After his meeting with Fleur near the Black lake, Draco became her only friend in Hogwarts. Even if Fleur seems to be a bold person on the outside she had many insecurities about herself. For a strong practitioner of mind arts like Draco, it was very easy to manipulate her.
Draco rigorously used the map and Confoundus charm to get away from his friends and to spend some time with Fleur. With a rigorous use of Leglimency, he was able to break Fleur's barriers without her knowing and began implanting false thoughts into her mind. Draco began to create a strong infatuation in her mind about him.
The end of year exams was finished finally. Draco breezed through the exams easily enough. With Draco's tutoring Blaise, Tracy and Daphne were in the top 5 ranks of their year. At the same time, the quidditch pitch was being converted into a maze filled with magical creatures and traps. The disappearance of Barty Crouch has also become a hot topic of discussion but after some days everything settled back to normal as everyone got distracted by the third task.
The very next day after the exams ended the third task was made to happen. All of the contestant's family were present at the pitch before the maze. The audience sat at a makeshift stand on the pitch. The first to enter the maze was Harry potter followed by Diggory, then Krum and finally Fleur according to the number of points one had.
Twenty minutes from the start a red spark was spotted in the sky as a signal for help. Moody retrieved Fleur from the maze in an unconscious state. After further ten minutes another red spark was seen in the sky from the maze. Moody again was sent in and he recovered a stunned Krum. In the end, there was only Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory in the maze. Everyone waited but they did not appear for a long time.
In the graveyard
Harry and Cedric got dumped into a graveyard when they took the trophy together.
"Where are we?" Cedric asked in confusion as he took in his surroundings
"No idea." Harry said biting the inside of his cheek trying to ward of the pain in his leg
Suddenly Harry fell down clutching his head in pain. A raspy voice spoke "Kill the spare"
Pettigrew cast 'Avada kedavra'. A sickly green light struck Cedric dead.
"No!!!" Harry wailed as he watched the traitor kill Cedric
Pettigrew stunned Harry and floated him to a statue and tied him there. Then he began the preparations for the ritual. He began to create the potion required for the ritual and set in a huge pot and set it on fire.
Harry slowly regained consciousness.
"It's ready, my lord." Wormtail said humbly.
"Begin at once." the ugly creature that was Voldemort replied. Wormtail nodded and carefully picked up his master before placing him in the cauldron. The potion inside hissed as sparks shot from it and the liquid inside began to swirl around violently, but after a few moments it calmed down and Wormtail continued with the ritual.
"Bone of the father unknowingly given you will renew your son." Wormtail said. As he spoke he lifted what Harry assumed was some human bones and dropped it into the cauldron. The potion bubbled again and turned an ugly blue colour.
"Flesh of the servant willingly given you will revive your master." Wormtail said as he lifted up a knife and placed it at his wrist and with a single strike he separated his wrist with a cry into the cauldron. The potion turned into a red colour.
"Blood of the enemy forcibly taken you will resurrect your foe." Pettegrew said as he approached Harry. He still held in his hand the ritual knife he had been using and made a cut on Harry's hand and drew his blood on the knife. He then placed the droplets of blood into the potion. The potion turned pitch black.
A cloaked figure emerged from the cauldron and Harry immediately felt his scar on fire. After fourteen years Lord Voldemort finally regained his body. The monster now standing before Harry had skin that was almost grey and no hair at all. Its face only looked vaguely human, with a flat nose and bright red eyes. The Dark Lord spent a moment examining himself carefully as if looking for flaws in his form before turning to face Harry and sending him a cruel smile.
"Come, Wormtail." he commanded.
"Yes, master." his servant answered as he moved towards Voldemort with his head bowed. He then knelt and held out a wand towards his master. "Your wand, my lord" Voldemort reached out and grabbed the wand. As his finger touched it his twisted face took on an expression of triumph.
"Your arm Wormtail." Voldemort demanded.
"Thank you, master!" Wormtail exclaimed as he happily held out his stump of an arm.
"Your other arm." Voldemort clarified. Wormtail gasped in surprise but obediently held out his other hand. There was a faded mark upon his hand but as Voldemort touched his wand upon the mark it darkened completely. Voldemort began to call all his followers back.
"Watch Potter my true family arrives." Voldemort said
Moments later men in full Death Eater's robes began apparating into the cemetery. Each of them wore masks that covered their faces.
"After all these years, my friends, we have reunited once again." Voldemort began.
"And yet I find myself disappointed. None of you searched for me, you who know that I cannot be killed. Me who has gone farther than any and ensured that death has no hold over me. Perhaps my followers doubted my word and believed that muggle lover Dumbledore that a mere child killed Lord Voldemort."
"I returned my master" Wormtail whispered
"Out of fear, not out of loyalty. But still, Lord Voldemort is merciful." Voldemort said and with a flick of his wand a silver metal hand formed around Wormtail's cut off hand.
"Master, forgive us. If only we had known." Avery begged as he fell to his knees
"Lord Voldemort does not forgive nor does he forget. But you will serve better in the future will you not." he asked
"Yes my lord." Avery bowed low
"The Lestranges will be rewarded for their loyalty as will my faithful servant in Hogwarts. Lucius has passed away I'm told. He would have been very useful. But you will all serve me better this time will you not Amycus, Alecto, Nott hmm." the dark lord asked
"Yes my lord we will serve better." Nott said with a deep bow
The others murmured their agreement as they fell on their knees.
"Since all other matters are dealt with I can now finally attend to my guest in this fine night, Harry Potter." Voldemort said pointing to the statue where Harry was held.
"The world thought a mere child could defeat the greatest dark lord in history. Well, my friends, they are wrong. The magic that stopped me that night was not his but his mother's. You see dear Lily Potter sacrificed herself to protect her son. It was old magic, something I should have foreseen. Due to this, I could not touch him. But that is in the past now I can touch you" Voldemort said as he pressed his finger on Harry's forehead and laughed as Harry screamed in pain.
Voldemort released Harry "Get up Harry Potter, pick up your wand. Today I shall prove all my enemies that you are nothing. After today there will no doubt upon my power. Give him his wand Wormtail." he said
Just as Harry raised his wand he was put under cruciatus curse which caused him to fall on the ground and scream in pain.
"Come on Potter is this the best the protege of great Albus Dumbledore can do." Voldemort sneered
Harry climbed to his feet and cast an 'Expalliarmus'. At the same time, Voldemort cast the killing curse. Both curses struck each other and the brother wand effect happened. Priori Incantato which causes an echo of spells that were cast to appear began to take effect upon Voldemort's wand. Ghostly images of people he killed began to appear and they rushed into the Dark Lord and shielded Harry. Harry used this distraction to run up to Cedric's body and summoned the cup while touching him transporting both away from the graveyard.
In Hogwarts
Everyone was in high alert as two champions have gone missing once they took the Tri-wizard cup. Ministry Aurors were flooding into the school and checking the maze for any tampering or clue. The fact that Krum used an unforgivable curse upon Fleur and he himself being under the Imperius curse had really spooked the Aurors and the staff. Dumbledore was in a heated argument with Fudge when the two champions appeared via the portkey.
"Harry, what happened?" Dumbledore asked as he rushed in
"He is back... Voldemort is back. I couldn't save Cedric. " Harry wailed
"Dear Merlin. The boy is dead." Fudge said as he looked at Cedric in horror
"My son...My son..." Amos Diggory and his wife cried as they held their only son now dead in their arms
"Voldemort killed him. He is back" Harry said again
"Rubbish. You-Know-Who is dead. He is clearly delusional." Fudge said as he pointed at Harry
"I am saying the truth. I saw him." Harry insisted
"Rubbish, he is saying rubbish." From dge insisted
Moody pulled Harry away from there as Fudge began arguing with Dumbledore. The rest of the staff led the remaining students away from the pitch to the school. Many Hufflepuffs were openly crying because of Cedric Diggory's death.
The Slytherin common room was silent completely. Daphne and Tracy silently returned to their dorms while Blaise and Draco entered their dorms.
"Things are going to get heated up." Blaise said
"Fudge is going to bury this up. " Draco said
"Could it be true. I mean this is Potter we are talking about." Blaise mused
"We already knew he would come back Blaise. It's just we never expected the dark lord this early." Draco said
"You are right. Let's get some sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a long day." Blaise said
The next morning the mood was sombre and everyone ate their breakfast in silence. The award ceremony was held that day. Fudge gave a bag of thousand galleons to Harry Potter for his victory and immediately left after that. There were already rumours floating around as something happened to Moody.
The rest of the day was free so Draco decided to take Daphne to the Chamber of secrets.
"Why are we in a girls toilet?" Daphne asked
"Just wait and see." Draco said and then he hissed "open" in Parseltongue.
Daphne was struck speechless as the sink began to open and a hole opened up. He hissed "stairs" and stairs appeared and we began to walk inside. Draco closed the sink and lit his wand with a 'Lumos' spell.
They finally entered the main chamber. The walls were lit using new lights that were installed there.
"Welcome to the chamber of secrets Daphne" Draco said
"How did you find this?" She asked in wonder
"I have mad skills." Draco said with a smirk
The statue of Slytherin was destroyed and in its place, a library was set up as was a lab for any experiments. A lavish room was also built along with it and a pool was also put in place around the path that led to the room and library. Draco showed Daphne around and once they reached the library Draco took out a bracelet.
"Daphne, this is a present for you. It has an emergency portkey in case you are in danger. It will take you to my home. You merely have to press the red gem on it." Draco said as he put on the bracelet on her hand.
Once the bracelet was on her hand Draco activated the magic in it and it knocked out Daphne. He caught her and laid her down on a bed in the room. He improved the bracelet with parseltongue magic and modified it so that not even paranoid Moody could see it. Daphne regained her consciousness after some time as the bracelet competed its hold on her. Upon seeing Draco she sat up quickly and embraced him.
"What happened Draco?" she asked
"You fell asleep Daphs." he said
Draco captured her lips in a kiss. She kissed back and they enjoyed a moment there.
"Come, Daphne, we have to return. Others might be looking for us." Draco said as he broke the kiss and led her outside
Draco resealed the chamber and then they left to the common room.
That night in the great hall everybody gathered for the feast.
"This day is a day of mourning for Hogwarts. We have lost a good student. Cedric Diggory was humble, resourceful, caring and a passionate soul. The ministry does not want me to say this but I think you have a right to know. Cedric Diggory was murdered by Lord Voldemort during the third task. Only one of our student managed to safely arrive from his wrath. Harry Potter risked his life to bring the body of Cedric Diggory back. The loss of this young soul will be forever felt in Hogwarts. Thank you." Dumbledore said
The whole hall murmured quietly and Draco knew everything was just going to get heated up. They left the hall after dinner and retired to the bed. Tomorrow they will be going to their homes.