Chapter 7—He's one of the champions
Madame Maxime's huge horses dragged in one large carriage full of gorgeous girls, while the skeletal looking ship rose out of the water, Professor Karkaroff had arrived.
Durmstrang stormed into the hall to sit at the Slytherin table as if prearranged. Beauxbatons girls were headed towards the Huffelpuff table along with almost every males eyes.
Suddenly a silver streak broke ranks from the Beauxbatons ranks and tackled me to the ground with a multitude of kisses, Gabby had arrived.
Looking from the schools point of view it must have been funny for the next few days. Ron Weasley was at first drooling over Victor Krum the Quidditch star, Hermione may have competition. Jerald was drooling over a number of Beauxbatons girls, poor Ginny I hope her face doesn't get stuck with that look. It seemed that there were a number of Veela among the girls. Both Hogwart girls were shooting killing stares, while many males were walking into walls.
Under normal circumstances I would have laughed but I now had Gabby around and I was drawing the ire of a lot of boys. While we had friends like Daphne, Rachel, Tracy, even Fleur Delacour hung around us but that was more for Gabby than me.
What was funny was if the boys did less glaring and more asking the girls out they may have gotten somewhere, but what can you expect, we are all dumb boys.
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I think I got on the wrong side of Draco Malfoy for a couple of reasons, Draco did not want me at the Slytherin table, nor close to the girls he kept hitting on with no luck. Then there was the lopping off of his father's hand thing.
We had just gotten up to attend class when Draco jumped in front of us, "You will keep you filthy Griffendor ass away from the Slytherin table, this is your last warning."
I ignored him which made him ever more irate and he pulled his wand with a curse on his lips. The curse he fire at me was a little off, it hit a student at the Hufflepuff table. I 'faded' behind Draco and snatched his wand from his hand before he could hurt someone else, mainly me. He whirled around only to run into my fist causing his bottom to meet the stone floor. Madeye was not happy when he stomped up on his wooden leg.
"Constant Vigilance I teach and you still walk in with your eyes closed, maybe a detention or two will wake you up." He snatched Draco off the floor and dragged him off. I wondered if Madeye was unhappy because he tried or that he failed.
So a day later Draco entered his mouth and his life into a larger confrontation, to his own detriment. He, Crab, Goyle and three other older Slytherin types tried to corner Gabby and myself in a corridor. "Hay Potty, I see you got a Veela whore, why don't I sample the merchandise while we will let you watch".
~Take the group behind Draco with a curse or two and let me have these three idiots
~A pleasure my darling
When the Slytherins started to move forward, to their regret, they felt what a steel Stave could feel like in the hands of a pissed off husband as I 'faded' behind Draco, the rest only got stunned and tied up with heavy chains by Gabby.
Bringing the stave down on Draco's wand arm was my first move. Draco was surprised and in pain, I hit him in the stomach and planted my knee in his jaw on the way down. These blows accompanied the cracking sound of breaking bones. With all the brut strength the two gorillas still went for their wands. Crab I slapped aside of his head as I spun using the stave, he fell away from my path of travel. 'Fading' behind Goyle, my foot tried a soccer shot on Goyle's privates. That put him next to Draco whimpering quietly. Gabby had thrown several curses incapacitating the rest of the idiots. This ought to make Madeye feel incompetent, I thought with a smile on my face. Thinking of the devil and Madeye comes stomping around the corner looking none to happy.
Well this brought the board of governors, DMLE, and the Ministry representatives. Bad news came with each. The Board of Governors came with Malfoy Sr, the DMLE came with Madam Amelia Bones, and the Minister Fudge came with Dumbledore. This brought forth a verbal round robin Donnybrook.
"Dumbledore you will leave this school immediately", demanded Griselda Marchbanks and seconded by Professor Tofty of the Board of Governors.
"I want Harry Potter arrested" Demanded Lucius Malfoy, seconded by Fudge.
"I want my quarter assigned so I may guide this tournament" demanded Dumbledore.
"I think this can all wait, we have an escape prisoner likely headed to this school" demanded Amelia Bones.
Finally Harry had enough and shouted, "if and when you decide something we will be back tomorrow morning" grabbing Gabby we 'Faded' out of the Great Hall to our cottage.
That caused silence to fall in the Great Hall as you can not 'apperate' at Hogwarts. Thankfully I had explained Padfoot to Gabby shortly after we got bonded.
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"As your minister it is my duty and great pleasure to protect the students of Hogwarts. Sirius Black has escaped Azkaban last week so I have brought the best protection you can get. I have placed Dementors at the gates of Hogwarts…bla, bla, bla. It's funny it took them that long to figure out he was gone from the same Dementors that are here now.
"Cornelius I don't think that is a good idea, what if they go on a rampage" Amelia was told off but she got some Aurors stationed that could produce a spell "Exspecto Patronus". This protection was to be at Hogwarts to protect the students. They actually were lying as it was to protect Jerald from Black and to hell with the rest. The Minister was not to be out done so he assigned his assistant Weatherby to check the tournament(another Weasley we surmised). Dumbledore was back via Fudge and the tournament. Dumbledore was to run the operation as he was the one who got the tournament started after a break of a gazillion years.
Draco and crowd were back a few days later again strutting the halls. The rumor mill was working on how much daddy had to cough up to Fudge to get the charges dropped.
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Well all this could have been trouble or a disaster but it turned out hilarious. I was the hidden twin so nobody ever told me about squat no less about Sirius O. Black. So while I knew my biological parent were James and Lily Potter they held no real place in my life, the Goblins were my family not Jerald, I was just something left over from the Potters death and treated as such. Sirius was the best friend of my parents and thought the world of James and Lily Potter but by now he was not thrilled with Jerald but with the Dementors wandering around he was stuck in the cottage. I had even persuaded him that we would get Wormtail with a plan we had yet to come up with. A Dementors kiss was enough to persuade him to enjoy the cottage.
What was hilarious was Padfoot's actions as a dog around the pool with girls running around in bikinis, well to start with.
Flashback:
The cottage was a get away for the girls, like an unwritten rule, they took their dates to other places. Harry was thought to be neutral as he had Gabby. Oh, look he did, but he really only had eyes for Gabby. With Victorian thinking in the magical world this was a safe get-a-way to be themselves. Well the girls only knew Padfoot as a dog, they did not know Sirius and his warped sence of humor.
The pool was surrounded by girls trying to get the perfect suntan. This included girls lying on reclining lounge chairs. Of course to get the perfect tan on their back a number had undone the bikini strap and were lying face down enjoying the rays. Well Padfoot wander up to Tracy and laid a big lick on her arm. When Tracy started to get up Padfoot grabbed the string and ran. "You can put your eyes back in your head Harry" sparked Tracy. Padfoot was having fun and snuck around and got another girl before bikini tops were just forgotten.
The girls had finally adopted the clothing optional way, the exception was when the house "gong" that went off announcing a visitor, then clothing was mandatory.
End FlashBack
A few days later, the "gong" went off, "Amelia how nice you could visit, and who is this lovely Lady." I was almost dying to make a comment over her outlandish pink hair.
"This is Auror Tonks she is a new Aura and I want her assigned as protection for Susan. Also I would like an explanation of the wards here on the cottage."
The wards at the cottage were never made for animal repelling nor lethal for Voldemort but how would I know from a Snortstack I had never checked. I mean what danger were their right now, not Voldemort, Black was not a problem, no the wards to keep out Dumbledore or unwanted visitors was enough.
Tonks turned out to be Black's cousin with an attitude and now sporting red hair. She was pinker when Amelia left. "OH Morgana" shrieked Tonks, the nude girls started coming out from everywhere including Susan holding hands with Hanna Abbott.
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A few days later, Tonks exploded as she entered the room where Sirius and I were discussing how to get to the prophecy at the Ministry. I had to disarm her but she still had a melt down and went after Sirius.
I had to tackle her and while wrestling a girl and being able to get close is normally nice, it is not when she is trained in law enforcement. After the physical battle and much explaining, where Sirius sported a black eye and I was still unable to get off the floor. She then thought that all this was funny and then proceeded to come up with the nuttier plan to get the prophecy that you could dream of. The plan was simple, just walk in, take it and walk out.
Gabby and I had overheard Jerald, Ron and Hermione whispered discussion of his nightmares. Well Ron doesn't know how to whisper and Hermione demands too many answers. When we discussed it with Padfoot he said it sounded like the Department of Mysteries and it proceeded from there.
By now I was not overly trusting many people and that Goblet of fire really scared me. So I 'faded' past Dumdums age line and put up a blood ward. Blood ward was illegal per the Ministry but so was just about everything else but I was not going to worry about it. The ward was to look for my specific blood and change the entry to Albus Dumbledore if my name got entered in any way.
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After Sirius was cleaned up and a couple of minor application of muggle make-up applied, you could not recognize Sirius. Tonks do not call me Nyphadora or you die, loaned Sirius her second wand and we were off to the Ministry. The guard at the entrance to the ministry was only worried about weighing the wands and paid more attention to Tonks and the changing hair colors than anything else. Of course being in the company of an Aura did not hurt. We just walked in, I picked up the orb and put our fake in its place and then walked to the registrars office where Sirius signed some paperwork and we walked out of the Ministry. We walked out of sight of the ministry and all three of us broke down in laughter. Whether it was because of nerves or that we got away with it did not matter, it was just too much.
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Well time passes, classes are attended, and time passes.
Gabby was fine with all the nude girls running round the cottage so long as no one enter our bedroom or me touching anyone but her, we were bonded after all.
"Harry dear, you look a little tired, why don't we lie down for a little while" purred Gabby as she was playing with my hair.
I wasn't going to turn that down; I just threw her over my shoulder and made for the bedroom. She threw up a silencing charm and we attacked each other. "THE TALK" had given us some ideas and we were full of hormones but the last act was not going to happen soon.
After wards we head for the tub and here she goes again working me up for a replay. It's not like she was not satisfied as the silencing charm was definitely challenged. Now she has me pinned to the steps that enter the tub and causing waves of water to splash all over the place. It's not like I'm complaining but I best ask Apoline if I'm missing something about the Veela.
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Well that evening the Goblet of Fire was going to draw the champions and with Dumbledore running the operation it was bound to be a disaster.
"And the champion for Durmstrang is Victor Krum" and the Durmstrang student go hyper for a while clapping and yelling.
"And the Beauxbatons champion is Fleur Delacour" and the Beauxbatons students do their thing.
"And the Hogwarts champion is Cedrick Diggory" and Hogwarts students try to bring the house down.
"So now that we have…" the Goblet again lights and spits out Jerald Potter and the students start whispering.
Just when the judges and champions are turning to leave the Goblet again starts to light, sputters, and coughs and goes quite, nothing comes out.
Again it was just the over heard conversation from Jerald later the next day, "So the judges thought that someone had sabotaged the goblet" demanded Hermione.
"Could have been a 'confundes' charm" suggested Ron.
"That is just stupid Ron, that's just not possible on such a magical object" objected Hermione.
"Well they thought that the goblet did that to me and was going to do it again until it…that was the question, died? stated Jerald.
"Or just had enough?" added Ron.
I had a suspicion that if I had not warded the Goblet it would have continued and my name was next. Dumbledore strikes again was the obvious answer.
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The next weekend was a Hogsmeade Village weekend and everyone was going. Well Harry was going to the cottage and so did all the girls. The party was a huge success, butterbeer was flowing, and the pool was overflowing with party fun.
"Harreeee its nap time" so off to the bedroom. There were a number of snickers from the girls in the living room. A short time later, female sound of ecstasy echoed down the hall, some one forgot the silencing charm. Harry had lost the fight with an insistent Gabby.
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The first task was a disaster. Fleur got most of her hair burnt off while doing some hypnotic dance.
Krum got stepped on and Diggory almost lost his pretty boy looks by massive burns to his face.
Jerald cried "Accio". His broom came flying in and he tried to fly around the dragon. It looked like some real planning had been put into his plan untill the dragons tail swatted him off his broom. He seemed to shake it off but then he got burnt, bashed and stepped on before the dragon handles arrived. Actually Madam Pomfrey thought he was dead for a few seconds.
"Harry, a word" called Headmistress McGonagall. "I know the answer before I ask the question but Dumbledore wants to know if you will take Jerald's place, it's in the rules if the champion can not continue he may choose a champion to replace him."
"Nope, no, it isn't going to happen" replied Harry and he turned away laughing, maybe peacock Ron would want the position.
Harry and Gabby departed to France for the summer, warning Padfoot that he was still wanted and not to pee on the furniture.
