Title: Error of Tragedies
Original Author: Chinsuihime
Summary: Harry Potter as the neglected and abused brother of the Boy-Who-Lived. Harry Potter/Viktor Krum- manipulative!Dumbledore, abusive!Potters.
Pairings: Harry Potter x Viktor Krum, Sirius Black x Remus Lupin, James Potter x Lily Evans.
Disclaimer 1: I do not own the characters used in this story, they belong to J.K Rowling.
Disclaimer 2: I adopted this, the first chapter is the original author's, but is a combination of the few chapters that they have written.
Warnings: Child Abuse, male love, Mpreg later on.
A/N This chapter is dedicated to my friend and surrogate brother JT… unlike in the previous chapter he will not be placed into it.
First Task
I found out from Fred and George that their brother Charlie was in the country on Dumbledore's request. They also told me that their brother trained dragons, once I found that out I went running to Viktor to warn him and then I went to the other Champions, except Hayden because I have a feeling he already knew and kept it to himself, due to his friend Ronald Weasley, Charlie and the Twins youngest brother.
I don't want anyone to get hurt and the others, Fleur and Cedric, were in shock and then, "You're just trying to get us off our game," laughs Cedric.
"Listen to me you ignorant fools!" I scream, thankfully we're out of earshot while I'm like this, "Do you really think I would be so concerned if I wasn't being honest! Fucking dragon trainers are here with several!"
Fleur looks at me and places a hand on my shoulder, "How do we know we can trust you?"
"I don't know you, and you don't know me, but I swear on my magic that I am only looking out for you," I say, and then a blue light emanates from my heart, my magical core and my wand.
"You don't have too," Cedric says frantically, but the deed is done.
"Though it does make me feel more secure with you young one," Fleur says ruffling my head.
I blush, but then Hayden has to come, with Ron and a bright muggle born named Hermione, and ruin the moment, "Ha! I know what the first challenge is! I hope you all do well…NOT!"
"Yeah!" Ron says, "Bet you won't stand a chance!"
Hermione mouths an apology and "Meet me by the lake after lunch," and I smile her way.
Fleur and Cedric look at him and Cedric snarls, "Fame isn't everything Hayden."
The two boys start gaping like fish, but Hermione is trying not to laugh, "Hayden, you and I know that James and Lily would give you a trophy just for being a perfect Potter," I tell him.
I walk away with the other two Champions, the boys yelling insults our way, but we just worry about training for the dragon, the only good thing about my ex-brother is that he could never keep his mouth shut, "Sorry for doubting you Ryder," the two say.
"Whatever, I get it," but they look hurt that I wasn't being stuck up about it, "Really, I would have reacted the same way."
I force myself to show my face to my fellow students, but they are more pissed at Hayden, who has everything a kid his age could ever want, but after lunch I go to meet Hermione by the Black Lake, "Ryder, I didn't think you'd show," she says in disbelief.
"What do you want to talk about 'Mione?" I ask, I give everyone a nickname, I decided that since her parents call her by this name that I would too, but the only reason I know that is because she is always thinking about them and how proud they are of her, how she is always replaying their memory when she's scared or down. I learned early on after the Potter blood left my body that my mother's side of the family had seer's blood and readers blood, but it is a recessive gene.
"No one has ever called me that other than my parents, not even my two 'best' friends," she replies.
"Well, I guess that this means I want to be friends," I say sincerely.
We spend our free period talking about Hayden and Ron, "They are only friends with me because I give them my homework to copy," she says, crying, "If that wasn't bad enough, they drag me with them to get them out of trouble, I'm quick on my feet and they would probably be dead if it wasn't for me," then she starts speaking in parslemouth, "Not to mention that if it wasn't for this gift Ron's little sister, Ginny, would be dead."
I look to her in disbelief; the gift was rare, but even rarer in a muggle borns… I hiss back to her, "You how to speak like this?"
We look to each other and then start laughing, we come to an agreement that if we had a secret to tell or just wanted to talk, that we would speak like this, our own secret language that you have to be born with, that cannot be learned.
We talk about what it was like for me, swapping stories about our schools and experiences with Hayden, "So you were disowned?" I nod, "Wow, I am SO sorry, I wish I would have known before hand, but the only good thing about being their friend is that my family is getting paid."
I start laughing, "That was the only way he ever had friends when we were younger, but my friends were in books and the reptiles that lived nearby. The Potters didn't want me to ruin their image, me being a 'Squib' and all, 'A disgrace to my family name by being born,' James had said."
"I'm so sorry that that happened to you Ryder," she says, but I shrug it off, "Would, would you be my friend, a REAL friend?"
"Yeah, 'Mione," I say, "I think that you saving them millions of times, that you would get SOME recognition, but I guess being the friend of the Boy-Who-Lived is all that you'll ever be seen as."
She sighs, "I guess you're right, but-"
I pull her into a hug, "Listen to me, you and your real friends are worth more than Hayden, because you care, you are the people that make this world a better place. I know that you might not see it now, but I know a guy in Slytherin who has his eye on you and he told me so. Theodore Nott, you know him?"
She blushes, "Yeah, but he always makes fun of me, but I like him… too I guess."
"I say that a strong woman like you should walk up to him and ask him out, being a Courageous Gryffindor and all," I say laughing, she hits me, but it's all in good fun, with her blushing mad and all.
We leave when we hear the bell and head to our next class. The rest of the day was very uneventful, but during another free hour the other Champions and I train for our first tast.
We head to dinner together, her and I along with her friend Neville Longbottom and his girlfriend Luna Lovegood and my friends from all the houses, laughing at Hayden, who had melted no less than four cauldrons within the hour we had with Professor Snape.
While we were eating Hermione gets up and nervously walks over to the Slytherin table and goes towards Theo, the hall grows silent as she approaches her pray, "What do you want mud-blood?" he snaps.
"I heard through the grapevine that you like me," she states with more confidence than she is feeling, but manages to have everyone convinced that she is in control, "that true?"
He begins to studder, "Well… Um… You see…"
"How about you just ask me out already and get it over with," she states, causing the hall to look at the two, many jaws are dropped at her bluntness towards Theo.
I smile and try to hold back a laugh as I see the look on Ron's face, but Teddy doesn't hold back, as he gain his courage, "Will you go out with me Hermione Granger?"
His face turns a beet colored red as she thinks it over, causing him to squirm, as he thinks he is about to be made a fool of. If I didn't know what house she was in I would think she was a Slytherin, but the whole school is holding their breath, due to the rumors that these two were 'meant to be' or the other one about their 'sexual tension'. I look to my friend and after a very long minute of letting him go through his many emotions and silent pleas for this to be real, "I guess I could give you a chance Theo."
His jaw drops, but after the shock subsides, happiness takes over. He stands and lifts her up in the air and spins her around, kissing her on the lips, "You have NO idea how long I have waited to do this."
"I think I can guess," she says laughing.
"Was this your doing?" George asks.
I'm beaming and the three start laughing. We look to Ron, who has a very sour expression, like he just lost he just saw the most horrific thing, and according to his older brothers, that would be spiders, "Sorry Ronnikins," says Fred.
"But looks like," George continues.
"Your dream girl," Fred jumps in.
"Is taken," Lee finishes, slapping his hands over the twins, then has a look on his face that says, 'Ha! I won!'
"The bookworm?" Ron says, "There is no snowball's chance in hell! That I like that snotty Know-It-All, I was only using her to pass my classes."
I look at him in disbelief, but the hall has broken into applause and most of the people from their houses are cheering, but what Ron just said was overheard by many students and they stop cheering and look at him, gaining the attention of ALL the people in the room, "Say that again Ron," Neville says, "I don't think she heard you."
"She already knows, but if you want me to repeat it, FINE! I said, that there is no snowball's chance in hell that I like that snotty Know-It-All, and that I was only using her to pass my classes."
"You go Ron!" yells Hayden, causing 'Mione to cry into Teddy's chest, him being seven inches taller than her in all, "It's not like you all wouldn't do the same thing."
I stand and walk over to his head of house, "You CONDONE such behavior? I thought having Hayden was supposed to be good for the lions, but I guess he just isn't smart enough that he needs to cheat, how pathetic."
I walk to sit with the Slytherins, many Gryffindors follow, disgusted that they were ever friends with those two, but they sat with me and made amends with many of their fellow students, and school unity was on its way. Most Gryffindors made their way to Slytherin, but there wasn't enough room, so many sat with friends from other houses, not wanting to associate themselves with the bastards once called the Golden Duo, then Golden Trio, now back to the Golden Duo, but now as people are calling them, The Molded Duo.
Many students go up to the Slytherin table and apologize, but the return to their seats, due to the lack of space, but that gives me an idea to hatch to their headmaster, other than the Ball that's coming up.
After time Viktor, Fleur, Cedric and I become close enough to discuss strategies against the beasts, and the older students start to teach me some spells I could use, but they drain me of most of my energy.
Courtney and Daniel arrive, though they are my age they are really smart and quick, and graduated from their school last year and are here to teach the dance class for the upcoming Christmas Ball, but it's just the basics and will get 'better' after the first task.
We trained long and hard for both the dance and the task, but we were all still afraid of what is to come. On the day of the first task, November 24, we were dressed in school colors, house colors or family crest colors, "Now champions," said Mr. Bagman, "In this pouch are dragon replicas with numbers on them, the number indicates which of you will go with the dragon you choose at the given time."
I start to hyperventilate, but thankfully only my new friends notice and place a hand on one another in a good luck fashion, at least in the eyes of the heads of schools, but to the four of us, it's a sign of fear and a silent way to show understanding. I go up to each Champion and all the guys are given handshakes, while Fleur receives two kisses on the cheeks.
Fleur goes first, I guess chivalry really isn't dead, and gets a Common Welsh Green with a number two around its neck. Cedric went second and plucks out a Swedish Short-Snout with a number one around its neck. Viktor reaches in and grabs a Chinese Fireball with a number four around its neck. Hayden rushes and seizes a Romanian Longhorn with a number three around its neck. I reach in a hesitantly grab the final dragon, unfortunately for me it is the most dangerous of all dragons, a Hungarian Horntail, I will be the last to perform.
The others go in and out in a timely fashion, but as time passes the more and more I start to lose my sense of ability to get the egg. I look out of the tent, using a wordless and wandless spell to allow to see through the tent, and see my mother and father, my friends with a banner, the Potter family, my Uncles, and my friends family. I try not to watch the events of the other champions, but seeing Fleur getting hurt draws a lone tear to my eye.
After some time the others have gotten their eggs, but only Fleur and Hayden got hurt… so far. Fleur got burnt, but nothing too severe, just her robes and some first degree burns. Hayden on the other hand got hit in the shoulder by the dragon's horn and it drew blood, only few drops, but it was enough for him to say that, "That dragon should be put down!" Merlin am I happy that I am no longer related to that little monster.
"NOW, LET'S PUT OUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR RYDER FLAMEL!" screams the announcer, Lee Jordan, "IF HE GET'S HIS EGG TOO, THEN ALL OUR CHAMPIONS WILL BE MOVING ON TO THE NEXT CHALLENGE!"
Viktor and Cedric gave me the idea that I could accio my Firebolt, that I got for Christmas when I got adopted, from Uncle Moony and Uncle Padfoot, thank god we are allowed wands, but for Merlin's sake I'm facing the most brutal dragon known to man! I walk out to the playing field, where my friends have painted a banner that changed colors and wording, at first it said, "Ryder's Gonna Ride His Way To Victory," though no one knew what they meant, but then it read, "Potter's Gonna Cry His Way To Mum And Dad," which he did since they are sitting in the stands with him, tending to his 'fatal' wound.
Mum and Dad are sitting there with my friends, Dad's cheering and Mum has a worried look on her face. Everyone from my school is cheering for me, along with some of my new friends, I wave and then, "AND LET IT BEGIN," I hear someone hiss in my ear, I look to see the dragon, "I KNOW YOU CAN'T HEAR ME, BUT YOU'RE LUNCH."
I hiss back, "I can hear you; all I want is the egg that doesn't belong."
It stomps it foot and I call my broom, after a long minute it was there and the fire from the dragon almost hits me. On the broom I feel free, but I have a job to do, so when the dragon moves to snap at me I dive down and retrieve the egg, but unfortunately it doesn't end there.
The dragon brakes from its chains and starts to follow me. I hear gasps and many telling the handlers to get her down, but they can't. I take the dragon out of the arena and away from the people; all I am left with is my abilities.
I fly around the school, but the dragon perches itself on Gryffindor Tower, swishes its tail, knocking me off my broom. My broom lands several meters away from me, but the only problem is that we are several HUNDRED meters off the ground. I look to the dragon, which has an evil grin on its face; I turn my head and leap for my broom, just making it as it was slipping off the edge.
The dragon roars in frustration, but as I fly it follows. I do several laps around the school and see the bridge, I dive and go through a window, but the dragon isn't so lucky, it crashed into it and fell into the trench below, howling in pain.
I want to go save it, but I have to worry about my parents, who are possibly thinking I am dead. I near closer to the stadium I hear a deathly silence, but when Ameth sees me he starts cheering, causing the others to follow suit. I have the egg in my hand, a burnt robe, a bleeding forehead, but they are all worn proudly. My headmaster treats my wound and everyone comes to greet and congratulate me, "Ryder," my father says, "You EVER worry us like that again, you'll find yourself unable to sit for a month," but then he starts laughing, "I'm so glad you're okay."
I smile at then all, but then reality sets in, the Potter's are coming this way with Hayden, "You sabotaged our son's chances of winning," James says.
"I did no such thing," I say, but then I direct it to Hayden, "How could I?"
"The others were very calm," Hayden says.
"We weren't calm," Fleur says, "but for arguments sake we had to act for the sakes of the people watching."
The announcer comes on, "FOR THE SCORES OF THE PENTIWIZARD GAMES… IN FIRST PLACE… IT'S A TIE! BETWEEN BOTH CHAMPIONS OF DURMSTRANG! IN SECOND IS BOTH CEDRIC AND FLEUR! FINALLY IN THIRD IS HAYDEN POTTER!" Lee screams, "GREAT JOB GUYS! NOW THE EGGS ARE YOUR CLUES FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE, WHICH WON'T BE UNTIL AFTER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY! GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!"
Lee had been calling this year's tournament that since the night we were chosen, "WHAT?!" screamed both Hayden and Dumbledore.
Viktor comes up behind me, scaring the living shit out of me, me nerves are still on edge, "Vell wee'll just 'have to break dat tie."
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