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Getting Stronger

So much has happened in the past few months and all of it points to one thing; You Know Who is getting stronger. It's so obvious and it's really, really scary. I have been so occupied with school work, helping Harry and worrying about all these strange occurrences, I haven't had much time to do anything else. It's why I haven't really been around lately.

It kind of all started after the second task (which was a while back now). On one of the Hogsmeade trips, we met Sirius in secret and he kind of told us some interesting facts, which got us all thinking. Then Harry and Krum saw Mr Crouch at Hogwarts after months of sending instructions to Percy via owl post.

According to Percy, he has been unwell. I wasn't there, but Harry said he was really out of it...like he had lost it or something. Fred and George joked that Percy had sent him mad, but I think it would be something worse than that. Something serious.

And finally, Harry discovered some kind of memory thing in Dumbledore's office (a Pensieve?) and he saw in to a memory of Dumbledore. It was all these Death Eater trials ages ago. It's kind of freaky to think that you don't actually know who is for real and who isn't. Many Death Eaters claimed to be under the Imperius Curse, but who knows whether they were telling the truth or not.

I'm glad a lot of the dangerous ones are all in Azkaban.

After all of this, it is now really obvious someone did put Harry's name in the Goblet. Someone who wants him dead. I personally think it is either Snape or Karkaroff (or both). They would both love to see Harry dead and I am sure they would gladly assist even the Darkest wizard to accomplish their goal.

Besides, after what Sirius told us, both of them were Death Eaters once before. They claim to be free of that, but as if You Know Who will ever 'free' a Death Eater. He'd kill them. We just need some way to prove that he really is coming back. That way, we can be in control of the whole situation. I hope Dumbledore realises the same thing. He will know what to do.

As I mentioned before, we saw Sirius at Hogsmeade a while back. He came disguised in his dog form, so if anyone saw us, they would have seen me, Harry and Hermione following what appeared to be a stray dog. With Hermione's reputation in helping...other creatures...they probably assumed she was dragging us along to rescue the poor, helpless dog.

Still, it didn't stop us from being concerned. Harry had been writing to Sirius all year, filling him in on what has been happening and Sirius has been replying with messages like 'keep calm', 'stay low' and whatnot. We had no idea why he all of a sudden decided actually come and see us. What if someone did see him? He's still a wanted man.

Then he tells us he has been living in the dog form for most of the year, stealing papers from bins and keeping up to date himself. I didn't mean to laugh, but I did, when he told us. I can't imagine living as an animal for so long. All the flees and everything. It would be disgusting. But it shows he really cares about Harry. You'd have to really care about someone to live as a dog for so long (or in Pettigrew's instance, be really, really scared).

I could never live off eating rats, though. I have no idea how Sirius can manage that.

So anyway, he told us about Mr Crouch's son being a Death Eater and how Crouch personally handed him over to the Dementors. Apparently he's really against the Dark Arts and was furious to discover his own son was using that kind of magic.

I bet it was humiliating too. A well respected person of the Ministry and your son was caught with the Death Eaters. I don't really blame him, truthfully.

Then a few weeks after that, Krum had been having a go at Harry (because Skeeter wrote some ridiculous article about Harry and Hermione-I'll get to that later) and he got all jealous over it. They were near the Forbidden Forest, when (and this is only Harry's word) Mr Crouch just stumbled out, muttering all kinds of nonsense.

Everyone believed he had been at home, really unwell, but he has been wandering the Forest all this time? Something isn't right. And when Harry went to get help, he and Dumbledore came back to find Krum lying Stunned on the ground and Crouch gone.

This all occurred after they had just found out the third task was going to be some kind of maze. It can't be that hard, can it? I mean, yeah, there will be enchantments and spells, but I doubt it will be too dangerous. The Champions have already faced dragons and survived under water for an hour. Surely, nothing can be worse than that.

I hope Harry does really well. I hope he wins. He deserves it, you know. His name was put in the Goblet without him knowing about it and then (due to their rules) he was forced to compete. Now he is winning (well, equally winning). Everyone thought he was going to fail after the first task.

But I don't actually care who wins, as long as it isn't Krum. I bet he will be mighty pleased with himself and all the girls (probably Hermione included) will swoon over him. They only like him because he is some stupid Quidditch player, anyway. I bet if he was just an ordinary student like Cedric Diggory he wouldn't have that much attention.

Anyway, so after the whole Crouch thing settled down, Harry told me about what he saw in Dumbledore's Pensieve. He said he saw all these trials that Dumbledore was at. They were sentencing Death Eaters.

Of course, many who should have been thrown in Azkaban are still out there, but I think the most dangerous ones are in the prison. It's kind of freaky, actually, to think that some really dangerous ones could still be out there.

For all I know, they could have Harry or Hermione under the Imperius Curse.

But it is all pointing to the fact that You Know Who is getting stronger. Even Dumbledore believes he is, but I really hope he is wrong. It is the worst possible thing that could happen.

I know I mentioned the article Skeeter wrote earlier, but I never said what it was about, really. I have absolutely no idea how she could possibly find out, but she did, then she exaggerated it and now everyone thinks Hermione is dating both Harry and Krum at the same time.

Krum is a useless git, who can't even play Quidditch and I have no idea what Hermione sees in him. But in her article, Skeeter mentioned that Krum asked Hermione to come and visit him in the summer. I laughed at it, thinking it was more of her rubbish (like the part about Harry), but do you know what she said? She said it was true and was more worried about how Skeeter found out than anything.

I don't believe it! The Tournament will be over then. Why would Krum want her to visit him? And what does Hermione see in him? I guess she likes the famous ones. Friends with Harry, now seeing Krum. It's all because he is famous. If I was famous, she would probably like me better.

So, yeah, then Skeeter went on to rant about how Hermione is with Krum and Harry. They both deny it (and that was what Krum was questioning Harry about when all that Crouch stuff happened). I doubt it is true, but she did get the part about Krum asking Hermione to his place right, so who knows. Maybe it is something they're not telling me. If it is true, though, it looks like Harry got over Cho Chang pretty fast. I can't believe he would let someone like Diggory get in the way.

Well, the third task starts in a few weeks and I really hope something like getting his arms sliced off happens to Krum. We'll see what Hermione thinks of him then.