's Bard?" He asked.

"I thought he was with you." Ginny replied.

"No." Ron shook his head. "We got separated after Smaug fell down into the water."