It was a stormy day on the night of October 31st when out in the distance a beautiful old castle laid in ruins. To the muggle eye it was just that ruins, but inside is where young students go to school. A school for witchcraft and wizardry called Hogwarts. This year Hogwarts was in charge of holding the Triwizard Tournament, it was originally being treated as a friendly competition, but ended up becoming more of a rivalry. Over the years the contest started to become extremely dangerous for in 1792 "a cockatrice the champions were supposed to be catching went on the rampage" all of the judges were injured. As the death toll mounted, the Tournament was discontinued. There was never any talk about it rising again, but a Headmaster by the name of Albus Dumbledore saw it as an opportunity for a better relationship between the two other magic schools.
Thursday Night October 31st, 1994
In the crowded Great Hall stood Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts with an excited expression on his face, for next to him Stood the Goblet of Fire. Along behind him sat the staff, the Minister of Magic, Headmaster Igor Karkaroff and Headmistress Madame Olympe Maxime. All excited for the success of the Tournament, and the choosing of the champions.
" Sit down please. And now the moment you've all been waiting for, the champion's selection!", said Dumbledore. He approaches the blue flame and it glows green. A name comes out along with a symbol of Osiris God of rebirth. Everyone looked on anxiously.
"The Durmstrang champion is...Viktor Krum!"
The Durmstrang crowd cheered as Viktor walked up to Dumbledore and shook his hand. The blue flame lite turning a royal blue with the symbol of the Horus God of Courage.
" The champion from Beauxbatons is..Fleur Delacour!"
The Beauxbatons cheer as Fleur walks up and shakes his hand. Another name comes out turning the flame a lavender with the symbol of Bastet Goddess of Protection.
"The Hogwarts champion is...Cedric Diggory!"
Hogwarts pupils cheer as Cedric walks up to Dumbledore and shakes his hand. Dumbledore turns back around to the students with his hands out in front of him and shouts,
"Excellent! We now have are three champions! But in the end only one will go down in history. Only one will hoist this chalice of champions, this vessel of victory the Tri-Wizard Cup!" The crowd cheers, but the staff stop to see the goblet's blue flame change once more this time in a blood red color and the symbol of Maat the Goddess of Justice, with it another name flies out. Dumbledore takes the paper and reads the name at last,
"Harry Potter. Harry Potter?" He says the name one last time but with a shout, "HARRY POTTER!"
Harry is then pushed by one of his best friends Hermione Granger, "Go on Harry," she pushes him one more time, Oh for goodness sakes Harry!" Harry slowly stands up and even slowly walks up to Dumbledore then takes the paper from him. Voices can slowly be heard all around the Great Hall "He's a cheat!", "He's not even Seventeen!"
Harry walks down into the Trophy Room with the other champions. Dumbledore bursts in and grabs Harry by his collar "Harry! Did you put your name into the goblet of fire?", Harry shakes his head,
"No sir!"
"Did you ask one of the older students to do it?"
"Your absolutely sure?"
"Yes sir"
Dumbledore let's go of Harry's collar when he realizes that he is telling the truth. Madam Maxime frustrated that Hogwarts has two champions instead of one shouts, "Well of course he is lying!" Mad Eye snorts turns to everyone in the room, "The hell he is! The goblet of fire is an exceptionally powerful magical object, only an exceptionally powerful conjurier could have hoodwinked it. Magic way beyond the talents of a fourth year." He faces away from the other headmasters and whispers "I'm surrounded by idiots."
Igor closest to Mad Eye heard him; upset with his comment and the situation turned to him and said with a glare "You seem to have given this a fair bit of thought Mad-Eye." Giving Igor a sneer and glare said "It was once my job to think as dark wizards do Karkaroff perhaps you remember?" Dumbledore gave Mad-Eye a look as if to say 'really?', "Alastor that does not help us right now. No we will leave this up to you Barty." Minister Barty Crunch gave everyone a tired look, "The rules are absolute, the goblet of fire constitutes a binding contract. Mr. Potter has no choice as of tonight...he is a tri-wizard champion."
The entire room was silent trying to swallow the tar like information. Mad-Eye tusked wiggling his finger in the air as if they were naughty children forgetting the rules; "There's one more thing that everyone's forgotten." The Professor's turned their heads to him with a confused and curious look, "What might that be Alastor?" said Dumbledore. "Each champion is given a guide to help them with their quest. As is a tradition that was discontinued years ago.", Each of the professors face was a different expression; confused, humiliation, and curious.
"How do you know that Alastor?!", said Barty, " They were strictly written out of the history books!" Barty's face was red with humiliation for no one should have known the information that Alastor was about to give. With a smirk on his face Alastor turned around from a trophy and said, "While on one of my adventures last year I came upon the box of orbs with the name The Trusted Sacraments. My research should that these orbs were one in the same that were used in the older tournaments, each of the champions had a hand picked Sacrament during the choosing." The entire room was shocked that this one piece of information was left out all these years.
