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Harry walked in to great hall and saw on the Gryffindor, his sister being held down by her best friends.

Fred sat on the table between her legs tickling her sides. George held her arms to stop her from getting free. She was wearing the school uniform of a skirt but her shoe's were at the side so her feet were only had socks on.

"Stop," she gasped between laughing. Fred stopped and looked surprisingly evil and he looked up at her.

"Will you tell us what happened yesterday, in detail?"

"No," she sniggered before being pounce on again by Fred as he set about tickling her..,

"Mr. Weasley let her go this instant!" screeched Professor Mcgonnall as the pair let Vesper go. Fred stood in front of the Professor as she told him off.

Meanwhile Vesper had slipped off the table and landed on the floor just behind Fred. Quietly she reach up with her pale hand and grasped the back of Fred's belt gently then she tugged hard making the belt come lose of its hold and Fred's trousers fell down to his knee's. He caught them in a flash, pulled them up and turning to Vesper as he went to pounce on her, however being smaller and quicker, she scurried out of his reach, dodged around George and ran for the door. The Professor (still shouting in outraged) forgotten. Fred ran after her, holding up hit trousers with one hand and yelling to George.

"Freorge catch her!" he couldn't get the smile off his face as he raced after her. She was sneaky and she was fast and she was a Weasley in all but name.

The three ran down a corridor, leaving insults and laughter in their wake, when Vesper stopped suddenly making the twins almost plough into her. They grabbed her by the arms and lifted her up between then, thankful that they were at the very least a head and a half taller then her, the pair glanced around her to see what had stopped her.

Professor Snape growled at them, sneering down his nose at them before he brushed pass them, cape fluttering around him dramatically. The three watch him go before the twins shoved her in to a corner.

"What happened?" they growled together, trying to be menacing, both holding one of her wrist in their own hands.

"Do you really want to know?" She smirked. It was a look more befitting a person of Slytherin.

"Yes!" both boys cried. Vesper leaned in to whisper in both their ears before she kissed both of their cheeks and pushed passed them to find her shoe's with a grin.

The brothers just stood , staring in to space, mouths open.

"Oh, my merlin," They both uttered, their girl was gown up, something the pair had denied for a long while now. Sure they knew she was a beautiful young witch but they had scheme to place her and Ginny in a monastery of some type.

The pair glanced at each other and shrugged before racing after her.

"Details!"

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That night Harry Potter sneaks out of the Griffindor common room and into the prefects bathroom with his own egg, using his fathers invisible cloak and the Marauder's map, to get there unseen.

After listening to the riddle of the Egg a few time he decides to leave. As he gathers the Egg and his other belongings and covered by his Cloak, he prepares to head back to Gryffindor tower. The Map shows no one is in the halls except Peeves. However someone unexpected is in Professor Snape's office: Mr. Bartemius Crouch. Harry wonders why Mr. Crouch is at Hogwarts so late, particularly as he is apparently very ill and was unable to attend the Yule Ball. Harry curiosity get the better of him and he decides to investigate, but as he is concentrating on the map, his foot becomes trapped in a trick step, causing him to drop the Egg and the Marauder's Map. The Egg rolls down the staircase, opens and starts wailing, summoning Filch who in turn starts to yells at Peeves for stealing a Champion's Egg.

Snape arrives out of the darkness of the corridors and dismisses Filch's accusations about Peeves and claims someone has broken into his office. It had to be a wizard; Snape seals his office with a Charm to prevent Peeves from entering. Professor Moody appears shortly afterwards and is concerned about someone being in Snape's office. Moody's magical eye spots Harry under his Cloak, but he says nothing and offers to help Snape investigate the break-in. Snape clearly believes it was a student stealing potion ingredients and glares down the corridor over Harry's invisible shoulder. Moody dismisses Snape but before he leaves, Snape spots the Marauder's Map on the floor were Harry dropped it. Snape immediately recognizes it and glared menacingly down the corridor with narrow eyes, growling Harry's name with hate.

Harry panics and, still under his Invisibility Cloak, gesticulates madly to Moody that it is his, and Moody summons the map from Snape's fingers. Snape is furious and continues to probes the air searching for Harry hiding under his cloak. Moody distracts him by claiming nobody is there, though he thinks it curious how quickly Snape's thoughts turned to Harry. Detecting a hidden threat, Snape departs quickly. Filch, who has been silent until now, protests that the Egg is evidence of a student out of bed, reluctantly hands it over to Moody and leaves.

The map fascinates Moody, who is seemingly unable to keep either eye off it. He helps Harry from the trap step and asks if the map showed who was in Snape's office. Harry replies innocently that it was Mr. Crouch. Moody is amazed, and explains that Crouch is obsessed with catching Dark wizards, far more than Moody himself. Moody then asks to borrow the map. Harry, who is deeply relieved he does not have to explain where he got it, agrees.

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"What can we do tonight?" Cedric pretended to think, as he kissed his beloved Girlfriend, longingly, his arms resting on her shoulders, Vesper moaned quietly as he pulled her bottom lip with his teeth gently. It had been a week since Harry had found out about the Egg.

"I can't," Vesper said a scowl on her face and she pouted, not taking her eyes off of his lips, "I got detention, with Snape." Cedric hissed as her cool hands made their way under his shirt, stroking the skin on his stomach. Cedric moved one arm around her waist pulling her closer, so he could attack her lips with his.

"Hmm, what, did you, do?" he asked in-between kisses.

"Not my fault. He tripped over my bag." She muttered as she brought on hand out of his shirt and to the back of his head, so she could kiss him roughly. "You'll be fine." She said when she pulled away, "promise." She smiled and pecked him on the lips one last time, before leaving him standing against the wall, breathless, as she went to detection.

Afterwards, when she finished detention surprisingly early, she found her Cedric in the great hall with his friends; she smiled and watched him laughing with them. He saw her soon after and dragged her into his lap in the middle of the crowd, a place in which she didn't really like being- in the centre of attention. She reluctantly started to laughed along with them, happy to forget about the tournament and the second task .

A few days later Vesper was again sat with Cedric and his friends.

"As much as I would love to stay. I have to go help Harry, the tournaments tomorrow and he has no idea what to do." She said and kissed his cheek while sitting comfortably in his lap.

"You better go, now. Or I might not let you go." He muttered to him, she nodded and kissed him on last time then pulled herself away from him, ignoring the wolf whistles from his friends.

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"Ok what do we know so far? It's something to do with being underwater, for an hour. Something of yours will be stolen and you have to find it." Said Vesper in the library she perched on the table next to Harry, as Ron and Hermione search through books. She played with her necklace, while turning the pages of the book in her lap with one hand. "So we need something that will let you breath underwater for an hour, but what?" she muttered to herself, looking in a large heavy book in her hands.

"Why don't you ask your boyfriend, I'm sure he'll know?" Harry said Grumpily, Vesper straightened and slammed the book down next to him making him jump.

"I'm trying to help you here, Harry, but if you're going to be nothing but an insufferable git, then you can do it your own!" she growled glaring down at him. He has been nothing but miserable and making snide remarks about everything and it was beginning to get on her nerves. Harry looked down ashamed, he knew she was right, and it wasn't fair that he was letting his anger out on her.

"Sorry." He mumbled Vesper nodded once when he looked back up at her.

"And for your information Harry, Cedric hasn't told me what he's going to do. As far as I know he knows as much as you." Harry nodded showing he understood.

"Potter, Weasley, Granger! Professor McGonagall wants to see you in her office now. Not you Mr. Potter, your sister." Grunted Professor Moody, Vesper shivered, she always did when he was near. Something in her gut told her not to trust him, she brushed it off as having spent years avoiding Aurors and had become jumpy whenever one was around.

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"Wait, Professor, how is this fair, I mean putting Harry's two best friends and his sister down there, how's he going to know who to save?" Vesper protested, in McGonagall's office worried about her little brother.

"We have based this selection on the ball at Christmas; hopefully Mr. Potter will work out whose is whose saviour. You're Mr. Diggory; Miss. Granger is Mr. Krum, Miss. Delacour is Miss. Delacour and Mr. Weasley is Mr. Potters." Vesper reluctantly nodded slowly muttering about the stupidity of it,then drank the liquid. Knowing her brother he would try to save everyone.

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Vesper suddenly gasped for air that her lungs felt had been deprived of. She opened her eyes and saw in her disoriented vision that she was in the black lake, she could hear people cheering and shouting, one voices stood out yet it only whispered in her ear, she turned to see Cedric.

"Are you all right Vesper?" he looked concern, so she nodded still a little disoriented, Cedric then pulled her along to the main stand in the middle of the lake. The twins were on the platform by the steps so they helped the pair out, Vesper's limbs felt heavy and numb as George wrapped a fluff white towel around her, she looked up at him and smiled before looking at Cedric and saw he was shivering, he was soaked and his hair flopped down his face he also had a fluff white towel around him. George started rubbing her arms and sides to help with the cold as she shivered and cuddled into his heat. She wrapped her arms around his chest as his hands went to rub her back. George leaned his cheek on the top of her head. Vesper looked to Cedric again and saw him being congratulated by the friends. She looked to Fred who was happily collecting money from previous bets before mayhem erupted as Victor Krum and Hermione surfaced.

George and Vesper stood silently as they waited for Harry to surface. Twenty minutes went by slowly and Vesper was starting to panic, when suddenly, Ron and a small blond girl surfaced from the dark water. Cheers exploded as Harry flopped up on the stand shortly after completely drained.

He gave his sister a weak exhausted smile as she wrapped her own towel around him.

Fleur approaches Harry, saying that he saved her sister when he did not have to, and kisses him twice on each cheek, before she swoops to kiss Ron as well, saying he also helped. Hermione, who was behind his back, looks furious.

Meanwhile, Dumbledore has been talking with the chieftainess of the mermen, and has conferred with the other judges. Now, Ludo announces the standings. Fleur, although using the Bubble-Head Charm, failed to rescue her hostage and only gets 25 points; Cedric Diggory, also using the Bubble-Head Charm, brought his hostage to the surface one minute outside the allotted hour, getting 47 points; Viktor Krum, using a partial Transfiguration, returned second with his hostage for 40 points. Harry Potter returned last, but according to the Merchieftainess' report, arrived at the hostages first, and was delayed by his determination to free all the hostages, not only his own. Most of the judges feel this shows moral fiber and deserves high marks despite finishing last. Harry is awarded 45 points, tying him for first place overall with Cedric.

The next task is scheduled for the 24th of June.