Chapter 7—Plans, and miscalculations

Well with an age line that eliminates us, sighed Hermione.

I was neither sure, nor happy but Ragnok and I had a plan. The moment the Goblet was unveiled there would be a faithful Goblin under an invisibility cloak guarding it. Since there was an age line no adult was to neither cross nor cast a spell at the Goblet. As soon as evening fell and traffic around the Goblet disappeared I would then cast the ward Ragnok provided then the Goblin guard only had to report any weird attempts on the Goblet. The Goblin would be relieved every two hours but always the cup would be watched.

"Mr. Potter, you will report to my office after the feast" the change of personality was clear in Dumbledore.

"Ah yes" I said standing, "Professor McGonagall if you would be kind as accompany me" I said with a smile, the game had begun.

"I have been asked not to attend" was her reply.

"Well since you will not abide by the rules of Hogwarts and the responsibilities of Deputy Headmistress I formally request that Professor Filius Flitwick attend in you steed"

"With pleasure Lord Potter" was Flitwick's reply.

"That will not be necessary Filius, I have only a few words for Mr. Potter" Dumbledore was in charge after all.

"Well then as Lord Potter I refuse your invitation" I chuckled.

"That was not an invitation but an order" replied Dumbledore.

"Then I invoke Hogwarts rules, no student, especially a Lord; will be required into a situation where his safety is in question without the presents of his Head of House or designated representatives. I have chosen Professor Flitwick you have no choice Headmaster.

"And I have accepted Headmaster" Filius stated.

"What are you talking about, I have…"

"Your placement of me at the Dursley's has almost cost me my life on multiple occasions, I will not allow you to control, nor direct me any more, is that clear Dumbledore!"

"Ah, Lord Potter, I have reconsidered after your discussion here and I would be pleased if you let me accompany you on this visit to the Headmaster office", Mcgonagall added before a silent Dumbledore who only noted his head in agreement.

"Thank you Professor McGonagall your attendance is welcomed" I replied.

Well nothing was really accomplished; Snape kept his mouth shut, and Dumbledore only asked personnel questions which I declined to answer. So after a total waste of time we headed out and suddenly realized that we didn't know where Gryffindore quarters were, so we headed to the dungeons and entered Slytherins common room to get to my old quarters and the girls dormitory.

"What are you doing bringing a mud-blood into Slytherins common room you…" Draco did end up with a sock in his mouth and glued to the wall. The rest of the Slytherins said nothing as we entered the Griffith entrance.

Things had been changed, we entered into another common room but my old quarter were gone, what replaced them was a set of stairs. Up one flight I found Gryffindore's quarters and another exit to the third floor of Hogwarts.

Now being boot closet raised, with wives from a semi rich muggle household, and a rich pure blood household, well all of us three were completely floored over the Gryffindor quarters. Gold and Silver inlayed marble, thick carpeting, rich in rich wooden furniture, fixtures in gold and the place was almost too much to live in, maybe sent to a museum for opulent living but not for fifteen year old normal people. The bed was huge and the view from the balcony was breath taking. I then got my brains to working and went back to the Slytherin common room and offered sanctuary to all the girls who wanted it, as it was now a legend, a flood of girls came in. I was pleasantly surprised that the dormitory was more than adequate to house all. Another thought crossed my mind.

I raced back to Gryffindor quarters and said:

~"Lady Hogwarts can you hear me?"

~"Yesssssss"

~"Can we talk like normal humans or is this whispering all you can do."

~"Nooo, Yesss. So quiet she whispered as a breeze might infer."

~"I do not want you to hurt yourself, and you have done so much for me and mine but without hurting yourself can you make an entrance in the forbidden forest for my Goblin friends and quarter in the castle for them?" I knew this was probably too much but…'

~"Yesss"

A door appeared in the common room and upon entry I found troop type quarter and doors to the forbidden forest, the Goblins were as impressed as I was.

/Scene Break/

And so the life boiled along until the great moment when the champions would be selected by the Goblet. The great hall was lit only by candles and for dramatic effect half of those dimmed as the Goblet lit:

"And the champion for Durmstrang is Victor Krum" and the Durmstrang student go hyper 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 our three…" the Goblet again lights and the Goblet spits out Albus Dumbledore.

Well then you have confusion, some were in shock, others laughing and Dumdum was pissed. Fudge was apoplectic; some red-head with him was puff up like a blow fish. Filius fell off his cushions at the head table in laughter.

The ward on the Goblet had worked.

Well they decided that since there was some kind of error the tournament was declared a draw or some such and started all over again. Well that didn't set right with the other school head and the argument continued into the night. The next day a new announcement was made:

"We have decided to relight the Goblet and submit only those who were chosen from their respective schools." Officiated dumdum.

The Goblin guards had told that Madeye Moody had been cursing the cup and had put in an entry so it was still a surprise:

"And the champion for Durmstrang is Victor Krum" and the Durmstrang student go hyper 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 our…" the Goblet again lights and the Goblet spits out Barty Crouch Jr.

Well if you need a level head in a disaster you can count on Dumdum, "So now that we have our four champions let us give them a round of applause and off to bed to one and all. Champions please accompany me to the anti-chamber."

As the students filed out of the Great Hall a number of confused students were wondering who the hell is Barty Crouch Jr. while others saw the Goblet of Fire actually catch fire which occupied a number of professors. It also was not unnoticed that screaming was coming from the anti-chamber.

Flashback:

I was slow with girls I hope all boys are, that way I can say in my own mind "STUPID". On the island we were kids, friends, companions then we come back and in a couple of days we grew years older. While running around like possessed crazy people we shopped, plotted, and shortly there after were at Hogwarts. The first night in a scrumptious bed I noticed that the girls were really girls and I was in bed with real sexy girls. Further I was a boy who had grown and they were sexy girls and they had bits. Nice sexy bits and they are in the same bed with me and they are scrumptious girls. Oh shit I am in trouble. Hermione hears it over the mind link and she is not making my problem any smaller. Daf starts laughing and joins Moine oh Morgana what do I do? Well I got shown multiple times that night in my scrumptious bed.

End Flashback:

It was quite and classes were dragging alone. Learning in some classes were fun and then there was Snape's dungeon, the torture room. With Weasley's group, Draco's group and Snape Potions there was going to be a serious accident. So far only minor melting of cauldrons or bubbling over of potions was going on.

Friday was here and charms in the morning and Potions in the afternoon. So an enjoyable morning a miserable afternoon and YEA! The weekend! By Saturday morning I was wondering how wrong I could be. First was charms and Flitwick wanted the 'Confundo' Charm practice. He had two barriers on either side of the room and put half the students behind each. He split me from my girls, I figured because we would be leery of cursing each other. Medium charms were to be used and 'Confundo' was to be used to confuse the person and they would be removed by Flitwick as out of the exercise.

Who threw the curses was discussed for a while; Flitwick thought that it was several persons using 'Carpe Retractum' to pull down the barricade, a 'Confundo' and a banishing charm like 'Depulso', even a 'Finite Incantatem' was speculated upon. Well who do you think can't shoot straight and who do you think decided to pop up over the barricade, me "el stupido." I got all the spells in the face and woke in the hospital with two worried girls about noon. So I was out for maybe three hours. Then the hugging and kissing started with Madam Pomfrey rushing in as referee.

Appears that my scar was more than a scar and with a pulling charm, a banishing charm and confusion charm, it lost its hold of me and left for other places. Madam Pomfrey is saying that my scar would not leave a scar when I swear the castle shook with a large blast. She kicked me and the girls out as the injured started pouring in.

Later in the Great Hall:

"Longbottom, are you ok?" I asked him as his arm was in a sling and he had a bandaged head.

"I told the idiot he should not be doing that, but no he knows better" as Longbottom is getting started Seamus Finnegan hobbles in on muggle crunches, with Dean Thomas limping behind and Seamus yells "Keep your mouth shut Longbottom, Ron was only getting even."

"I'm not talking to you Finnegan so go tell it to Dumbledore. Sorry Harry this pisses me off big time. I am known for being bad at potions but what Ron, Malfoy and Parkinson pulled was lethal and I am not going to take it anymore."

"I suppose they loused up their own potions?" I asked.

"Not even close, Harry they sabotaged each other, first while Ron and Malfoy were arguing at the potion cabinet Pansy does a switching spell and puts something in Ron's cauldron. Ron switched vials of something Draco needed and Draco stuck something on Ron. Well you know Snape he doesn't want to here it especially from me. Well the short of it was the cauldrons didn't just fizz or melt, no they exploded and sprayed chemicals, vials and potions everywhere, last I remember is the potion cabinet exploding and people flying every which way. Catch you later there is Dumbledore I want to lodge a complaint on those three."

Dumbledore did nothing to any of the participants.