Chapter 6

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Now all the visiting schools were inside we followed suit and sat down at our house tables tucking into the feast that appeared in front of us which today had many different foreign foods, I was eating a forkful of Mac and cheese since I knew I liked it when my mouth dropped open at the sight i saw at the front of the hal, I hit George's arm who sat to the right of me without moving my eyes or closing my mouth

"What?" He asked taking hold of my wrist as I wouldn't stop hitting him

I moved my finger on the hand he was holding towards Ludo bagman

"Fred" George said hitting Fred's hand on the table his mouth hung open eyes not moving

"What?" Fred asked taking ahold of George's wrist, George copied my action with pointing at Ludo bagman

We now were in a chain of opened mouths and people holding our wrists, I shook myself out of my trance and ripped my wrist from George's hold taking him out of his trance Fred following

"He can't ignore us now" I said smiling wickedly looking back at bagman

Once the golden plates had been cleared Dumbledore stood up creating tension throughout the whole hall, the twins, Angelina and Lee all leant forward excitement seeping through their veins but I only sunk into my seat further looking away

"The moment has come the Triwizard Tournament is about to start I would like to say a few words of explanation before we bring in the casket just to clarify the procedure which we will be following this year but firstly let me introduce for those of you who don't know Mr Bartemius crouch, head of the department of international magic Co-operation" Dumbledore said

There was a small polite round of applause and Dumbledore carried on "and Mr Ludo bagman, head of the department of magical games and sports"

A louder round of applause rung out throughout the hall for Bagman presumably from his reputation of a beater

"Mr Bagman and Mr Crouch have worked tirelessly over the last few months on the arrangements for the Tournament" Dumbledore continued "and they will be joining myself, Professor Karkaroff and Madame Maxime on the panel which will judge the champions efforts"

Everyone become suddenly still anticipation biting at them and Dumbledore knew this he smiled as he said "the casket then if you please Mr filch"

Filch came around the corner carrying a old wooden box encrusted with jewels

"The instructions for the tasks the champions will face this year have already been examined by Mr Crouch and Mr Bagman" Dumbledore said as filch placed the chest carefully on the table in front of him "and they have made the necessary arrangements for each challenge, there will be three tasks spaced throughout the school year and they will test the champions in many different ways"

The hall filled with silence no one daring to even breathe wanting Dumbledore to carry on so he did "as you know three champions compete in the tournament, one from each of the participating schools they will be marked on how well they perform each of the tournament tasks and the champion with the highest total after task three will win the Triwizard cup, the champions will be chosen by the impartial selector...the goblet of fire"

He took out his wand and tapped the chest three times, the lid slowly rose up gaining anticipation from everyone in the room, Dumbledore reached inside and pulled out a large wooden cup dancing with blue flames at the top, Dumbledore closed the casket and placed the goblet on top of it

"Anybody wishing to submit themselves as champion must write their name and school on a piece of parchment and drop it into the goblet" Dumbledore said "aspiring champions have 24 hours to put their names forward, tomorrow night on Halloween the goblet will return the names of the three it has judged most worthy to represent their schools, the goblet will be placed in the entrance hall tonight where it will be freely accessible to all those wishing to compete.
To ensure that no underage student yields to temptation I will be drawing an age line around the goblet of fire once it had been placed in the entrance hall nobody under the age of 17 will be able to cross the line, finally I wish to impress upon any of you wishing to compete that this tournament is not to be entered lightly. Once a champion has been selected by the goblet of fire he or she is obliged to see the tournament through to the end, the placing of your name in the goblet constitutes a binding magical contract there can be no change of heart once you have become champion please be very sure that you are prepared to play before you drop your name into the goblet, now I think it is time for bed
Goodnight all"

"An age line!" Fred exclaimed his eyes gleam "well that should be fooled by an ageing potion shouldn't it and once your names in that goblet it can't tell wether you're 17 or not"

"But I don't think anyone under 17 has a chance you just haven't learnt enough-" Hermione said

"She's right I mean-" I tried saying

"Speak for yourself you will try to get in won't you Harry" George asked

"George no-" I tried again

"Where is he?" Ron said taking everyone's attention

"Oh fuck this" I mutter storming off going straight to my dorm locking the door and getting into bed

The next morning came along and I got ready finally unlocking my door and leaving to the great hall for breakfast, George knocked on my door earlier but I told him to go ahead as I was still getting ready, I walked through the entrance hall and saw people sitting around the goblet of fire and 2 distinct tall red heads drank some potion and jumped into the circle, my heart dropped when I saw them put their names into the goblet but then all of a sudden they were thrown out of the circle and they grew white beards, my heart felt lighter and a chuckle escaped my lips as Dumbledore came in, I walked towards George and bent down to him offering my hand with a smile, he took it laughing and I walked them both to the hospital wing with Lee as my steps started feeling lighter

Time skip
We walked into the candle lit great hall that was almost full with the goblet of fire sat right in front of Dumbledores chair

"Hope it's Angelina" Fred said

"Wait what Angie you put your name in" I asked my heart dropping for the millionth time since the tournament was announced

"Yeah I thought I would give it a go" she smiles

I smile sadly looking back down at the feast that appeared, I didn't eat much but the feast seemed to of taken ages to finish probably a different reason for me than everyone else, finally the plates cleared and Dumbledore stood up

"Well the goblet is almsot ready to make its decision" Dumbledore said "I estimate it requires one more minute, now when the champions names are called I would ask them please to come up to the top of the hall and walk through this door just here"

He pulled his wand out and waved it leaving all the candles except for the ones in the pumpkins to go out, this made the goblet shine so much more brighter

"Any second" Lee whispered wiggling in his seat

Suddenly the blue flames turned red and emitted sparks which in the end resulted in a charred piece of parchment flying out and Dumbledore catching it the flames turning back blue

"The champion for Durmstrang will be viktor krum" Dumbledore shouted out

Everyone cheered for viktor as he got up and walked to the front of the hall passing the teachers walking into the room at the front of the hall

"Bravo viktor!" Karkaroff boomed "knew you had it in your

The clapping died down and it went silent again, the flames turned red and it spat out another charred piece of parchment

"The champions for Beauxbatons is Fluer Delacour" Dumbledore announced

A blonde girl from the Ravenclaw table stood up and walked towards the door smiling at everyone however her peers were not happy and 2 girls burst into tears

The room went into silence for the last time and the goblet emitted the last piece of parchment

"And the Hogwarts champion is" Dumbledore started "Cedric diggory"

We all clapped and I probably clapped the loudest happy my friend wasn't picked, George noticed this and held my hands together to stop me clapping, I smiled at him laughing at his action managing to get a smile to play on his lips also

"Excellent" Dumbledore said clapping his hands together "well we now have our three champions I am sure I can count on you all including the remaining students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to give your champions every ounce of support you can muster by cheering your champion on you will contribute in a real-

Dumbledore stopped speaking and we all looked to his left to see why, the goblet had once again lit up the crimson red however this time it seemed more aggressive, parchment flew out of the goblet and Dumbledore snatched it however it wasn't one it was 2 pieces

"Harry Potter and violet moon" Dumbledore called out

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