Chapter 1
By AngelofAnimeXOXO
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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, I don't own a monkey either
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It was the first day of Harry Potter's, "wonder boy" as he had so lovingly been dubbed by his peers, fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry. Harry sat at the long magnificent Gryffindor tablein the great hall, one table of four, one table for each of the four houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Next to Harry sat his two best friends in the world, girl genius Hermoine Granger and the flame haired Ronald Weasley. Now Harry wasn't your average fifteen year old boy, no sir, not only was he a wizard, but upon his head was a lightning bolt shaped scar, reminints of an almost deadly encounter with the most evil wizard ever to walk the Earth, Lord Voldemort. When Harry was only a baby Lord Voldemort killed his parents with the most dangerous and illegal spells of all the killing curse, Avada Kedavra. Voldemort turned then to Harry, but Harry's mother, Lily Potter had sacrificed herself to save Harry and thus Harry was protected by a counter curse, fireing Lord Voldemort's own curse against himself, defeating Voldemort and sending him into exile, that is until he returned in Harry's first year at Hogwarts and of course he also had returned last year, and Harry had been unable to stop him that time, Lord Voldemort had rissen again. But enough about Voldemort, that's not what this story is about, although I am sure that Voldemort will come into the picture sooner or later, he always seems to no matter what doesn't he?
Well none the less there sat Harry, with Ron and Hermoine chatting about this and that as they picked away at the traditional
first day great feast. They were all chatting about Hermoine's trip to visit Viktor Krum over the holidays when Professor
Mogonagal, head of Gryffindor house, tapped her wine glass with her fork to quiet the room. Professor Dumbledoor, headmaster of
Hogwarts, nodded his thanks to her and stood slowly. He was an old man, but as wise and clever as they came. He was actually
asked to be the Minister of Magic, president of the magic community if you will, but turned it down. He had a long white beard
that whent well past his belt and he wore robes of a brilliant deep plum purple velvet with velvet stars embroidered in gold to
match the golden trim. As he stood he took a long look around the room, recgonizing familiar faces, and acgnologing new ones.
He waited as every set of eyes before him turned up to look with undevided attention. Even the Slytherins were listening, and
due to their slightly "devious" nature this was a feat in its self. Professor Dumbledoor cleard his throat and began his speech.
"Welcome everyone to this year at Hogwarts, now I am sure all of you remember last year's TriWizard torunament, and although it
had such a grave and sad ending, it strenghtened the bonds between our neighboring Wizarding schools so much that the other
Headmasters and I have decided to start an exchange program. We will receive three of the top students from each school, as we
will send six of our top students to theirs, three to each. As you see before you," Dumbledor waved his hand and upon the stool
where the first years had sat while being sorted appeared a golden cup, "is the Goblet of Fire, I have enchanted it to choose the
top six students from the names placed within it, which will be the lucky students to journey to another school. The cup will be
open to fifth years and above, and my age barrier is up as well if someone so wishes to disobey my age requirement. Also, to
accomidate the happenings of last year, if your name is chosen, and you your self did not place it in the cup and you do not want
to go, you will not have to and the cup will chose another. The Goblet will accept names for a week, please think this over, it
really is a wonderful oppertunity, otherwise, enjoy the feast!" The whole hall cheered then began to eat again, the whole hall
chit chatting about the Goblet and Dumbledor's exchange program.
"So Herm, I suppose you will be entering in you name of course?" Asked Ron while stuffing his face with fried chicken.
"Actually Ron, I won't be entering my name in, I have just precisely worked out my schedual so I can take all classes again,
except Divinations of course," Last year Hermoine had signed up to take every elective, but had a small "fit" with the Divinations
teacher and promptly dropped it.
"Will you have to use the hour glass again?" Asked Harry thoughtfully as he dug into some corn on the cob.
"Nope, I have it all worked out, plus I don't want to spend the whole year without you guys anyways."
"What you think that if we entered we wouldn't be choosen or somethin?!?"
"Actually, yes!"
"What did you say!?!"
"Guys, stop it! None of us are going and that's that!"
"Right, sorry Harry."
"Sorry Harry."
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After the feast all the students had returned to their dorms to settle themselves in and reaquaint themselves with old friends.
Harry, Ron and Hermoine were sitting in the three comfertable lounge chairs that were settled by the happy fire in the Gryffindor
common room. Every now and then one of their classmates would walk up to them and ask them how their summer went and vice versa,
and eventually the common room had emptied and there were only a few students left lounging here and there. By this point in time
Harry and Ron were playing wizard's chess and like always Harry was getting his butt kicked royally.
"So who do you guys think will be picked to go to the other schools?" Asked Hermoine looking up from the book she had just
recently had her nose stuck into.
"I sure hope it's Malfoy and his goons, could do a year without them if you ask me," Stated Ron, slightly agitated.
A Mr. Draco Malfoy was Harry's worst enemy, well that is of course after Lord Voldemort and Professor Severus Snape, head of
Slytherin house and potions teacher. Malfoy is almost never seen with out his two goons, Crabbe and Goyle, who were twice the size
of any other boy in their year, but half the brain power. It seemed that Malfoy's one purpose was to make life utterly horrible for
Harry, Ron and Hermoine.
"I am sure Malfoy will be putting his name in the Goblet, didn't he say he wanted to go to Durmstrang?"
"Probably only because Professor Karkaroff was a death eater, but no one's head anything of him since last year." Death Eaters
were the followers of Lord Voldemort, it is rummored that Lucious Malfoy, Draco's father was one as well. Professor Karkaroff was
the headmaster of Durmstrang the presumed to be settled in Bulgaria, as Madame Maxime is the current headmastress of the Wizarding
school Bauxbaton, settled in France.
"Well, I suppose we won't have to wait long to find out anyways, there's no use in guessing,"
"Quite right Harry, now if you two don't mind I am going to bed, we do have double potions tomorrow and I am sure you can guess
with who," The two boys moaned as Hermoine closed her book and marched up the stairs and to the right to the girl's dormitories.
For the past four years Gryffindor has had double potions with Slytherin, and the evil potions master, Severus Snape always has
favored his house over Gryffindor, docking house points from Harry especially for doing absolutely nothing. House points can be
awarded or docked accordingly, and the house with the most points at the end of the year wins the coveted house cup, which
Gryffindor has won the past four years running.
Harry and Ron finished their game, with the usual outcome of Ron winning by a longshot, packed up the pieces and trudged up
the stairs and to the left, then crawled into bed, and fell right to sleep, with dreams of the Student Exchange and tomorrow's
dreaded potions lesson dancing in their heads.
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Hey all! Guess wat! This is my first ever Harry Potter fanfic, well it's also my first ever non anime fanfic. I am sure readers of my DBZ fanfic, 'Yes Your Majesty' won't be too pleased with my starting a new fic and all, but that one just isn't fun to write anymore, and my files as far as my long running Inu Yasha fanfic go are so ubsurdly catigorized and filed away it will take me some while to unfuddle them and get chapter 12 out, which I already have written by the way. So I hope you enjoyed this first chapter, nothing much happened really, it's just an overview of the overall story so far if you haven't read the books or seen the movie, well I hope you liked it, and PLEASE, I KNOW there are spelling errors in here, and that's because I am too lazy to go through all the books and look up the proper spellings, so whatever I mispelled please tell me in a review, thank you so much, toodles!