The Goblet of Fire…
A Fanfic by: Skullangel
Written Post DH
Setting: AU Goblet of Fire
Disclaimer: I don't own Jonny Quest or Harry Potter…
Chapter One: The Arrival
Everyone watched from the paraphets as the as the huge flying carriage of Baubaxton landed and almost took of Hagrids head in the process, slowly their attention was drawn to the lake from its dark depts. A huge ship rose from the darkness and unfurled its sails showing the seal of Durmstrang.
Several students began to hear a loud dull roar overhead, it wasn't the sound but they could "feel" it a few that could knew what it was… It was an Aeroplane… Ron, Fred and George have seen them from a far. Looking up They saw it in the distance once a black speck now they could make out huge broad straight wings gleaming silver its four massive engines had propellers almost as tall as hagrids house.
It flew over the castle and turned around started down on the lake it headed to the far part of the lake and started to land, with its hull sitting on the water and its large floats keeping it floating, the engines still turned as it docked a small distance from the Durmstrang ship.
Till then they had only heard of Baubaxton and Durmstrang this new arrival was sort of a mystery on the side it read. They soon read…
Salem Institute School for Gifted Youngsters,
Boston Mas. USA
Est. 1620
This was written on the door of the flying boat.
Then he remembered he had seen a sign like that at the Quidditch world cup . It was quite an arrival as normally schools hid their locations, however, what was strange was the Americans didn't follow regular conventions.
Everyone gathered in the Great Hall. It was time to sort the first years and the beginning of the first year feast. Attention stayed with in the castle though, or so they pretended. But everyone knew what was in everyone else's mind, the large ship outside the flying carriage and the huge flying boat. As soon as dinner ended however a new commotion had sparked whilst their the tables inched farther apart.
Harry turned and saw the massive doors open to the great hall and in pranced in the ladies of Baubuxton prancing in their beautiful dresses Ron gasped where he sat. Like a mouth of a great serpent, the door closed as the ladies proceeded down the newly made center isle.
Not long after Beaubaxton had settled in their preferred tables with the Ravenclaws, Dumbledore tapped his wand and the doors opened again. The Sons of Durmstrang made their entrance tall strapping men carrying staves and spun them as they walked determinedly in a beat. Performing acrobatic twisting maneuvers somewhat Russian in origin, then behind them Karkarov made his entrance beside him Viktor Krum, Ron gasped he had seen him before but not THIS CLOSE.
Dumbledore greeted Karkarov as they met at the table. They exchanged pleasantries and then Dumbledore tapped his wand again.
Now Eight men in black military uniforms marched forward slowly carefully carrying large rifles, tapping them on the ground in a more stiff armed way compared to the Durmstrang boys tapped their staves.
The way they carried the rifles were choreographed, rising and falling in unison as they swung their arms during the monotonous march. The school's uniforms looked professional, black closed neck and the sleeves covering their wrist on their shoulders badges of rank, haircuts high and rounded like the sides of a jelly jar their chests flat and straight with colored ribbons and medals. The evident loud steps filled the great hall as everyone craned their necks to get a glimpse of the new school. Silently the new school marched along stopping at the front as they turned toward each other and started spinning their rifles about, tossing them to each other only to stop and get down on one knee.
"Who are they?" whispered Ron to Harry.
"Salem Institute School for Gifted Youngsters, a school from the United States, very integrated with the muggle world, they have extensive studies in muggle studies a required course, a lot of them integrate with muggle society hiding in plain sight and use a LOT of muggle artifacts… They don't follow all the rules of the International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy, they didn't sign it but follow it as a guideline on their laws regarding magical secrecy which is different." Hermione nonchalantly said.
"Yeahh,,, Dad told me the laws about muggle artifacts in the United States use is very… Lax and Loose, and they don't use brooms like us…" Ron said as he stared ahead at what was known as S.I.S.G.Y
That got Harry interested… "What do they use?" Harry asked as mused himself with the image of the student using vacuums instead of brooms.
Ron shrugged in as he gave Harry an "I don't know" look…
The next minute the doors opened six cheerleaders bouncing around athletically doing cartwheels that left trails of light behind. They were carrying pompoms that dripped of, what looked like, flakes of light. Floating over the cheerleaders were two people, in full regalia of heavy body padding and helmets, on the flying surfboards that left a trail of red, white and blue. Harry noted that they had their feet strapped in as they flipped over expertly maneuvers that could easily shake anyone of a broom. Everyone gasped as they did so, mesmerized by not only the foreign flying method but as well as the fireworks that seem to trickle out from the back riders surf boards.
They dropped on the board belly down and seemed to pull the board upright making the boards land tail wise as they landed on the ground tucking their surfboards between their arms as the cheerleaders kneeled shaking their pompoms as they awaited the large group of people filing in after them. They filed in two, all dressed in uniforms not very different from Hogwarts but in schemes of Dark Blue trousers and skirts a black cardigan and stripped red and silver white ties, " at least some things didn't change other parts of the world " Hermione thought.
"Albus…" a bald man said, he wore a muggle suit with a long trench coat and a hat.
"Charles it has been to long a time, how is my old house?" Dumbledore said fondly as he shook hands with who seemed like the headmaster.
"Ravenclaw has been doing very well and the staff is looking forward to your visit" Albus said sincerely
The two old men exchange pleasantries before Dumbledore turned to Hogwarts and motioned for the school song to start.
Little did anyone know that a lone figure slipped quietly into the Great Hall as all of the students and the professor's attention were on the well mocked school song, mostly by the Weasley twins at least.
"Before we begin one staff change this year, a change in staff… Alistair Moody will take over against defense against the dark arts. " A battered wizard entered and they shook hands and exchanged pleasantries and soon hobbled to his own chair.
The Durmstrangs sat with the Slytherins, the Baubuxtons sat with the Ravenclaws, then the Salems took their place with the Griffidors,
Severus Snape eyes swept over the visiting students and suddenly stopped when he saw her. She was with the Americans, the tall redhead , she looked so much like her… Could she be… Impossible! Impossible!" Snape thought as he blinked his eyes in disbelief. her face still haunted him, who was she?… She sat next to… Harry Potter… Then he stifled a seethe, the pain shot through him and it hurt again, it was as though an old wound opened and fire gushed forth that burned him alive.
Jessie led Jonny and Hadji to the nearest table, there was space between them, one had messy hair green eyes, the other boy had red hair and a freckled face in front of them a girl with mousy brown hair and bright brown eyes.
Excuse me is this seat taken? She asked…
"No it isn't" Harry stammered Harry turned and looked at her. The sight caught him off guard a mane of long firey red hair. She didn't look much older than himself her eyes was a deep shade of green much like his own her heartshaped face she was smiling at him… He blushed a bit, why did she sort of remind him of Ginny he wondered?
"Hi… You are… Harry Potter she sort of said matter of fact and tactfully," she said.
"Jessie Bannon" she said as she held out her hand. "This is Jonny," she gestured to the blonde across the table who merely smiled.
Hermione turned to look at who she gestured at and caught his eye and felt a chill, it was strange he resembled Draco Malfoy but had smoother and kinder features. With a mop of messy blond hair almost the same color as Malfoy, She then thought that it would be hard to tell them apart in a long dark hallway she glimpsed at Malfoy on the other table and saw the unmistakable resemblance. He looked at her and sneered, Jonny glimpsed at his twin from across the table and wondered.
"This is Hadji" Johnny gestured, to the boy sitting next to him. Hadji bowed slightly and curtly, he was a handsome young man dark skin and soft eyes, the Patil sisters noticed stifling smiles.
"So you go to Salem… How do you find Hogwarts?" Ginny asked Jessie sitting on the opposite table, Jessie turned to the other red headed girl and smiled it sort of reminds me of the castle we stayed a few weeks ago in Romania.
"My you do get around" Hermione said.
"Our dads work together, he's a phenomenologist and Jessies Father is his bodyguard" Johnny informed them.
"A What?" Harry asked quizzically.
"My Father studies strange phenomas, and anything not explainable" Johnny further explained.
"He's a muggle?" asked Ron.
"A what?" Jonny asked quizzically to Jessie…
"Oh… A Muggle... Oh you mean a magically challenged person" Jessie cleared up.
"Wicked! Must have freaked out you dad to find out" exclaimed Ron.
"Actually I was more surprised than he was, My mother was a witch that's how they met" Johnny said eventually pursing his lips.
"My parents are magically challenged, my dad brought me to Doctor Quest to talk about it and we haven't left them since" Jessie said more relaxed.
Parvati turned to Hadji from across the table and started talking to him in Hindi, they both laughed at some common joke they shared.
Suddenly Harry heard a low tone coming from Jonny's backpack,
"Oh.." Jonny reached over his back and pulled out a large leather pack inside he pulled out a plastic box and opened it, Ron looked across the table and seemed interested Jonny knew what it was he had seen lots of them from the muggle world… It was a computer a portable computer…
Hermione was dumbstruck, a computer here? In Hogwarts ? when it struck her she. Reaching back into her bag, she pulled out a thick book. Johnny and Jessie watched her in interest why Harry and Ron merely shrugged. In a frantic manner Hermion skimmed through the book.
"Wizarding across the World by Winston Longwalk" it said on the cover. The book chronicled W. Longwalks' travels across the wizarding world. On page 29 he wrote about strange unconventions in the Americas specifically the new worlds. The Americans were lot more relaxed in the use of muggle artifacts often integrating them to their wizarding lives such as automobiles that could fly a novelty here in Britain but more common in North America and it continued to their lives more often hiding in plain sight.
If there was any stranger person it had to be Johnny's dad he was a muggle but welcome and allowed to study strange phenomena, he could more often than not look at both side to a situation and come up with a plausible explanation good enough for both sides. He was in fact the most important emissary bridging both worlds his duty was contradiction to keep both worlds together while keeping them apart, not letting them collide that would destroy both their worlds.
It was a message to the headmaster of Salem it was from his Dad regarding updated rules to the Goblet of fire. Jonny pulled out his wand and tapped the screen and a piece of parchment appeared out of nowhere and folded to a paper airplane and headed to headmaster Stewart he read it and nodded to Jonny.
"Blimey my dad would like to see that!" Ron exclaimed, here see it for yourself, he waved his wand and said "Wingardium Leviosa" and the laptop hovered to Ron and sat itself in front of him.
"Pull out your wand and tell it what you want and give it a tap"
Ron thought of the latest game of his favorite team the chudley cannons and said "Chudley Cannons" and gave it a tap. The screen changed and suddenly he was enveloped in a bright light he was suddenly there… He could see the game, he was floating in mid-air he moved his wand around and he seemed to move around fairly quickly, Outside the field Hermione looked with interest as Ron was completely covered in a bright field… As it ended Ron was beaming with a bright smile across his face,
How was it Ron? Harry asked…
Wicked! It was like I as there I could see everything I could fly with the seeker and everything
"How did the cannons make out"
Ron's smile turned upside down…" Lost again 60 to 190" Ron's face suddenly brightened up and gestured to it" I sure my dad would like to see it"
"So that's your headmaster" Hermione said looking at the Bald man in the muggle suit
"Yes, Headmaster Charles Stewart, he actually studied here at Hogwarts sorted to Ravenclaw house" Jessie said,
Harry caught a good look at the table, headmaster Stewart spoke intently to Professor Flitwick they shared a laugh on some unheard of joke, they really seemed to know each other.
"They really must know each other" Ginny chimed in to Harry.
He noticed Karkarov talking intently to Snapes in hushed tones, but somehow Snapes was not that attentive he was looking at their directions but seemed very distracted.
"So Jessie tell me about Salem?" Hermione asked
"Well our school is just outside Salem Massachusetts, our school is a bit smaller just five floors… Here…"
She took out a small moving photo from her pocket, inside a moving overhead photo of the school it was a Victorian castle it was much smaller than Hogwarts over five stories tall at least 200 feet long, Jonny didn't mention the huge underground facility which held dozens of classrooms and gymnasiums.
Once the golden plates had been wiped clean, Dumbledore stood up again. A pleasant sort of tension seemed to fill the Hall now. Harry felt a slight thrill of excitement, wondering what was coming.
"The moment has come I would like to say a few words. Eternal glory, that is what awaits the student who wins the goblet of fire tournament. But to do this that student must survive three tasks. Three extremely dangerous tasks."said Dumbledore, After much deliberation the ministry has concluded that for their own safety no student under the age of fifteen shall be allowed to put forth their name for the tri-wizard tournament This decision is final.
The crowd started to get a bit unruly many not happy with the new rule it was what Jonny had passed to his headmaster earlier on that night.
"Now a few new changes in staff The defense in the dark arts will be handled by my old Friend Alastor Moody he gestured to a standing figure with swirling mechanical eye, he quite literally EYED Harry Potter and limped to his seat and one more as this is a SPECIAL year some of our guests will be joining you in your classes so please do not be surprised if your classroom feels a little bit crowded" Dumbledore said with a smile.
Dumbledore tapped the box it slowly melted and inside the goblet of fire blazed to life.
"The goblet of fire. Anyone wishing to submit themselves for the tournament merely write their name upon a piece of parchment and throw it in the flame before this hour on Thursday night. Do not do so lightly, if choosen there's no turning back. As from this moment the tri-wizard tournament has begun."
"Finally, I wish to impress upon any of you wishing to compete that this tournament is not to be entered into lightly. Once a champion has been selected by the Goblet of Fire, he or she is obliged to see the tournament through to the end. The placing of your name in the goblet constitutes a binding, magical contract. There can be no change of heart once you have become a champion. Please be very sure, therefore, that you are wholeheartedly prepared to play before you drop your name into the goblet. Now, I think it is time for bed. Good night to you all."
-End of Chapter-
Thanks to Monsterme for the beta.