Harry Potter : King of the Amazons By TheSilverboar

Chapter 39

-Harry-

"And here we have the location that will be our third task." Narcissa gestured about to what had once been the quiditch pitch, the back part having been taken down to make way for the maze that expanded outward, the rest of the pitch staying as stands for the spectators. At her side Harry had two guards stationed at all times, the same for all of his wives and his children, including the only recently born infants.

"A maze?" Diggory asked, looking somewhat horrified at hedges growing on the Quiditch pitch which hadn't even been used for close to a year.

"It's more than just a maze." Karkaroff grinned at the Hufflepuff champion, "It will have obstacles, traps, creatures, rearranging walls, plus the most important hinderance, each other."

"Wait, you're saying we can attack the other champions?" Delacour looked stunned at that declaration as did Diggory, Krum just nodded as if it made sense to him.

"Within reason of course." Narcissa shook her head, "A stunner shot at your opponent is all well and good so long as they aren't in the middle of dealing with another obstacle. For example, let's say that you Miss Delacour, saw Mister Diggory battling a creature and you stunned him in the back. You would be pulled from the tournament and disqualified for violating the rules as you endangered his life. That means that lethal or spells that would cause permanent damage will also be forbidden to use on one another. We'll have scrying screens locked onto each of you so the crowds and judges can observe."

"What all are we allowed to bring?" Krum asked, the Bulgarian already making plans and tactics, which wasn't surprising as the celebrity was groomed by Karkaroff for this tournament.

"Each champion is permitted their wands, their robes, and one additional tool." Jean-Luc explained, "You may enchant your robes although the enchanting has to be done by you yourself and under the supervision of all judges. You also have to get majority approval for whatever you choose as your chosen tool." The man was annoyed at that, but Harry didn't care, anything to stop the prick from doing any more biased sabotage was a good decision in the young King's eyes.

"You all are also permitted to come to the stands at whatever point you wish before the task begins." Narcissa continued, "You can observe the maze as much as you can from the stands and plan, but you cannot enter into it. The judges have also sworn an unbreakable oath to not sabotage the tools or robes of any of the champions, nor will they reveal what one champion has done to the other or offer aide to a champion." Those were necessary given Jean-Luc's earlier behaviors and Harry was sure the man would have done so if he could have gotten away with hit, regardless of not even being invited to the next tournament.

"What sort of creatures are being brought over?" Delacour asked nervously, eyeing the hedges as if she expected them to come alive and try to eat her.

"That we can't tell you," Karkaroff shook his head as everyone was ushered back towards the castle "you'll just have to wait for the third task like everybody else."

"Either way, I wish my fellow champions luck in their preparations." Harry nodded to his competitors, "I however must be off to the Ministry. It would seem someone decided to hire hit wizards to challenge me to honor duels for the latest assassination attempt."

"Even…even after the lake incident?" Krum and Karkaroff both looked utterly baffled at the thought of someone actually wanting to duel him, the two of them face palming in tandem at his nod.

"Be careful my love." Narcissa embraced him, "Do not let them gain a lucky strike against you."

"I'll be cautious as I can be." He promised, "You just keep an eye on the school and our family." With that, he turned and marched off to the gates, a pair of guards joining him as he went.

-Fudge-

Shifting nervously in his seat, Cornelius watched as Potter sent another opponent out of the ring, this one in multiple pieces. "I thought you gave them the potions." He heard Fudge hiss under his breath, not trusting the security enchantments around their private box to hold as the next hit wizard, a giant Brazilian man, stepped onto the dueling platform.

"I did!" Dolores hissed back, "They were all given accuracy enhancement potions as well as core boosters, I even helped them smuggle in robes with better enchantments! I thought you'd hire actual quality!"

"That last man won his last thirty duels within a minute and a half each!" Lucius was not amused at being given the blame. As they argued, the Brazilian wizard stood stunned and slack jawed when Potter caught the man's spell bare handed, too shocked to move out of the way when Potter threw it back like it was a quaffle. Corpse number eight removed, soon to be corpse number nine brought in to take the stage.

"I'll be back." He looked at the two who had planned this, "I just need to use the restroom." They were too busy bickering to even bother acknowledging him as he slipped out, making straight for his office. Contingency plans were always useful, time to use his and get the hell out of this crazy place. Australia sounding rather nice at the moment.

-Harry-

Calmly drinking from a glass of water provided, and thoroughly tested by, his guards, Harry noted a great deal of auror activity around the dueling arena where the various press agents, lords, and other attendees were gathered. "Lucius Malfoy!" Madame Bones was stalking towards the Minister's booth where Harry noted said Minister was noticeably absent "Dolores Umbridge, you're both under arrest."

"On what grounds?!" the platinum blonde lord demanded while Umbridge just screeched and demanded for the Minister.

"We have here, evidence of you hiring these hit wizards for the sole purpose of attempt to kill one Harry Potter, as well as conspiring with Dolores Umbridge who provided them illegal enhancement potions and more advanced dueling robes."

"How dare you?!" Umbridge swelled up indignantly "When Cornelius hears of this-!"

"He's the one who sent the evidence." Bones cut her off as the toad like woman deflated "Yes, my office received this evidence moments before an international portkey was activated from his office. It would seem he decided to cut his losses, throw the both of you under the Knight Buss, and flee while he could. We found his letter of resignation in his office already. The other would be duelists have been detained as well for accepting and using those potions."

"Madame Bones." Harry approached the woman as the guards drug the two screaming imbeciles away "If you would, I'd like to request if you and your aurors could do some digging into whether or not Lucius Malfoy was a part of the attack on the Quiditch World Cup, I have reason to believe he was not only there as one of the leaders of said attack but was responsible for the attack on my sister."

"You aren't demanding extradition?" Madame Bones looked surprised as she raised an eyebrow at him.

"Madame, a case such as this could not only make your career, it could guarantee you that now open Minister seat if cards are played correctly. Having someone competent at the helm of this place would certainly be useful in preventing the Ministry from pissing me off to the point there is war."

"…Fair."