Heh heh…. Sorry I didn't update

Laurels, IceBreaker14 wants us to make our chapters longer. So that's what I'm doing! I'm determined to make this chapter AT LEAST 1,500 words.

Disclaimer: I do own the book. I don't own the rights to the book, though.

PS, We're going to make Geo a couple. Take a guess. BE NICE OR LEAVE.

*Franziska inserts Chapter*

Hermione

Just because I'm smart and nerdy doesn't mean that I have true girlyness inside me. I still can see when 2 people like each other, and since Leo and his friends have been hanging out with us more often, I can see that maybe Ginny liked Leo, even though he was a year older than her. There was something in Leo's eyes…. When he talked to Ginny… Wait. Ha ha. They totally like each other. Well? Aren't they cute together? I decided to eventually talk to Ginny about it.

"Ginny," I asked her one day at lunch. She was staring over at Leo. "Leo's a year older than you! What do you think you're doing?"

"I dunno." She snapped back into reality. She turned a bit pink.

"Do you know that, well at least I think or it seems like, he likes you too?" Ginny stared at me.

"I have to go," she told me. She grabbed her book bag and then ran up to her classroom. I eventually took my things and went off to a Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Harry

Today in class, well, for one thing, it was a very interesting class. We were talking about curses.

(You'd scream if you saw my copy of the 4th book. It's in a REALLY CRAPPY STATE. Don't freak out if it isn't JUST like the book! DO NOT KILL ME!)

"Today, we're going to be talking about curses. Three curses, to be exact. The unforgivable curses. The ones that land you in jail for life if you use them." Everyone was hooked. We were all staring at him. "Can anyone tell me what those curses are?" Silence. After some time, Ron raised his hand.

"What's the first curse, Ron?" asked Mad Eye.

"Um, well, my dad works at the Ministry. He was mentioning something about…. Imperius?"

"Ah, yes. The Imperius curse. Caused a lot of trouble for the Ministry when it was popular." What does it do? I asked myself, but I knew that it was probably something bad.

"You may ask what it does. The Imperius curse lets its user control you. Make you do whatever the wizard or witch wants you to do." He then took out a jar of spiders. Ron stared at them in terror. He has arachnophobia: Fear of spiders.

"Imperius!" Moody yelled. Then, the spider…. Started doing tricks? Wow. "I can make it do whatever I want it to do. Do a flip. Drown it. Make it jump out the window." Most of the kids started laughing. "I can shove it down one of your throats!" Silence. Again. He put the spider back into the container.

"Do any of you know what the other 2 are?" asked Moody again. Surprisingly, it was Neville that raised his hand. "Longbottom," he called out to Neville.

"The… Cruciatus Curse?..." Everyone stared at Moody to see his reply.

"Ah, yes. The torture curse. When it is used on you, it tortures you. It feels like 1000 white hot knives are stabbing at every part of your body. It can eventually drive you insane." He then took out his wand again. He took out another spider. "Crucio!" He yelled. The spider began twitching… like it was in pain. If it had a mouth, it would definitely be screaming. Meanwhile, Hermione was staring at Neville, who had a horrible look on his face.

"Professor! Look at him! Please stop!" said Hermione. Moody let go.

After a few seconds he continued with the topic of curses. "Does anyone know what the last one is?"

"Avada Kedavra," Said Hermione.

"Ah, yes. The killing curse. The one that nobody has survived. Except for one person, and he's sitting right in front of me." He looked at me. Why. Why is it that I have to be the one who survived it! Everyone stared at me. They stared until someone cut in with a question.

"How can someone survive the killing curse? Darn, Nico is gonna be mad when he knows about this!" Everyone turned their heads to see Leo asking the question.

"Leo. Aren't you the… erm, Demigod?" asked Moody.

"Yes."

"Ah, of course you wouldn't know. Well, I guess the simplest way to put it is that no one knows."

"Okay…"

Professor Moody took out the spider again. "AVADA KEDAVRA!" He yelled. A green light. The spider dropped dead.

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Ron

Defense Against the Dark Arts was pretty cheerful, considering the fact that Moody manipulated, tortured, and ended up killing a spider. On that happy note, he even invited Harry back into his classroom afterwords.

"Do you know what they're talking about?" I asked Hermione as we were going to the Great Hall for lunch.

"I'm not sure. Maybe it has to do with the Triwizard Tournament. You know, Ron, you really need to get off his back about that. It's a lot of stress that they're putting on him. He truly didn't want to be entered in that tournament." Maybe, for a teeny second, I felt a teeny bit of sorrow for him, but I eventually jerked myself out of the thought. He deserves what he got! He's been a prideful brat full of hubris and… Wait. Maybe he didn't want to be entered.

I bumped into Jason, Leo and Piper at lunch. It was about time I finally knew.

"Hey, guys. I have a question."

"Yeah?" said Jason.

"Well, more for Leo. You've made a friendship with Harry. Do you think he really wanted to be entered into the tournament?"

"Definitely not. Your headmaster told him that since his name was shot out of the Goblet, he has to compete. Stinks for him."

I don't know. Perhaps I felt some remorse, but not a lot. He probably hates me for being such a jerk. Well, I guess it'll all turn out okay in the end…. Maybe.

Hermione

After Harry came back, I asked him what Moody had told him.

"Well, um, the first task…. They're gonna have us go up against a dragon." Wait, a real dragon?

"Wait, a real dragon?"

"Obviously yes, unless you're counting the mechanical dragon that Leo tamed. He told me about it."

"Don't change the subject!" I yelled at him.

"Okay, Okay! Well, Moody was trying to help me find out how I could beat the dragon. I actually need your help for it. He asked me what I thought my talents were. I told him 'Well, people say I'm good at flying' and then he left me to ponder that. He said that I should use my Firebolt."

"But Harry, you can only use a wand!"

"Exactly. That's why I need you to teach me a summoning spell."

"Okay. We can practice tonight."

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It was really late in the night. Harry and I were just finished with our summoning curse session. We certainly needed to work on it, but so far we had made good progress. We planned on working on it until the first task…. Only a 3 days away….

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"Harry! Just try harder! Imagine the dictionary coming towards you!" Harry tried again, and with a nervous face he managed to get the dictionary over to the other side of the room into my hands. "Good! Just do it again!" It was 1:00 in the morning, the day before the first task, and Harry and I were having our last training session. Harry did it again.

"Great. You've made so much progress. We'll just have to pray it works with the Firebolt."

"Yes. That'll definitely be hard. Every time I do the spell, I get a freaky picture of a dragon blasting me to bits with fire."

"Don't worry, we'll just hire Leo to be your body guard." He laughed, and we headed up to the Gryffindor Common Room.

Surprisingly, I was very anxious for Harry the next day: The day of the First Task. I tried cheering him up at breakfast, but he refused to eat anything or even talk. Meanwhile, I saw Leo laughing along with his friends. This was going to be a long day.

FINALLY!

I'm done with this chapter, after a LONG time of NOT UPDATING!

That was long.

Here is an announcement:

Laurels is banned from fanfic (unfortunately) so I guess she'll update when she is not banned. I will be happy then.

Icebreaker 14, this chapter is exactly 1,660 words.

I HEREBY DECLARE THIS STORY:

G O O D.

This chapter is ajourned.

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