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Last chapter: Draco and Harry become friends (To a degree)

Begin Chapter 8

A short while after everyone had assembled on the field Harry and Draco walked to the middle.

"May I have your attention?" Draco asked.

Everyone stopped talking and listened "After talking with Professor Dumbledore and the other teachers, we have decided that we will have a dueling tournament using the swords you have been practicing with."

Harry then spoke "We will select who you will fight by drawing names out of this hat" he pulled a hat out.

"When we call you name, you will come forward and select a name, that will be how we decide the matches"

"First.Ron Weasley" Draco called out.

Ron walked forward and put his hand into the hat and pulled a name out. Ron looked down and saw he would be fighting.Lavender!

"Next.Hermione Granger" Hermione walked forward and drew a name. She got Ginny, Ron's sister.

They continued until there was no one left.

Harry then explained the rules "There will be now killing and as little magic as possible. Girls no cheap shots especially at the males." (All the males cringe slightly, while the females turn a bright red)

"Now get ready the tournament will begin tomorrow and will last one week" everyone walked back to the common room talking about how much fun it was going to be.

Dumbledore watched with Snape and some of the other professors "You know seeing Draco and Harry work together just goes to show you, even the most unlikely can make friends"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Harry climbed into bed and almost instantly fell asleep.

~~Enter the dream realm~~

Harry was in the same cold dark chamber. He saw Snape at the foot of the thrown.

"Well what do you have to tell me that is so important?" a cold voice asked. Harry knew it was Voldemort.

"Potter is becoming stronger everyday my lord and more and more of your allies are joining him. But apparently he knows I am a death eater, he told me he wants to fight you"

Now Voldemort and many of the other death eaters looked at him.

" But he told me he wants to fight you to the death, but he wants to do it after the dueling tournament that he has arranged for the other students of the school"

Voldemort thought quietly for a few moments and then Snape said "He is also going around bragging about how weak and cowardly you are to not fight him like a man"

Voldemort could be seen twitching little after that statement.

"Tell Mr. Potter, I will fight him to the death after his little tournament, go now" he yelled.

Snape bowed and quickly made his way out of the room.

Lucius stepped forward "He has a great arsenal of beasts and he even has most of the Slytherins on his side, he will be very hard to beat my lord"

"No matter, this is were I get my revenge"

"Oh and for questioning my orders.CRUCIO" Voldemort yelled. Lucius fell to the ground in pain.

~~Real World~~

Harry woke up screaming, he looked around and there was Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Dumbledore and McGonagall looking at him.

He grabbed his head and removed his hand he looked at it and then he saw it was covered in a reddish substance. "My blood!" he thought.

Dumbledore an did some of his healing charms and then Harry slowly sat up as soon as he did however Hermione grabbed him into a tight hug.

Dumbledore was the first to speak "Harry what happened?"

So Harry spent the next twenty minutes explaining his dream.

Harry spent the next few days spending as much time with Hermione as possible. Then the night before the tournament.

"Hermione is going to kill me, I am over thirty minutes late" Harry thought as he ran toward the Gryffindor common room.

"When he gets here I am going to let him have it" Hermione thought angrily.

Finally the door opened and Harry fell into the common room " I am so sorry Hermione"

"Harry I don't think this is working, you are rarely around, you have spent a total of two days with me and other then that I never see you," she said.

Harry knew what was coming; he just stood and walked up to his room. Hermione followed after him "I am not done"

"I already know were you are going so I am not going to listen to you anymore"

Hermione thought, "Why am I doing this? I don't want to break up with him"

She spoke coldly for some odd reason "Yes you should have known that was coming"

"Goodbye 'mione, I will miss you and love you forever" he finished packing his things and left.

Finally Hermione started to move then she saw a large box with her name on it. She walked over and read the letter:

Dear Hermione,

By the time you are reading this I will have left Hogwarts. I don't know why you were acting so cold but I do know that, whatever you were acting like wasn't the Hermione I fell in love with. But who am I to matter, just the boy-who-lived, not supposed to have any joy in his life apparently. Well anyway in this box are some of the things I want you to keep.

Love Harry



She slowly opened the box and to her surprise she found a photo book. It had pictures from when they first arrived at Hogwarts and got past Fluffy all the way to the Christmas ball.

She found a little note that read:

Open to the blank pages and call out "I am friend to the trio"

She did and pictures of Harry, Ron and her all having fun together began to show themselves.

Then she found two other parchments. One read:

I came here with no friends; I left with two best friends. I trusted one more than the other and she broke my heart.

She knew that this related to Harry and her. She read the other parchment.

Ron

I am not sure if Hermione will read this or not, she doesn't seem to care anymore; I have decided that I have very little to live for after hearing her. I have not told Dumbledore yet but I know of a technique called 'Soul and Body destroyer'

I have decided to use this on Voldemort, basically it will destroy his soul and his life but it will kill me in the process. Don't worry mate, Even though I never really wanted all the fame and everything I got. I can at least say that I had two of the best friends ever.

I want you to watch out for Hermione, okay? I guess that after hearing her break up with me I will not be the same. If I lived after destroying Voldemort I would become just like him. His heart is how mine looks and probably feels.

It hurts Ron, I only wish I could have done something to keep her. Alas, The one thing that everyone else can have, I can't.Love.

Anyway I have to go. Tell your family goodbye for me.

I came to discover some things', I discovered many but in the end none mattered. ~~Richard the Lionheart

Your friend, Harry Potter

P.S. I am giving you my firebolt and give Hermione Hedwig.

She stopped reading the letter. Why did she say that? She loved Harry but she could not stop herself.

She ran to Ron and gave him the parchments; he read them and just looked at her angrily "How could you do that to him?"

"I really don't know Ron, I didn't want to I was going to forgive him but whenever I tried to talk I couldn't control the words"

"Right now I don't care" he took off running towards the door. Fred, Ginny, George and Charlie (He is the temporary teacher of Care of Magical Creatures) had also read the letter and took off after him. Hermione followed all of them.

They arrived at the statue to Dumbledore's office and Charlie yelled "Jumping jellybeans" the Gargoyle jumped aside and they all ran up to Dumbledore's office.

"What's the matter?" Dumbledore asked. Ron handed him the note and after reading it he paled.

He cast a spell and yelled "All teachers, head boy, head girl and prefects meet in my office now"

Snape arrived first and he read the note. He didn't say anything, everyone knew he didn't like Harry but he couldn't believe what Harry was going to do.

All the other teachers quickly arrived and they all read the note. An eerie silence befell the room.

"What can we do?" Hermione asked.

"Oh now you care what he does?" Snape spat out with a lethal amount of venom in his voice.

"I already told you I couldn't control myself, I was going to forgive him," she yelled back.

Dumbledore stood and walked to her and pulled his wand out and tapped her on the head three times. Black flames erupted from the end of his wand.

"What is that?" she asked.

"Someone put you under a stronger version of a body control spell, it is called the total control spell. It could only be casted by Voldemorts best death eaters," he said.

"Basically it makes it to were you say and do whatever he wants you to"

Ron and everyone looked at her and apologized but she said "Who cares we need to save Harry"

~~Day of the tournament~~

The tournament had commenced with no sign of Harry but Draco was there. Ron had lost his match but he didn't care. Hermione had won but was beaten by Seamus. To everyone's surprise the winner of the tournament was none other than













This is stupid

.Neville Longbottom. (Scary isn't it)

Then Voldemort appeared, not one of the students panicked they had been warned about this and they were waiting. Finally Harry appeared and Voldemort smirked.

End this Chapter

I think I am going to use the end of this story similar to the pokemon movie. With the whole tear thing.that always struck me as sentimental.