The Maneater Of Hogwarts || yn x Hogwarts ||

Tornament?

-Song recommendation: Mary by Alex G- (idrk)

As I sat down at a seat on Hufflepuffs table, my mind started to wonder what he called us for. It was the first day in September, not much to say anyway.

It started from Dumbledore announcing a new Defence against the dark arts teacher, his name was Professor Moody. Something he said stuck out the most though, to everybody.

"we are to have the honor of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event which has not been held for over a century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year," Dumbledore says with a massive smile on his face. You can hear Fred shout a few things, he talked about this tournament at some point in the Train ride anyway.

"well, some of you will not know what this tournament involves, so I hope those who do know will forgive me for giving a short explanation, and allow their attention to wander freely. The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago, as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry – Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. A champion was selected to represent each school, and the three champions competed in three magical tasks. The schools took it in turns to host the Tournament once every five years and it was generally agreed to be the a most excellent way of establishing ties between young witch's and wizards of different nationalities – until, that is, the death toll mounted so high that the Tournament was discontinued." Dumbledore says. I knew I would never want to take part in it, so I didn't really mind that much. But it was a fun even to be hosting.

"There have been several attempts over the centuries to reinstate the Tournament," Dumbledore continued, "none of which have been very successful. However, our own Departments of International Magical Co-Operation and Magical Games and Sports have decided the time is ripe for another attempt. We have worked hard over the summer to ensure that, this time, no champion will find himself or herself in mortal danger."

"The Heads of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have already arrived, and on Halloween we will have the Champion Selections. An impartial judge will decide which students, are most worthy to compete for the Triwizard Cup, the glory of their school and a thousand galleon personal prize money."

"Eager though I know all of you will be able to bring the Triwizard Cup to Hogwarts," he said, "the heads of the participating schools, along with the Ministry of Magic, have agreed to impose an agreed restriction on contenders this year. Only students who are of age – that is to say, seventeen years or older – will be allowed to put forward their names for consideration. This" – Dumbledore raised his voice slightly for several people had made noises of outrage at these words – "is a measure we feel is necessary, given that the Tournament tasks will still be difficult and dangerous, whatever precautions we take, and it is highly unlikely that students below Sixth and Seventh year will be able to cope with them. I will personally be ensuring that no underage student hoodwinks our impartial judge into making them Hogwarts champion." His light-blue eyes twinkled as they flickered over to Fred and George's mutinous faces. "I therefore beg you not to waste your time submitting yourself if you are under seventeen."

(Yes I copied that from the book)

We were all dismissed a few minutes later to go back to our dorms. I was sad for Fred and George to be honest, knowing they wouldn't get a chance to do it.

-Next Morning-

Nearly everybody that could was putting their names into that cup, something about it screamed bad idea to me.

I seen Cedric put his name in, getting cheered on by his friends as he had the biggest smile on his face. That smile, I didn't want him to get hurt.

I felt like an overprotective mum but it was true.

Anyway, the other two schools are meeting us today at dinner I'm pretty sure. I'm not really sure what to expect. They've been here since last night but just haven't met us yet.

I walked into class and sat down. I really couldn't be bothered. Since it was defence against dark arts class, I sat next to Hermione.

I did get to see what the new teacher was like on the bright side though.