Chapter 10 -Which plan?

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Later in the Great Hall we found out why nobody joined us in our train compartment. Apparently Theodore Nott of Slytherin had words with Ron Weasley of Gryffindor. This of course started hexes and fists flying between the two in the Gryffindor compartment area. The Slytherin section further up the train foolishly raced down to enter the fray. Nott had been overcome by Longbottom and Weasley while the two were doing high-fives the two houses were engaging in hexes and spells in the narrow compartment way. What they did not see was Malfoy slither up behind them until Draco sent a stunner to the back of Longbottom. Ron became quite crumpled as he turned around to meet the fists of Crabbe and Goyle. The two houses kept up the attack until the Head boy and girl along with the other Perfects ended the fun. They either sent them to their compartments until the train reached Hogsmeade station or stunned them.

For us Dumbledore's announcements at the Welcoming Feast were boring.

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Dumbledore tapped the top of a casket. If that wasn't enough to be a warning…a casket already? The lid creaked open. Dumbledore pulled out a wooden cup full to the brim with dancing flames.

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Our next couple days were fairly mundane but it was time for the Goblet of Fire to choose the champions. At long last, the golden plates returned to their original spotless state; there was a sharp upswing in the level of noise within the Hall, which died away almost instantly as Dumbledore got to his feet. We stood up as we planned and, "Come on girls let us hit the library as we all have homework to finish".

"Mr. Potter might I ask why you are leaving, the Goblet of Fire is about to announce the Tri-wizard champions."

"Sorry but since I do not want to participate in the tournament and didn't put my name in the Goblet this is totally boring. My wives and I are going to retire for the evening. Ta ta!"

We headed to our quarters we tried to suppress our giggling. Once we entered our quarters we sealed the doors and put up many wards as we thought appropriate. One was from me especially for Dumbledore if he was stupid enough to try and enter with his Phoenix. The three of us then headed to bed in the master bedroom. Luna occupied the right side of the bed and of course put her wand on the table to her right. Morag occupied the left side had their wand on the table to her left. Since that left me with the middle I had my wand in a cubbyhole in the headboard just above my head. Witches and wizards were never very far from their wands.

"Harry you know it's a bit early to go to sleep…"

"You know Luna's right we should…"

Twang…"Aaugh!"…"Squawk!" Whoosh!

"Oh dear it sounds like somebody set off Harry's little feather collection." Luna giggled.

"Doesn't sound like Fawkes fared too well either." Morag had more on her mind as she turned to Harry…

Severe kissing interlude Morag, Luna and Harry:

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At breakfast the next morning we joined our study group at the Hufflepuff table to get the full Monty as well as the hot gossip. However…

"Mr. Potter report to my office immediately." I gave him the one finger salute and responded…

"Make an appointment as I'm busy right now."

"You'll do as you're told young man." Professor McGonagall chimed in.

"Hay Viktor, do you think Durmstrang could do with a new student? I suddenly got the urge to transfer."

"I'll handle this headmaster." Snape leapt up and headed toward me. He was the last straw. I know what they wanted, I knew what they wanted to tell me but enough was enough. I wave my hand at Snape freezing him motionless and then I turned toward Dumbledore. I made like all children do when you're imitating a gun with their hand. I pointed my finger at Dumbledore and said, "BANG!" The headmaster was now incased in a silencing charm.

I then erected a shield and a silencing dome around our area and asked…

So besides me who are the other wizard champions?"

Susan jumped right in, "The Champion for Durmstrang," is Viktor Krum. The Champion for Beauxbatons is Fleur Delacour! The Champion for Hogwarts is Neville Longbottom! And of course you know you're the fourth champion."

Hannah was not going to be left out the conversation, "You can't believe the confusion after you were selected and they couldn't get into your quarters. The entire house thought that was supercool Harry."

"And what does the rumor mill have to say Tracy?" Luna giggled.

"Well I heard a couple of professors talking and he said that Dumbledore was in the hospital wing last night. He said something about feathers stuck in him like somebody shot him with a million arrows. I'll catch up with you guys later I got to find out what the halls talking about right now, like we don't know." Tracy sped off in search of gossip over how many detentions I had earned.

"Oh look Dumbledore's undone your silencing charm. He definitely does not look very happy." Luna giggled.

"Come on you two let's head up to his office, that is if your finished eating."

The girls had finished so I dropped the shield and the silencing charm only to get a verbal blast from Professor McGonagall.

"I've never seen in my life such disrespect for the teachers and the headmaster of this institution you should be ashamed of yourself!"

"Professor you get what you earn so, 'Put a stopper in it'! We don't need to listen to your rant as I'm sure Dumbledore's got more than enough to whine about." McGonagall still escorted us to the headmaster's office.

We no sooner entered Dumbledore's office we were served a rant about our disrespect… Blah, blah! That's when I turned to Luna…

"I like the way you're wearing your hair. You know how much I love it flowing over your shoulders."

"Mr. Potter aren't you listening to what I'm saying?"

"Did you say something old man?"

"You need to know about the tournament and…

"Listen closely old man, I don't care about your tournament. I'll be contacting a lawyer to sue you and the Ministry for any injuries or damage incurred during this tournament that I did not enter. Don't expect anything from me except that I will have to show up for each of the tasks. That should leave you plenty of time to train the Vanquished boy. Good day Dumbledore." I was hoping that would leave him with a few things to think about. Unfortunately I was wrong…

"I am the headmaster of this institution and I will not be disrespected. You will come here and take a seat immediately." I saw the headmaster's hand heading for his wand but…

"Old man, have you gone senile enough to miss the fact that my bonded is currently holding your wand?" Actually Luna wasn't holding his wand but was twirling it through her fingers as she was humming one of her little tunes as if in another world. I had thoughts of summoning Dumbledore's wand when I entered his office and giving it to Luna. It seemed that the wand responded to my thoughts, I would have to look into this later. As we departed the office Luna tossed Dumbledore's wand to Professor McGonagall.

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It really was amusing reaction of students to my snubbing Dumbledore. But my freezing of Snape was roundly approved of by most of the students. We never consider Slytherin house when considering the opinions of Hogwarts students.

Of course with my luck we ran into Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom days later as we were entering the Great Hall for lunch.

"Oh! Look Neville the wannabe champion of Peverell house. He's even got his too ugly sluts with him." That's when Ron Weasley took his first flying lesson across the hallway without a broom, his landing technique was terrible. Longbottom went for his wand but was interrupted…

"What may I ask is going on?" Snape had slithered out from a dark corner.

"Potter attacked Weasley for no reason." Longbottom stated.

Snape turned his head toward me exhibiting his normal sneer. He then turned back to Longbottom, "I find that hard to believe Mr. Longbottom."

"Then take it up with Dumbledore!" Longbottom turned and stomped into the Great Hall. Snape grabbed Weasley by his collar and dragged him off to the hospital wing.

"I think I missed something in the translation. Did Snape's past the chance to give me hell?"

"I wouldn't look to close Harry or you might find Snape smiling back at you." We decided not to delve further into this mystery and those upsetting thoughts as we entered the Great Hall.

Later in the headmaster's office, "Albus the Dark Lord is pushing me to get the prophecy from you or snatch Potter or both."

"Severus, Voldemort can have neither. While I may have made a terrible decisions it is for the greater good. Longbottom is just a ploy to keep Voldemort from going full speed ahead and Longbottom lets the public feel safe. I always figured Potter would show up in the end and unfortunately Harry Potter must die to keep our world safe.

"Since I'm risking so much not to mention my life would it be too much to ask what is this greater good plan? You do realize what will happen if we give Potter to Voldemort."

"Actually you can tell Voldemort that I am close to finding an artifact from Merlin that will make me invincible. Tell Voldemort that it is a cup that one drink from provides astounding powers. Should he have doubts you can always remind him about the knowledge he can gained from using Ravenclaw's tiara"

After Snape left to provide the information he received to Voldemort Dumbledore started grinning. Snape was going to have a rough evening when he passed on that information. Besides he knew where the Deathly Hollows resided and by hook or crook he would obtain them. While he was not sure the extent of the powers and in the end he could die from old age, but he would still be the Master of Death for a very long time.

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Draco was suddenly becoming more of a nasty with his mouth and in his actions. Then again Malfoy thought his arm pits smelled like roses so we just continue to ignore him.

I felt that I had Dumbledore steaming. Professor McGonagall's glare set the tone overall and could probably produce ice cubes in the Gobi desert when it came to Harry Potter.

Moody called me into the office gave me a spiel about playing to my strengths. While using a broom or disillusionment charm had merit, his spiel got me wary of our DADA professor. This was because the professors were not supposed to help the champions and that's what he was attempting to do.

It was time once again to be called to the headmaster's office.

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It was time for the first task and all the champions were in the tent waiting Bagman to tell us about our dragons. Like the idiots could keep a secret of four dragons on the grounds.

"Here y'all listen up? Here in this small sack of purple silk bag (which he shook at us) is what you'll be facing in the first task.

"Oh dry up!" Victor growled, "We all know we have to face dragons so just get on with it."

It finally became my turn with the Horntail at the other end of the enclosure. It was crouched low over her clutch of eggs. This was supposed to be a monstrous, scaly, black lizard, thrashing her spiked tail and belching fire. Guess what, it was!

I approached the Dragon but stopped a respectable distance away and set on one of the larger rocks. With an offhanded guess I expect that most of the students expected me to try and win this tournament. They of course are quite wrong. What I am trying to do is to stop anyone or thing from killing me. When I figured when it's time I'll do it myself. However, Perenelle's words have come back to me…"Nikki I'm telling you they are going to kidnap whoever touches that cup. Voldemort is going to return! It's fuzzy but someone is going to die in that graveyard!" Oh well there was a Horntail waiting for me.

I start twirling my wand around for public consumption but of course my spell work was being done wandlessly. I was transfiguring rocks into bears, lions and tigers to harass the dragon. However, I was infusing into the animals their actions and destinations. My last couple of animals were large bull elephants. I then turn my Army loose.

The monstrous, scaly, black Dragon was harassed and attacked; as she steps away from her nest the bull elephants ram her. About this time I have picked up the egg and left the arena. As I left I was thinking that the Fates had kept their word and made me powerful and Cedric wasn't part of the tournament. All in all I was feeling quite cheery.

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My cheeriness lasted almost an entire week when I was rummaging around in my dimensionally transcendental expanded school trunk. I was quite impressed and a bit shocked to find an invisibility cloak among my possessions. Impressed that it was an invisibility cloak but I did receive a minor shock when I touched the cloak. I just shrugged my shoulders and replaced the cloak in the trunk and moved on with my day.

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"Doodles be hearing from other house elves and they be telling that Harry Potter second task being under the lake. Dumbly's mumblies says he plans to start an international incident with the Frenchy by Merpeople attacking Veelie and her sister. Doodles does not understand.

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"I need help here in explaining what Doodles just said." I asked the girls while I marveled at Doodles. She seemed as loyal to me as a bonded house elf.

"The Veela and the Merpeople don't get along. The Veela are fire while the Merpeople are water. Wars have started for less." Morag explained.

"Oh poo! That's what the Barbuncles were complaining about, they don't like being underwater and neither do I."

"Now I need help here in explaining what Luna just said, what…"

The light bulb went off. Luna's little creatures said that in by last future existences when I came back I arrived at the lake and they were pulling people from the bottom of that lake.

This much chatter took Morag about three seconds she grabbed the egg off the mantle and hit it with an 'Augment' charm. The egg quit screaming for a moment. After a scramble to close the screeching thing we all headed to our huge bath tub and learned the secret of the egg.

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I spent a lot of time in the study group with my wives and the other girls. My mind was more on what I was going to do in the tournament than on class study. That's when I notice that Hermione was more interested in other areas other than school work. The questions were more like… "So Morag what restaurant did you go to and what was the cinema?"… "Luna did you get to spend your summer with your parents or Harry's godfather?"

"Harry what's got you all in a dither?" Morag asked as I was kicking the couch.

"We finally figured out the egg, right? So I went to Dumbledore to find out what restrictions would apply when I go to rescue that which I would sorely miss. He just repeated the claptrap that all I could bring was my wand."

"Well silly! Don't you use a wand to summon things?"

"You're right Luna I'm just mad and not thinking. This Saturday we are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade, so I think were going to take a little trip and visit the French goblins."

Well unfortunately I received a visit before I got to visit the goblins. I had returned to our quarters before the girls had finished their activities and decided on taking a nice hot shower. I just stepped out the bathroom, wearing a towel wrapped around my waist, when my jaw and the towel fell to the floor. There sitting on my bed was one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen this side of the Fates. This one was dressed in flowing white.

"My Lord, how may I serve?"

I encountered a brain fart about then. I finally did get my brain and mouth to say, "Who are you?"

"Death my Lord." That of course explained everything…NOT!

My brain started to reengage, "Death is tall, dressed in black, and carries a scythe". This spilled out of my mouth without much coherency.

She put her hand over her mouth to cover, but a tingling giggle still escaped. "Master you are too funny."

"How am I your master?" I was beginning to get a bit perturbed.

"You're my master because you are the Master of Death. I appear to you as what is most appealing to your eye. I would be a poor servant if I wasn't pleasing in at least my form." Now I was really confused.

"You cart people off when there dead and I am now your master?"

"My minions, as you say, lead the dead to their proper places but I am in charge. You're my master because you are the master of death. You have had control over the three Deathly Hollows and will always be the Master of Death."

While I had many questions more my wives started to enter the room which caused my poor brain to panic. I realized I was nude in the presence of a gorgeous entity which would not make my wives overly happy. Luckily death had disappeared and the girls started to coo over my naked body.