Lessons over the week went smoothly, other than all the homework we got given. It was soon Halloween, and time for the feast… and the choosing of the Triwizard Champions. "This feast seems to be lasting a lot longer than usual" Blaise observed "Probably 'cause of all the other people eating… and everyone seems excited for the cup, wish they'd just get it over with" "Draco don't be a bore, you're just annoyed you couldn't enter!" I laughed, nudging him in the side. He shrugged it off, and after hardly any time most of the food was gone, there was a steady rhythm of voices in the hall, which stopped almost instantly as Dumbledore rose. All the headmasters looked tense, all the students nervous.
"Well, the goblet is almost ready to make its decision," said Dumbledore. "I estimate that it requires on more minute…" he explained where the champions' were to go once their names were called out. He then took out his wand, the Hall went semi-dark as most of the candles went out, leaving only the candles from the pumpkins, and the blue-white shine from the Goblet of Fire. The goblet turned red, parks flying from it, along with a piece of parchment. There was a chill within the room. "The champion for Durmstrang," everyone held their breath, staring between Dumbledore and the parchment. "will be Viktor Krum." The room erupted in cheers and Viktor rose from the Slytherin table, followed by hands trying to congratulate him. As he walked past us Draco and he went into a hand grip as Draco's way of saying good luck. Those two had talked quite a bit the last few days. Viktor then disappeared through the door Dumbledore had told Champions to go through. Durmstang's headmaster looked relieved, like he knew it was going to be Viktor, or he'd have had a panic attack.
As the clapping died down the goblet turned red for the second time, shooting out a second parchment. "The champion for Beauxbatons is Fleur Delacour!" Once again the room erupted, and an elegant girl stood up, and gracefully swept towards the door. For the final time the goblet turned red, and another parchment came out. This was to be Hogwarts', "It has to be me! Pleaseeee." I heard some Slytherin seventh years exclaim. The room fell silent. "The Hogwarts champion is Cedric Diggory!" Every Hufflepuff jumped to their feet, screaming with pride. It was the loudest it'd been so far. You could see disappointment on a lot of older students faces around the room. Cedric made his way toward the door beaming as he strode over there.
Dumbledore cleared his throat as the cheering calmed, "We now have our three champions. I am sure I can count upon all of you to support your champions. By cheering your champion on-"
The goblet had turned red again "Draco, what's happening?" I asked, but everyone looked shocked, scared even. A fourth parchment flew from the goblet, Dumbledore reached out and seized it. He opened it and stared at the name written on the side only he could see. After a long, tense pause Dumbledore looked up shocked, angry and confused. "Harry Potter." No one cheered, no one said anything. Everyone just stared toward Harry. He was frozen. I could see he looked as shocked as everyone else.
There was some commotion on the top table where the professors were, "Harry Potter" Dumbledore called again "Harry! Up here, if you please!" Harry stood up, looking slightly numb, and made his way up toward the top table. Everyone kept their eyes on his. I could hear Draco and Blaise talking besides me "He must have cheated it's the only way" "Wonder who put his name in for him" "Yeah but then why would Diggory have been chosen? One per school, remember?" "I'm not stupid, Draco. Different school name maybe?" Harry walked through the door the three champions had gone through before him. However it was a completely different atmosphere.
Dumbledore wrapped up the ceremony "That's the end of the feast, back to your dorms please" The professors all disappeared through the door, and conversation exploded as it had before. Everyone was confused as to what had just happened, some people still stared blankly at the door, slowly people started to filter out. We went back to our dorms, splitting from the boys, then got changed into our pyjamas and started chatting.
Pansy was first to bring up Harry, "Potter's such an attention seeking whore." "We don't know if he even did it?" I stated "Well, who else would have?" "Yeah, but didn't you see Fred and George when they used that aging spell? If Harry did do it, someone else must have helped him. He couldn't have got past Dumbledore's aging ring on his own. But everyone looked shocked, you think someone who'd helped him wouldn't look shocked…" "Bells, why are you even defending him?" Milly questioned, but didn't give me chance to answer before she continued "Potter always fuck's things up, gets himself into trouble etc, like Pansy said he's attention seeking! Always wants to be in with whatever's happening!" "Yeah but I'm only saying it's impossible he did it alone ok? I'm not defending anything, I'm just saying we don't know the whole fucking story right?! Don't be so quick to judge him on past mistakes" "God Bells you sound like you like the freak… You don't, do you? I thought you liked Draco, he won't be happy about your liking of Potter" Daph stated, I could see Pansy glaring at me "Woah calm down Daph! Draco's my friend-" "-Pretty close friend-" "-and I didn't say I liked Harry-" "-Harry? First name basis already huh-" "-I'm simply saying we don't know the story. AND WILL YOU STOP INTURPTING ME MILL" I threw a pillow at her and jumped from my bed, to hers (which was next to mine) and started tickling her "gerrofffme" she screamed while laughing. Daph had sprang over and pinned Mill down, I continued tickling her "So, who likes Harry Potter again?" "You!" "NO… who?" "No one-no one—get-off-please" she gasped, "That's better" I smiled gleefully and jumped off. "Teach you who to mess with" I winked, "Watch your back Gryffindor-lover" she teased, throwing my pillow back at me.
I woke early to the sunlight peeking through the small window we had. Being in the dungeon meant we didn't get a lot of natural light in, so sometimes I was happy about it. Now was not one of these times. I sat up and yawned, I hadn't had a very good sleep. I was in that graveyard again, only Harry wasn't there. No one was, there wasn't even a light in the far off house. It was eerie, like death surrounded the place, other than the usual feeling you get from a graveyard.. I got changed and went down, today was Friday meaning we had History of Magic first. That seemed to go pretty quickly, like Charms did straight after. It was double potions I wasn't looking forward to, especially after yesterday, with Harry and the cup… Snape didn't seem in too happy a mood during breakfast. "Sigh, do we have to go to Potions?" I figured if I complained enough someone might persuade me to go "Bells you know you want to go really" Blaise winked at me, "But Snape's in such a bad mood! Potions is shit when he's like this. He'll just focus on making everyone's life misery, well… not us, but it's totally bias" "So, if he's not going to make your life misery then why are you complaining?" Draco piped up "Tell you what Bells, work with me and you can just relax all lesson" "Hmm.. Mr Malfoy you got yourself a potions partner" I smiled at him, and in the corner of my eye I saw Pansy sulking a little.
We went over to potions after lunch and found our seats, everyone was still talking about Harry and the cup, who hadn't been in lessons today so no one knew what was happening on that topic. "Today we will be learning how to make a Girding Potion, which may be consumed to increase one's endurance for a considerable number of weeks," Snape said, while writing the page number on the blackboard "I do warn those of you who wish to experiment with this potion that the maximum dosage is no more than two of these vials" he gestured toward little vials on our tables. "You may begin" I opened my book and quickly read the ingredients "I'll go get them, you set up yeah?" Draco nodded and I went to gather things.
"Oh, hello Bella" "Neville hey! Did you enjoy the feast last night?" I always tried to be nicer to Neville because of how mean Draco usually was, through the last three years myself and Neville have talked a lot in the library, so he's used to me being nice now "Well, I guess, up until Harry got chosen. He didn't come back to our dorm until late last night, and left before anyone was awake. I think he's been in Dumbledore's office all day today" he sounded concerned "Well I'm sure he'll be fine, so no one knows how it happened then?" he shook his head to my question "No, not even Ron or Hermione, Harry didn't tell any of us… you might want to use tongs to get those, they leave a nasty smell on your hands" "shit, cheers" I quickly pulled my hand back and grabbed the tongs, placing the dragonfly thoraxes on a small plate, "cya later Neville" we smiled, then I went back over to Draco "urgh, you weren't actually talking to that fool were you?" I just laughed and put everything on the table. "Right, the following recipe…. You set up Draco?" "yeah, just give me a minute k?" I sat back down and re-read the list, everyone around the room was still setting up, apart from Hermione who had somehow set up, gathered ingredients and started already, even though she was working on her own!
"Ready, so what do we add first?" "Fairy wings, then heat until potion turns turquoise." It took a while to heat up, and we started playing games to pass the time "Right kill, marry, fuck.. Pansy, Daph and Mill" "That's hardly fair Bells, can't one of them be pretty? Fine! Urm… Kill Pansy, marry Mill and fuck Daph" I laughed, "Pansy won't be happy about that" "Shut up! Your turn, Blaise, Crabbe and me." "Woah that's hardly fair either, you can't use yourself! I refuse." I folded my arms and turned away laughing, "fine! Fine, urm Longbottom, since you're fond of him" he winked. "very funny, Ok, kill Crabbe" "wait.." "fuck Blaise, marry Neville" "Why would you choose that Gryffindor over-" "-Your turn! Oh shit it's turquoise, now we add one measure of doxy eggs and heat until pink" Draco added the eggs then turned back to me "seriously though Bells, why" "Because I don't want to marry Crabbe" I smiled "Well fuck him them" "nah, you're alright" I laughed again, which set Draco off laughing "it's pink it's pink what next" "urm, add some of the toasted dragonfly thoraxes until it turns red" he started adding them "red enough yet? Red enough yet? Red enough yet?" "woah woah Draco don't add that much! Well… that's definitely red, just maybe a little too red, we've gotta heat it until it turns blue, if that ever happens" "Let's play a new game, would you rather yeah?" I nodded "Right, Draco since it's your go… would you rather have sex with Pansy every day for the rest of the year, or have to watch Blaise have sex, with whoever you're crushing on, for the rest of the year?" "OH god, Pansy. 100%." "Ok! I'll go tell her!" I giggled and jokingly shifted in my seat, Draco grabbed my arm "Don't you dare, it's just the better alternative than seeing you-urm-Blaise- sleep with someone" wait, did he just say me? "What?" "Would you rather see Harry Potter naked or see Blaise naked?" he's avoiding repeating then, "Harry, because I've already seen Blaise naked" I laughed "what? What? When did that happen? Why did that happen…?" I just kept laughing "It's blue! Well.. green but that's as blue as it's getting" I put some more toasted dragonfly thoraxes into the potion and it turned a grey-ish silver "heat potion until it turns red… would you say that was silver Draco?" "I'd say you're avoiding telling me when you saw Blaise naked?" I just kept laughing "It's a long story ok" I don't know why Draco's actually bothered, mind you… he made that mistake earlier saying he was seeing me have sex and not Blaise… he must have something else on his mind. Probably the Triwizard cup or something. Draco just glared at me, but then our potion started bubbling drastically before we heard a loud pop, after that all I could hear was buzzing. A loud buzzing. I could see people staring at me and Draco. I could see their lips moving but I couldn't hear anything, only the buzzing. What the hell had happened? The potion can't have been that bad, can it? "What's happening?" I couldn't even hear myself speak, just the buzzing. I could feel myself falling off my chair and into where I thought Draco was, but as I looked I already saw Draco on the floor. Shit.
Woke up in the hospital wing on Hogwarts. Turns out the potion we made ended up hurting our hearing, (which got sorted out by Madam Pomfrey) and the buzzing had created an effect with something in our body which made us collapse. "But, why didn't it affect anyone else?" "Hmm," Madam Pomfrey started "Well, I'm not quite sure on that. It might be because it was you two who created the potion." I tried to sit up "Ahhh" I clutched at my side, "Oh, sweetie when you fell you cracked your ribs on one of the stools, so you're recovering from that too I'm afraid. You ought to take it easy for the next few days, and you'll be bruised for a while, but you're free to leave this afternoon as long as everything else is fine." "Where's Draco?" "He got out a few days ago, but we had to keep you asleep and in bed for a bit longer due to your ribs" A few days?! "What day is it? How long have I been here?!"
"It's Friday, you've been here a week."