Harry Potter and the Triwizard Gauntlet

by Garrick Ollivander

*HARRY POTTER AND THE POWER HE KNOWS NOT: THE BETTER VERSION OF THIS STORY IS UP* The events of the Quidditch World Cup gave Harry an unwelcome taste of war. Now, he's determined to make himself stronger at any cost. The upcoming Triwizard Gauntlet is an excellent opportunity and Harry is bent on winning. Ron bashing, Powerful!Harry, may be upgraded to M later on, Harry/Hermione.

10. Chapter Five of the Rewrite in Progress

First of all, I'd like to apologize for this being another author's note and not a legitimate update.

I've been a bad author. Lots of people said that stories which go on hiatus die off after a while. Well, that nearly happened - my Harry Potter craze chilled and I stopped writing.

But! I realized how important it is to me. With over a thousand followers and rapidly approaching 100,000 views, this is easily the largest project I've ever undertaken and I have a responsibility to you guys to produce content I can be proud of. In the current state, it is not good enough to accomplish that.

So, I'm rewriting it from practically scratch. Harry needs something to balance his overpowered-ness out. Hermione needs to be a stronger character and less of just a pretty face. Ron needs to have anger issues, and realistic issues considering his family dynamics. Draco can't be as unhinged as he is in my story, it's just absurd. The pacing is all wrong. As you can see, I've got a lot of problems with my own creation.

Now that I've taken some time to read some legitimately high-quality stories, ones with Harry as an extremely powerful being, I can see the errors I've made. Hint: Reading stories by robst is immensely helpful. They're such a good author it's astounding.

Alright, I'll stop rambling. My point is, I'm making changes. I went so far as to delete the entire prologue, which was pretty much just my spark for this story - a cold November night in 2016, I was reading the Goblet of Fire for the 19th time and had a concept for a flashy, cool intro to Quidditch World Cup, with no true bearing on the story. Since then I've grown as an author and even begun work on original stories with cooler original ideas. This story is not the best work I can put out and I am determined to give you guys something on or by July 4th even if it means being awake for the next week.

Also, should I just make a new story altogether and ask my followers to migrate to the new one, or should I remake this story to chapter 10 as I produce content for it? PM or review with your thoughts.

I'm already dreading the inevitable anger some of you will hold for this being a false update, but this is really the only thing I think I had the choice to do.

The Astoundingly Apologetic Author,

Garrick Ollivander