Chapter 3

Let the Games Begin!

"From Spain..Alejandra Lucia Campos who will be using a 11'1/2' ebony wand with a banshee hair" bellowed Bagman. She had short wavy black hair and hazel eyes. "From Romania..Ivan Haremza who will be using a 10' willow wand with a unicorn hair" Bagman yelled. He had medium length dark brown hair with scarlet eyes and was real skinny with a crooked nose. "From Japan..Shoraku Ryusaki who will be using an 8'/4' yew wand with a unicorn hair" Bagman bellowed. He had very short jet-black hair and black eyes and was quite short but chubby looking. "From Peru..Carolina E Pizarro Remon de Agama who will be using a 13' cedar wand with a dragon heartstring" screamed Bagman. She had curly brunette hair just below her shoulder and had pierced ears, her eyes were a dark chocolate color and was small compared to the others. "From Brazil..Maximillian Coverse Jameson who will be using a 14' elm wand with a dragon heartsring"yelled Bagman. He had whitish blonde shoulder length hair with green eyes and had a snake on left forearm. "From China..Myles Kido Diffenbache who will be using a 16'1/4' oak wand with a unicorn tail hair" screamed Bagman. He had sandy brown blonde hair and bluish green eyes and looked really athletic. "And last but not least from Mexico..Nina Mitra who will be using a 11' mahogany wand with a phoenix feather" shouted Bagman. She was short like the girl from Peru and had brown hair that was past her shoulders and had brown eyes.

"Yay its finally gonna start now" said Harry.

Then Bagman's voice filled the stadium again "Now we will have our first three matches which will be Spain vs. Brazil in ring 1, United States vs. Mexico in Ring 2 and Canada vs. China in Ring 3" shouted Bagman.

"Hey guys what do you say we all make bets on who's gonna win each match for fun" said Mr Weasley.

"Ok I pick Spain, US and China" said Ron.

"Ill pick opposite of you, Brazil, Mexico and Canada" said Hermione.

"Brazil, Us and Canada" said Harry.

"Spain, US and Canada" said Fred.

"Brazil, Mexico and China" said George.

"Im going with Fred" said Bill.

"Ill go opposite, Brazil, Mexico and China" said Charlie.

"Same as Harry" said Ginny.

"Alright and I will go with Spain, US and China" said Mr Weasley and he used his wand and recorded everything on a piece of parchment.

"Three..two..one" screamed Bagman. And the matches started and in Ring 1 the Spanish girl Alejandra had thrown an 'expelliaramus' spell at the Brazilian but he blocked it with a quick counter curse. In ring 2 the American threw a spell Harry hadn't heard about 'funternio' they screamed and caught the Mexican off guard and he flew about 6feet backwards and he was having a hard time getting up and the referee yelled "five..four..three..two."

Then the Mexican got up but wasn't standing well. Over in ring 3 the Canadian was so quick that she ended the match in like 5 minutes and the crowd went so crazy that Harry swore they were the home crowd.

"Wow that Canadian was good and that crowd is crazy" said Harry.

"Well that means me, George and Charlie have all lost, stupid Canadians" said Ron.

"Hey Canadians obviously aren't stupid Ron they just kicked some ass" Harry told him.

Back in ring 1 the Brazilian managed to hit the Spanish girl with 'stupefy' but it didn't have much effect and the Spanish girl hit him with a jelly legs spell and he was down for five seconds and Alejandra was the winner. There wasn't as much applause for her but she still had a lot of pride on her face.

"That was a smart move, make it so he cant stand" said Hermione.

"Ya I definitely wouldn't have thought of it" said Harry.

Over in ring 2 the American finished off the Mexican in a long 20-minute battle.

"Oh ya, who is the winner!" said Fred with pride.

"Your not the only winner" said Bill.

"Oh, right, you picked the same as me" said Fred, the pride gone from his face.

"So what do you wanna do Harry? Its like 11:50 we got like another hour" said Hermione.

"Anything, as long as Im with you" Harry answered her.

"Your so sweet" she said and leaned in and kissed him on the cheek because Ginny was there.

"Hey you guys wanna check out the venues" asked Ron.

"Ya that sound good" said Harry.

They walked around and stopped at a cafe type place and got some butterbeers. They saw a venue that said 'Weasley Wizard Wheezes'.

"Hey I didn't know Fred & George had other stores" said Harry.

"Oh ya they got small venues at events like these and have some smaller stores in other countries, they even beat out Zonkos joke shop now" said Ron.

Harry saw some new things he hadn't seen before like something that looked clearly like a chocolate frog but the man said it had a gross liquid in it but wasn't poisonous. They then came along a jewellery store.

"Aww, I love that necklace but I can't possibly afford it, its 72 galleons" said Hermione who looked disappointed. The necklace was nice it had a pure gold chain with 3 pure red diamonds hanging on it that were heart shaped. Harry knew he could afford it but it was a bit pricey for someone other then him.

"Go ahead Hermione take it" said Harry.

"But Harry I can't afford it, look at the price" said Hermione.

"I know you can't, but I can" said Harry with a smile spreading across his face.

"Harry, no! don't be spending that much money on me! Its too much" said Hermione in a loud but not angry voice.

"Don't worry I want too I don't care I still have lots of money" said Harry. "Consider a gift with no purpose but the fact that I love you very much."

"Oh Harry I love you too, your such the sweetest person" said Hermione and kissed him on the lips even though Ginny was around she didn't care she loved him so much.

"Oh sorry Ginny, forgot you were here" said Hermione.

"Its okay Hermione, I've really moved on this time, I found somebody when you were playing exploding snaps he's really sweet and Im meeting him at second intermission" said Ginny blushing.

"Wow that's great Ginny, Who he is he?" Hermione asked.

"Not telling yet" said Ginny.

"Ah come on Ginny you can tell, as long as it's not Malfoy" said Ron.

"No its definitely not Malfoy, I wouldn't go out with him if he paid me a million galleons" said Hermione.

"Hermione here's the 72 galleons you better go pay" said Harry.

"Oh right thanks for reminding me or I would've walked away without paying" said Hermione.

She paid for it and they kept walking. Harry looked at his watch, it said 12:45. "We have another half hour until we have to be back" said Harry.

Ron's POV

"Im gonna go meet someone" said Ginny and she left.

"Ya im gonna go to and leave you two alone" he said.

"Ok but watch yourself" said Hermione.

'well its not like it's me he's after' he thought but didn't say anything because for one he didn't want to worry her and for two he didn't want to start an argument. He ended up stopping to get something to eat again and while he was stuffing his face he was startled when he heard someone say "hey its Ron."

He looked behind him and saw Ash who they met earlier in the day. "Hi hwow wart wou" he said with his face stuffed.

Ash giggled and said "Im fine thank you, may I sit with you, I have noone really to talk to."

He was finding it hard to speak but managed to say "Erm..yes..u..can."

She giggled again and sat down beside him and asked "what year are you going into?"

"Er..6th" said Ron.

"Wow..so am I!" said Ash looking happy. " said Ron.

"Do you mind me hanging around with you guys at school because you're the only ones I would really know?" she asked him.

"Er, yes you can as long as you're not in Slytherin house" said Ron who was now able to speak.

"What, there's houses at Hogwarts?" she asked him.

"Yes there's Gryffindoor,Hufflepuff,Ravenclaw and Slytherin which is were the evil people go who hate wizards who aren't pure bloods" he said.

"Wow but don't worry Im not the evil type of person and don't care about blood type, what house are you in?" she asked him.

"Gryffindor" he said with pride.

"Well I hope I get put there" said Ash.

they talked more for 15 minutes then Ash said "Well I better go the second matches are starting soon, do you wanna meet me here next intermission" she asked.

"Ugh..sure Id love to, so see ya then" said Ron.

"Ya, see ya" she said and kissed him on the cheek and he turned about the color of his hair maybe even redder. Then they each departed separate ways.

Harry and Hermione's POV

It was nice to have some time alone with Hermione and just as they were about to kiss they were interrupted and heard "Well Well, if it isn't Potter and the mudblood, oh im so sorry I ruined your kissing moment" said Malfoy.

"Shut your face you git!" yelled Harry.

"Now why would I listen to a mudblood lover like Potter" said Malfoy.

"You better listen to me or else your gonna wish you had" Harry told him.

"Malfoy, get your death eater ass out of here!" screamed Hermione.

"Oh your gonna wish you never said that, MUDBLOOD!" yelled Draco and then yelled again "AVAD-."

But Harry was way to quick for Draco and immediately threw a curse at him, which knocked him unconscious.

"What the bloody hell happened to my son!" yelled Lucius Malfoy.

"Your son! just tried to kill Hermione so I knocked him unconscious!" yelled Harry.

"Why Draco would never do such a thing."

"Actually, Lucius I saw it with my own eyes and Harry here is not lying" Harry turned around and saw Lupin.

"And why should I believe you either Lupin?" asked Lucius.

Then about 10 other witches and wizards yelled that they saw the same thing and Lucius had a look of defeat on his face and muttered a spell that brought Draco Malfoy conscious again. Immediately Lucius screamed at him "Draco, why would you do such a thing she is not supposed to be killed do you want to have your ass end up in jail because it just might with all the witnesses present you fool!" shouted Lucius.

"Im sorry father but the mudblood called me a death eater and I was really offended" pleaded Malfoy.

"Is this true Potter?" asked Lucius.

"Yes it is but the way she was being treated he deserved it" said Harry.

"I am going to contact the ministry and find out some info and when its done, Draco, Harry and Hermione will be contacted." said a man who obviously worked with the ministry.

Harry went over to Remus Lupin and thanked him and asked him if he would walk back to their seats with him because of Lucius and explained his dream and everything. "Sure" Remus answered.

Georges POV

"Hey Julie" he said.

"Hey George" she said and kissed him on the lips. "How did you enjoy the competition so far."

"Oh, its been great, but Fred's kind of been angry that I've been spending so much time with you and not being with him much because you know from before that we were always side by side pulling pranks" said George.

"Ya well, he'll get over it and he will find himself a girl sometime" said Julie.

"Ya hopefully because I hate seeing like this he's starting to annoy people to do stuff with him but he's been so depressed lately, I mean the only time were really around each other is when were running our business but we don't actually run the store we manage it so I haven't been in the office much and he's just not himself, so if its alright with you I think we should still see ach other but not as much, I need to spend more time with Fred" explained George.

"Ya I understand and agree with you, but Im gonna try and hook him up with somebody so he's not so lonely" said Julie.

"Thanks, so if you don't mind I think I'll spend the second intermissions with him for the tournament then" said George.

"That sounds good" said Julie and George leaned in and kissed her passionately on the lips and then said "well then I guess its time to depart from each other so Ill see ya later after the competition."

"Ok, see you then" said Julie and kissed him on the lips and departed.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, George and Fred all met each other outside their gate. Harry, Hermione and Fred looked glum but the others were quite excited and Ron was still a bit red.

"Whats wrong with you three?" asked Ron.

"Nothing" lyed George.

Harry whispered into Ron's ear "Come over here and Ill explain."

Harry explained exactly what happened to Ron, and Ron was horror-struck and said "that bastard, Malfoy I knew he was evil like that trying to kill Hermione" he said in a low but angry voice with clenched fists.

"So how was your time alone" asked Harry.

"Er-it wasn't exactly a time alone, I er-was talking with that Ash girl that we met earlier and I think she likes me Harry she gave me a kiss on the cheek" said Ron.

"Thats great Ron, now you might find yourself a girlfriend, Are you gonna ask her out then?" asked Harry.

"I was thinking maybe later but I wanna get to know her more you know I dont know her much I only met her today, look at you and Hermione you guys knew each other for like 6 years before you starting going out" said Ron.

"Ya i guess so, I understand" said Harry. "We should take our seats the others are waiting."

"Ya we should" said Ron. They met the others again and took their seats in the stadium just in time to hear Bagman's voice saying "Welcome back witches and Wizards and here our second matches of the day" his voice filled the stadium. "In ring 1, Australia's Starshine vs. Perus Carolina Agama! In ring 2, Swedens Crystal Netra vs. Japans Shoraku Ryusaki! And in ring 3, Italy's Fiorenza Erdely vs. Romanias Ivan Haremza!" shouted Bagman.

The Australian and girl from Peru were having a great battle and Caroline from Peru was the smarter one and beat Sunshine from Australia in 13 minutes with a finishing 'rictosempra' spell. The small crowd from peru went wild.

Over in ring 2, the Swedish girl, Crystal Netra was kicking the Japanese guy's ass, she was too quick and smart with her counter-curses for him and finished him in 6 minutes with a blasting curse. The swedish crowd went crazy and yelled "Japan sucks! Japan sucks!" which Harry thought was not needed because he simply thought Crystal was just smarter and faster and had a real good chance being the champion.

Finally over in ring 3 it was a heated battle and the Italian bellowed 'conjuntiva' but the Romanian was quick and blocked it easily with a counter-curse avoiding his vision to go bad. Then the Romanian quickly shouted 'expelliarmus' but the Italian dodged it. Then after 22 minutes the Italian caught the Romanian by surprise by shouting 'impedimenta' which slowed him down and was able to finish him by yelling 'stupefy' and he flew out of the ring. The Romanians went nuts and there were at least 200 of them even though the stadium consists of like 80000 people which 60000 were from England.

"Wow that was a good match!" said Harry. "So what do you guys wanna do this intermission."

"Oh, i forgot to tell you Harry but I'm meeting Ash again this intermission" said Ron.

"Thats fine I will just hang out with everyone else again and obviously Hermione Im not letting you leave me" said Harry.

"Oh why would I leave you? I love you too much to do that" replied Hermione.

"What about you, Fred & George what are you guys doing?" asked Harry.

"I think were gonna get some food and play some pranks on people, hopefully we can find Malfoy and pull one on him and embarrass him" said George.

"Umm George, I dont think you will be running into Malfoy today or in the future" said Harry.

"Why?" asked Fred.

"Lets just say hes probably ended his ass in Azkaban for awhile for attempted murder" said Harry. Everyone except for Ron gave him a puzzled look.

"Harry why is Malfoy going to Azkaban and why did he attempt murder?" asked Ginny.

Hermione gave him a nod which told him it was okay to tell them and he said "when Hermione and I were alone earlier we ran into Malfoy and Hermione called him a death eater and he got really mad and shouted the killing curse at her but I was too quick for him and stopped him before he said it."There were looks of horror on everyones face on Ginny had a tear in her eye and looked angry.

"That bstard how could he do that he almost killed Hermione, I sure hope he does end up in Azkaban, if he doesn't I might kill him myself!" shouted Ginny.

"Oh don't worry Ginny he's definatly going to end up in Azkaban, Lupin and a bunch of other witches and wizards saw him do it so we shouldn't have to worry, hes getting what he deserves" said Harry.

"Well Harry Im leaving to meet Ash before Im late so watch yourselves and dont get into trouble" said Ron as he walked away.

"Ya were going to leave too" said Fred & George as they walked away. Ginny left seconds after them to meet her new boyfriend that nobody knew about yet.

Harry and Hermiones POV

Harry took Hermione's hand and said "What ever you do Hermione do not leave too far from me while we are at this competition please."

"Oh Harry, your too protective and whats gonna happen if your not around?" she asked.

"Well I dont wanna tell you this but I guess I better warn you, remember how Lucius Malfoy said Draco, why would you do such a thing she is not supposed to be killed, well he said that because I had a premonition, I think and it was about Voldemort telling Lucius that the perfect time to capture the girl was at the competition and he said things about them having powers that they dont know about and he was worried and I think it was us being together he was talking about so he wants to capture or kill you I think" Harry explained.

"Oh Harry, why didnt you tell me? See you are too overprotective of me you should tell me when im in danger so I can be alert and be ready" said Hermione.

"I know Im sorry" pleaded Harry."I wish there was a way that we could know where each other is in case one of is in trouble because I just couldn't live without you if something happened" said Harry.

"Well it is said that when two people love each other so much that they can talk to each other in their minds no matter how far apart they are" Hermione explained to him.

"Of course, thats probably what Dumbledore meant when he said you two share unique bonds and connections that make you strong, I think we should try to break into each others mind Hermione" said Harry.

"Harry thats crazy! Were only sixteen, we cant love each other that much to be able to" said Hermione.

"Hermione, I understand now that is one of our abilities we have to try it" pleaded Harry.

"Ok we can try but I dont think it will come right away" said Hermione.

They sat down and both concentrated on breaking into each others minds and after 15 minutes of trying Hermione heard a voice inside her head 'Hermione I love you very much, hey I think I did it, I reading your thoughts what are basically the same as mine.'

"Harry you can do it but I cant unfortunatly" said Hermione with a small frown on her face.

"Its ok Hermione you just have to concentrate real hard and clear any other thoughts, try saying what i did, I will think about things so you can tell if your in my mind or not" explained Harry.

"Ok, i'll try" said hermione.

After about another 10 minutes Hermione was about to give up when she heard Harry but opened her eyes and his lips weren't moving and she heard 'I can't wait to get back to Hogwarts and play quidditch, I hope im the captain this year' so she tryed saying 'Hey sweetie, I hope your captain too and pick me on your team.'Harry looked shocked and gave a big smile and kissed her on the lips.

"I knew you could do it honey and don't worry you will most likely make the team, because look you were better than Bill was and hes good at quidditch" said Harry.

They spent their last 30 minutes talking and doing other things. At 3:00 Harry took her hand and said "should we head back and meet the others."

"Ya lets go" she said as she gave him a small kiss on the lips.

Ron's POV

Ron walked back to the small little fast food restaurant where he met Ash before and was gonna meet her again. When he got there he saw her smiling and said "Hey Ash."

"Hey Ron, your like 5 minutes late" said Ash.

"Ya Im sorry I was having a conversation with Harry and everyone else" explained Ron.

"Oh thats ok, by the way why didn't you bring Harry and his girlfriend with you, I wouldn't mind getting to know them better" she told him.

"Oh, well, They kinda had a bad time last intermission so I figured they would want some more alone time but I can ask them to come next time" said Ron.

"Thats fine" said Ash. Then out of nowhere she said "Ron, do you like me?"

"Er-ya I do" replied Ron.

"As more than a friend?" she asked.

"Er-I dunno, I Er-dont really know you much yet" said Ron.

"Its okay if you do because I like you as more than a friend" Ash said.

"Really? You do?" asked Ron.

"Ya I do and Im not joking" said Ash.

"Well then maybe the two of us should give it a try then, huh?" said Ron smiling and lightly blushing.

"Ya maybe we should" she said and leaned in and kissed him on the lips and he returned it. Then next thing you know Fred & George walked by them.

"Hey its Ron and hes kissing some girl, looks like hes got himself a girlfriend" said Fred.

"Ya a good looking one too" said George.

Ron quickly pulled away from the kiss and blushed furiously. "So are you gonna introduce us then Ron?"

"Ah, ya, Ash these are two of my brothers, Fred & George, they run the joke shop Weasleys Wizards Wheezes, and Fred and George this is Ash, she just moved here and is going to Hogwarts this year" explained Ron.

The rest of the time was spent talking and doing other things and they walked around the venues and ran into Dean and Seamus,Cho Chang and unfortunatly Proffesor Snape and said their good-byes and departed.

Everyone met back at the gate and this time everyone was happy.

"Hey everyone, you will never believe what Fred and I saw, Ron and some girl named Ash or somethin kissing!" exclaimed George.

"What, but Ron you just met her today!" yelled Hermione.

"So we have alot in common and both like each other, so were gonna try it for now" said Ron.

"Aighta go Ron" said Harry.

"Thanks Harry, She wants to meet everyone tonight after the competition at 7:00 by the park, thats if you guys wanna come" Said Ron.

"Sure we'll come Ron" said Hermione.

"Ya Fred & I will too I think I'll ask Julie if she wants to come, if that alright with you Fred" said George.

"Thats fine with me" Fred answered.

"Awesome" said Ron.

"Hey kids you better get in here the competition starting in like 2 minutes" said Mr Weasley.

"Okay Dad, and were not kids were done school now" said Fred.

Once they took their seats they heard Bagman again yelling "Welcome back again Witches and Wizards and we are just ready to start or last round of the day with only 2 matches.""In ring 1, Germany's Ginger Brown! vs. Bulgaria's Alexsander Dackaroff! And in ring 2! England's! Lesley McKenna! and the crowd went wild before he could speak again and when it stopped he said vs. France's Cygnus White!" There was a small crowd of French people applauding but nothing compared to England.

The whistle was blown and the matches started. Harry wasn't even watching the other match he was too interested in watching Lesley McKenna of England. The match started off with Lesley acting quickly by using petrificus totalus and the rench girl couldn't move and was on the ground for the time limit and lost in a record breaking time. The English crowd erupted in cheers and Harry thouht his eardrums were going to explode. Over in the other ring it looked like the Krum look alike was going to win but the German hit him surprisingly with a spell that almost knocked him out of the circle but he got up but was too slow and was hit again by another spell and was thrown way out of the circle. The German crowd sounded like they were whispering because they weren't heard because the English crowd was still buzzing from the previous match.

"Those were awesome matches!" said Harry.

"Ya they were" said Ron.

"I have 2 important announcements to make before you leave, for one there will be a ticket drawn at the end of tomorrows matches and the winner will duel with the winner of this years competition as long as they are a first year in school or above.""And second of I would like to say that electronic things will appear in front of you when I am done speaking and you will choose your favorite match of the day and the competitors in that match will recieve 200 galleons!"

Not a second later the electronic thing appeared in front of Harry giving him 8 choices

Spain [Alejandra Campos]
vs Brazil [Maximillian Jameson]

United States [Tabba]
vs Mexico [Nina Mitra]

Canada [Sport Walker]
vs China [Myles Diffenbache]

Australia [Starshine]
vs Peru [Carolina Agama]

Sweden [Crystal Netra]
vs Japan [Shoraku Ryusaki]

Italy [Fiorenza Erdely]
vs Romania [Ivan Haremza]

Germany [Ginger Brown]
vs Bulgaria [Alexsander Dackaroff]

France [Cygnus White]
vs England [Lesley McKenna]


Harry chose the France vs. England match because it broke a record.