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Chapter 12

Camelot's Perspective

Instead of going to breakfast in the Great Hall, I went to the Room of Requirement, and I found breakfast there. I decided to look at the memory book.

And I did something that I wouldn't do. Because I had been asked not to. But I didn't care.

I looked through George's section of the book.

I didn't read all of it, though. I wanted to know if they had talked about the dragons. And I found an entry on it.

I allowed myself to be submerged in the memory.

"Hey, Fred! We've got a letter from Charlie!" George shouted, coming into the dormitory.

"Really, what's it say?" Fred asked, intrigued.

"He says that he coming to Hogwarts to unload some dragons for the…tournament?!" George read the letter again to make sure that it was right.

"What? You've got to be kidding!" Fred looked at him in disbelief.

"We've got to tell Cam and Harry!"

"Won't Ron tell them?"

"They're fighting now! Ron's so thickheaded he wouldn't care! They could die!" I had never seen George so panicked.

"George, relax. We will tell them. Tomorrow." Fred nodded.

"TOMORROW IS THE BEST THAT YOU'VE GOT?!" George screamed, grabbing the front of Fred's pajamas.

"Mate, calm down. Calm down. It's after curfew, you dimwit."

"Oh…right..." He laughed nervously and his face turned bright red.

I looked at the date of the entry. It was two days ago. That means that they would have told me yesterday, but Harry and I never had a chance to be told by them.

I always did have a habit of overreacting ad making the situation worse…

I closed the book just in time, because the door opened.

And in came George. He was breathing heavily and his hair was everywhere.

I looked at him in puzzlement.

"Filch. Malfoy. And his gang." He said simply, smoothing his hair down.

"Nice…" I laughed.

"Not my fault! Filch said that because of me, a bunch of toilets on the third floor exploded…and that was true, but knowing me, I denied it…"

I collapsed into a fit of laughing. "What about Malfoy and his gang?"

"You know…actually….I haven't a clue. He's been after Fred and me a lot lately. Git. So, what have you been up to?"

"Nothing…I skipped breakfast and came here. Well, breakfast was here…"

"That explains why I didn't see you."

"And then of course, I'm going to have to battle a dragon for the First Task…"

"You know about the dragons?"

"Why, you knew about the dragons?" I asked him innocently.

"Yeah…Fred and I were going to tell you yesterday, but we could barely get you and Harry into the same room as us for a few moments. Ron must have gotten to you first."

"Ah…no. Hagrid told us. And we saw them."

"Saw the dragons?" His eyes grew big.

"I saw one called the Hungarian Horntail…it scared the shit out of me…" I shuddered.

"Charlie was telling us about that once. Says it was the meanest and most dangerous dragon he's ever worked with."

"Nice to know. Now all I have to do is battle it." I said sarcastically.

"I could teach you a few spells, if you want? Maybe Fred could help as well?"

"You could?" I asked, sitting up.

He nodded.

I grinned and tackled him to the floor with a bear hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the bestest!"

"You're welcome." His cheeks flushed. "We could start during free period, if you'd like."

"That would be great." I smiled.

"Potter Twins stink!" I heard a chorus of laughter as I walked outside.

I was walking with Harry, and everywhere I turned, everyone wore badges with our pictures on them turning green, with the headline, "Potters Stink!" and then it swirled into Cedric's picture. "Cedric rules!"

It bothered me how they thought that this was some sort of a little game. That if you lost, you could just try again. But it wasn't like that at all. You could die.

I was going to meet Fred and George outside the Room of Requirement. We were going to practice in there.

Harry was going to the library to read up on dragons, since Ron hadn't bothered to tell him anything. I had offered for him to come and work with the twins and me, but he refused, saying, "Our strategies have to be different."

Blegh.

"The Potters stink, Ced rules!" Everyone yelled at us as we made our way through the crowds of them.

The stupid Slytherins and the Hufflepuffs were in on this dumb joke. The Ravenclaws didn't really care, as they were too busy studying, and the Gryffindors were always defending us.

Harry and I walked over to Cedric, who was laughing with a bunch of his friends.

"Could we have a word?" Harry asked him.

Cedric nodded and got up to follow us behind a tree.

"Dragons. That's the first task." I said.

"They've got one for each of us." Harry made sure that he heard clearly.

"You're serious?" He asked. "And Fleur and Krum…do they…um…"

Harry and I nodded.

"Potter Twins stink!"

My twin and I began to walk away when Cedric gently took each of our arms. "Hey, listen, about the badges, I've asked them not to wear them, but they won't-"

"Don't worry about it." I nodded, smiling.

"Look, there's Ron." Harry mumbled.

I saw Ron talking the Seamus, and they were coming our way.

"You're a right foul git, you know that?" Harry yelled in his face.

"You think so?" He muttered.

"I know so!"

"Anything else?"

"Yeah! Stay away from me! And Cam, too!"

Why did he always have to bring me into these things?

Ron and Seamus pushed past Harry and continued their conversation.

"Hey, I have to go meet Fred and George. I'll meet up with you in the Common Room, okay?" I said to my brother.

He nodded.

"Why so tense, Potter?" I heard someone say from a tree as I walked away.

Malfoy. Git. Git. Git.

"My father and I have a bet, you see. I don't think that you're going to last ten minutes in this tournament." He jumped down. "He disagrees. He thinks you won't last five!"

Everyone in his group laughed like it was the funniest thing in the world. Oh, believe me when I say, he had nothing on the Weasley Twins.

I decided to go defend my brother. If what people said was true, Malfoy had a soft spot for me.

"Stay away from my brother!" I shoved him and he laughed.

"I don't give a damn what your father thinks, Malfoy! He's vile and cruel." My twin spat.

"And you're just pathetic." We both chimed at the end and walked away, feeling proud.

"Pathetic?" I saw him pulling his wand out of his pocket from the corner of my eyes.

I already had mine out and was about to hex him, when I felt a warm hand on my shoulder. It was George.

"Oh no you don't, sonny!" Moody barked, sending a spiral of light at Draco.

Right before my eyes, he turned into a ferret. I was laughing so much that tears were coming from my eyes.

"I'll teach you to curse someone while their backs are turned!" Moody walked over to us. "You stinking, cowardly, scummy…"

He waved his wand around, and Draco, I mean, the ferret was victim to wherever it went.

I heard George's chuckle behind me, and Fred had joined in. Harry had the biggest grin on his face.

But McGonagall just had to come and ruin all the fun…

"Professor Moody! What are you doing?!" She had a group of student behind her.

"Teaching." He said simply.

"Is that a-…is that a student?!" She gasped.

"Technically, it's a ferret." He stuffed the ferret into Crabbe's pants.

"Stand still, stand still!" Goyle shouted, while trying to get the ferret out of Crabbe's pants. He promptly retracted it back when he was bitten.

Moody turned to Harry and me and winked at us.

But once the ferret came out the leg of Crabbe's pants, McGonagall waved her wand and the ferret turned into Draco.

"She's ruined all the fun." George whispered into my ear.

It sent shivers down my spine, and I looked back at him, grinning.

"My father will hear about this!" Draco growled.

"Is that a threat?" Moody joked, setting his cane down and running after Draco.

"Professor Moody!" McGonagall said sternly.

"Is that a threat?!" Moody shouted after Draco.

Draco ran into the open, getting laughs from everyone.

"I could tell you stories about your father that would curl even your greasy hair, boy!"

"Alastor!"

"It doesn't end here!"

"Alastor!" McGonagall screamed, getting his attention. "We never use transfiguration as a punishment! Surely Dumbledore told you that." She wagged her wand in his face.

"He might have mentioned it…"

"Well you will do well to remember it!" She walked away briskly with her group of students.

Moody pulled a face at her. "You, come with me." He said to Harry.

I said bye to my brother, and George and I continued to the Room of Requirement.

"I need somewhere to practice for the First Task." I repeated this each time I walked past the doors.

Huge black doors appeared in front of us, with swirling designs etched into them.

We entered the room, and were amazed by what was before us.

The room was lined with mirrors, and there was a fireplace.

It might have looked plain to anybody else, but to me, it was perfect.

"So, what shall we get to first?" Fred asked.

"Well, I do have one spell that you could use. But don't get upset if you don't get it at first. It's a sixth-year charm." George took his wand out.

"I'm willing to learn anything." I nodded.

"Aguamenti!" George shouted, pointing his wand at the fireplace.

A jet of water took the fire out. I stared in awe at him.

"Why don't you try now?" Fred nudged me up next to George.

The fire ignited once more and I tried the charm.

"Aguamenti!"

I looked at the few drops of water that came from my wand in disappointment.

"You've just got to concentrate a bit harder, that's all. And you're not holding your wand right." George said, putting his hand on my hand.

I smiled and looked up at him. He grinned and flushed.

He made sure that I was holding my wand again, and asked me to concentrate as hard as I could.

I imagined the dragon's fiery breath coming for me, and it worked.

"Aguamenti!" I screamed.

A powerful blast of water came from my wand, completely extinguishing the fire, and flooding out onto the floor.

"Well, I guess this means that we can move onto the next one!" Fred chimed, grinning.

When we turned around, a line of training dummies was before us.

"This next one can blast solid objects." George said.

"We figured it might come in handy because we've heard that the whole stadium is going to be covered in rock." Fred nodded.

"If you could blast the rock to confuse the dragon, it might buy you some well-needed time."

"Confringo!" Both of the twins shouted; each of their wands pointed at a different training dummy.

It exploded into pieces, and fell through the grates in the floor.

"Wow. I don't think that I could do that." I looked from Fred to George.

"The key is to concentrate. Like your Patronus." Fred put his hand on my shoulder.

"But my Patronus is different!"

"What makes you so sure?" George raised an eyebrow at me.

"Well, I've never really made anything explode…I mean, I've seen Hermione blow up a few locks…"

"Just concentrate on…blowing this thing up." Fred laughed.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, pointing my wand at the training dummy. "Confringo!"

When I opened my eyes, I saw the rest of the dummies were gone.

"How did you do that?" Fred and George both asked me.

"I didn't…I just pointed at one of them!"

"Well, you'll have no problems blowing up a few giant rocks." George patted my shoulder.

"Now, the last one we're going to teach you is for blindfolding things." They both chimed.

"You want me to blindfold a dragon?"

"It's worth a try. Right, Fred?"

"Right George."

"Well, you can practice on us this time." George looked at me.

"I'm not going to feel comfortable pointing my wand at my two best friends."

"It's fine! You're just putting a blindfold over our eyes!"

"Obscuro!" Fred shouted, pointing his wand at his twin.

A black blindfold covered George's eyes and tied neatly behind his head.

"Obscuro!" My wand was pointed at Fred, and the same happened to him as it did to George.

They laughed and I untied the blindfolds.

"Brilliant, Cam! All we need to do is practice these until the task, and you'll be fine!" The twins picked me up.

"Ahhh! Put me down!" I screamed.

"Relax, Cam!" George laughed.

"We're not going to do-"

"-Anything to our-"

"-Adopted sister!" Fred poked my nose.

"Hey! The nose is off limits!" I scowled at them.

"Not for us!" They chuckled and tickled me.

"Stoppit!" I laughed between breaths. "Stop it right now!"

"Or what?" They persisted.

"I'll…I'll…use a Confundus Charm on you! Hermione's taught me!"

They put me down quickly and laughed nervously.

The First Task is going to be in the next chapter! And it's going to be done in Third Person Perspective.