A/N: JKR owns the house, I'm just here to mess with the furniture

Prologue

"Harry Potter!"

Ginny sat there in shock. She knew that her mouth was open, but couldn't bring herself to close it. She quickly looked over at Harry. He face had all color drained from it. Ron was looking at him with an expression of pure anger, Hermione looked lost and confused. The hall was deadly silent.

"I didn't put my name in," Harry said blankly. "You know a didn't

Hermione looked doubtful and Ron just huffed at him in jealousy.

"Harry Potter!" Dumbledore's voice put Ginny out of here trance. "Harry! Up here, if you please!"

Harry got up and walked up in a daze, he tripped on the way up and stumbled. Ginny could see he was in absolute shock. Who could blame him? He just had his name put into the Goblet and was probably going to be forced to compete! The thought never crossed her mind that Harry might have put his own name in. She was just worried that someone was trying to hurt him.

Of course, somebody was trying to hurt him. Why else would someone put him in? In the excitement leading up to the tournament Ginny heard tons of stories about how the tournament had been discontinued due to a high fatality rate. Dumbledore probably had something, if not everything, to do with the fact that the tournament made its comeback. Regardless of what the man said, he really didn't seem to care about his students safety at all. Her first year was a testament to that.

She had lost so much that year. Not only her innocence, but her faith in the "Leader of the Light" to do what was truly right for everyone. For example, when guarding a priceless grants immortality why would you put it where every magical person between the ages of 11-17 will be 3 seasons of the year. And when guarding the same artifact why would you have the all of the defenses be things a bunch of 11 and 12 year olds be able to get through. In fact, her brother's love of chess is well known, almost as well known as his friendship with Harry. This made Ginny begin to think that they stone was just a trap for Voldemort and a way to get Harry to confront him.

During Ginny's musings Harry had made it to the head table, Dumbledore said something to Harry with a grim expression. Harry nodded dumbly and vanished through the door the other Champions went through with Dumbledore trailing behind him. The second that Dumbledore went through the door the hall broke out into chatter.

"The git! How could he have entered without telling me!" Ginny heard her brother loudly proclaim. He couldn't actually be Harry's best friend and think that he put his name in. The fact that Harry hated attention was not a secret.

"I'm not sure he did put his name in the goblet." Hermione said.

"Of course he did, there is no other way. I can't believe he did it without me!"

Hermione just nodded, but looked doubtful..

Ginny bit her tongue and seethed quietly. She couldn't believe that Ron was acting this way. How could the prat think that Harry put his name in and still call him best friend? Students began to filter out of the hall and make their way to their respective common rooms. When Ginny finally got to the common room, she began to work on a massive essay for Snape that she had been putting off to try and keep her mind off of the new Fourth Champion.

It worked fairly well, as she didn't look up until she heard Harry enter the common room.

"I didn't put my name in!" She heard him say to his two best friends. Ron huffed and stormed out of the room and Hermione reluctantly followed.

Fred and George then approached Harry.

"How did you do it?" Fred asked excitedly.

"I didn't"

"Right..." George said rolling his eyes, "But really, how did you do it?"

"I didn't! Why doesn't anyone believe me?" Harry said with a hint of desperation.

"I believe you."

Harry looked up to find the source of the voice.

"I believe that you didn't do it." Ginny said again, she began to feel a blush creeping up, thankfully Harry didn't seem to notice.

"You-you do?" He asked eyes dancing.

"Of course I do, anyone with half a brain could see that you hate attention, and yet you have all of the attention in the school right now. The real question is not how you did it. It is who is trying to kill you."

He looked at Ginny, smiled, and said to her, "Thank you, for believing me."

"You're very welcome"

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Dumbledore was very pleased, everything was going according to plan. In fact, they were going better. Not only had Harry's name been spit out of the goblet, just like Dumbledore thought that it would, but Harry's friends had abandoned him. He would be so alone that when they came back to him, he would never let them go. His friends were so easy to manipulate that getting them to tell him everything was very easy. His plan for his heir was going very well.

A/N: I have been wanting to write this for forever, so here it goes! I am looking for Betas, so if you're interested, please PM me. Review

- Velox