Chapter nine:
Harry was sitting on the floor of the chamber of secrets cross legged and eyes closed. He was focusing on his magical core. Normally the magical core will show itself as a flowing river in the minds landscape, but with Harry his was a choppy ocean waves always threatening to spill over. While this meant Harry had more magical reserves than others it also meant if his magic was to ever get out of control the effects could be terrible. His alarm went off alerting him that it was time for the first task. Harry made his way to the huge stadium that had be put up and from there made his way to the champions tent, Harry was dressed in the Hogwarts champions kit almost identical to Potters but with a Green outline instead of red. Much like at the wand weighing everyone was already there. Krum was pacing with the same unintelligible expression, Chris was sat in the corner looking scared and then Fleur was just sat down looking a little nervous. Harry decided to sit next to Fleur
"Nervous?" he asked
"qui aren't you?" she snapped a little
"nah they wouldn't give us challenges we couldn't do"
"you don't know what it is do you?" she said shocked
"no should I?" he asked dumbly
"ets Dragons" she whispered
Harry gave no indication he was shocked by this
"see nothing we can't handle" he said again
Fleur just looked at him like he had grown another head. Then their attention was brought back by a flash from a camera. The culprit was the very same reporter from the weighing she had her lackey point the camera at Chris who was being hugged by a bushy haired girl who Harry had seen Chris sit next to often in the hall. Then Dumbledore and the officials walked into the tent
"Champions gather round"
Next Harry was part of a huddled circle like they were trying to tell secrets to each other. Ludo Bagman opened a small pouch and told each champion to put their hand in. When Krum put his hand in first he pulled out a miniature dragon
"the Chinese fireball" Bagman declared
Then Fleur put her hand in
"the Welsh green"
Chris put his hand in and pulled out a Hungarian Horntail
'bad luck' Harry thought
Then he put his hand in
"Ukrainian Iron belly"
This got a lot of worried looks from the others, Iron bellies were often called the kings of dragon kind being stronger than other breads of dragons. Harry just froze the creature and put it in his pocket.
"what you have there represent real dragons each you must face to capture a golden egg which it has been given to protect and without you cannot prepare for the next task" Bagman clarified
"Mr Krum at the sound of the cannon" Dumbledore started then was interrupted by a cannon shot and then ushered Krum to the entrance of the arena
After a few moments the sounds of a dragons roar and spells being thrown were heard in the tent, it was obvious by the number of spells Krum was trying to overpower the dragon, soon there were no sounds then a thundering applause. Next up was Fleur who Harry wished luck to and it ended in a similar manner. Next up was Chris who was looking green
"hey just remember they don't have scales everywhere" Harry said before Chris left trying to give the boy some ideas of what to do
Now alone in the tent Harry could hear how the crowd had shouted and nearly screamed as Chris fought his dragon until Harry heard him summon his broom
'clever' Harry thought
Then came the sounds of more screaming and a loud crashes
'it broke free? You think they would've prepared for that'
It took a long while but Harry heard a broom return and the cheering of the crowd. Then Harry's cannon sounded and he entered the arena. The whole thing was made out of rock a almost perfect dragon nest. There were banners on the stands with his name of it and most of Hogwarts cheering for him, he even saw Tracy and Daphne cheer for him not that he much interaction with any of the students beside the day of lessons. On to the more important matters Harry saw his dragon nestled into the middle of the arena covering a patch of eggs one of them gold
'their using real eggs to make the dragons react damn ministry'
Harry brought his arms out into a crucifix shape his wand in his right hand gathering energy, then he brought his arms round his wand pointing right at the dragon and a tornado shot out of his wand and hit the dragon head on blowing it back into a large boulder, holding the spell Harry walked forward towards the patch of eggs. Then the Dragon battered its wings sending waves of air at Harry stopping his advances, then it breathed fire into the tornado which made Harry dispel it. Harry sent multiple slicing curses at the beasts eyes before it could do anything else, one of the spells hit true and took out one of the dragons eyes. Taking the small dragon out of his pocket and transfigured it into a larger version one the same size as the original and then placing a compulsion charm on it he made it fight the other dragon. The two clashed breathing fire and scratching the other, as Harry had already damaged the first dragon the transfigured one was able to get more attacks in and some had the other on the ground. Seeing no need to kill the dragon Harry returned the dragon to its original size and then walked on to collect the golden egg much to the excitement of the crowd. The judges took a while and raised their wands. Dumbledore gave him a ten, Crouch gave him a ten, Maxine gave him a nine and the Durmstrang headmaster gave him an eight?
'mother fu...'
Harry didn't have time to finish his thought because he was then being rigorously checked over by the schools medi-witch. Harry was then swarmed by the Hogwarts students congratulating him. He broke away from the horde about five minutes afterwards and was then saved by Fleur pulling him aside and saying how wonderful he was during the task and she then had to pry Gabby off Harry when she found the two together.
End chapter 9: