Hello!
Thanks everyone for the response for the last chapter!
And a special thanks to AndyMalfoy who continues to read and review this story! Your review made me so happy, thank you gir! : )
As you can see, I've changed this to a Hermione G and Minerva M story. It's because Hermione Dumbledore - McGonagall doesn't exist and because this is a mother/daughter fic mostly, so far. I've written 16 chapters so far and that's up to Hermione's fifth year. I've been thinking about making this story to about 20 chapters or more and then make a sequel with Hermione and Severus as a couple, they can start something at the end of this story, maybe... I'm still experimenting! But for now, this will be a HHMM story with lots of Albus and Harry in it too, and then I will write one about HGSS romance!
Hope you understand and because of the amazing response last time, I will give you a long chapter and a quicker update now! Not read and enjoy!
Chapter 10 – The tri-wizard tournament
Hermione's summer went by quicker than she had wanted. Hermione had a few more private lessons and was now a registered animagus, just like her mom. She had also met a big, black dog during the summer, together with Harry and Ron. It was Sirius Black, Harry's godfather and they had lived at Sirius's place for about three weeks. Sirius home was now also the Order's high quarter so the children had met many of their adult friends there during the summer.
Hermione's fourth year at Hogwarts School was just about to start. She had finally got some more friends than just Ron and Harry. People had started to like her and many Gryffindor's came to her, asking for help with their homeworks, knowing that knew she was the smartest witch at the school in her level.
The summer though, had ended with some horrible news; the dark mark had been showed in the air the night after the final match where the Quidditch World Cup was held.
The year also brought other news, two more schools would be joining the Hogwarts students this year at Hogwarts and Albus was about to tell which two and why.
"Hogwarts has been chosen to host a legendary event: The Triwizard Tournament." Albus was standing on his podium, facing all students as he explained how the tournament worked with a serious gaze on his face.
"Please join me in welcoming the lovely ladies of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and their headmistress, Madame Maxime" Albus said and pointed his arm to the big doors.
In came a dozen girls, all dressed in light blue satin clothes who brought forth their figures and a skew blue hat on their heads. They all walked with grace and self-confidence and when they stopped and greeted in their own way, small blue paperish birds flew out and circled around them. All Hogwarts boys were staring at them while some of the girls glared in jealousy. The Hogwarts formal clothes were very modest and didn't show any figures at all.
Hermione stared at the blue ladies in silence as Ron and Harry clapped their hands together with many of the other students from Hogwarts as the Beauxbaton ladies took their seats at the extra table that extended the Revenclaw table.
To be polite, Albus kissed Madam Maixime's hand when she came to stand next to him. Maxime was a giant and Albus head only reached to her stomach even though Albus wasn't a short man.
Then Albus ran to stand by his podium again. "And now our friends from the north. Please greet the proud sons of Durmstrang and their high master, Igor Karkaroff.".
In came a dozen boys, all dressed in brown clothes with some kind of pole in their hands. Their poles were a big part of their entrance into the Great Hall. Firesparks flew from the floor as they all stomped their poles on the ground at the same time before dropping their poles and run very fast to were the head table was. Igor went behind his students, a tall man dressed in white robes and a black headgear. Albus gave Igor a friendly hug and the Durmstrang students took their seat by the extended Slytherin table.
Hermione noticed that Igor got the seat next to Professor Snape who was glaring at him like he use to glare at the students, that meant not so friendly. Madame Maxime was sitting in a bug chair between Igor and Hermione's dad.
After the dinner was all eaten up, Albus with the help of the Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, Bartemius Crouch presented the Triwizard Cup. Albus only got to say a few words before it started to rain inside the hall. That's when Alastor Moody came in to the hall, he bewitched the ceiling so it stopped raining and all students looked at him. "Stupid ceiling" Alastor muttered when Albus greeted him with a pat on his back.
Then Barty started to talk where Albus had stopped before. "… no student under the age of 17 shall be allowed to put forth their name for the Triwizard tournament. This decision is final!" Bartemius ended and got a lot of complaining as response of the last rule.
"Silence" Albus had to get engage since it was the Hogwarts students who behaved worst. After the hall was in silence gain, Albus introduced everyone to the Goblet of Fire and the fire started to burn in the goblet. "As from this moment, the Triwizard Tournament has begun" Albus finished and everybody was dismissed.
Hermione was sitting in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom waiting for their new teacher, again. The curse on the position as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher continued, as the students never got the same teacher two years in a row.
Alastor Moody had gotten the job this year. His first lesson with Hermione's class included the three Unforgivable spells, he even showed them all on spiders in the classroom, something Hermione disliked a lot.
Hermione had been the one who dared to stop the teacher when she saw that her classmate Neville Longbottom was really shaken up by the using of the unforgivable spells right in front of his desk and himself.
"There's a reason those curses are unforgivable. To perform them in a classroom…" Hermione muttered to Harry and Ron when they left the classroom, she was very upset with her newest teacher.
Harry and Ron on the other hand thought that Professor Moody was brilliant, maybe a little bit scary but still very interesting.
The Goblet of Fire was placed in the middle of the Great Hall. The house tables were gone; instead there were many smaller tables of oak.
The Great Hall was never empty, all students wanted to see which students who dared to put their names in the Goblet and clapped hands for the brave ones who dared.
"Eternal glory" Ron said longingly. Harry knew that Ron wanted to be famous; he had been jealous of Harry's fame for years but had got over it since Harry became his best friend. Harry didn't respond to that knowing that they would get themselves into an argument if he did.
Around the Goblet, Albus had drawn an Age Line, if a student under 17 passed the line, they would be kicked out from the area and have a long white beard growing from their chin so that all the others would see who broke the rule, which was like a punishment.
Ron's brothers, Fred and George had tried to use an Aging Potion to get past the line but were thrown out again by the Goblet as soon as they had put their names in it.
Hermione had been sitting by the Goblet, reading a Transfiguration book when Viktor Krum entered the hall. He put his name in the Goblet but before walking out again, he gave Hermione a friendly gaze. Hermione didn't know what to do so she had just given Viktor a smile of her own before hiding behind her book again.
All the students and teachers were gathered in the Great Hall for the selection of Triwizard champions.
"Now, the moment you've all been waiting for: The Champion Selection." Albus said and turned down the lights in the hall a bit so it became a dark spirit in the hall.
The Goblet sent out a piece of burnt parchment. "The Durmstrang champion is Viktor Krum!" Albus read the first champions name. The Durmstrang boys all said their congratulations to Viktor with handshakings and manly pats on his back.
Viktor shook hands with Albus before walking into a room behind the staff's table to wait for the other selected champions to join him. The Goblet turned red again and Albus catched another piece of parchment, "The champion for Beauxbatons is Fleur Delacour!" Fleur smiled as she got her congratulations from the Beauxbaton ladies and followed where Krum had gone. The Goblet turned red one last time and Albus looked at the parchment in shock before he said, "The Hogwarts champion is Harry Potter!" The hall went silent, you could hear a needle drop to the floor even though it was more than 200 people in it.
Harry tried to hide behind Hermione but the headmaster called out again "Harry Potter!"
Harry quietly got up from his seat and walked towards his Headmaster who gave him the piece of parchment with his name on it and directed him to the other room.
"He's not even seventeen yet" and "he's a cheat" came from the different tables as Harry walked away.
The three headmasters and some of the Hogwart-teachers were about to join the champions in the other room when the Goblet turned red a fourth time. Albus turned back to face the Goblet and it sent another burnt parchment into his hands. He stared at the parchment in shock again for a while before yelling out "Hermione McGonagall!"
It was Hermione's turn to try to hide behind Ron. There was no way she'd put her name in the Goblet. All students turned to look at her and she just wanted to disappear.
Shaking she got up and walked to her father who continued to stare at her in shock.
Hermione followed Harry to the other room and the door closed behind her, but not before hearing the storm of whispers and small talk that started once she had left.
The headmaster's followed the champions into the next room together with Minerva, Severus and Alastor, leaving the rest of the Hogwarts staff to deal with the upset students.
Both Albus and Minerva knew that neither Hermione nor Harry would have ever put their names in the Goblet and they wouldn't ask anyone else either. But then, why were their names in the Goblet?
"It's wrong, I tell you", "Everything is a conspiracy theory", "Quiet, I can't think", "I protest, I protest!" The teacher's voices came from the staircase when they entered the room, all upset about what had happened.
Albus rushed first and grabbed Hermione and Harry's arms. He asked both of them in a hurry, "Did you or did you not put you names in the Goblet of Fire?" They both shook their heads and answered, "no". "Did you ask one of the older students to do it for you?" Albus had to ask. When they answered "no" again. Albus calmed down a little bit, he believed them but the other headmaster and headmistress did not.
"But of course they are lying" Madame Maxime said as she brushed a lamp out of her way.
"The hell they are" Alastor Moody stated. "The Goblet of Fire could only be hoodwinked by an exceptionally powerful Confundus Charm!" "No fourth year would handle it". The teachers believed that and calmed down but the other school's headmaster and headmistress were still angry.
"Barty, you decide this" Albus said leaving the question for Barty to handle. Barty wasn't happy about the attention he got from the teachers but answered, "the rules are absolute, and the children have no choice but to compete. They are from tonight, two Triwizard champions!" Barty looked at Hermione and Harry.
Hermione almost didn't dare to go to her room that night, knowing that her parents would be there to questioning her. She tried to sneak in to her room in secret but it was a hopeless case since Minerva McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore were the greatest witch and wizard in the entire Great Britain. Plus that little fact that her mother's animagus was a cat.
"Hermione, can you go with us in the living room for a moment?" Minerva asked as soon as her daughter entered the chamber through the portrait.
Sighing, Hermione walked into the living room to find both of her parents talking on the couch with a cup of tea in their hands.
"I didn't put my name in the Goblet and I never asked anyone else to do it for me!" Hermione sighed again and looked tiredly at her parents.
"We believe you. But people can die in the tournament, do anyone you know have any reason at all to want you gone?" Albus had to ask because if she knew someone, that fact could be a help.
"No, the only ones who doesn't like me now is Draco Malfoy and his fellows." Hermione replied thinking about her different classmates. No one else would want her dead.
"Very well." Minerva said before getting up to go and get Hermione and pull her down on the couch too.
"Let's forget about this for tonight and act like a family." Minerva wanted nothing else but to have some time with her family, to forget all about the events earlier in the evening.
The family spent the rest of the night cuddling together and talking about general subjects on the couch before getting to bed. That night Hermione got to sleep in her parent's bed, between them like she used to do before.
Minerva and Albus had talked to Harry alone before going back to their quarters to make sure he was fine too.
Hermione fell asleep fast when she lied comfortable, cuddled into her mother. "Now we just have to make it through this year." Albus sighed and leaned to kiss Minerva.
"Mhmm" Minerva mumbled sleepily.
"Good night, I love you." Minerva yawned and let the sleep take her.
"I love you too" Albus replied with a little smile but she'd already fallen asleep. He soon joined his wife and daughter and fell asleep.
The Hogwarts students all knew that Hermione and Harry wouldn't put their names in the Goblet. Harry already had eternal glory for being the only one to survive the "Avada Kedavra" spell and for being the only one to be able to kill the darkest wizard in the Magic history and they all knew that Hermione never had been one to fight and break rules. Instead of whispering behind their back like the Beauxbaton and Durmstrang schools did, the Hogwarts students tried to support their young champions.
Ron had taken it a bit hard, he was the only one of the Trio who wanted to be a champion but the only one of them who didn't become one. Though he got over it after a while and some long talks with Harry and Hermione. He also believed them when they said that it wasn't them who had put their names in the Goblet.
It was time for the first task, which involved dragons. Albus knew what the task would be since he decided it together with Barty, Maxime and Igor. He had told Minerva who had been really upset about it. They had had a small fight but Minerva finally gave in as she understood that Albus had to let bad things happen. Dragons were very dangerous and Harry and Hermione were both three years younger than Fleur and Viktor so they didn't know that many spells. Minerva had been really close to tell Hermione what she was up against but couldn't, that would be cheating.
"Harry, c'me 'ere" Hagrid brought Harry into the dark forest. "W'r 'ere". Harry saw Hagrid walking a bit longer into the forest where he met Madam Maxime. He kissed her on her cheek and Madame Maxime turned a light red colour. Harry had his invisible cloak on and he followed Hagrid and Maxime as they started walking again. Harry started to hear loud roars and the forest lit up. Harry now saw cages of iron with dragons in.
"Dragons, that's the first task" Harry shouted before he could stop himself.
Madame Maxime turned around. "I thought I heard something." Hagrid looked at where Harry was standing but he couldn't see him of course. "Let's go back." Hagrid took Maxime's hand and they started to walk back to the castle again.
Harry followed them, silently wondering how he would be able to handle a full-grown dragon with only his wand as help.
"Hermione, dragons is the first task!" Harry grabbed Hermione's hand and dragged her into an empty classroom.
"What, are you serious?" Hermione said and gave her friend a shocked gaze.
"I saw them, Hagrid showed them to Madame Maxime so Fleur also knows" Harry told Hermione, "and I think Igor have told Viktor too" he added.
"How are we supposed to fight a dragon, we only know simple spells and I really doubt they work on a big dragon" Hermione was thinking hard about the task.
"You are still better than me on spells" Harry stated.
"You can fly" Hermione replied and a light lit up in her head. "You can use you broom and fly" She exclaimed, excited over her plan.
"We're not allowed to have anything but our wand with us" Harry said confused.
"There's an accio spell, if you say "accio Firebolt" strong enough your broom will come to you" Hermione smiled.
"But I don't know that spell?" Harry asked. "I'll teach you, let's practice now" Hermione said and went to get her charm book from her bag.
"You have to say accio and the name of the thing you want strongly and think hard about it too" Hermione read from her book.
"Let's try, accio chair!" The chair came flying and stopped in front of Hermione who smiled. "Now, it's your turn."
Harry and Hermione practised the spell from the fifth year's charm book the entire evening and by the end of the evening they both could do the charm in their sleep.
Still not knowing if a broom would be necessary Harry went to bed. At least it would be better to have a chance to meet the dragon from the air than being stuck on the ground, Harry though before falling asleep.
Hermione was happy to be able to help Harry a little bit more but the charm didn't help her at all. She did not want to fly in front of the entire school, she was still unsure of her flying skills even if she'd done well during her summer practices with Madam Hooch. She would have to trust her skills in charms and transfiguration to manage the dragon.
The task would be tomorrow and Hermione needed to be well rested so she did something she'd never done before. With the knowledge that she wouldn't be able to get any sleep by just getting into her bed she stole some Dreamless sleep draught from her mother and took a zip. She immediately fell asleep.
"Do you think she's ready for this, Al?" Minerva asked her husband when they got ready for bed.
"I hope so, Min" Albus hugged her close to him. He was also very worried for his daughter and Harry.
They were both silent for a longer while and after a quick look at her husband, Minerva saw that he'd fallen asleep. She wanted to give in for the sleep too but it didn't seem like she would be getting any that night.
Instead she carefully climbed out of their bed and went to get a cup of tea. Tea always calmed her down. With her tea, she went into Hermione's room to watch her daughter sleep peacefully.
Frowning when she saw a bottle on Hermione's nightstand she took a closer look to find her bottle of Dreamless Sleeping Draught. She would have been very upset about her daughter stealing from her without asking but she knew that her daughter was worried and needed sleep so she wouldn't say anything about this time to Hermione.
For the rest of the night Minerva sat on the edge of Hermione's bed, watching her daughter sleep.
Albus woke up only to find the other side of the bed empty. He walked out of the room and went looking for Minerva only to find her in Hermione's room. Minerva had fallen asleep and was lying next to Hermione, both still sleeping. Though Hermione started to move when she heard Albus taking a picture with the flash on. Opening her eyes she saw her father smiling at her, a camera in his hands and when she looked down she saw her mother sleeping next to her.
"Good morning, dad" Hermione smiled and when she spoke Minerva also woke up.
"Oh dear, I didn't mean to fall asleep here." Minerva blushed and muttered under her breath.
"It's okay." Hermione smiled and gave her mother a hug since they both still were lying in Hermione's bed.
"Oh no, I have to get up." Hermione's mind started to go on full speed of fever for the day. She jumped out of her bed and ran to get a quick shower before getting ready for the first task.
"I hope she'll be okay" Minerva sighed worryingly when she saw her daughter's panic for the first task.
"She's smarter than you might think, she has a very smart mother, you know." Albus believed that her daughter would handle it but since he was one of the judgers, he had to be serious and don't show his emotions in front of others but that didn't mean that he wasn't worried.
"A very smart father too, I think." Minerva smiled before getting up and heading for her own shower.
Albus had to tell the champions exactly what the task was about even though he thought that everyone already knew about it.
"Good day champions, gather round, please" Albus waved his hands to get the four champions in a circle around him.
"Miss Delacour" Barty held out the bag for Fleur to put her hand into and grab whatever what was in there. One moment later she held a green, miniature dragon in her hand. "The Welsh Green" Barty nodded approvingly before holding the bag in front of Viktor's hands. "The Chinese Fireball" Barty told Viktor. Then it was Hermione's turn to pick a dragon. "The Swedish Short-Snout!" Albus was happy that Hermione got what was supposed to be the easiest dragon, or at least, the tamest. Harry who was the last one to pick his dragon already knew what he would get but he seemed surprised when Barty said "The Hungarian Horntail."
Albus looked worryingly at Harry, he had got the most dangerous dragon of them all. Barty explained for them that each miniature was a real dragon, the one they'd be facing momentarily and that the dragon has one Golden Egg to protect, and the task was to get the egg.
Fleur was the first one to meet her dragon and she succeed. The other champions didn't get to see their opponents, which would be unfair to the first person. Viktor also got his egg and then it was Hermione's turn. Hermione had talked to Harry while the other school's champions faced their dragons to keep her from going crazy. With a last hug and "good luck" to Harry, she left the safe tent to face her dragon.
She walked out of the big cave opening and saw the Golden egg in the middle of the pitch, the task was at the Quidditch pitch but instead of green grass, there was a rocky environment. Hearing a dragon roar she turned to her left and saw the Swedish Short-Snout staring at her. On the stand, Minerva could barely look at her daughter and Albus was just as worried as Minerva but watched the scene from his place in the judger seat.
Hermione had taught herself some useful spells during her summer holiday with the help of Snape, though, that wasn't something her parents knew about. He was a Dueling Master and knew some good tricks, he had taught her the delusional charm, which made her invisible. She threw the spell on herself causing her do disappear and the audience gasped. They all knew that the spell wasn't taught out to students until their sixth year.
She didn't know if the dragon could see her but she sneaked out of the cave opening, to the opposite way of where the dragon was. The dragon didn't seem to notice her because the animal stayed and looked at the cave opening as Hermione quietly ran towards her egg. She was happy to get to her egg safely and when she held the egg in her hand she removed the spell and all started to cheer as the dragon keepers took the dragon out of the place and back to its cage.
Hermione met her mother's eyes and she could see her mother exhale in relief. She waved once before smiling and jumping out of the pitch to get up to the stand were she was supposed to watch the last person - Harry, with Fleur and Viktor. They both smiled and congratulated her on her amazingly good charm and smart tactic. Before Hermione could ask them how they got their eggs, Harry stepped out in the opening.
The Hungarian Horntail was sitting on his right, watching his every movement with his big yellow eyes and the dragon was whipping his very dangerous and spiky tale in a threatful way. Harry didn't seem to notice the dragon at first; he took a few steps towards the egg before the dragon made Harry notice him. The Horntail spit a long wave of fire towards Harry who avoided it but fell down from the opening. Harry climbed on the rocks to get away from the dragon that was hunting him with his fire.
The dragon roared and Hermione yelled "your wand Harry, your wand" frantic for her friends safety. "Accio Firebolt" Harry shouted and pointed his wand to where the school was situated.
Harry could hide himself behind a big rock until his broom came but when it came flying, he jumped on it and took off in the air. The dragon though, got himself loose and started to hunt Harry away from the field leaving the audience to wait in tense for either Harry or the dragon to come back again.
Harry flew towards the school and a few minutes later he was climbing on the Gryffindor Tower, his broom had fallen down and was stuck in a window a bit further down but the dragon was still hunting him and was getting closer and closer. Finally Harry reached his broom and was flying again but the dragon had catched up on him. The Horntail had set Harry's outer robe on fire before they came to a bridge. Harry flew through the bridge but the dragon crashed right into it and fell, growling to the ground, which was thousands of feet below. Harry flew back to the Quidditch pitch again and easily grabbed the egg, still flying on his broom. All Hogwarts students cheered loudly for him and the teachers were all happy that he was safe, even Professor Snape, though he had his usual gaze of distress on his ice-cold face.
"Harry I'm so glad you're okay" Hermione ran to her friend. The dragon keepers had went looking for the Horntail knowing it wasn't dead, only unconscious.
"I couldn't have done it without your help" Harry thanked Hermione before they had to go back to the school again.
Harry and Hermione were sitting in the Gryffindor common room together when they decided to open their eggs. The egg made a terrible noise and Hermione and Harry closed their eggs again staring at them. "What was that?" Harry said what they both were thinking out loud.
When Hermione got back to her quarters she was greeted with a tight hug from her mother. "Your charm was quite outstanding today" Minerva hugged Hermione close to her again.
"Thank you" Hermione knew that her mother wanted to know how she knew about the spell and as she had expected her mother asked, "Who taught you that? It's not a spell for a fourth year..."
"Professor Snape might have something to do with it, we spent very many days together this summer" Hermione tried to avoid the question, now wanting Severus to get into any trouble with her mother.
"Oh he did?" Minerva asked, "I might have a chat with him."
Hermione and Minerva continued to talk about the task and Hermione explained that she didn't understand the egg. Minerva smiled to herself knowing exactly what Hermione had to do to understand the egg but didn't say anything about it, instead she agreed with Hermione when she said that she was going to start some research about it.
"One down, two more to go" Albus said as a matter of face to Minerva when he later that evening was back in their quarters and they both were heading for their bed. "You know the Yule Ball is a tradition during the Triwizard tournament, do you think you Gryffindor's can dance?" Albus asked and smiled as he did so.
"I don't know!" Minerva frowned.
"Well it wouldn't look so appropriate if the host school couldn't dance while our guests can, will it?" Albus teased. "We might have to arrange a dance lesson or two instead of real lessons one day?"
"Who is going to teach them how to dance?" Minerva asked, too tired to deal with her husband's questions at the moment.
"I thought the heads of houses could teach their own houses since it's only fourth years up to seventh years that can participate at the ball" Albus said, looking for his wife's reaction.
"What?" Minerva shouted, now totally awake again. Her husband was laughing quietly at her.
"You know how to dance, teach your lions, Tabby" Albus teased her again, still laughing. "And remember that Severus has to teach the Slytherin's then" He added knowing it would make her feel better.
"Well, okay then!" Minerva laughed at the thought of Severus dancing, and in front of his students too. "At least you know how to dance." Albus said, they had been dancing many times together and both knew that the other one was a quite excellent dancer.
"We'll take this again tomorrow, I will announce the ball at breakfast, for now, good night Min" Albus yawned and pulled Minerva close to him under the sheets.
"Good night, love you" Minerva could whisper before the sleep took her.
I know things don't really are as in the real Harry Potter books, but that's the point, kind of. I'm trying to write my own story by using an already existing story and characters.
I also handed in my macbook and this computer's "world - program" is annoying and change words without me noticing or wanting them to do so.
The next chapter will be about the yule ball, will Minerva and Severus teach the Gryffindor and Slytherin House to dance? Read and find out, and don't forget, your reviews makes me so incredible happy!
Love, Twiiliighter