NOT BETA'D ANY MISTAKES ARE MY OWN

When Holly entered Gryffindor Common Room, she found Hermione sitting on the sofa reading while Harry was playing chess with Neville. Holly tried to sneak up to the girls' dorm, but Harry spotted her. Harry's brow furrowed when he saw Holly carrying her broom.

"You went flying?" Harry asked his sister.

Holly cringed; she was hoping that she'd be able to make it upstairs without being noticed. Holly turned around and looked at her brother, "Um, yeah, only for a little while."

"Why didn't you ask me to go with you? We could have practiced."

"I wasn't there alone."

"Who was with you?"

"Viktor Krum," Holly mumbles.

"I'm sorry, who?"

"Viktor Krum."

Harry's eyebrows shot, and his mouth falls open. He looks at Neville, who has the same expression. Hermione hides her smile with her book, "Why did you two go flying together," Harry asks.

"Why not, Viktor asked me if I wanted to go flying with him and I said yes."

Harry scowls, "So, this was a date?"

"No, it was two people that enjoy the same thing. The only thing we did was talk and play against each other."

"Who won," Neville asked.

Harry glares at his friend.

Holly laughs, "He did, of course."

"I don't like it, Hol, you're my baby sister."

"Harry, you're two minutes older than me."

"So, I'm still older."

"Nothing happened," Holly tells her brother.

Harry's eyes narrow, "It better not have."

Holly rolls her eyes and goes upstairs to put her broom away. The minute she walks out of the room, Harry grabs a piece of parchment and starts writing, "What are you doing," Hermione asks.

"I'm writing Sirius and Remus. They need to tell her to stay away from him."

"You're going to tell your parents about Viktor. Why?" Hermione asked.

"I don't like it, Mione, he's probably using her to get information."

Hermione studied Harry's face, then she grinned, "You're jealous."

Harry looked at his best friend, shock, "I am not."

"Yes, you are. For thirteen years, it's been you and Holly. You've never had to share her with anyone. But now you think you're going to lose her to someone else."

Harry's eyes narrow, "I do not," He says indignantly. "I'm only worried that he's going to break her heart."

"Harry, they went flying together, once. That doesn't mean they're dating," Neville tells him.

Harry looks between his two friends and huffs, "I have a letter to send. I'll meet you guys in the Great Hall."

Harry gets up and leaves the Common Room. By this time, Holly has come back downstairs. She looks around and sees that her brother is missing, "Where's Harry?"

"Harry had to go do something; he said he'd meet us in the Great Hall."

Holly nods, "Okay, then let's head down. I'm starving."

The next day, Holly and Hermione are studying finishing up the last of their homework in the library. It's early in the morning, and everyone is still asleep, so the library is still empty. Holly and Hermione are in the process of working on their transfigurations homework when they suddenly hear someone clear their throat. The girls look up and see Viktor Krum standing there. He smiles at both girls, and Holly beams at him.

"Good morning, ladies, vould you mind if I sit here?"

"No, not at all, Viktor, the more, the merrier," Holly says.

Hermione looks down at her book, trying to hide her smile.

Viktor pulls out the chair and sits down across from Holly, "How are you this morning, Holly?"

"I'm good, Viktor, thank you. And you."

"I am doing very vell."

They stare at each other for a moment until Hermione clears her throat. Holly looks at her friend, then her eyes widen, "Merlin, where are my manners, Viktor, this is my best friend, Hermione. Hermione, this is Viktor."

Viktor smiles at Hermione, "It is nice to meet you, Herm-own-ninny." Viktor says, pronouncing Hermione's name slowly.

"It's nice to meet you too, Viktor."

"Vhat are you ladies doing here so early?"

"Oh, Hermione and I have a bit of homework to finish, and we like to get here when no one else is here. What about you?"

"Same, I also like to hide from my fan club here," Viktor says.

Holly nods. She didn't have a fan club as Viktor had, but Holly knew what it was like to have people stare at you all the time. She felt a pang of sympathy for him. Viktor opened up his Defense Against the Dark Arts book and got to work on his homework while the girls continued to work on their Transfiguration homework. Hermione had her head down writing her essay, but she was watching Holly and Viktor out of the corner of her eye. She noticed that they would occasionally glance at each other without the other seeing. Hermione thought it was the cutest thing.

Hermione eventually closed her book, "Well, I'm finished. I'm going to have breakfast now. I'll see you two later."

Holly and Viktor said goodbye to Hermione and went back to work. When Viktor finishes his homework, he closes his book and stares at Holly. Holly's eyes flash up from her parchment and notice him staring; her face begins to flush. When she finishes her essay, Holly closes her book, and she looks up at Viktor and smiles.

"Shall we go to breakfast," Holly asks.

Viktor frowns, "I vould prefer not to. I vish to escape my fan club for a vhile longer."

Holly's brow furrows, then her face lights up, "I know, we can go eat in the kitchen," Then she blushes, "That is if you want to."

Viktor smiles, "I would luff to."

"Brilliant, let's go."

Viktor and Holly pack up their stuff and leave the library. Without thinking, Holly reaches out and takes Viktor's hand, leading him down the hallway. Suddenly Holly's eyes widen when she realizes what she did. She instantly lets go of his hand and blushes. Viktor chuckles and reaches for her hand again. Holly looks at their hands and gives him a shy smile.

Holly leads Viktor to the basement; they stand in front of a painting of a bowl of fruit. Viktor gives her a confused look, Holly smiles at him mischievously and reaches up to tickle the pear. The pear begins to laugh, and a door appears. Holly leads Viktor into the kitchen, where the house-elves are bustling around making breakfast. When Dobby spots Holly, he rushes over towards her and Viktor.

Dobby bows, his bat-like ears slapping against the stone floor, "Miss Holly Potter, Dobby be happy to see her." Dobby says.

"Hello, Dobby, how are you?"

"Dobby being doing fine, Miss Holly Potter."

"That's good. Dobby, I'd like to introduce you to my friend Viktor Krum."

"Hello, Krum, any friend of Miss Holly Potter is being friend of Dobby."

Viktor smiled at the little house, elf.

"Dobby, I don't suppose Viktor and I could have breakfast down here?" Holly asks.

"Anything for Miss Holly Potter. You be sitting, and Dobby will bring breakfast."

"Thank you, Dobby."

Viktor and Holly sat down at one of the tables, "He is a curious elf," Viktor says, "He is yours?"

"No, Dobby is a free elf."

Viktor looks at Holly surprised, Viktor had never seen a free elf before. "How is he free?"

"Harry freed him in our second year from the Malfoy family. They mistreated him very badly."

Viktor's eyes darken in anger, "Malfoy, the little blonde boy in Slytherin, Da?"

"Yes, he's an arsehole," Holly says without thinking. Then she looks up at Viktor, "Oh, I'm sorry, Viktor, for my language."

Viktor laughs, "No, Holly, I vould have to agree on vith you."

Holly's heart skips a beat at hearing Viktor laugh. At that moment, Dobby comes back; he snaps his fingers and some eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, jam, tea, and pumpkin juice. Holly and Viktor serve themselves and have an excellent breakfast with interesting conversation.

Viktor tells Holly all about his life at Durmstrang and about his family and friends. And Holly tells Viktor about her and Harry's adventures so far at Hogwarts. She doesn't go into a lot of detail about her time before living with Sirius and Remus. Holly only tells him that She and Harry didn't get along with her relative. But in their third year, when Sirius was cleared of the charges, she and Harry moved in with him and Remus. After breakfast, Viktor asks Holly if she would like to walk along the lake with him.

"I would love to, Viktor."

So they sneak out of the castle and make their way down to the lake. After a while, Archimedes finds them walking around, and they play with him for a while.

Meanwhile, at the Potter mansion, where Sirius and Remus were now living, the two men are having a nice breakfast prepared by the Potter elves. Sirius is mindlessly drinking some coffee trying to wake up while Remus is reading the Daily Prophet. Both men look up when they see Hedwig fly in.

Sirius and Remus look at each other, they had already gotten the letter from Holly telling them about the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Sirius had raged about the judges letting two fourteen-year-olds compete, but in the end, Remus calmed him down, telling him there was nothing they could do. Now Hedwig was there again. Sirius took the note from the snowy owl and read it while Remus gave her some bacon and water. As Sirius read the letter, his eyes began to widen.

"I'll kill him," Sirius exclaims.

"Kill who? What's going on?" Remus asked.

Sirius thrusts the letter into Remus' hand. Remus reads the message, "Oh, that's nice."

"Nice, nice? Some Bulgarian Quidditch Seeker is seducing our little girl, and all you can say is that's nice? That's not nice, Moony, that's horrible. Even Harry thinks so."

Remus rolls his eyes, "Holly is not being seduced, Padfoot. She went flying with the boy, nothing else."

"That's enough!" Sirius rants as he's pacing back and forth.

Remus crosses his arms and stares at Sirius, "You're jealous."

"I am not! Why should I be jealous?"

"Because you think that if Holly and Viktor start dating, she's not going to love you anymore."

"That's ridiculous."

Remus raises an eyebrow.

"Okay, fine, that's exactly what I think," Sirius says as he plops down in his seat again, "Moony, I don't want to lose my little girl."

"Oh, Padfoot, you're not losing her. Holly is growing up. She a beautiful young woman, and it was bound to happen that boys were going to find her attractive."

"But what if this Quidditch idiot is only using her?"

"Holly's smart, she's not going to do anything stupid. Remember, Holly should have been in Ravenclaw. She's not as impulsive as you and Harry."

"I suppose you're right Moony, thank you."

Remus stood up and kissed Sirius on the lips, "Any time, love."

Sirius still decided to write Harry a letter telling him spy on his sister just in case. Remus knew that and sent his own letter telling Harry to ignore Sirius.

The beginning of the week went by relatively normal, but on Wednesday morning, Holly and Harry got a message from Hagrid that they were to meet him by his hut and to bring Harry's invisibility cloak. The sibling made their way to Hagrid's hut after dinner to find out what was going on. When Holly and Harry arrived, they followed Hagrid out into the Forbidden Forest.

"Did you bring your father's cloak as I asked you?"

"Yeah, we brought the cloak. Hagrid, where are we going?" Holly asked.

"You'll see soon enough. Pay attention; this is important."

"What's with the flower? Hagrid, have you combed your hair?" Harry asked.

Hagrid is looking more dapper than usual and is carrying a big red flower.

"As a matter of fact, I have. You might like to try the same thing now and again." Hagrid huffs at Harry, causing Holly to giggle.

At that moment, they here a female voice; it's Madame Maxime, "Hagrid?"

"Oh cloak, put the cloak on you two," Hagrid tells the twins.

Harry quickly covers him and Holly with the cloak. A short time later, Madame Maxime comes into view.

"Bonsoir Olympe."

"Oh, Hagrid. I thought you weren't coming, I thought perhaps... you had... forgotten me."

"I could never forget you, Olympe," Hagrid tells her.

"What is it you want to show me? When we spoke earlier, you sounded so exhilarated."

"You'll be glad you came. Trust me," Hagrid tells her as he leads Madame Maxime further into the forest. Holly and Harry were keeping just a little behind them.

They suddenly hear a dragon roar ahead of them, "Ahh, c'est Magnifique!" Madame Maxime says, "Can we get closer?"

Harry pulls the invisibility cloak off of him and Holly, "Dragons? That's the first task? You're joking." Holly nearly screamed.

"Come on, Holly. They're seriously misunderstood creatures."

Harry and Holly looked at each other in disbelief as flames shoot up.

"Although, I have to admit that horntail is a right nasty piece of work. Poor Ron nearly fainted just seeing him, you know."

"Ron was here," Harry asked.

"Oh, sure. His brother Charlie helped bring him over from Romania. Didn't Ron tell you that?" Hagrid asked.

"No, he didn't," Holly said.

After that, Holly and Harry made their way back towards Gryffindor Tower. When the twins got there, they sat down on the plush sofa. After a while, Holly turns to Harry, "Do you think the other champions know?"

"I think Madame Maxime is going to tell Fleur, but I don't know about the others."

"I think we should tell them," Holly tells her brother.

Harry slowly nods, "I think you're right. It's only fair that Cedric and Viktor know as well. Alright, tomorrow, we'll tell the others."

Holly nods, and they go into Gryffindor Tower. The next day, Holly goes looking for Viktor. She doesn't find him in the library or the Great Hall, so Holly decides to go to his ship and ask someone if they can get Viktor for her. As Holly makes her down to the boat with Archimedes, the Arctic Fox suddenly takes off running towards the black lake.

"Archimedes!" Holly yells.

Holly runs after her familiar. The Little fox stops by the lake and begins yipping, Holly picks him up, "What's gotten into you?"

At that moment, Holly hears someone call her name. Holly turns around and looks towards the lake and sees Viktor swimming in the freezing lake. He starts swimming towards her when he steps onto the shore. He's wearing nothing but his swimming trunks, and Viktor smirks when he sees Holly quickly look at his chest, then turn red and turn around. Viktor takes his wand and casts a drying spell then gets dressed.

"Vhat brings you down to the lake so early," Viktor asks Holly.

Holly turns around and looks at Viktor, "Um, why did I come down here? I forgot." Viktor chuckles.

"Oh, I wanted to talk to you about the first task."

"Vhat about it?"

"Harry and I found out what we're going to be facing. It's going to be dragons."

Viktor's eyes widen, "Are you certain?"

"Yeah, we saw them. The judges have a dragon for each of us."

Viktor walks towards Holly, "Thank you for telling me, malŭk gŭlŭb, (little dove.)" Then he kisses her hand.

Holly stares up at Viktor, "You're welcome."

They stare at each other for a moment until Archimedes wiggles his way out of Holly's arms and starts making his way towards the castle, "Well, I guess I should get going. Classes are going to start."

Viktor continues to hold Holly's hand; she gently pulls her hand out of his and starts backing away, "Bye, Viktor, I'll see you later."

"Yes, you vill, malŭk gŭlŭb. (Little Dove.)"

With that, Viktor makes his to his ship.