Easy Mistake ; Harry Potter

F I F T Y T H R E E | Lord Voldemort

Eleanor couldn't believe her ears. She'd known Harry lived an extraordinary life involving magic and wizards, but what Remus had told her was pure insanity.

Apparently, Harry was famous. Famous from the ripe old age of one. Famous for something he wouldn't and doesn't remember doing.

The more Eleanor reminisced on what Remus had confided in her, the more her skin crawled. This was not at all the story she pictured being told when Harry told her magic was real.

Remus had took her back to the beginning where it had all began. There was a wizard who went bad. As bad as you could go. Badder than bad. He did horrible things, terrible things, unimaginable things and had his own army of people who called themselves Death Eaters.

Well one day this bad wizard, named Lord Voldemort, or He Who Must Not Be Named, went to Harry's house on Halloween and murdered Harry's parents. Well it was a bit more complicated than that, Remus had told her. He briefly mentioned enchantments keeping Harry's parents safe until one of their friends betrayed them and that was why Voldemort was able to locate them so easily after months and months of hiding from him.

Eleanor was a bit confused but understood the gist of it anyway and felt horror struck. Who would sell out their best friends to an evil murderer?

Seeing Eleanor was about to say something, Remus had hastily carried on. He always avoided talking about this if he could help it and he definitely didn't want to have a long discussion about it with Eleanor who still didn't understand near enough about the wizarding world.

Remus had told her about how once Lily and James had died, Voldemort went for Harry; a defenseless young baby. But once Voldemort aimed that killing curse at Harry, it had backfired and Voldemort fled, weak and even less human than he was before.

That was why Harry was famous, because he had saved the wizarding world from the most notorious evil wizard and he doesn't even remember doing it. Only the lightning bolt scar on his forehead lies as a souvenir for what happened that night.

But that wasn't all. Remus told her more. He was back again. Lord Voldemort was reborn.

It all began with the tournament. Eleanor found out it was a wizarding tournament that was called the Triwizard Tournament and it held a series of dangerous tasks. Remus had told her Harry's name had been put in to the tournament by another bad wizard, a Death Eater who went into Hogwarts disguised as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher by using a potion and keeping the real Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (Professor Moody) held captive.

Eleanor had been slightly thrilled and scared by the fact that a potion existed to be able to transform people into other people. And the fact that they had a lesson call Defence Against the Dark Arts.

Remus also told her that Harry, as she knew, did very well in the first two dangerous tasks and it wasn't until the third task did things begin to go terribly wrong.

The last task was to locate the Triwizard Cup in the middle of a maze filled with dangerous creatures and enchantments. Eleanor didn't get the idea of this tournament, it seemed a bit stupid to put these people's lives at risk for a stupid cup and some gold but Eleanor did not mention any of this to Remus and merely continued to listen to his story with her upmost attention.

Remus told her Harry had managed to locate the cup but upon doing it, he stumbled into another competitor; Cedric Diggory. Remus didn't know the full story here but knew that the pair of them had decided to grab the cup together and share the glory.

But this was when it happened. Remus explained to Eleanor that the Death Eater who was disguised as a Hogwarts professor also tampered with the Triwizard Cup and turned it into a Portkey.