Disclaimer: Once again I don't own Harry Potter in any way shape or form, I do however own this story line and some of the OCs.
A/N: Right then people sorry about the wait for this chapter but it took a while to get over my writers block on this one and even longer to get this chapter right, anyway I hope you all enjoy it and do leave lots of reviews and once again first name in gets the profile done.
Chapter 17: Wand Weighing and First Task.
Albus spent the next few weeks trying to run damage control with the two visiting schools, as well as with Amelia who wanted to add another task to the Tournament. Each Headmaster had been given the right to make one of the Tasks as long as two of them tied in with each other; Albus had set up the first one, Karkaroff had set up the second task and finally Madam Maxime had the last one, but Amelia wanted to add another one as was her right as head of Auror department and Academy.
In the end he gave in and let her set up a task that was basically a free-for-all duel, the winner being the last witch or wizard standing. The new task was slipped in just after the second task so the duel would be the third task and the Maze that Amelia was told about become the fourth and final task.
At the moment, he was moving down to the edge of the Hogwarts Wards, as he had to go and get Harry for the Wand Weighing part of the tournament, as the first task was only a few weeks away.
Appearing in the Ministry Albus walked to one of the lifts, pausing only long enough to get his wand checked in with the system, his path led him right to Amelia's office a few moments later; a nod of the head being the only greeting to any of the old hands and such who knew the aged Headmaster best.
He had only just opened the door to one of the most powerful women within the Ministry, when a single red jellybean came flying past with a little blur that was Zarra shooting after the sweet treat; Albus made a note that today Zarra's outfit seemed to be some sort of Muggle high-class business woman's outfit with knee length skirt, long sleaved dress shirt and business coat.
Looking over to where Zarra had darted from, Albus gave a nod of greeting to Tonks who just smiled, returning to her paperwork a moment later, saying as she did, "Madam Bones will be back in a minute sir, she just stepped out to get some tea and use the restroom."
"In that case, I'll wait here for her Nymphadora dear," Albus said, a small smile forming at the slightly upset look coming over the young woman's face at the use of her first name; as far as he know only one person besides her parents was allowed to call her Nymphadora and that was Harry.
"Please don't use my first name sir." Tonks said under her breath, she kept her head down, however, and on her paperwork. Zarra flew back over and landed on Tonks' shoulder, reading what she was working on and offering the odd comment in both English and her native tongue.
"Sorry dear, I keep on forgetting." Albus said with a smile, knowing full well that he wasn't forgetting but merely chose not to listen to her as he had found it was fun to wind up the young woman and just couldn't help himself at times.
The next few minutes Albus spent listening to Zarra passing comment on each document that Tonks looked over, some of them getting a simple 'boring' while others were things like 'burn it,' or on a few rare cases 'pass it on.'
He was about to ask if Zarra did this all the time when Tonks was sorting files when Amelia walked in, a cup of tea in both hands one being handed over to Tonks, moving to her seat a moment after that and asking Albus what he wanted.
"Well, I'm here to let Harry know that he's needed at Hogwarts for the wand weighing just after lunch; also I thought I would let him know that the other judges and myself are still deciding whether or not he can use his Animagus form, as he asked the last few times he has been at the school investigating how his name was entered into the cup."
"Very well then, you can return to Hogwarts, Albus, and I'll pass on your message. The two of us will be there at the needed time so you don't need to worry about him being on time," Amelia said, leaning back in her seat while taking another sip of her tea. Tonks looked over her shoulder at her boss with a questioning look about the pair going to Hogwarts without her or Kingsley.
"Why would the two of you being coming up Amelia dear? I would have thought that Harry would come with Kingsley's or even Ms. Tonks here if you would let her go."
"I'm the headmistress of his school of choice Albus, and as the other Headmasters and such from the other school are there for photo shoots and such dealing with the tournament it's only fair that I'm there to don't you think." Amelia said with a smile. Albus just nodded at this, moving towards her fireplace and entering it a moment after she gave a dismissing wave to show he could use it.
Without even turning from watching her fireplace to look at Tonks, Amelia, her voice holding the commanding tone that the younger woman had learned meant she was all business and wouldn't take no for an answer, said, "Go and get that other half of yours Trainee, and let him know to be in his best as we have a photo shoot and interview this afternoon and I want him on his best behaviour."
Tonks gave a nod and quickly got to her feet. She had only taken a few steps when Amelia called out again, "Also, spend the rest of the day with Kingsley to get a taste for what you well be doing in a few months time Tonks."
Tonks once again gave a nod of understanding and quickly left the office; Zarra, however, remained behind, flying over to Amelia's desk and landing on her nameplate, balancing on it despite the miniature high heeled shoes she had on to go with the rest of her outfit.
"I take it you'll be joining us Zarra," Amelia asked, her comment coming across more as a statement and not a question. The Shadow Mephit just nodded and flew up to sit on the back of Amelia's chair, kicking her legs back and forth while waiting for Harry, even though they had an hour or more before they had to get to Hogwarts.
At lunch time, Harry walked into Amelia's office in his Auror dress robes; the look on his face clearly stating that he would much prefer to be in his normal clothes and not the high collared uniform. The normal gray markings of a Trainee were replaced with the gray and bronze markings of a final year trainee, the only real change since the last time Amelia had seen him in it.
"Nice to see you dressed for the occasion Harry," Amelia said getting to her feet and waving her wand over her own robes, removing any ink stains and generally cleaning them up, "Now I am going to state right now that you are to be on your best behaviour and not to upset anyone there, if the reporter I think is going to be there is there I want you to let me handle her and not to say a word to her or her photographer, understand?"
"Yes Madam, I'll just stand there and look mean; should scare some people into behaving themselves around me, don't you think?" Harry said with a smile, raising a hand up and ever so lightly running his finger nails through Zarra's hair when she landed on his shoulder, the Mephit purring loudly at the contact.
"Very well then, let's get started and, no, we are not going by shadows, good old apparating is how we are getting there." Amelia said leading the way out of her office. Harry followed along behind her, only a few steps away; the pair gave a slight nod of the head to anyone who called out and wished them luck with the wand weighing, once again showing that news travelled fast.
Arriving at Hogwarts, Harry fell into step behind Amelia who was showing that she was indeed the Lady of a noble house, Harry also showed that he was a Lord of his own house, the family ring of the Potters becoming visible as he moved along, Amelia's ring also coming into view at the will of their respective owners, both of them wanting to state to everyone here that they were dealing with powerful families.
Harry's eyes swept over the gathered students and staff the moment he and Amelia entered the room, a small nod of the head being the only greeting to anyone who knew him, Hermione giving a small smile and wave as greeting.
Albus gave a smile to the pair as they moved towards the head table, waving his wand to conjure up two more chairs, Amelia's being fitted between his and Karkaroff while Harry's appeared next to Minerva who got to her feet and shook both Harry's and Amelia's hand in greeting before quickly settling back down and starting to talk to Harry softly about transfiguration and how he was doing with his Animagus form.
Harry spent most of the time over lunch looking over everyone within the Great Hall, taking a moment to study his three fellow champions, a slight nod of the head being all he gave each of them in a show of respect for each as they were studying him as much as he was them.
For Harry the meal passed mostly in silence after he had his look over his fellow champions, only really talking with Minerva and Hermione when the girl got up the courage to walk up to him and say hello and ask how he was doing.
After Hermione left to go get ready for class, Harry noticed that a number of the other students were getting to their feet too. However they were starting towards him; a boy in his third year, holding a camera and with a large smile on his face was at the head of the group.
"Where is this photo shoot being held Headmaster?" Harry asked getting to his feet eyes locking with Albus' own twinkling eyes. The Headmaster quickly said where, while looking at some of his students who had paused in their approach of Harry's location. The young Auror gave a nod at the information before growing a smile that any crazy want-to-be world ruler would be proud of; Amelia rolled her eyes at the smile but sat back with her own little smile at the fun Harry was about to have with everyone.
"Well then, my fans, let's have a little game. You can all use any spell or skill you have to try and track me down; I'll be hiding, so good luck and do remember that the game is only good for when I'm in the school." On that note, Harry vanished and Shadow Fang was in his face the Shadow Wolf gave a small snigger like sound before vanishing from sight.
"That should get his fans to back down and not bother him so much now, as it's nearly impossible to track him when he's in shadows." Amelia said with a smile, getting to her feet and moving towards a side door the other Headmasters only a step behind her. The two guest ones made comments about Harry's unfair advantage over their own champions but were silenced when Amelia said over her shoulder to them, "Any student of seventeen or even younger could have the same Animagus capability if they studied hard now stop saying he has an unfair advantage as he doesn't."
Everyone went silent at her words and just followed along behind the Department Head. Albus could not help but agree with her; after all Harry's father and his friends had managed it, as had himself back in his school days.
The group walked silently into the room that Albus had put to one side for the Wand Weighing event, giving a nod to Ollivander and Rita Skeeter and her photographer, the latter pair sitting off to one side Rita with her quick quotes quill and notepad already out.
"Well now, all we need to do is wait for Mr. Potter to join us and then we can get this all started." Albus said with a smile, taking a seat to one side as did the other Headmasters; Amelia was the only one to remain standing as she was locked in a glaring contest with Rita, the pair having clashed many times in the past over Rita printing things that were classified in the paper and had yet to be punished because the Minister kept on dropping the cases.
"Ah yes, our young champion who vanished and then appeared out of nowhere, where has our young Mr. Potter gotten to now?" Rita asked breaking eye contact with Amelia to look over at Albus.
"Oh, Harry is already in this room Rita, he's been here since I entered." Amelia said with a smile raising her wand and casting a low powered light spell to make her shadow stretch out and touch one of the walls; Harry rose up a moment later shifting forms to his human one just as quickly, a smile on his face as he moved to stand at Amelia's side.
"Director Bones, I have to say I agree with you on your opinion of Ms. Skeeter here and won't even bother with her, now I believe we have a wand weighing to sort out and I have a date to go get ready for." Harry said, giving Rita the once over; the older woman had the feeling she had just been judged and found lacking.
Rita just looked at Harry after getting over the shock of how he entered the room. She moved forward and said with what she thought was her most charming smile, "So who's the lucky witch that managed to get you to go out with them?"
"As if I'm going to tell you anything about my private life for that gossip rag you call a paper, now let's get this over with." Harry said pulling his wand out from its holster looking at Ollivander to one side; the aged wand maker just chuckled to himself at how Harry was handling Rita.
"Yes, yes quite right, well Ladies first." Bagman said suddenly waving Fleur forwards. The quarter Veela rolled her eyes a little at the man but didn't say anything as she handed her wand over to the Wandmaker.
The other two champions went up and had their wands looked over; Harry made a note of cores and wood types as he had been studying wands lately and he knew that some woods conducted magic better than others, but so far all the woods called out were very good conductors of magic meaning all three champions at least had power to back them up.
Finally, Harry stepped forward offering his wand after spinning it around his fingers while walking, Ollivander just raised an eyebrow at the show of dexterity that Harry just displayed taking the wand and giving it a once over conjuring a little seat that Zarra, who had gone unnoticed until now, went and sat down in with a smile on her face.
"Very well looked after this wand is Mr. Potter, the wand is in perfect working order and doesn't seem to have a single nick in the wood but then again I did only sell you this wand a few months ago." Ollivander said with a smile, handing the wand back to Harry and then moving to one side to get out of the way of the eager photographer and reporter, both of them trying to get to Harry only to be stopped dead by the look he gave them both.
"You get one group photo with me in it Rita no more, now let's get this over with as I have work to get back to." Harry said sharply, moving to stand next to Amelia who just laughed at the shocked looked on Rita's face at how Harry had talked to her like she was some kind of bug he had stepped on.
Fleur, who had been standing silently to one side couldn't help but give a small giggle at how offended the report woman looked, going silent quickly, however, at the look from her headmistress and Harry, who just gave a small smile before leaning back against a chair that was pulled forward for the photo.
The two other male champions also had a small smile on their faces at how Harry was handling this, neither however made a sound at all, and just moved forward to take their places for the photo.
The photo was soon taken after everyone was sorted out. The moment the camera flash blinding him had died down, Harry moved to get past everyone, stopping however when Rita tried to get in his path again. This time he didn't need to do anything, as Zarra dived forward and took Rita's note pad that her quill had been writing on the whole time everyone had been in the room. The Shadow Mephit threw the pad to Harry who caught it and before Rita could complain started to read what she had written down.
"Hmm, Madam have I been crying over the loss of my parents and flirting with Lady Delacour since I entered the room? How about answered questions to this insect which included what I thought of the Auror's which according to this I thought were alright but not the best?" Harry asked, looking over at Amelia who had taken the note pad and was looking over the information eyes locking with Rita a moment later.
"Not that I have noticed Harry, why don't you head back to the office and see how your other half is doing with Kingsley and help out while I explain to this…insect as you called her what happens to people who try and bad mouth one of my best upcoming Aurors just to sell papers." Amelia said with a hard tone showing in every word.
Harry just gave a nod to Amelia before glaring at Rita one more time changing into his Wolf form and sinking into Fleur's shadow a moment later. The French girl gave a small gasp at the feeling around her middle for a moment before it vanished, looking around when the others looked at her with a questioning look about the gasp.
"Sorry it felt strange with that extra weight around the middle." Fleur said softly, her French ascent showing through very lightly at the moment, rubbing her middle a little longer before returning her hand to her side.
Amelia gave a nod of understanding as just about every other Auror in the department had felt that weight there and one female Auror had even gone to get it checked out and found out she was pregnant she had rushed off to tell he husband the good news and then after that came back and told Harry off for using her shadow to piggy back himself to another area.
Everyone just gave a slight nod at this and moved off to either get back to class or see friends, in the Headmasters' cases talking about what to do about Harry's Animagus form; Amelia joined them after chewing out Rita and promising her that she would be watched closely now.
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Over the next few weeks Harry noticed that no matter what time of the day he went to Hogwarts to investigate how his name was entered the cup, Mad-Eye was never around; his old mentor was either in classes or had headed out of the castle for a few hours. This behaviour being far beyond anything that Moody normally did, Harry couldn't help but feel that the man was avoiding him or hiding something, but then again the man was always hiding something the question was how to reveal it.
Deciding to put that little problem out of his mind for now, Harry started towards the tent that had been set up to one side for the champions for the first task. The last few weeks had gone by quickly and before he knew it he was in full combat robes with the wand and sword symbol for the Auror Academy on his back.
Tonks was walking next to him at the moment and so far had told everyone who had tried to tell her to head to the stands to go to hell as she was staying by her boyfriend's side; Zarra was hovering above the pair calling out her encouragement for Harry.
"Harry, there has been something I've been meaning to ask you since Halloween, you did say you wanted to ask me a few questions and you never did, thanks to all this Tournament trouble, I was wondering what you wanted to ask me?" Tonks asked all of a sudden when they came to a stop in front of the tent; the voices of the other champions could only just be heard over the sounds of the crowd gathering.
"One question was if you wanted to move into a house instead of living in that flat; I mean, it is getting a little crowed in there now, and the second question… well that I was hoping to ask you someplace a little more private and romantic." Harry said softly looking at Tonks while pulling his sunglasses down a little, a slightly nervous look entering his eyes.
"Well I have to say a house of our own would be nice, but I do hope that the second questions is one you said you would ask me after returning to your human form." Tonks whispered to Harry, pulling his head down a little to kiss him, the messy haired young man just wrapping her into his arms and deepening the kiss.
Giving a small smile, Harry reached into his robes and came up with a simple ring box a small smile on his face as he handed the box to Tonks, whispering as he moved to enter the tent, "Hang onto that for me dear, I'll ask you the question after I finish this task."
"I'll say yes when you get back." Tonks whispered moving to get a good seat, holding the ring box close to her chest feeling Zarra land on her shoulder a moment later; both of them just focusing on the coming task and hoping that Harry would come through unhurt.
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Harry looked around the champions tent with a calculating look, making a note that Fleur was in some heavy school robes, Cedric in his normal Hogwarts robes with the Hufflepuff symbol being stitched on to the back and finally Krum looked like he had changed into his Quidditch uniform for this.
Seeing how nervous they all looked Harry just shrugged his shoulders and moved to a seat to one side, to the surprise of everyone in the tent he calmly took his sunglasses off, pulled on his reading ones, and took out a book on French poetry. Leaning back against the tent post, he started to read to himself, ankles crossed and legs stretched out before him as if he didn't have a care in the world.
"How can he be so calm when we are facing dragons?" Fleur asked softly. Cedric looked at her sharply at that comment and her hands flew up to her mouth at the realisation that she had revealed that she knew what they would be facing.
"How in Merlin's name do you know that?" Cedric demanded not paying the fact that Krum didn't show any signs of being surprised like he was any mind at the moment, Harry just looking up from his book at the loud demand coming from Cedric.
"So all we have to do is face a dragon… and here I was thinking I might have a challenge." Harry said with a laugh, going back to his book muttering loud enough for everyone to hear, "After facing a sixty plus foot Basilisk, a dragon isn't a problem… going to have to remember to go visit that girl and see how she is doing in that preserve they put her in."
Cedric looked at Harry for a moment before he started to laugh loudly, the other two just looked at him for a moment before looking at Harry again; the young man paid them no mind, head bowed as he kept on reading.
"I forgot about that whole mess a few years ago now and that you were part of the team to bring down that monster, but still, aren't you a little nervous about facing a dragon for some unknown reason?" Cedric asked moving to take a seat near Harry thinking to himself that maybe some of Harry's calm might rub off on him.
"Getting worked up doesn't do you any good, as such I find it is better to take a few moments and just relax, a clear smooth thinking mind is a lot better than any panicked and disorganised mind any day." Harry said not looking up from his book.
Everyone just gave Harry a look at this and was about to say something when all of the Judges walked into the room, Bagman looking far too happy for his own good was something that passed through Harry's mind as he kept one eye on the new group and the other reading his book.
"Hello all, hope you are all rested and ready for the first task as we'll be testing your daring and courage as you have to retrieve an object from a nesting dragon," Bagman said bouncing on the balls of his feet while looking over everyone.
Amelia, who was standing to one side, just shook her head while looking over everyone there, a slight nod of the head to Harry being the only thing she gave as sign of encouragement. Looking at the robes the others were in, Amelia stepped out of the tent for a moment and come back a few minutes later with Auror Trainee combat robes thanks to a house elf, offering them to everyone when they looked at her and asked why she had them.
"Those school robes and such won't do much against Dragon's Fire should one get a lucky shot in, as such these should help a little." She finished by conjuring up three sets of screens for everyone to duck behind and change if they wanted to use the robes.
Fleur gave a nod of thanks for the robes and quickly stepped behind a screen to put them on, Cedric did the same while Krum just shook his head indicating that his robes would do for this task. Both Fleur and Cedric had their respective headmasters change the symbols on the back of the robes to their school.
"Trainee Potter, your side arm if you don't mind as well as both spare clips." Amelia said, holding her hand out to Harry while Bagman had the others pull models of the dragon they would be facing out of a bag.
Harry just laughed as, to everyone's surprise, he reached down to his left leg and came up with his handgun ejecting the clip and removing the bullet in the chamber with a smooth motion, handing it over to Amelia a moment later pulling up two spare clips from his belt, "I'll want those back the moment I finish up in there madam, I feel naked without that extra weapon."
Amelia just gave a nod and then reached into the bag for Harry coming up with the last dragon model of the Horntail throwing it to the young Auror. Harry only took a moment to look at it, before shrugging his shoulders and looking at the judges. "So am I allowed to use my Animagus form as you were still debating it the other day… people, I need to know now!"
"We have decided to allow you to use it in this task and the last two tasks, as we can't see you needing it for the second and Amelia's new third task should become more interesting with that added power." Albus said with a smile the twinkle in his eyes, clearly stating that he was looking forward to seeing Harry's duelling style.
Harry just nodded to this and went back to his book now that he knew he could use his Animagus form, the other champions just giving a nod as they now knew he had a powerful weapon at his disposal.
The judges all left the tent not long after that; Fleur was called forwards a few moments later. The young witch took a few deep breaths before moving on, the cheering of the crowds only heard for a moment before the tent flap fell back into place blocking them out.
Harry just looked at the tent flap for a moment then at the other boys with him, saying as he turning to his book, "This could be almost entertaining for me, this challenge; enjoy yourselves boys, as life is too short to worry about anything."
Both boys just looked at Harry for a moment before shaking their heads and moving to different corners of the tent to wait for their names to be called.
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Tonks watched each champion as they faced their dragon and managed to get their egg from the clutching mother, her face going very pale however at the sight of the final dragon; the Hungarian Horntail was one of the most vicious dragons when it came to their nests and Harry was going to be facing one.
"They brought one of those for this task?! Are they insane?" Tonks asked in shock at the sight of the dragon, her hand gripped the ring box even tighter and closer to her chest as the dragon settled down a little around its clutch, eyeing everyone in the stands and the judges' table.
"Not good, not good, not good at all! Szotfrin be enjoying this though." Zarra said, her slightly high-pitched voice gave a loud squeak when Tonks snatched her from mid air with a single hand and started to squeeze her while locking eyes with the small Mephit.
"Not helping Zarra!" Tonks hissed out, giving a single squeeze making Zarra give another squeak before throwing the Mephit into the air. Zarra righted herself and moved to hover over Amelia's shoulder, wanting to steer clear of Tonks at the moment.
"Tonks that was no way to treat Zarra, you should apologize to her." Hermione said, having moved to sit behind the young woman, only to lean back in her seat when Tonks just looked over her shoulder at her, the look clearly stating that she should mind her own business at the moment.
"Hermione, I'll apologize the moment Harry is safe, now please leave me alone to pull my hair out." Tonks snapped off, looking down at Harry who had just stepped out of the tent, eyes locking with the angry looking dragon. "He better come back in one piece or I'm going to tear what's lift of him into compost."
Harry looked at the dragon for a moment before looking around the arena, his eyes narrowing a little in thought while ducking down behind a rock to one side. A smile formed on his face as he looked around from the new angle.
"Oh they couldn't have made this any easier." Harry said to himself as he changed forms, the Shadow Wolf coming out from hiding and everyone only saw him for a few moments before he vanished from sight.
The crowd gave cries of protest at this, as they had come to see the champions not see one vanish not long after entering the arena. Tonks was one of the few to start laughing as the dragon looked around wildly for Harry.
The cries of the crowd died down however, when a haunting howl sounded out across the whole field. Some of the shadows started to rise and change their shape to lengths of chain that looked to be even bigger than the one preventing the dragon from flying, the other shadows soon following all of them either shaping into lances or chains.
It was when one of the shadows formed into a large blade that Harry appeared again, the chains and other weapons he had made moving up to hover around him while still being attached to the shadow he had made them from. The location he appeared at had everyone looking up as he was standing on top of the sole blade he had just made his head pulled back in a challenging howl the dragon gave a return snarl and roar.
"Oh my, he's never done anything on this scale before… must really want to impress the judges." Tonks whispered in surprise as Harry just looked down at the dragon; he was at the same level as some of the lower seats on the towers around the arena. His next howl signalled his attack as the blades and hammers came crashing down towards the dragon.
The dragon, seeing the head-on attack just pulled her head back and let loose a long stream of flames making a number of the attacks vanish under the attack of light and fire, many returning back to their normal shape around the arena but still the odd lance got through the dragon's fire and slammed in front of the nesting mother cutting her off from her nest others falling all around her making a fence a few moments later.
Harry gave a snarl of challenge down at the dragon as he started to run down the long blade that he had been standing on, the blade growing out and down towards the dragon, said dragon giving a return snarl and let loose with another blast of flames destroying one of the blades that had encircled her.
This act on the dragon's behalf seemed to be the signal for Harry's next plan of attack, as the lances that had formed the fences around the dragon suddenly started to fold inwards and at an angle so that they started to encircle the dragon even more.
The dragon's tail and claws lashed out at a few of the lances but it was too late, some of the shadows had already made contact with her flanks and sides, all of them seemed to grip her hide like they were made of glue forcing the great beast to the ground as more of them kept on growing smaller and tighter around her, a loud crash sounded out a few moments later followed by a roar of pain and anger.
Everyone quickly looked up as Harry came riding in on the large blade he had been running, the length of blade slammed into the ground just before the dragon's head. Harry, however, was looking at the nest, the nesting mother, on seeing Harry so close to her clutch, opened her mouth and let losses a stream of fire.
Harry quickly sank into a shadow just as the flames were about to turn him into a crispy critter, the dragon's head coming up sharply and breaking a number of the shadows holding her long neck down, head rising high and looking around for the wolf Animagus.
Everyone up in the stands just looked at where Harry had been after the flames had passed, as it was clear he wasn't there. More shadows raised up the moment some of them started to question his location, the shadows diving forward and slamming into the dragon's head, knocking it from side to side as if someone was slapping its face.
"That wasn't very nice." Harry's voice sounded out around the arena. Tonks gave a laugh as she rested her hand on her middle, standing up and moving towards the judges' stand.
"Well you did bind her from the base of the neck down, dear." Tonks said calmly, coming to a stop behind Amelia. Leaning forward she whispered in her ear, "Harry's just jumped from my shadow and I think we are about to see the end of this task."
Amelia gave a nod at this and was about to say something to that when suddenly Harry appeared on the small of the dragon's back a howl sounding out again as the dragon's very own shadow rose up and started to wrap itself around the long neck of the beast.
Everyone just watched as the shadows finished wrapping around the dragon's neck and part way up the back of its head, as one hard pull brought the beasts head down and into the ground, a cry of pain and rage sounding out as Harry started to walk down the dragon's neck coming to a stop on top of its head.
Looking down at the eyes he could just see at this angle, Harry gave a snort and jumped down onto the dragon's nose making a couple of shadows rise up and wrap around its mouth to keep it firmly shut and unable to either breath fire or try and bite him.
The two seemed to just look at each other for a few moments before Harry gave another snort and jumped down, starting towards the nest. The golden egg rose up a little from the other eggs as he approached.
"This was fun and all, but time to finish this up." Harry said as he walked right past the nest and throws the egg towards the judges table by its own shadow, just as he walked passed. Everyone watched as the egg landed near the judges. Harry came to a stop next to it a few moments later, changing back to his human form mid step.
Everyone looked back at the dragon the moment Harry changed back, the sight of the great beast rising back up and hovering protectively over its nest greeted them, as Harry was out of its range and it could clearly see all of its eggs still there and unharmed.
All of the judges just looked at each other for a moment, talking softly to themselves. None of them paid Tonks any mind as she moved from the stands and hugged Harry, the young man returning it before bending down and picking up the golden egg.
"You still owe me a question, Harry." Tonks whispered softly to him, handing the ring box back to her boyfriend. Harry just nodded before looking up at the judges as each started to give their scores.
Bagman went with a ten right of the bat while Amelia and Albus went with a nine, Crouch and Madam Maxime went with eight and finally, Karkaroff only gave a four, giving Harry a total score of forty eight.
"Damn Death Eater, gave his champion a ten and he destroyed half the dragon's clutch, can we say favouritism? At least Madam Maxime gave a nine to her champion as the girl did get hurt by some flames." Tonks muttered to Harry who just gave a nod still holding her close.
"Still that's not a bad score as I did hear what the others got from within that tent and that places me in second under Cedric by only three points so that's not bad." Harry said, turning to head out of the arena fully, throwing the egg to Amelia as he went; the Department head just nodded and put it before her as Zarra came down and landed on the egg, giving a little smile up at Amelia.
Amelia looked at Zarra for a moment, before waving her wand to straighten the Mephit's clothes a little saying, "I see Tonks tried to crush you, but I'm sure she has calmed down now and will apologize to you once Harry finishes talking with her."
Zarra gave a nod and said looking down at the egg she was seating on, "I'm sure you be right, until she is calm though I'll stay here." Zarra's slightly broken English made Amelia give a small smile to the Mephit getting to her feet. Following the other judges, Harry's egg under one arm and Zarra on her shoulder, they listened to them talk about the next task and tell the champions about the eggs.
Meanwhile in the medical tent, to one side Harry was sitting on a bed letting the school nurse look him over and make sure everything was fine before heading off to look at the burns on Fleur's leg a few moments later after giving Harry a clean bill of health.
Tonks stood just at the foot of his bed for a moment, before moving to straddle his lap; she gave a small smile down at Harry as his arms came up and wrapped around her hips, pulling her close as she leaned forward and kissed him gently. Harry returned the kiss while one hand moved up the back of her head and the other down a little to give her butt a firm squeeze.
"That hand better not move any farther down before you ask me that question or I'll remove the offending fingers." Tonks whispered to Harry, giving him a smile that said she meant every word.
Harry just laughed and moved his hand back to safer ground, the one at the base of her neck coming down and pulling the ring box out again; opening it this time to show a simple silver band with a single pink diamond in the centre with a few smaller normal ones around it.
"Nymphadora Jacqueline Tonks would you do me the honour of becoming my wife and life mate?" Harry asked keeping Tonks in his lap with one hand while she just smiled down at him. The other champions in the tent just looked at the pair, a small smile forming on Fleur's face as she was a bit of a romantic at heart and in her eyes a man who would fight a dragon and then not long afterwards ask a girl to marry him was just too much for her.
"I should say no for using my full name Harry, but I'll forgive you." Tonks said, holding out her hand and just looking at him for a moment a smile forming on her face as, when he didn't do anything and just looked at her, she said, "Yes you idiot, I'll marry you."
Harry just smiled and quickly slipped the ring onto Tonks finger, kissing her after she admired the ring for a moment, "You get to tell your parents, I'll tell Sirius," was all he said after they came up for air; both of them laughing softly at his comment not paying anyone else any mind at the moment, just happy to be in each other's arms for a little while and just thinking on what the future might hold for them both.
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Name: Voldemort (Aka He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, You-Know-Who.) Real name: Unknown
Gender: Male
Age: 70 estimated age as all records of his life before becoming Voldemort are lost or destroyed
D.O.B: Unknown
Eye Colour: Red
Hair Colour: Was black but has since fallen out and he's now bald
Height: 6' 3" estimated
Weight: Unknown
Physical Fitness: 4/10 Average.
Spell Knowledge: 9/10 Outstanding (Dark Arts Master)
Spell Power: 9/10 Outstanding
Special Abilities: A Dark arts Master but over all powers are Unknown, but is rumored to have an Animagus form. He is a tactical genius
Weakness: Is an egomaniac with a hot temper and is considered crazy from the a number of rituals he has performed on himself
Rank: Dark Lord and clams to be the heir of Salazar Slytherin
Next of Kin: Unknown
Information:
Little is known about Voldemort other then the fact that he appeared around the early seventies and claimed to be the hair of Salazar Slytherin and was going to carry out his ancestor's goal of killing all Muggle Born and half blood wizard and witches.
He did start out small by raiding small Wizarding streets and only ever killed Muggle born and half blood spell users as well as any magical creatures that weren't allied with him. However in a few years time he started to kill anyone and everyone who would oppose him and his power base leaving whole towns and streets in ruins and death.
He carried on his reign of terror for over a decade before he was stopped or at least delayed by Harry Potter and his mother's sacrifice. Some claim that he is still alive someplace in the world after the number of rituals he has performed but others, mostly those in places of power within the Ministry are sure he is really dead and that there is no chance he can come back.
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