A/N: First of all I would like to apologize for last chapter and all the typos and the jumpy-ness. It was two in the morning when I started it. Gomen. (sorry) I just really wanted to get it out there for you all. Okay! Here is chapter nine or chapter Kyuu.

CH. 9

THE TRIWIZARD TORNAMENT BEGINS!

Well needless to say no one believed that Harry had not put his name into the goblet of fire. A few people asked him how he managed it? He finally just started ignoring everybody. But the one person he wanted to talk to wouldn't even look at him.

Harry felt completely hurt, more so then the betrayal by his best friend Ron. The red head was acting very vicious towards the tall tale cheater. It seemed that the only friend he had anymore was Hermione and Neville. And all Neville ever talked about was herbology.

Harry was sitting by the lake while Neville was inspecting plants one afternoon. He heard voices getting closer and Harry looked up from the book he was reading to see Ron, Hermione and Ginny walking towards them. He stood up but made no move to walk towards them.

They were whispering now very loudly. Hermione heaved a sigh and marched towards her friend.

"Ron would like me to tell you, that Dean was told by Pavarti…that Hagrid's looking for you." she seemed to be thinking very hard; trying to get the message right.

"Yeah well…what?"

"umm…" she turned away and walked back up to Ron they whispered again and she came back. "Dean was told by Pavarti…please don't make me say it again. Hagrid's looking for you." she turned to leave and Harry spoke.

"Well you can tell Ron-"

"I'M NOT AN OWL!" she snapped and stalked off.

That night he had agreed to meet Hagrid near the forbidden forest. He had brought his father's invisibility cloak, just like the giant had told him to.

"'arry? You there?" came the familiar voice through the trees.

"over here Hagrid." Harry waved as the man stepped out of the shadows.

"What'r ya do'n? Put the cloak on." Hagrid was acting like he was a little boy anxious to open his Christmas presents. His gentle eyes were sparkling with mischief.

Harry threw the cloak over his head cleverly camouflaging himself. And followed Hagrid into the woods. He saw another figure a ways away, the half giant seemed to be walking towards this person. On closer inspection Harry saw that it was the head mistress of the Beuxbatons school that were here for the tournament. He was even taller then his good friend.

'What did he bring me here for? I don't want to watch him on his 'date'.' Harry was getting annoyed after several minutes of standing there listening to them flirt with each other.

Finally, after Harry was just about to turn around and leave, Hagrid got to the point.

"You'll be glad ya came." he said with a wink and marched deeper into the trees. Harry followed dejectedly.

Up ahead there was a clearing with light coming from it. When they got closer there were four cages and men running around them like chickens with their heads cut off. But the spectacle wasn't what caught Harry's interest, or the two half giants with him for that matter. In each cage was a terrifying dragon. Spewing fire and trying to get free.

Harry stayed a little while longer, waiting for Hagrid to get a moment alone so he could talk with him. But that moment never came and Harry turned around to leave, thinking his friend would never miss him; not with the current company.

When he was close to the edge he saw a dark shadow creeping through the trees in the direction he had just come from. When the figure came closer he saw that it was Kakaroff, the Durmstrang's head master, the other school that was visiting for the tournament.

That only meant that the other contestants knew of the first task in the tournament. Harry wasn't sure if Cedric knew yet. He liked the guy and didn't want to see him get mauled by ferocious fire-breathing flying reptile. Harry shuddered at the image of himself face to face with the monster.

He'd tell his classmate tomorrow. For now he needed a good sleep.

A/N: Okay I have received a few reviews asking why Snape didn't trust his little lover. Well I'd like to explain this. FIRST: they haven't exactly been together for very long, they haven't even said that they love each other. SECOND: I realize that Legilimency would've been perfect for our sexy seme (- guy "on top") to find out the truth, but it is sort of an unofficially forbidden spell; it isn't exactly polite to look into some one's memories. .O but thank you very much for reminding me of this! It will definitely play out in the future. THIRD: Severus is very protective of our dear Harry. As shown in a previous chapter when Harry accidentally caught the room on fire. Lol. He's clearly over-reacting and taking it out on the boy. FOURTH: Their relationship is both forbidden and illegal. In the way that they're both males and of totally different ages. The strain of the possibility of getting caught could also be putting extra weight on our sour potion's professor. Thank you for all the Reviews!!!! And SnowKissYuki, I really appreciate your review. Thank you very much for inspiring my epiphany. -bowz-