"Sit down please, Mrs. Granger" said Dumbledore
After the dinner, Hermione parted from Harry and Ron who were going to the Gryffindor tower, and headed to professor Dumbledore's office
"What is it professor?" asked Hermione
Dumbledore said nothing, but put on the table a black diary with small golden letters, forming the name Tom Marvolo Riddle. Hermione felt her heart beating fast inside her chest, it's the diary
"Is this the diary you were speaking about, Mrs. Granger?" asked Dumbledore
"Yes, it is, professor" she answered, without taking her eyes off the diary "How did you find it?"
"We searched the trunks in the Hogwarts express, fortunately it was someone from the first three years" said Dumbledore
"Who?" asked Hermione
"I prefer to not give this information away" said Dumbledore "You've said that Lucius Malfoy had put in Ginny Weasley cauldron, right?"
"Yes" she answered, now looking at Dumbledore
"and that Jack recognized it as a dark artifact?" he continued
"Yes" she answered in a curious tone
"I'm afraid I cannot give it back" said Dumbledore
"But professor…" Hermione began but was interrupted by Dumbledore
"Sorry, Mrs. Granger, it's indeed, as Jack had said, very dangerous" said Dumbledore
"Professor, I will just put it back into Jack's trunk, he asked me to bring it back, I promise I won't touch it after I put it there" said Hermione, Dumbledore looked at her, and she felt he was scanning her
"Is there anything that you'd like to tell me?" asked Dumbledore
Something like what? He doesn't know it's a Horcrux, does he? Should she tell him? Yes, but Jack didn't, she was sure Jack knew it was a Horcrux, but why didn't he tell Dumbledore?
"No, professor" she answered, if Jack didn't tell him, then he has a reason for not telling him and she trusted him, Dumbledore sighed
"Fine, I'm going to give you the diary back, but you're only to put in Jack's trunk, and to not touch it then, I trust Jack to know what to do with it" said Dumbledore and gave the diary to Hermione
"Thank you, professor" she said, and took the diary
"But remember, Mrs. Granger, it's a very dark magic, be careful" said Dumbledore
"I know professor, thank you" she said and left
In the next week, the new Hogwarts champion was chosen, Percy Weasley, Ron's brother, and the first task was planned to take a place on February 4. On the mentioned day, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, made their way to the Quidditch pitch, they took their places, close to the pitch, so they can see Percy properly
"What do you think is the task?" asked Ron nervously
"We'll know in a minutes" said Harry
"I hope it's not too dangerous!" said Ron
"It's the Triwizard tournament, it got to be dangerous!" said Hermione, but added quickly when she saw Ron getting paler "nothing deadly though, Dumbledore won't let that happen"
"Yes, sure Dumbledore won't allow anything too dangerous" Harry agreed
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first task of the Triwizard tournament for this year!" said Ludo Bagman loudly, holding his wand to his throat "today, our champions will have to get a golden snitch, the golden snitches were released before in earlier games in the last three or four years. It might sound easy, but to get the snitches, the three champions will have to pass a troll, before starting hunting the nifflers"
"Trolls!?" Ron yelled, furiously
"Well, Jack beat a one in our first year, didn't he? It has to be easy" said Harry, trying his best to believe what he was saying
"And what are nifflers?" asked Ron, he and Harry turned to Hermione
"A Niffler is a creature with a long snout and a coat of black, fluffy fur. They are attracted to shiny things, which make them wonderful for locating treasure, but this also means that they could wreak havoc if kept or set loose indoors." Hermione said
"And that's why they gave them the snitches" said Harry
"Are they dangerous?" asked Ron
"If they pass the troll, the niffler should be nothing. According to ministry classification, trolls are more dangerous" Hermione told them
"And now, the first champion to go, Doryan Rey from Beauxbatons!" Bagman shouted the last two words, a polite applause came from where the Beuxbatons were sitting, and the tall, thin, young man came out of the tent
They watched as Rey transfigured the bat in the trolls hand into a huge snake that wrapped around the troll trying to strangle it. While the troll was struggling with the snake, Rey could pass it and started attempting on catching the niffler, but too late, the troll threw the snake away, and ran after Rey, he almost crashed him with his huge fist, but Rey was fast enough and managed to go away with nothing but a bruised shoulder. Now, Rey was sending stunners at the troll, but the troll was still following him. It happened so fast, Rey summoned the niffler, and got the snitch, before he could run away from the trolls fist again, that broke his other shoulder. That could've ended much worse. and he got 40 from the judges.
"and Now!" said Bagman, he was commenting on Rey the whole time "Our next champion is, Boyka Damyanov from Durmstrang" and they heard a much louder applause the Beuxbaton's
The large black haired young man, made his way to the pitch, he started sending stunners to the troll (not the same troll that Rey had fought) immediately, but the troll just got angrier because of the lights, and tried to hit Domyanov, who was lucky that the last stunner got in the trolls eye and missed him in some inches. Domyanov rose to his feet, and shot Reductos at the troll, he cut the troll's eyes, who was completely blind by the moment, his eyes bleeding, he was trying to hit Domyanov but couldn't because of his lack of sight. Meanwhile, Domyanov sneaked from behind the troll and was hunting down the niffler. "Vinculum" shouted Domyanov, and ropes burst out of his wand, catching the niffler. a minute later, he had the golden snitch
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, the champion of Hogwarts" an uproar came from the audience "Percy Weasley!" and the applauses were deafening
Percy made his way to the pitch, and his troll was the hugest of the three, and he raised his wand.
Hello people,
First of all, I didn't have the chance to say thank you for all the follows, favorites and reviews, even the bad, because while the good ones encourage me, the bad ones make me improve.
Second of all, as you have noticed (or maybe not), I stopped publishing everyday, because I found it hard and exhausting, but I'll be publishing a chapter every week.
Good news! I'm working now on a new story, but I won't start publishing it until I finish it (It's already 12k words, and it's still the beginning).
and forgive me for any English mistakes, it's not my native language, but I'm doing my best!
I hope you like the story, wait for the next chapter, and stay amazing ;)