The next day had come and I was sitting in a compartment of a carriage of the Hogwarts Express. I quickly wrote two letters, one to Fleur and the other the Victor (Krum) and sent them via magic to where ever they were. I was so tired from the previous night I fell fast asleep straight after I sent the letter off. Visions of blood, two bodies and someone pointing a wand at me. Luckily I was getting shaken awake before it got more intense. I opened my eyes to see Fred and George's face in front of me. "Hey sleeping beauty. We're going to be getting off the train in a minute." Fred informed me. I nodded yawning then noticed that the train was already stationary.
"You alright Mia? It looked like you were having a bad dream." George asked concerned.
"No, I'm fine. We better get going." I pulled on their hands to get them out of the carriage. The three of us got off the train. I immediately saw Cedric making his way towards us. Fortunately Professor McGonagall walked up to us before he got to me.
"I'll see you two later." They nodded and walked towards the carriages to take them up the castle.
"I trust you had a good summer." I nodded, "Good. Now, Dumbledore would like to see you in his office now."
I grinned excitedly at her, "Does that mean I'm allowed to apparate there?" She nodded smiling at my enthusiasm for the means of transportation.
I quickly apparated to Dumbledore's office. "Hello Mia."
I turned to see Professor Dumbledore behind me. "Hello Professor." I smiled.
He got straight to business, "Hogwarts is going to be hosting the Triwizard tournament this year and both Beauxbatons and Durmstang will be arriving at the castle in a matter of minutes." I nodded, he continued. "And I wanted to give you this." He place something in my hand.
I looked down wide eyed at it to see a prefect badge with all four of the house colours whereas a normal prefect would only have their house colour on it. "Thank you Sir."
"But there's also another thing I wanted you to do this year."
"And what's that?" I asked curiously.
"I want you to go into seventh year lessons this year as you're overly ready for them, the spells and potions will be more interesting for you to learn."
"Thank you Professor." I smiled.
"Now you better get changed and head to the Great Hall, I would like you to stand at the front with the Teachers when I introduce the other schools so that they can see a familiar face." I nodded and was about to speak when he answered my question. "Yes, you can apparate to your dorm room."
"Thank you again, I'll see you in the Great hall."
I appeared in my dorm room which was usually in the prefects dorm. I had always been in a room on my own and It has everything that I own inside it. I quickly changed into my robes and pinned my prefects badge onto my robe then started doing my hair and make-up. I kept my make-up natural and straightened my hair to make me look a little intimidating yet still pretty. I locked up and ran downstairs excited to see my friends from Beauxbatons and Durmstang.
I entered the great hall to see that nearly everyone was already seated. Fred and George waved me over but I shook my head and continued walking to the front standing against a wall so I was out the way yet it was easy for everyone to see me clearly. Professor Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts was going to be holding the Triwizard Tournament, then the first school to be welcomed were the Beauxbatons. When their display was done I gave a quick wave to Fleur and Gabrielle and they smiled back at me. Durmstang made their entrance which was more flashy than the Beauxbatons as it had a fire snake that melded into a Phoenix at the end. Once Krum walked to be seated I gave him a brief stern nod and I could see the sides of his mouth raise slightly but It wasn't quite a smile yet.
After that the feast was plated and I sat next to Fred who kindly saved me a seat. Me and the Gryffindor's were eating when Fred and George grabbed my attention from a discussion.
"Hey Mia, Diggory's staring in your direction." George whispered.
"So what?" I answered back.
"Last year you told me and George about how you both were friends when you were little, well littler. Why don't you go over and talk to him?" Fred voice was quiet enough so that only me, him and George could here.
"You heard him at the cup, he doesn't even remember my name so why should I make the effort? He clearly never cared." I summed up.
"I think he cares now as he keeps looking over."
"Really?" I asked peering over my shoulder to see Cedric's looking towards me then I saw Cho Chang sitting on the table behind me with the other Ravenclaws.
I turned back and frowned, "He isn't looking at me, he's looking at Cho." I sighed to them both.
"We thought he was looking at you. We shouldn't have gotten your hopes up, we're sorry."
"You didn't get my hopes up, why would I give a damn anyway?" They both gave me a weird look in response which made me very confused.
Luckily Professor Dumbledore started introducing Barty Crouch who was going to explain the rules of the Triwizard Tournament when the ceiling started acting up and students screamed. A flash of blue lightening struck into the ceiling and everyone's gaze fell on the Ex-Auror Mad eye Moody coming out of a door behind the teachers table. He certainly knew how to make a entrance. All too soon the rules were being announced, the age limit of seventeen didn't go down well as 'boos' and hisses were expressed throughout the hall by those under age that wanted to compete. I actually hit the twins on the back of the head for making such a fuss about it. That's when the goblet was revealed and even I had to admit I was impressed at the magnificent object. And from that moment onwards the Tournament had officially began.
The next morning we had normal lessons but for my first lesson Professor Dumbledore asked me to over see Professor Moody's D.A.D.A lesson with Harry, Ron and Hermione's year but I had to do it invisibly which wasn't a problem for me as I mastered that spell when I was ten so I could move around the castle without anybody seeing. Moody was doing the class on the three unforgivable curses and was actually showing them what it was like. Imperio was first displayed on a crab like insect making it jump around the room onto students making screams and giggles erupt through the room. Then he picked Neville out to stand at the front while he did the Cruciatus curse. The class watched as Moody torture the poor animal. Flashes of things that were blurry and unfocused went into my mind even if I couldn't see it properly it still scared me and it made my head hurt. I stormed out the room slamming the door behind me and apparated into the middle prefects common room.
I held onto a pillowed sofa chair so I could regain my breathing.
"Are you alright?" I jumped a bit and looked up to see Cedric standing not too far away.
I nodded standing up properly, "Yeah. Just feeling a little dizzy, I got up late today so I didn't eat breakfast." It was a lie I was up at half four this morning and made cookies for all the prefects on their first day.
"Why don't you have one of these cookies? They're pretty good." He handed me one. I took a bite and they were as good as I hoped they would taste.
"These are nice, who made them?" I asked pretending to not know.
"Dunno, they were waiting for the prefects when we all got up this morning." A few moments of silence past. "I wanted to thank you for saving me at the world cup."
"It's alright, you would have done the same if it was someone you knew."
"Well I'm not a brave Gryffindor like you."
"I'm not a Gryffindor." I stated plainly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I saw you sit with them at the feast yesterday so I presumed... What are you then?"
"I don't belong to any house." I continued when he had confusion on his face. "The sorting hat said I belonged to all house. Dumbledore said I could pick but the only one I ruled out was Slytherin. So I'm not any, I just get on really well with the Weasley's and other students in Gryffindor... Well, I need to go see McGonagall quickly."
"I'll walk you out, what have you got next?"
"Charms double, then Transfiguration followed by potions I think."
He nodded then looked at his timetable. "Same as me, so are you going to put your name into the goblet?"
I shook my head, "I'm not allowed to, I'm under age."
"But you're a prefect and a seventh year."
"Maybe I'm just that good." I laughed and he returned it. Dam, I was meant to be annoyed at him not laughing with him. "I need to be going this way I'll see you in Charms."
I walked away but he yelled to me, "Wait, I still don't know your name."
"Maybe you'll find out later, If you're lucky unless you can actually remember my name." I smirked and carried on walking. I ran up the stairs to Mcgonagall's office and knocked on the hard wood door.
"Come in."
"Hello, Professor McGonagall." I came into the room fully and shut the door gently behind me.
"Good Morning Mia, what can I do for you?"
"Professor Dumbledore asked me to watch over Professor Moody's lesson this morning and he was displaying the unforgivable curses. I wanted to let you to know that Neville Longbottom had a bad reaction to the curses for obvious reason."
She nodded understandingly, "I'll see how he is in his next lesson, thank you for informing me Mia. You best be off to your lesson, don't want to keep Professor Flitwick waiting."
"See you in Transfiguration Professor."
I exited the room and hurried to my charms class.
