Title: The Next Chapter

Rating: K

Summary: Sequel to Hermione's Quest. Hermione finds new challenges as the Card Captor when strange things start happening, starting at the Burrow. Soon she finds that this is a test to get her ready to take her place as the most powerful sorcerer in the world.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

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To notwritten: Sorry about not updating but I had the stomach bug. But feeling better and thanks for the review.

To latinachikita: Thanks for the review.

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Chapter 26: Sirius And Kero's Advice

Harry and Hermione arrived back in the common room just in-time. Sirius head appeared and Hermione left Harry alone. Harry turned to Sirius.

"How are you doing, Harry?" Sirius asked.

"Not well," Harry told him. "Everyone thinks that I put my name in the Goblet and Ron doesn't believe me. He's jealous that I was entered and doesn't even think that someone might want to kill me. And now Hagrid has just shown me and Hermione what's coming in the first task, and its dragons, Sirius, and I'm a goner."

"Dragons we can deal with, Harry, but we'll get to that in a minute-I haven't got long here…I've broken into a Wizarding house to use the fire, but they could be back at any time. There are things I need to warn you about."

"What?" said Harry.

"Karkarroff," said Sirius. "Harry, he was a Death Eater. You know what Death Eaters are, don't you?"

"Yes-he-what?"

"He was caught, he was in Azkaban with me, but he got released."

"Karkaroff got released? Harry said slowly. "Why did they release him?"

"He did a deal with the Ministry of Magic," said Sirius bitterly. "He said he'd seen the error of his ways, and then he named names...he put a load of other people in Azkaban in his place…He's not very popular in there, I can tell you. And since he got out, from what I can tell, he's been teaching the Dark Arts to every student who passes through that school of his. So watch out for the Durmstrang champion as well."

"Okay," said Harry slowly. "But...are you saying Karkaroff put my name in the goblet? Because if he did, he's a really good actor. He seemed furious about it. He wanted to stop me from competing."

"We know he's a good actor," said Sirius. "because he convinced the Ministry of Magic to set him free, didn't he? Now, I've been keeping an eye on the Daily Prophet, Harry-."

"-you and the rest of the world," said Harry bitterly.

"-and reading between the lines of that Skeeter woman's article last month," said Sirius.

"About what happened at the Quidditch World Cup," Harry said.

"Yes," Sirius said. "And that strange weather that happened, I bet my life that there was something working there. Death Eaters were attacking those people and then the strange weather appeared. I think their connected."

Harry considered this.

"Now, let's talk about those dragons."

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"How do you think I can get past them?" Hermione asked.

"Use Dash to get past the dragon and get the egg," Kero suggested. "No creature can track someone that's using Dash."

Hermione considered this.

"Okay, as long as I don't get caught," Hermione said.

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