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Daphne and Hermione raced down from the stands and reached Harry. Harry had a smile on, but quickly said "I need nap."

"You did wonderful Harry; now let's get you out of here before you get swarmed by people looking for interviews."

Harry looked dead on his feet from the exhaustion so they each hooked him under the arm and dragged him up towards the castle before they could be accosted by Dumbledore or errant reporters.

They got Harry up to Hospital Wing. Pomfrey was indisposed at the current moment, Cedric looked to be in serious shit. A lot of his body was burned, and he was bleeding a lot. Pomfrey was frantic, but there was another witch in what appeared to be a St. Mungo's uniform helping out. He was probably too critical condition to get to St. Mungo's but it wasn't life threatening once he was stabalized.

The two girls just laid Harry down in the bed, and he promptly fell asleep before the girls could say anything.

"Just a nap my ass. I bet he sleeps for 3 days" Daphne said.

"I got a galleon on the whole week." Hermione replied with an uncharacteristic response.

"You're on" She said with a smirk. "Any normal wizard would be out for a week, but this is Harry I-Can-Do-The-Impossible Potter we are talking about, so he shall be up in 3 days."

Pomfrey eventually came over and took him under her care, and she forced him to drink magic replenishment potions. She kept muttering "Silly child doesn't know when to stop" under her breathe every time she got a new bottle out. He ended up having to use more than twice the amount the she thought necessary.

Harry indeed, was out for nearly 3 day exactly, and Daphne had a "told you so smile" on her face for the few hours after that. It is also possible that it was just a plain happy smile that resulted in a fantastic 30 minute snogging session that happened before Harry even had his glasses on, but then he remembered he didn't even have glasses anymore so it was a moot point.

Not much happened in the 3 days he was sleeping. His golden egg was on the table next to him, along with a bunch of get wells and congratulations in the form of letters and food. Dumbledore also came in multiple times waiting for him to wake up. Thankfully no reporters were allowed in.

Daphne spent most of the normal training time helping to catch Hermione and Neville up with their spell arsenal. It was all review for Daphne, but repeated practice only makes you stronger, so she had no qualms helping out her new friends. Hermione had a knack for picking up spells quickly, but Neville had a lot more raw power. Not as much as Harry of course, but still an above average amount. His bonecrushing hex in particular wasn't something she fancied being hit by. They didn't learn anything that Harry and Daphne didn't learn during the summer.

Within an hour of Harry waking up, Dumbledore came in, much to his annoyance. He just wanted to spend some time with the lovely Daphne, but instead he got a 100 year old annoying man.

Naturally, he came in wearing the most absurd robe possible, and with the most absurd twinkling eyes possible. He must have been saving his twinkle for the whole 3 days so when he finally used it would be blinding. Harry however, just laughed out loud. "You have got to teach me the twinkling eye trick Headmaster." Harry deadpanned.

"It comes with age, my boy. That was quite the show you put on out there. Would you mind telling where you learned such amazing spellwork."

"Yes I do mind, but if you must know I got them from, where else, but Hogwarts? The books were in an obscure part of the library, but you can find them if you look carefully." Harry said in a cunning move. Daphne must be rubbing off on him in more ways than one; she is bringing out Harry's inner Slytherin. The statement wasn't a lie. He didn't specify which library he got the book in, as the chamber of secrets library is part of Hogwarts.

"Interesting, I thought I would be aware if such powerful magic tomes were in the library, but I suppose it is possible I have overlooked such things. But, alas, even I have never seen those spells before and I will admit I was impressed by your power."

"Alas, my dear headmaster," Harry started mockingly. "While I am a good bit above average in power, I would not be able to cast such spells under normal circumstances. The first spell was a power amplifying spell. It gave me power when I needed it, at the loss of losing it, plus extra later on."

"Surely such a spell would be considered dark magic." He said with no twinkle in his eye. He tried to do a legillimancy probe at that moment.

"I suggest you keep out of mind, old man, otherwise you might find the saying "Mess with the bull, and you'll get the horns" coming true. And I wouldn't make such broad statements about dark magic. It is an elemental spell. Elemental spells are a more pure form of magic, surely you know this? The spell drew upon the power of the land and gave it to me temporarily. That combined with my new wand gave me just enough ability to cast those spells, but I still ended up here in bed for a few days.

"I see…" is all Dumbledore had to say at the present. He was lost in thought. "Surely you could of just struck the dragon with that impressive lightning spell from the beginning?"

"Yes I could of, and I could of killed the dragon with it pretty easily too. I was doing it to give the audience a good show, and it worked out in the end because I got a perfect score."

"I will admit it was a good show, it is not very often you get a display of magic like that." He smiled. "Alas I guess it is time to depart. If you ever need someone to talk to, my office is always open." This time his twinkly eyes were back.

Dumbledore left deep in though. "I wonder where I can learn spells like that. I can't think of any location where you can get a book on elemental spells. Of course I know a few myself, but I only have one book and that is because I nicked it off Grindlewald's personal collection. Spoils of war of course…"

Pomfrey came back, and after checking his vitals, declared him fit. "Just don't stress yourself out too much. I assume the next time I see you will be after the 2nd task in 3 months. Try not to come here before then."

Harry just laughed. "Might as well just put a plaque with my name on it above my favorite bed over there in a corner."

Harry walked into the great hall for dinner, and much to his surprise everyone stood up, and started clapping, minus a few Slytherins and teachers of course.

The mood was ruined though when he heard an unwelcomed voice. "Good show mate!" Ron said like he was all of a sudden his best friend. Harry just gave a disgusted snort and walked past him without saying anything. "Why you stupid git…"

Ron fired a spell at Harry, but he deflected it with his basilisk hide bracer, rushed Ron and picked him up by his throat. "I don't know what you're playing at fool, but what makes you think you're my friend anymore? You disgust me. You tossed 3 years of friendship out over some stupid bigotry. Go bugger yourself." The hall was silent. Harry tossed idiot to the ground at his feet, and walked towards Daphne like nothing happened. Slowly the noise started to pick back up. "Well that was interesting. What did I miss?"

"Well the papers have been buzzing about your performance. Cedric was transferred to St. Mungo's and will probably be there for two more weeks. Hermione, Neville, and I still trained, I started teaching them some of the spells we studied during the summer. "

"Hmm interesting…" is all he said as he ate. He was watching Moody out of the corner of his eye. The grizzled auror was eating like he normally did, but his magic eyeball hasn't left Harry since he entered the hall.

"You got about 3 months to solve the golden egg clue before the next task. Do you have any plans."

"Well I would like to complete my animagus transformation…." Hermione's head shot up from the book she was reading.

"What! Why didn't you tell me about that!"

"Well to be honest I kind of forgot about it and haven't done anything more than discover my forms and research them since the summer."

"Really you got more than one form? That is really rare. I hope you are going to register them." She said with a weird look.

"Of course not, that would ruin the surprise. I'll tell you one of my forms is an ashwinder. My other form shall remain a secret."

"Really? What about you Daphne, what is your form?"

"Eh, I'm just a Knarl. "

"Oh, well that's still neat, it fits your personality."

"I suppose it does. I'm probably about a month away from completing it. Unlike my boyfriend here I have been working on it" Daphne said with a smile.

Harry just snickered. "Well I have been busy…"

"That reminds me we need to work on figuring out who "the culprit" is. I am almost certain I know who it is but I need some concrete evidence before we try to oust him publically. I'm going to need our Gryffindor knowledge and your Slytherin cunning to come up with a plan." Harry continued.

"Really, you think you know who it is?" they all asked simultaneously .

"Yeah" Harry whispered, and immediately set up a privacy ward. "I'm almost certain that it was Moody. He has been acting real strange, I'm almost certain it's not the real Moody, he's a good actor but if you look closely, he's doing almost too good a job and you can tell some of it is being faked. Like when my name came out of the Goblet he was doing too good a job at keeping up appearances he didn't even remember that I gave up an explanation on how it happened, and when he came into the meeting chamber he started to give the same explanation but he was cut short."

His friends all looked intrigued at that statement. "The guy has also been acting a little too friendly to me. He attempted to give me help with the first task, and I feigned ignorance. He did confirm to me that it was dragons although it wouldn't of matter. And I think I know how he's doing it too, although Snape kind of figured out the next part by himself. Polyjuice. Snape asked me after class, well more like threatened me, asking if I've been nicking his boomslang skin. I told him I have no need as I have my own if I ever needed it. He asked me if I know what it's used for and the only thing I could think of was Polyjuice."

Hermione was about to offer a few other potions with boomslang skin in it, but Harry continued on.

"Snape realized that I didn't do it, and figured out it must be a teacher who's been drinking polyjuice, but he doesn't have all the information we do. It's pretty obvious when you think about it. Moody DOES drink from that hip flask all day long and probably at least once an hour. The problem is proving he is doing it and that's where you guys come in."

They sat there contemplating the new information for a few moments before Hermione spoke up. "Well part of the solution is easy. The marauders map."

Harry put his palm to his forehead "So brilliant and obvious. I can check it to see where he goes constantly."

Daphne offered up something this time "I have a plan, but we are going to need Snape's help."

Harry groaned but nodded in defeat. "I suppose, he does deserve to help us since he did figure out the polyjuice part. Very well what is your idea?"

"Well we should probably try to figure out where the real Moody is being held. Your map should be able to help with that, but I don't know how it works with polyjuiced people."

"I agree. I've never had to test it like that, but I would imagine that if it can identify you in your animagus form in can identify you through polyjuice." Everyone nodded their head at the logic.

"Well we will ask Snape to brew some Veritaserum. We will then get him to do a switching spell on Moody's flask. He will swap a small amount of Veritaserum with whatever is in the flask. "

Harry spoke up "He does sniff his flask every time he drinks it as if searching for poisons, but it's mostly for appearance. Polyjuice tastes and smells vile, there's no way he could detect it." He motioned for Daphne to continue.

"Snape will then perform a diagnostic on the swapped liquid. If is a normal drink, then he will simply nullify the truth potion, and no one will know it every happened. If it is polyjuice like we suspect then he will give us a signal. The least obvious signal would be a brief legillimancy probe."

"Brilliant. What do you got to publicly oust him?" Harry inquired.

"Well I was thinking of doing something devious like having him transfigured into something stupid, but I think the Gryffindor approach would be useful here…"

The next day Harry skipped his spell training for working on his snake animagus form. It wasn't as simple as slowly transfiguring his hands into the animal equivalent, since snakes don't have hands. Harry also started carrying his map with him at all times. It wouldn't take him long to figure out what's happening though.

Late one night he noticed the first odd thing. He saw that Moody was in his office. There was also a dot labeled Bartemus Crouch. While it wasn't that odd, as they are friends, Harry hasn't seen Crouch in the school at all other than the name drawing and first task. When he woke up he noticed that Moody's dot was still there, but Crouch's dot was patrolling a hallway. He noticed this for a few days before coming to the conclusion that the real Moody is locked up in his own office somehow, and that Crouch must be the fake Moody. He opened the map in his Defense class briefly one day and noted that the dot named Moody was still in his office, and the dot named Crouch was moving in the classroom exactly like the fake Moody was. He immediately put the map away before the fake Moody would notice. After discussing his findings with Hermione and Daphne, they decided to enact phase 2, which is to get Snape in on the deal.

The three of them stayed after class the next day to talk with Snape (Neville was still nervous of the guy). Snape listened to the story, nodding his agreement at all the right parts.

"Very well I will do this, more to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else. I don't have any Veritaserum in stock, but I do have some brewing. It will be done in 2 weeks."

So with something to look forward to in 2 weeks, the friends simply went through their normal motions. Hermione did express interest in wanting to find her animagus form, but the most interesting thing was the announcement of the Yule Ball.

Dumbledore stood up to make the announcement. "It is my pleasure to announce the Yule Ball! It is only for 4th years an older, although you can invite a younger student." The girls all broke into fierce whispering and a lot of giggling. The majority of the guys just groaned. Harry looked pleased, any reason to be with his beautiful girlfriend was a win in his book. "Let it be known that the champions are required to attend with a date, as it is customary for them to open up the first dance. There will be dancing classes for all those who wish to learn. That is all, I bid you all good night!" Harry was suddenly happy that he learned how to dance during the summer, at least he wouldn't make a fool out of himself.

A few days later Snape held Harry back and told him that the serum was ready, and that the plan could be enacted that night. Harry told the girls to prepare for a show that night.

That night they all sat as close to the head table as possible. Snape was sitting on the opposite end of the table as usual, which made it all the more impressive that he performed the switching spell that accurate through a dozen professors. He gave Harry the mental probe signaling that his diagnostic was positive. Harry then in turn gave a mental probe to Daphne to start the chain events.

Daphne discretely and silently banished the glass in one of the Hogwarts large windows, causing the glass to shatter and explode down onto the ground. Many of the teachers stood up to see what cause the disturbance. Harry jumped up, already with the sonorous charm on his voice, pulled out his wand quicker than anyone can blink and yelled out "Finite Incantatem" right at Moody. Moody was only about 10 feet away and had no chance of reacting in time. Harry yelled out "CONSTANT VIGILANCE Professor Moody, or should I say Mr. Crouch.?" This brought shocked looks from nearly everyone. Harry noticed that the man didn't look like Mr. Crouch, but a much younger nastier version.

Dumbledore looked appalled. "What is the meaning of this… Crouch… Jr.? You should be dead!"

Harry wasted no time, he didn't care if it was Merlin himself who was the imposter; he wanted answers. He teleported across the hall right into him. It was the first time he tried it in the school, and it brought the already silent hall to a complete stop. Harry grabbed Crouch Jr. by the throat and pinned him to the wall. Crouch was too stunned by the sudden turn of events to do anything. This is where Snape's Veritaserum swap came into play.

"Did you put my name in the Goblet of Fire."

"Yes." Everyone was hanging onto every word being said now.

Harry thought about asking why, but that was obvious. "Who ordered you?"

Crouch Jr. looked to struggle for a few seconds, but finally said "The Dark Lord!" This brought many angry whispers in the crowd, lots of people were saying "did he say what I think he said?"

"Where is Voldemort?"

Crouch tried to answer but kept stopping midsentence. Dumbledore spoke up this time.

"Is he hiding under a fidelus charm?"

"Yes."

"What is he plotting?"

"He plans to capture Potter and use his blood for a rebirthing ritual." That was the last piece of information that he gave. He suddenly remember that he still had his wand, he drew it and pointed at the ground firing of a blasting hex, everyone shielded their faces from the debris as he attempted to run out of the hall. However he wouldn't be so lucky.

Unexpected by everyone, Neville jumped up from his seat. "That fucker is responsible for putting my parents in St. Mungos!" he roared, and shot his strongest bonecrushing hex right at the man. It was fueled by so much rage that it hit him in the shoulder and blew off the man's whole wand arm in a brutal wave of gore. Blood probably splashed onto a few people but they were already too stunned to notice. Neville just stood there and watched the man bleed, he would probably die in minutes. He showed no emotion. The man all of a sudden vanished into thin air.

"Damnit he had a portkey!"

Several hundred miles away, a man missing an arm showed up in front of the infant Dark Lord. "My lord I've been found out!" He gasped out before he stared to seizure.

"Worthless scum, I should let you die for this insolence, you're lucky I still need you. Lucky for you I also have a backup plan. Delores, be a darling and patch him up."