Like Father, Like Daughter

Chapter 7: The First Task

Summer POV

This was the day. I could smell it in the air. The morning of the first task came down on me like a meteor. I got up quickly and made my way to the Great Hall for breakfast, not even waiting for Andrew or Jake. The morning air was filled with talk or the students and the birds chirping outside the castle walls. I took my place among the rest of the Gryffindor students. I noticed Georgia and all her friends stopped talking when I entered the hall. I sat down next to Jake who was already there, wearing his badge as usual.

"Don't worry about her, she is still pretty upset about the whole Princess thing." Jake said as I helped myself to some pancakes and orange juice. My stomach was to tired up in knots to eat but I still pushed myself. It was like the morning before a Quidditch game except this time my life was at stake.

"Morning beautiful." Andrew introduced himself as he sat down next to me. I felt his arm wrap around my waist as I forced a smile out of myself.

"Morning." I croaked.

"Nervous?" Andrew asked.

"Is it possible not to be?" I asked. "How am I supposed to get pass a dragon if I come up to one?"

"But that's only if you do really bad." Andrew answered.

"You could just do what your father had to do." Jake spoke up.

"And what would that be?" I asked.

"Well, he used the Summoning Charm and summoned his broomstick and flew around the bloody dragon." Jake said.

"And why haven't you explained this before?" I asked.

"You never asked." Jake smiled as he went back to his pancakes.

"And I was never good in summoning charms." I said as I buried my face in my hands.

"Stop lying you yourself, you did great in that. You could summon the pillow before anyone else in my class." Andrew said wrapping his arm around my waist.

"Let's just hope I survive." I breathed.

Harry POV

I woke up early and found the bed empty next to me. I wasn't surprised. I pulled my robe on and made the journey downstairs to see Hermione sitting at the kitchen counter with a cup of coffee, reading the daily prophet in front of her. On the cover it had a picture of the three champions of Triwizard Tournament smiling, all except James.

"So are you going to come out and see Summer today?" I asked breaking the silence that was beginning to pour into the room.

"I dunno." Hermione simply replied.

"It would mean an awful lot to her, you know she wasn't planning on becoming Princess." I pointed out.

"And that would be because she is too concerned becoming the Hogwarts Champion." Hermione snapped at me.

"Hermione, we cannot keep a little thing like our kids tearing us apart." I said turning to face her.

"This has nothing to do with Summer or Mathew. This is about us. How you can never confide in me anymore yet I tell you everything." Hermione spat at me as she slammed the newspaper down on the desk.

"I do tell you everything." I backed up.

"No you don't. That night we found out Mrs. Weasley is dying you shut me out. Threw me to the shadows." Hermione said standing up and waling around the table to talk to me.

"I don't want to talk about that, you know that too!" I almost screamed at her.

"See, this is exactly what I mean. You close me out of your life. Harry I married you to go over these problems but it is going to tear me apart if we don't go over this." Hermione tried to explain.

"You won't understand." I whispered. I turned back and went back up the stairs to go and change into good robes.

"Harry!" Hermione called after me. She began chasing after me. "Harry please tell me what's wrong!"

Summer POV

It was time. I was in the tent with the rest of the champions. James and Samantha were both just as nervous as I was. Although James had a funny way of showing it. He kept an emotionless face as he continued to pace back and forth. Samantha was sitting in the corner in a comfy chair and kept playing with her hands.

"Good afternoon Champions." Cho Chang introduced herself as her and my father walked into the tent one after the other.

"Now, the task is going to begin by having the three of you on the main platform. We will be examing you, and depending on how well you did, it will decide what your opponent will be. After the quiz is over we will call you each out at random and then you will perform the task decided to you." Harry explained.

"So if you will please follow me." Cho ended for him. We all followed one by one beginning with me and ending with James out into the open stadium. As each champion, the cheering range differed. The stadium exploded as I squinted my eyes to the exposed light. It died down from Samantha and James.

We each stood on a raised level. On the flooring of each level, there was our school coat of arms.

"Welcome to the first task!" I heard my Dad call out.

"Each champion will be tested in order to obtain there opponent." Dad went on. "We will start first, with none other than the Champion from Hogwarts, Summer Potter!" The stadium roared again as my eyes finally were able to see. The first person I saw was Andrew in the crowd. It looked like he was trying to be happy and was holding back tears at the same time. He smiled but I could notice that there were veins showing in his neck.

"Miss Potter," My name was called among the stadium. "First question of five. What is the common antidote for most poisons?" I heard Cho Chang say. I saw her staring down at us.

"A Bezoar!" I shouted back out. The crowd roared as Cho said that I was correct.

"Second question, what is the difference between an animagus and a werewolf?" Cho asked. This was all too easy.

"An Animagus has the choice to turn into it's selected creature or not. A werewolf has no choice. Also, the werewolf only responds to the call of its own kind." I answered without breathing.

"Correct!" Cho said. I swear I was going to loose my hearing due to all the screaming and cheering from the crowd. "Third, which charm has the effect of allowing an invisible bubble to surround your head from the outside world?"

Honestly, where they giving me the easy questions? "The Bubble Charm." I answered without a hesitation.

"Correct again, number four, name two of the unforgivable curses." Cho smiled at me.

"Avada Kedavra and Crucio!" I hollered with a smile on my face. This was the easiest test ever. At least I didn't do bad enough to get a dragon that's for sure.

"Correct again Miss Potter." Cheers followed after her sentence. "Now," As she went on it got to an eerie quite. "You must understand that these questions were written before the champions were chosen so you must know the answer to your history question. Name the Witch and Wizard the defeated the Dark Lord and the death eaters and name the date as well, the year won't be necessary."

The entire crowd began cheering before I even had time to answer. Everyone knew the answer as well as I did. Everyone got quiet as I opened my mouth to answer. "Hermione Potter, but at the time it was Hermione Granger and Harry Potter on Halloween night!"

The best feeling was seeing my boyfriend was totally relaxed.

After everyone had been quizzed we were all back in the tent. Samantha had scored 2 out of 5 and James did 4 out of 5. Samantha was the first to go out and then James. I was in there all by myself. I knew I could beat a stupid little pixie. I heard my name being called out. This was it. I was going to take an early lead in the competition.

I stood out on the open grass. My father was standing up from the judges' table. His face was full of worry. Wait, wasn't he suppose to be happy, and where was the stupid little pixie.

"Miss Potter," My Dad began over the roar of the crowd. "Since you scored the highest possible on the test I will tell you that your mission is to pass the opponent and obtain a large claw on the opposite end of the field." Dad said.

Everyone cheered again. "Bring the beast out." Harry hollered.

Wait a minute? Beast? No.

The gate opened on the other end of the field and revealed the dragon. I froze. I WAS SUPPOSE TO BATTLE A STUPID PIXIE! I pulled my wand out but couldn't find the two words as the dragon began walking towards me.

I looked up when I heard my name being shouted from the crowd. Andrew screamed down in freight towards me. He had both his hands over his mouth but I could tell he was shaking.

I had to do this.

I pointed my wand back towards the castle. "Accio Firebolt!" I screamed. Jake shouted, "GO SUMMER!" Andrew remained silent. I could hear my dad whisper "No way." I was expecting a miracle to happen and it did. As the dragon began breathing in, the firebolt began flying towards me.

I mounted my broom and began flying away form the line of fire the dragon had sent at me. I flew back towards him and teased him. I needed him off the ground. I flew high enough to see the claw lying on a pillow on the other side of the gate. It was huge!

The dragon remained on the ground and continued to breath fire in my direction as I easily dodged it. The crowd below me was watching my very move. And when the dragon finally realized that it couldn't catch me on the ground it lifted its big ugly wings.

The dragon itself was a deep red color. He was huge, but since I really didn't like dragons at all, I had no clue what species it was. I soared back down. Dragons really went my specialty as I almost caught on fire flying back down. This dragon was clever. He followed me. He directed me so I kept on flying back towards the end of the field. Then I tried using my Quidittich skills.

I flew towards it avoiding the line of fire that was coming towards me. I missed the swing of its claw but not the teeth. I narrowly avoided being eaten but at a price. I began directing my path down as of it teeth ripped into my shoulder. It burned like it had been set on fire. But I was free. I ignored the burning pain as I gained speed to the end of the field. I nearly crashed as I reached down and picked up the claw. I landed but then fell over as I grabbed my shoulder. I could immediately feel the warmth of my blood trickle down my arm and slide through my fingers. I dropped my broom and the claw with it and fell down on the cold ground. Warm tears began pouring down my face as I screamed out in pain. I could tell this was deep. Madame Pomfrey surrounded on my and tore my robe off my shoulder and exposed the cut. The dragon's tooth slashed through my shoulder and my arm was practically covered in blood. Madame Pomfrey began applying lotions and murmured spells to stop the bleeding as she began mending it.

But that didn't stop the crowd from cheering when I got back on my feet. I reached down and grabbed the claw and raised it up high in the air. My direction went towards the judges' table as all of them stood up at the same time and they pulled out there wands.

McGonagall: 9

The Headmistress of Beauxbatons: 8

The Headmaster of Drumstrang: 5 (He got booed big time.)

Cho Chang: 10

Dad: 10 (Like he was about to give his own daughter a 9.)

The scores didn't matter right now. I didn't care that I was now in first by two points. I didn't care that I had just survived. The fact was that I almost broke down when I saw Andrew running towards me and he had tears on his face as well as on mine.

Okay, I am done. I think this was one of the chapters I enjoyed writing in the story. I hoped you liked it.

Patrick is astonished that almost all my reviews mentioned him in their reviews. By the way, we have our own couple song now! I think it's so cute.

It's Death Cab For Cutie's "Soul Meets Body" if you haven't heard it yet.

Anyway, to the reviewers…

HAM005: I am so sorry to hear about your moving troubles. I've moved 4 times and I am 15 also so, yeah. But that is totally the best way to get writers block. Believe me.

Suanne: Jake? You mean Andrew? Summer is going out with Andrew, not Jake. But yeah, that is a great idea that I already had.

Skyfire2459: I think it is perfectly okay for a girl to ask a guy out. Because we girls should realize that the guys are just as shy as we are about this kind of stuff. Patrick told me to tell you, because he's so noisy and read all my reviews, thanks and he stole the idea from his friend. I don't really care, it worked didn't it?

FairyWings101: Thanks. I am going to be saying that a lot this responding time. But yeah, you should totally tell him near the end of the year. I mean you never know right? He might like you too. That's sucks you won't be able to go to the same high school. But if he doesn't feel the same way, don't worry because it gets better when you get to high school.

HelloKitty14: Thanks. I tried to write your character a little more, but I had to cute a lot because you know, you guys don't need to read a 15-page story.

Fiora illuser: No, your sooo cool for reviewing!

Rodrigo: I hoped you liked my first task. I swear I think the best out of them is going to be the second. You'll like it. I hope.

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