Author's Note: I tried being more British in this chapter. Don't know if I pulled it off or not!

And as always, Harry Potter and his universe belong to J.K. Rowling, I only own Haley Potter.

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As everyone took their seats in the great hall, The Beauxbatons with the Ravenclaws, and Durmstrang with the Slytherins, the feast began.

Afterwards, Dumbledore stood up and began his speech. He began by introducing two judges that would be joining the three headmasters, as Mr. Bartemius Crouch, and Mr. Ludo Bagman.

While Mr. Filch brought in a casket, Dumbledore explained their will be three champions competing in three tasks. The champions will be scored on each task, and the person with the highest score in the end wins the Triwizard Cup. The champions will be chosen by the Goblet of Fire, which was a wooden cup filled with blue-white flames that Dumbledore took out of the casket.

Students seventeen and older wishing to participate, were to drop a piece of parchment with their name and school written on it into the cup. Those students will have twenty four hours to add their name to the cup that will be placed in the entrance hall.

Tomorrow night, on Halloween, The goblet will reveal the names of the three students it has chosen to participate. For those underage students wishing to add their names to the cup anyway, there will be an Age Line drawn around the cup.

And lastly, he let them know that any students that place their name into the cup and is chosen, their names are a binding, magical contract, and they must complete the tournament.

After Dumbledore dismissed the students to bed, everyone was abuzz with gossip. Fred and George were still appalled by the age limit, and were debating ways to get around that as Hermione fretted.

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The next morning as everyone converged on the entrance hall, Fred, George and Lee Jordan arrived announcing they had successfully made and taken an aging potion, and were about to enter their names into the cup. Hermione mentioned she didn't think it would work, but the three of them didn't listen.

Fred was the first one to cross the line without incident, or so he thought, as well as George who went in a second after him. There was a noise as the twins were hurled across the room some ten feet away. With a loud popping noise, the twins each had matching long white beards on their face.

Everyone including the twins started laughing as Dumbledore approached and told them he had warned them, though he wasn't mad because he had that special twinkle in his eyes.

As the twins went up to the hospital wing, everyone else entered the Great Hall and took their seats as they started eating breakfast.

After breakfast, Haley, Harry, Hermione and Ron went to go visit Hagrid. As they made their way down the stairs, she heard someone calling her name from behind. Pausing, she saw that it was Cedric behind her, followed by his group of fans who had seemed to doubled now that he might be putting his name into the Goblet of Fire.

"Hales you coming?" Harry asked her as they all paused to see what was going on.

"You guys go, I'll catch up with you later," Haley said as the others waved bye as they walked away.

She turned back to Cedric who just stopped by her side. "Am I interrupting?" Cedric asked.

"We were just on our way to visit Hagrid. You're more than welcome to join us, though I don't think there's enough room for us and your admirers. They seemed to have multiplied. Did you perform some kind of spell?" Haley teased.

"Ha, ha, Haley Potter, you're such a riot," he said as he pretended to laugh as the two of them took off down the hill as his friends debated on whether they should follow or not.

"Besides, I think I have a rival," he continued as he pointed to Viktor Krum and all the ladies following him. From the direction he was headed in, it looked like he was on his way towards the Quidditch Pitch.

"I think you may be right," she agreed. "Poor sod, though he might enjoy it. What do you think?" she asked Cedric for his opinion.

He laughed. "I dunno Hales; some people enjoy all the attention. Especially of the female persuasion."

Haley scoffed as she smacked him on the arm. "You guys are all the same, I dunno why we put up with you lot," she teased as she picked up her pace to pretend she's walking away from him.

"Because we're charming lads," he said as he blew on his knuckles and rubbed his shoulder with them.

"As if!" she rolled her eyes as she started to run down the hill that led to Hagrid's cabin. "Why don't you and your ego run back to your girlfriends? I'm sure they would appreciate you. I have more important things to do," she said over her shoulder.

When she turned her head to look at him, she ended up tripping over a rock and went down onto the ground as she rolled to the bottom of the hill.

Cedric picked up his pace as he ran down the rest of the hill. When he got to her, he bent down on his knees, and asked her if she was okay.

Haley rolled over onto her back, saw the look of concern on his face, and burst out laughing.

Cedric was surprised. "What's so funny? Are you hurt?"

"Just my pride. I'm fine. Help me up," she said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her up.

"You still want to go to Hagrid's?" he asked as he let go of her.

"Not really, do you?" she asked back.

He shrugged his shoulders.

"It's nice out, why don't we walk over towards the lake as you tell me if or when you enter your name into the cup," she said as they both walked around the hill and over towards the lake.

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That night Haley and Cedric made their way into the Great Hall with the other students and saw that the goblet of fire was now placed in front of Dumbledore's chair.

The two of them went to their own house tables so they could wait for dinner to begin.

Realizing too late, Haley sat down between Fred and to her embarrassment, Dean.

Dean stared at his plate as she sat down. She turned to give him a polite smile, but he turned to his left to talk to Seamus instead.

Feeling the sting of rejection, she stared down at the table as the plates filled up with food.

She knew he had every right to react to her like that, though it still stung a bit. Things were still awkward between them because they never resolved their issues of her cheating on him with Fred.

She had been hoping that because nothing had happened between her and Fred that Dean wouldn't be as mad, but apparently he was.

Sighing, she piled up her plate with food. She knew that she should talk to Dean and finally work things out. What were the odds that she would end up between the two of them at the same time? Life was funny that way.

Needing a distraction, she asked her brother, Hermione and Ron how it went at Hagrid's, and the three of them smiled as they leaned in to whisper that he had a secret crush on Madame Maxine.

Haley smiled. "Brilliant."

After chewing silently for a few minutes, Haley worked up her courage to talk to Dean. She didn't think the Great Hall was the ideal place to do it, but she also knew she would probably never get another chance.

After swallowing her food, and dabbing at her mouth, she knew she had stalled long enough. She turned her head and leaned over to his ear and whispered, "Dean, we really need to talk."

Frowning, he continued to chew his food as he shook his head no.

She could see his shoulders tense, and knew that he was angry. Oh, bollocks, I've really screwed this up haven't I? She thought to herself.

Not wanting to give up just yet, she leaned back over and said, "I want to apologize. What I did was wrong, and I want to make it up to you."

Dean swore under his breath, but otherwise continued to ignore her.

Shocked, her mouth opened to say something, but nothing came out. He had every right to be mad at her, but no need to be rude.

She snapped her jaw and said, "fine, if that's how you want to be, I've got no problem with it."

She ignored him the rest of the meal as she continued to eat. Finally, the feast was over and it was time to announce the champions.

After Dumbledore mentioned where he wanted the champions to meet, he extinguished all the candle light, so that only the floating pumpkins and the goblet were glowing.

The blue flames inside the goblet turned red as it started sparking. A flame shot into the air, and a charred piece of parchment fluttered in the air until Dumbledore grabbed it. "The champion for Durmstrang will be Viktor Krum," he said.

Everyone cheered as Viktor got up and made his way to the room they were to meet in.

When the cheering finished, the goblet spit out another piece of parchment, and once again Dumbledore caught it and said, "The champion for Beauxbaton is Fleur Delacour!"

After everyone cheered for her and she disappeared, the hall was once again silent. When the goblet spit out the last name, Dumbledore grabbed it and said, "The Hogwarts champion is Cedric Diggory!"

Haley leaped up from her seat and cheered for Cedric. She didn't know for a fact that he had entered his name because he wouldn't tell her, but she was happy for him none the less.

Fred grabbed her arm and pulled her back into her seat. "Quit it!" he hissed at her.

"What? I can't cheer for him?" she asked in confusion.

"Not like that you can't. A polite clap is fine," he said.

Haley shrugged her shoulders then let out a whoop. She laughed, but no one else around her saw the humor and didn't join her.

Ignoring her friends, she listened as Dumbledore started his speech, until he stopped mid sentenced.

The goblet started sparking again as another piece of parchment flew out of it. Dumbledore grabbed it; he stared at it until he cleared his throat and said, "Harry Potter."

Haley stiffened in shock, but she wasn't the only one. Harry sat their dumfounded.

The whole hall started buzzing as they gossiped; even the teachers were in disbelief. Harry looked down the table and could see everyone staring back at him.

"I didn't put my name in, you know I didn't. Don't you?" Harry pleaded with his friends.

Haley snapped out of it and said, "Course I believe you."

Before anyone else could respond, Dumbledore shouted out his name again as he called him to join him at the teachers table.

When he reached him, Dumbledore told him to go join the others. When the door closed, the whole hall burst open as everyone started shouting at others to figure out what happened.

Before Dumbledore went to join the champions, he dismissed everyone back to their rooms.

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Back in the common room, everyone was excited and Fred and George set up a celebration for when Harry returned. People were asking her and Hermione and Ron if they knew how he entered his name, but none of them had answers.

Finally, Harry arrived and everyone surrounded him, cheering him on. They seemed to be smothering him as they partied with him as well as asking him questions he didn't have the answers too.

As much as she tried, Haley just couldn't get close to him. Finally, she gave up and went to her room. She would talk to him when the party ended.

Changing into her pajamas and cuddling with her cat, Natalie, she took one of Hermione's Muggle novels and read a bit until Hermione entered the room.

After Hermione changed, she joined Haley on the bed and the two of them speculated what happened, because they believed he didn't put his name into the goblet, so that meant someone else had.

When the rest of the girls came into the room, Haley excused herself and made her way into the boy's dormitory.

Poking her head in, she saw Dean, Seamus and Neville were up talking, but Ron and Harry's beds were both silent with the curtains drawn.

When she stepped in, all chatting stopped as they stared at her.

"Sorry boys, just wanted a chat with my cousin, don't mind me," she said as she made her way towards Harry's bed.

She slid between the curtains, took out her wand, and murmured the spell that would make their conversation private.

"Who's there?" Harry asked when she sat down on his bed.

"It's just me. I wanted to see how you were doing," she said.

"I don't want to talk about it," he said as he rolled over.

"I cast a charm so no one can hear us talking. What happened Harry, who put your name in the cup?" she asked.

He rolled back over to face her, even though he couldn't see her because it was too dark. "You believe me?"

"Harry James Potter, how dare you doubt your twin sister! Of course I believe you. What happened after you entered that room?" she asked curiously.

He described to her how mad everyone was, and that they had no choice but for him to compete. He went on to mention how no one believed him, not even Ron.

"Harry if you didn't put your name into the cup, then who did?" she asked the question that was on his mind, but one he didn't have an answer for.

"No idea, Hales," he said.

Haley sighed and yawned. She told him to hang in there, and then went back to her room to get some sleep.

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The next morning, Haley went down to breakfast. After she finished eating, Harry still wasn't there. Hermione grabbed some toast and said she would bring him some. Haley smiled and Hermione blushed. She was secretly hoping her best friend and her twin would realize their feelings for each other soon.

Not knowing what else to do, she walked up to Cedric and asked him if he wanted to hang out. He finished chewing his food, got up, said goodbye to his friends, and then followed her out onto the grounds where they went for a walk.

They talked about the tournament and their thoughts on what the tasks would be, as well as her trying to convince him that Harry didn't put his name into the cup.

When they made their way towards the lake, Haley could see Harry and Hermione walking towards them, chatting away.

Haley smiled, and Cedric noticed. "Why are you smiling?" he asked her.

"Just wishful thinking," she said.

"About what?" he wanted to know.

She nodded her head towards Harry and Hermione. "Those two? What about them?" he asked.

"I just wish they weren't so stubborn and would admit their feelings," she said.

"You mean they're not together?" he was surprised.

Now Haley was surprised. "What do you mean?"

He shrugged. "It's nothing. Just that everyone already thinks they're together."

Haley smiled, "everyone except for them."

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At lunch, Harry told them that he wrote a letter to Sirius explaining how his name was put in the cup, but he had no idea how it got there.

The next few days seemed to get worse for Harry. Ron still wasn't talking to him, and everyone but the Gryffindors were treating him with distain.

As the Gryffindors and Slytherins were waiting for potions to begin, Malfoy came up to Haley, Harry and Hermione to show off their new badges that said: Support Cedric Diggory - the REAL Hogwarts Champion! Then when they pushed the badge, the message changed to: POTTER STINKS.

Harry and Malfoy got into an argument and sent curses at each other. The spells hit midair, and ricocheted. Harry's hit Goyle in the face, and Malfoy's hit Hermione. Goyle had ugly boils spring up, and Hermione's front teeth started growing.

When Professor Snape came, he took fifty points from Gryffindor and gave Ron and Harry detention.

Thankfully Harry was able to leave class early so he and the rest of the champions could have their wands looked at.

Later when he and Haley were alone in the common room, he explained how Rita Skeeter, who wrote for the Daily Prophet, did an interview with him. Then after that the wands were tested, and finally they had a photo shoot of the champions with their Headmasters and judges.

After that, he showed her a letter that Sirius wrote back. Basically it said he wanted to talk to him face to face by the fireplace at one in the morning on November 22nd. They were both excited and nervous to talk to him.

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P.S. An update on the poll as three people wanting Haley to go to the ball with Fred, and one vote for her to go with George. None for Cedric; interesting. Lol thanks to those who have let their opinions known through reviews as well, I appreciate them.

Thanks to paigematthewsfan21, xXMizz Alec VolturiXx, R2-D2106, Ellie Clemons, Faith, Beth5572, misha29 for your reviews, they mean a lot to me, and I love that you guys love Haley!

Secret Agent Girl, I appreciate your honesty. I know I can stray from the story, but I have issues with that. I feel like I would be disrespecting the books and the order of events, so I have her involved, but not changing them. However, I will try working on that. If you will bear with me on this story, I have a feeling you will enjoy the way I end this book at the cemetery. Haley gets a huge role at the end, and I'm quite excited by it. In fact, I have it all written out ahead of time. As for my grammar, I know I'm not perfect. In fact I always forget the correct terms. That is what my beta is for, but maybe she's not picking up on everything she should be. (shrugs shoulders), I'll work on that.