Between Crown and Heart - Book 1

51 - The Worries Of The First Task

I went back to the library without Hermione. She said she has to do some homework and preferred doing it in the common room because Krum was in the library and every girl was following him hysterically. Well, that annoyed her.

I knew what she meant when I entered the library again but I liked it. After all, I wasn't in the library for studying. I just wanted to concentrate on what happened the last few days. I sat down and took out a book from my bag. I opened it and pretended to read.

But as I opened it a little piece of paper flew out under my chair. I bent down and realized that it was a photo.

I grabbed it and looked at it. I felt immediately something strange in my stomach. A smiling Remus and a transforming woman in his arm were looking at me.

"He was quite taken by you, as he is by Tonks." I remembered what Mr. Black wrote in his letter.

But what did he mean by 'quite taken by you'? And why was he taken by me? And why by Tonks? And why was I jealous?! I like him as a friend but why do I have to be jealous?! I angrily threw the photo back in the book. I sighed. I reached back and took the photo again. I folded it in the middle, the part of Tonks vanished and only Remus was smiling at me. I smiled lightly back. My stomach felt more strange now. I carefully placed the photo in the book again and closed it.

An other book about healing potions should help me to figure out what happened the last few days.

The very first thing I had to think about was Karkaroff. The way he acted and behaved made me very uncomfortable. But when he tried to kiss me yesterday... I shuddered at this thought.

I turned to the next page.

Somehow, I felt ashamed that I attracted a man like him, it made me feel like a whore.

He was a former death eater, it was obvious he would behave like that.

But the question was, how did he trick Dumbledore and the goblet?

"I guess dark magic beats everything." I thought.

I turned to the next page.

And Moody? Mr. Black said that Moody was for our security here but why did I feel something strange then? And what was about that vision I got when I see him? Should I tell Dumbledore about it? I mean, there must be something very important to it, otherwise I wouldn't get that vision, right?

I turned to the next page.

At the very end there was Neville and that dream about his parents. What role played this dream and the Longbottom family in all this?

All this didn't seem to make any sense but nevertheless they were important pieces of a puzzle.

I turned to the next page.

What I needed to do was to wait and see and let everything reveal itself.

I flipped for the last time to the next page and stared in my book.

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In the night.

Since I fall asleep I slept very bad. I tossed me from side to side, I rolled through my bed and it didn't seem to help much.

Moreover, I had a dream again. This time it was about Harry and a dragon. Harry was in a little stone arena, the crowd sitting all around him on a stand and cheering. He looked very nervous but yet he focused very hard on his wand.

The next part was that Harry was flying on his broom and the dragon was following him in the sky.

The last piece which I saw was, the dragon was whipping him with its tail and beating him off his broom and Harry was falling down.