This Can't Be Happening

The age limit

~Nadia~
I was walking to charms class with Luna . Luna and I have been best friends since the dawn of day to be honest , our moms were best friends until her mom passed away 4 years ago , I can see how much she misses her when i bring up our childhood or a memory of her. I know we should be rivals since I'm a Slytherin and shes a Ravenclaw but we never really cared.
When i came here in 1st year it was comforting that i had at least one friend from back home. I can remember the day i walked through into the great hall like it was yesterday, the sound of giggling excited children and frustrated teachers on the first day was like music to my ears id never heard something so comforting in my life ,it was then I knew this was where i belonged, this was home.
"Nadia!" , "Nadia!" Luna was whispering since she never raises her voice above a loud soft tone, this brought me out of my reminiscing abruptly. We had somehow gotten from the Great hall to charms class. I mustn't have been paying attention, too damn busy daydreaming as usual. Luna was asking for My answer for the homework that was due today that Luna clearly hadn't finished. Lucky for her I always had my homework done on time whats knew. I was awarded top scholar at last years awards. The look on Hermione Grangers face was priceless i would have paid top Galleon to have taken a picture of her in that moment and plastered it on the cover of every newspaper in the Wizarding World. I was good at everything frankly, i've never failed a test in anything and don't plan on anytime soon.
With the tri-wizard tournament coming up i had to be on my game , we could put our names in the goblet of fire tomorrow and I don't mean to sound cocky but the likelihood of my name being picked is highly likely. I am an extraordinary student and an very active individual and EXTREMELY competitive.
Charms was our last class of the day. I was walking to the Great Hall with Serena Ashryver my roommate after Luna ditched me to go find her shoes or something, the girl never fails to confuse me sometimes.
I was Chatting with Draco and eating my roast dinner at the Slytherin table When everyones voices slowly hushed and everything stilled. I looked up from absolutely wolfing down my dinner to see Professor Dumbledore standing up to his eagle shaped podium.
" I would like to say welcome to all of our new arrivals from The Dumbstrang Institute and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. Before we all start our dinner ,"
Dumbledore then looked around and glanced my way i could feel the stares from the Gryffindor table behind my head, all I did was turn around to sneer at them, Dumbledore then continued .....
"or maybe some of us have already, No matter i just wanted to go ever some of the rules for the upcoming Tri-Wizard tournament, this is a dangerous game with lost of risks. Therefor there will be an age limit on who can enter their name to the cup"
There was complete silence as everyone awaited Dumbledore to keep going, but all i could feel was my heart threatening to burst out of my chest, if I couldn't compete in this competition I wasn't ready to have that as an option i was going to get my name in that cup whatever it took , This is all I've wanted and trained for since i heard Hogwarts was hosting the competition this year.
" you will have to be 17 or older to enter the tournament"
I didn't hear what he said next the thoughts of not being able to compete was tearing me apart my 17th birthday was in 3weeks but everyone had to submit their names tomorrow.
The thought of some other student representing Hogwarts instead of me, and even worse it would most likely be a boy, this was a foreign thought as i always assumed it would have been me.
This wasn't going to end well for whoever's name came out of that goblet because i vowed to myself that i wasn't going to make this one bit easy for them . If it couldn't be me who won it shouldn't be them either whoever that was going to be ........