Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the Hunger Games. Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. The Hunger Games belongs to Suzanne Collins and Lionsgate.
Author's Note: This is something that I was thinking about for a long time, and I decided to make it into a fan fiction. This is my first crossover fan fiction. I usually do non-crossover fan fictions for Harry Potter.
PLEASE READ THIS: In this story there are quite a few flashbacks. The flashbacks are written in present tense and are usually in italics.
Anyway, you're probably bored with this Author's Note. I hope you enjoy this story. If you have any comments, please review, but no flames!
Prologue
After the Dark Lord took control of the British Ministry, the Hunger Games was born. It started out as a way for the Dark Lord to eliminate the weak, so that he would have better chances of finding stronger, more skilled witches and wizards to be his Death Eaters.
Every year, sixteen tributes were randomly chosen in the Reaping. These tributes would be students attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The youngest eligible students were twelve and in their second year at Hogwarts; the oldest would be the seventh year students. Four tributes were chosen from each house, two girls and two boys.
The tributes would be brought to the Ministry. Over a one week period, they would be introduced to the public and interviewed. Over this short period, they would be able to enjoy certain luxuries (few could really enjoy them). Then, the tributes would be brought to the arena. There, they would fight each other, and attempt to survive the arena's perils and harsh conditions. Fifteen of the tributes would die, one would live.
The victor would be greatly rewarded. Most victors lived lives of luxury after their Games were over. They would train the tributes from their house in the Games that came after theirs. Most of the victors joined the Death Eaters when they became old enough.
Some even got the opportunity to be Gamemakers, meaning that during the Games after theirs, they would control the conditions of the arena. This was a great honor that was only given to the Dark Lord's best Death Eaters.
The events of the Hunger Games could be viewed by anyone in the Wizarding World, via a magical device, which was similar in a few ways to the Muggle television, but much more complex and efficient.
At one time a group called the Order of the Phoenix had rebelled against the Dark Lord and the Ministry. Around the same time, a prophecy that told of a boy born at the end of July, who had the power to defeat the Dark Lord.
There were two boys that the prophecy could possibly have referred to; the first, Harry Potter, had been killed by the Dark Lord along with his father. The only surviving member of the Potter family was Harry's mother, Lily Potter, who had not been able to reach her son in time to protect him. The other boy, Neville Longbottom was killed in the 47th Hunger Games.
The rebellion failed, many members of the Order were sentenced to death, and now the games served as punishment for the rebellion, as well as a way to purge the weak. Most of the remaining members of the Order believed that in the future, someone would be able to defeat the Dark Lord, but they only briefly mentioned it amongst themselves on rare occasions.
As the Dark Lord and his forces conquered the magical communities in other countries, the students of the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and Durmstrang Institute also had to take part in the Hunger Games. This decreased the number of tributes that Hogwarts had to send. Every year, each school would send eight tributes, four boys and four girls, to the Games. This made a total of twenty four tributes, twenty three of which were doomed to die.