The Crown Series - A Harry Potter Story

A "shocking" announcement

"Hello and welcome or welcome back dear students !" Dumbledore greeted. "After we finished this exciting sorting I have to remind you of a few rules:

Firstly, the forbidden forest stays forbidden, no going in without permission or you might not make it out alive.

Secondly no roaming around after curfew.

Thirdly, the restricted section of the library is restricted for a reason. So no reading books you aren't supposed to read.

The rest of the rules can be seen on a sheet next to Mr Filchs room."

He paused for a moment, looking down on his students, studying their faces. He saw Harry Potters green eyes looking at him with interest, as he looked further he met a gaze, hard as steel. Her blue eyes were looking at him as they were able to read him, knowing everything he did. It was unsettling, to say the least. To sum it up, she looked like trouble, threatening his plans.

"Sadly Mr Lupin won't continue teaching, due to personal reasons." Groans escaped many students, looking back at the awesome year they had with Lupin.
"Luckily I managed to convince Mr Alastor Moody to take his place as Defense against the dark arts teacher."

He looked back at the teacher table, only seeing the rest of the collegium, Minerva shaking her head at his questioning look.

Suddenly the two doors were opened forcefully, crashing into the walls as a small man with a crane came walking in, his uneven steps echoed through the hall. Halfway through, he stopped, opened his flask and drank a big gulp of the liquid inside.

"Good evening, Alastor!" The headmaster greeted him when he arrived at the teacher's table. The man just gave him a nod in return and plopped onto the seat next to Flittwick and Snape. The whole hall was holding their breath, the silence unnerving, until someone in the crowd of Hufflepuffs started to clap. After that, the ban was broken and the students continued chatting among themselves until they were interrupted by the headmaster .

"For now we shall enjoy the delicious feast and after I have to make an announcement." Dumbledore closed his speech and sat down on his chair. With a welcoming gesture, the food started to appear on the table, which almost broke down at the weight.

Alyssa POV

"Bloody hell I love this feast!" Ronald almost screamed, sitting a few people to my left.
"As do I!" Harry replied to him, looking at me his face shifted to an annoyed one. At this, I just rolled my eyes and started to fill my plate with some food.
"They really like you, don't they?" James asked, pointing his head in direction of the two rude Brits.
"It certainly looks like it." I snickered "I mean it's their loss, isn't it?" I joked, stealing the water in front of him. At that, he just looked at me with an 'are you serious?'expression.
Beside me, Neville started looking at the scene, playing in front of him.

"Now that you are in Gryffindor, you have the pleasure to sleep with them in a room together." Neville laughed at James, who, dramatic as he is, died across from me, slowly slipping from the bench.

"Looks like the news killed him." Hermione and me said at the same time, looking each other in the eyes and bursting out laughing.
James opened his mouth, probably to whine that he didn't got his audience, was interrupted by two boys, who stood awkwardly at the side.

""Dean, Seamus, nice to see you!" Neville greeted the boys. One of them had dark skin and black hair, the other was fair and had light brown hair.
"Hey, we just wanted to introduce us. My name is Dean, this is Seamus." The black haired boy informed us.
"Dean and Seamus are sharing a room with us." Neville said.
"Oh alright! Name is James King, nice to meet you. That's my best friend Alyssa." James introduced us, pointing at me at the last sentence.

"Pleasure." I smiled up at them. "Do you want to take a seat?"
"Sure.." Seamus answered and blushed, sounding a bit overwhelmed.
"Great!"
The boys seated themselves beside Neville, and started to grab plates, forks and glasses.

The feast was delicious. I was trying every dish in reach and soon enough, I was satisfied. The rest of the time I listened to Ginny and Hermione, who were retelling stories from their previous years.

"...and then Malfoys arm got broken by the Hippogriff!"
"No way!" I laughed. "But what happened then?"

Dumbledore was clearing his throat.
"Now that we all are full, I have to make a big announcement for the upcoming school year!
As you probably already feel, this year isn't going to be the same as in other years. Instead the European ministry's for magic decided to revive the traditional triwizard tournament!"

After this sentence Dumbledore stopped, giving the students time to excitedly explain it to muggleborns.

"But I thought it was cancelled for 30 years?" Seamus asked confused." Why bring it back now?"
"I don't care, that's awesome!" Ron interrupted." I heard that the winner gets a ton of money and eternal fame."

Dumbledore continued:" For this grand occasion, Hogwarts will host some very special guests. Students from both Durmstrang and Beauxbatons!"
The last part of his speech was drowned in clapping and cheering, Alyssa and James participated madly, happy to be reunited with Viktor and Fleur soon.

"Our guests will arrive on the 3oth of October. I expect outstanding manners from you during their stay.

We made a few change of rules one of them being that you are only allowed to represent Hogwarts if you're older than 16."

At his last statement, hell broke loose.

"How unfair!" A black haired slytherin shouted .

"You think this will stop us!" A pair of red haired twins complained.

"My father will hear about this!" You probably know who shouted the last statement...

"Shut up Malfoy!" I exclaimed, loud enough for Harry to hear. The look he gave me was almost considerable nice.

Across from me, James almost fell off the bench again, laughing

Neville was grinning widely, looking very pleased with my statement.

"If you are interested in joining, please talk with the head of your house about the dangers and the rules of the tournament.
Until then, have a good night dear students!" Dumbledore ended, walking back to his seat.

"Let's go! We'll show you the common room and the school!" Ginny exclaimed, pulling me up from the bench.

"Yeah get up we have to hurry!" Hermione said, leading us out of the great hall.