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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Sun, Sept. 19, 2004
Hermoine's POV
"The fourth year wasn't quite started when Ron's dad received tickets to the Quidditch World Cup. Enough for him, Ron's brothers plus Ginny as well as Ron, Harry and me to all attend. Ireland against Bulgaria with Ireland winning. Afterward, Ron's eldest brothers who are Bill, Charlie and Percy all had to leave. The rest of us stayed along with Fred and George and, during the night, Death Eaters attacked. Mr. Weasley and other ministry wizards confronted them and managed to drive them off. The rest of us had to leave as we were legally still too young to fight. We lost track of Harry for a bit who claims he had seen a man there not connected to the Death Eaters but the guy ran off before more Ministry wizards arrived. The mystery man cast the dark mark, Voldemort's symbol, into the sky over the campsite to show that someone had been killed."
"Who was killed?"
"Don't recall a name but it was a Ministry wizard."
"What does this symbol look like?"
"It is a huge skull that looks like it has a snake coming out from where the mouth would be."
"That must be lovely." Raven's sort of half grin got me to grin back at her for that one.
"After term started, Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would be hosting the Triwizard Tournament. Three schools are each represented by a single champion and participate in very dangerous tasks with the winner being the one who does the best, or perhaps even just survives. The other two schools were Durmstrang and Baubatons, respectively represented by Victor Krum and Fleur Delacoeur. Cedric Diggory was chosen to represent Hogwarts. However, the Goblet of Fire wasn't done with the selections. The rules were simple. Write your name on a piece of parchment and throw it into the then fire lit goblet while there was time to submit your name and be seventeen or older. Someone tampered with that so that the Goblet believed a fourth school was competing and there was no age limit. Harry's name was submitted as the only representative of a fictitious school so naturally he was chosen as the fourth champion. During the selection of the champions, we were also introduced to that year's Defense against the Dark Arts instructor, Mad Eye Moody."
"I sense a connection between the selection and the new teacher."
"There was but only because Moody wasn't the real Moody but I'll get to that later. Anyway, after it was decided Harry had to compete, the first task was retrieving a fake egg from a dragon's nest. They all succeeded with Harry coming in first as he was quickest to retrieve the egg. The second task was two months later in February and involved getting to the bottom of the Black Lake to retrieve a person, put in suspended animation, that was important to each champion. Cedric Diggory was first to finish. Harry tied with Victor Krum even though he surfaced after Krum since Harry tried to take all the remaining hostages that were left. Fleur Delacouer didn't quite make it through but was still in the tournament in last place. Harry and Cedric were tied for first place after the second task. The third task wasn't to take place until June and several things happened between the last two tasks. The first was the death of one of the tournament judges, Barty Crouch Senior, occurring at Hogwarts and with no suspects. Dumbledore urged Mr. Fudge to cancel the tournament but he refused so the third task was still scheduled to go ahead. Harry also had a dream about Voldemort in which he saw Pettigrew and another man he didn't recognize conspiring with Voldemort to put that unknown person inside Hogwarts though no other details were revealed in Harry's dream. Harry also saw a memory of Dumbledore's about a trial at the Ministry where it was revealed that Mr. Crouch's son, Barty Crouch Junior, was a death eater loyal to Voldemort. Junior was sent to Azkaban but wasn't there long and apparently was held captive by his father for years in their home. His mother replaced him inside Azkaban while disguised as him and no one ever knew as she died there and was buried while still disguised. The son would escape home and reunite with Voldemort though and, incidentally, was both the unknown man from Harry's dream and the mystery man Harry saw at the Quidditch World Cup. "
"Did Crouch Junior make it inside Hogwarts?"
"He did."
"Harry's dream was actually a vision then?"
"I don't actually believe in people having visions but it did happen."
Interesting. I wonder what Hermoine would say if I told her about the Prophecy. "Was he disguised as the fake Moody and did he also drop Harry's name into the Goblet?"
"Both yes."
Did he also have anything to do with the death of the elder Crouch?"
"He confessed it to Dumbledore after the third task was done and the tournament over. That's when his real identity was discovered. The real Moody was discovered imprisoned inside a trunk but alive. Crouch was then set upon by a dementor who was with the Minister and given the Kiss without the Minister ever hearing with his own ears just what Crouch had been doing the entire school year and why he had been doing it."
"I gather that the Minister didn't simply accept the word of others?"
"No. He and Dumbledore had quite the row over it but Fudge refused to believe anything Dumbledore told him about Voldemort's return and Crouch helping to arrange it. He refused to take any action Dumbledore suggested except to call into question the integrity of both Dumbledore and Harry. More on that when I talk about the fifth year. "
"The rest of the fourth year consisted of the third task which involved the four champions getting through a maze to find the Triwizard Cup that had been placed in the center of the maze. The one to get the cup would win enough points to win the tournament. Of course, it was the imposter who put the cup in the maze and also enchanted it to be a portkey that would transport the person touching it to a graveyard where Voldemort was planning his full resurrection. Crouch also put a spell on Krum to attack the other champions but leave Harry alone. That worked somewhat as he took down Fleur but Cedric got the better of Krum. Cedric and Harry then made their way to the cup and decided to grab it together. They started the final task tied and would share the win between them. Unfortunately, neither got to celebrate as they touched it and both were transported to the graveyard. Voldemort only needed one wizard for his plan and he wanted Harry. He killed Cedric Diggory then and there. The plan worked and Voldemort was going to torture and kill Harry but Harry was able to fight him off and use the portkey to escape while bringing Cedric's body back with him. After offering up an account of what happened to Dumbledore and the revelation of Moody being an imposter and the real Moody being found and rescued, that is where Fudge and Dumbledore began to cause the splintering between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic which will factor into things that happened in our fifth year."
"Finished up just in time as we are about to have more company."
"What? Is the ferret coming back? It was something the imposter did when Malfoy tried to attack Harry. He turned Malfoy into a ferret."
"That must have been a nice sight to see but, in this case, you can relax. It's just Harry and Ron heading this way."
The title for Chapter 8 was mostlty for the appearance of Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle who are in Slytherin House. The other part was a reference to an old Batman show which was on in the 60's starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Though I now realize not everyone would know that or understand the reference. Batman doesn't not actualy appear in the story.
In other news, I have an outline for the next chapter plus a list of Raven's powers based on the cartoon and not the comics. Also, I have a timeline for the rest of my story so hopefully I'll be better organized going forward.
Lastly, Happy New Year.