A/N: I do not own anything Harry Potter. WARNING: Underage drinking will take place in this chapter. Yup. Anyways, hope you enjoy! Happy reading! XO

Chapter 25

The dragon trainers brought the Swedish Short-Snout into the tent and the crowd gasped. Cedric took his place in the entrance of the tent and waited for the cannon to signal him to begin. At the boom of the cannon, Cedric leapt into the pit and darted around the edge, avoiding the dragon's fiery breath.

"Cedric makes an incredible dive for safety as he contemplates his next move," Lee said over the audience's hushed silence.

"I'm glad Dumbledore is letting Lee do the commentating," said George as he and Fred sat down behind Remus, Annie and Hermione. "It wouldn't be a Hogwarts event without it."

"I agree, Georgie," Fred said as he took a flask out of his pocket and took a swig and then handing it toward Remus. "Would you like some, Rem?"

"No thank you, Fred," Remus replied politely shaking his head.

"Fair enough," he said passing the flask to George who took a sip and then passed it to Annie who did the same. Annie corked the flask and handed it back to Fred who pocketed it once more and they turned their attention back to the Task.

Cedric had transfigured a rock into a dog to distract the dragon as he attempted to reach the golden egg. Just as Cedric was about to reach the nest, the dragon turned her attention back on the champion and sent a ball of fire his way. The audience groaned as the fire scorched his cheek, but in one swift movement Cedric had seized the golden egg. The Hogwarts students gave an almighty cheer as he made his way out of the tent.

"That was impressive," Remus said clapping along with the others and turning to the kids. "Harry is ready for this, right?"

"Oh yeah he's ready," Annie said taking the flask again from Fred. "We were up 'til two helping him out." She took a sip of the Firewhiskey and passed it back to the boys.

"Remus, how are you ignoring this?" Hermione asked looking over at him and gesturing to the three tipsy kids that were now having a mini wrestling match in the stands.

"The same way I did when Sirius, James, Peter and I were in still in school," Remus said smiling over at Hermione.

Annie stopped biting George's arm and looked over at Remus with fury in her eyes. "Don't ever say that despicable excuse for a man's name again, Remus."

"Sorry, pup, I forgot," he said ruffling her hair.

"S'okay," Annie said shrugging and grabbing George's arm again and biting him hard. They continued their wresting match until they heard Lee's voice booming over the crowd once more.

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for the Beauxbatons Champion, Fleur Delacour!"

The Welsh Green was brought into the stadium and Fleur took her place at the tent entrance. The cannon boomed and Fleur raced forward into the pit. She immediately took her wand out and pointed it right at the dragon's face. She cast a nonverbal spell putting the dragon into some kind of trance. As she rushed toward the dragon's nest, the dragon spit fire at her back setting her robes ablaze. With one quick spell and quick grab, Fleur managed to put out the fire and capture the golden egg. The Beauxbatons students let out jubilant cheers as she Fleur waved and exited the tent grinning from ear to ear.

Annie stood up from her seat as the excited chatter resumed around the stadium. "I'll be right back," she said jumping over the seats.

"Where are you going?" George called over to her.

"I'll be back," she said again. She stumbled over to the commentator's box and leaned over the edge to talk to Lee. "Hey Lee, how's it going?"

Lee put the megaphone down on the seat next to him and walked over to her. "Alright I guess," he said leaning over the edge. "What's up?"

"I'll give you five Galleons if you announce Viktor Krum's name as Victoria," she said grinning wildly.

Lee leaned in to Annie and whispered so the staff around him couldn't hear. "Are you drunk already?" he asked looking around for listening ears.

Annie winked and whispered, "Just a little buzzed. I just came over to say that I love your commentary and to ask you to let up on the word 'fire' or any variations of 'fire'. It's really killing me over there."

Lee laughed. "I'll try to. Any words that you want me to say more often?"

"'Dragon' and 'rock' if you can," she said patting him on the arm. "I'll see you after the task, okay?" Lee nodded and picked up his megaphone again as she made her way back over to her seat. Annie sat down next to Remus and Hermione and placed the blanket back over her legs.

"And now please put your hands together in welcoming the Durmstrang Champion, Viktor Krum!" Lee's voiced boomed over the crowd as the dragon trainers brought in the Chinese Fireball. "Just a note about the Chinese Fireball, this particular dragon lives in mountainous areas which of course contain rocks," Lee added chancing a glance over at his friends as Professor McGonagall shot him a curious look.

Fred, George and Annie all stood up and gave a tumultuous applause and whoops and wolf-whistles as the other students laughed at their behavior. When they finally sat down Fred passed the flask around.

"Okay, now I'll be putting my foot down," Remus said taking the flask from Annie despite her protests and placing it in the inside pocket of his jacket. "You'll get this back before I leave."

He turned his attention away from the Weasley Twin's and Annie's scowls and Hermione's smug smile. Viktor was now darting around the stadium with his wand held tightly in his hand. He rolled out from behind a rock and shot a spell right at the dragon's face. The dragon's nostrils filled up with mucus but that only angered the nesting mother even more. She stomped around the nest shooting balls of fire in Viktor's direction, smashing most of her eggs. Suddenly, Viktor saw his opening and rushed forward to grab the golden egg and ducked out of the way just as the dragon reeled on its hind legs. Viktor exited the tent to loud cheers coming from his fellow Durmstrang students.

"It's cold," Annie said leaning back against George's legs and rubbing the sides of her arms. George wrapped his arms around her neck and pressed his lips to the top of her head. The he took his own hat off and pulled it down over her ears.

"Better?" he asked as she looked up at him smiling. She grabbed his face and pulled him down into a kiss.

"You're the best you know that?" she said as they broke apart. "Hey, Hermione, isn't he the best boyfriend ever?"

"Yes, Annie. He is the best boyfriend ever," Hermione answered looking up from her book and leaning around her best friend to talk to Remus. "What are the chances that she'll even remember today?"

Remus looked around at his niece who was busying herself with Fred's shoelaces and laughed. "Slim to none I'd say. I'm actually surprised they are already in celebration mode. I would have thought that they would at least wait until after Harry finishes the Task."

"What do you mean?"

"Hermione, let's just say if Harry comes out well in this Task, you can expect a party much bigger than your regular Quidditch after-match celebration," Remus said smiling and ruffling Annie's hair. "Am I right, pup?"

"What?" Annie looked around at him with a wild look. "Are we talking about me? Hey, guess how many carrots I can fit in my mouth?"

"I'm being serious," Remus said to Hermione as her face fell to one of disbelief.

"You're not Sirius Moony, You're Moony. Uncle Moony, my werewolf uncle!" Annie giggled to herself as she slumped back against George's knees. "Hey look, it's another dragon!"

The dragon trainers were now bringing in the final dragon, the Hungarian Horntail as Lee lifted his megaphone to announce the last the Champion of the day.

"And now, our final Champion: Harry Potter of Hogwarts!"

Harry walked into the tent entrance to various cheers and boos. Annie, Remus, Hermione, Fred and George all stood up and cheered on their friend. Harry walked forward into the stadium trembling nervously. At once, the Hungarian Horntail spotted its prey and breathed its fiery breath at Harry. He dove quickly behind a rock as the flames scorched the ground where he once stood. He pulled out his wand and pointed it toward the castle.

"Accio Firebolt!" he yelled.

A few seconds of confused silence went by as nothing happened until his broom came racing through the air towards him. The broom stopped right in front of him and he jumped on and started to soar around the stadium. To everyone's shock and terror, the dragon broke free of his chain and pursued the youngest Champion. Harry being the best Seeker Hogwarts had ever seen, zoomed forward and snatched the golden egg from the dragon's nest. Applause broke out everywhere around the stadium as Harry landed in the entrance of the tent grinning broadly.

Up in the stands Annie and Hermione were hugging each other and jumping up and down as Fred and George wolf-whistled and Remus cheered on his nephew. Lee passed the megaphone back to Professor Dumbledore to give the closing remarks.

"Congratulations to our Four Champions!" his voice boomed over the cheers erupting from the crowd once again. "At the conclusion of the First Task we have Mr. Krum and Mr. Potter tied for first place, Mr. Diggory in second, and Ms. Delacour in third. The Second Task will be held on February 24th. Until then, have a nice rest of your day!"

The students and staff got up from the stands and slowly made their way out of the stadium. Fred, George and Annie walked in front of Remus and Hermione, who were joined by Lee, with their arms around each other stumbling along the path and singing their school song. When they reached the path that forked off to Hogsmeade, they stopped to say goodbye to Remus.

"Make sure they don't do anything stupid okay, Hermione? And tell Harry I said congratulations," Remus said giving her a hug.

"I'll try my best," Hermione said smiling.

Remus shook the boys' hands and gave Fred his flask back which he immediately put back in his pocket. Remus then reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of muggle aviator sunglasses.

"Here," he said handing them to Annie. "Sirius asked me to give you these. He used to wear them to classes when he was hungover and now he figured that you could make some use of them." Remus grabbed Annie's face in both of his hands and tilting her head up so she could look him in the eye. "Please don't do anything you'll regret in the morning."

"That is a promise I could never keep," she said grabbing his face.

"I thought not," he said pulling her into a hug which she returned. "See you later, pup."

"Bye, Moony."

"Goodbye, kids." Remus let go of Annie and waved to the others. He walked down the path into Hogsmeade and Disapperated right outside the boundaries of Hogwarts.

The Gryffindor Tower erupted into cheers as Harry climbed through the portrait hole and was hoisted onto the shoulders of the Weasley twins. Annie and Lee stood on one of the tables, arms around each other and holding up their goblets. Harry clutched the golden egg tightly in one hand and thrust his fist in the air.

"Well go on, Harry! Open it! Open the egg!" Seamus yelled as the other Gryffindors shouted their agreement.

Harry grinned and placed one hand on top of the egg and twisted it open. At once a horrible shriek erupted from the egg and everybody covered their ears. Harry twisted the egg back together and the screaming stopped.

"What the bloody hell was that?" Ron asked appearing in front of Harry.

"No idea. Guess I'll have to figure that out won't I?" Harry said as the entire house went quiet watching the awkward exchange.

"Dragons, huh?" Ron said looking down at his feet, his ears turning slightly pink. "I bet anybody would be mad to enter the Tournament if they knew that's what they had to face."

"Yeah I guess they would be." Harry clapped Ron on the shoulder and smiled.

"Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" Annie chanted from her perch atop the table.

Harry and Ron laughed along with the rest of the Gryffindors and walked over to her. They each took one of her hands and helped her jump down and made their way over to the food that the house-elves had so kindly brought up. The whole house partied until the early hours of the morning, enjoying Harry's personal recount of the Task and Annie's, George's, Fred's and Lee's drunken musical talent with Lee playing piano and the other three singing any song that came to mind. Finally at one in the morning Professor McGonagall climbed through the portrait hole to shut down their party.

"You should all be in bed. Need I remind you that you all have classes in the morning," she chastised looking around the common room at the older students who were still wide awake.

The students wasted no time in hurrying up the stairs to their designated dorms. Annie followed Katie and Angelina up the stairs, all three giggling for no apparent reason. Annie bade goodnight to her friends and entered the fourth year girls' dorm. She stumbled as quietly as she could over to her bed careful not to wake Lavender, Parvati and Hermione who had gone to bed earlier in the night. She removed her shoes and her robes and flopped down on her bed and fell straight to sleep.

Annie woke in the morning to find Hermione beating her upside the head with her own pillow that had been discarded on the floor in the night.

"Merlin's saggy Y-Fronts, Hermione. What the bloody hell is wrong with you?" she mumbled sitting up and shielding her eyes from the blinding sunlight coming from the window.

"Get up we have class in fifteen minutes. And you've missed breakfast," Hermione said gathering her backpack from the end of her bed.

Annie swung her feet over her bed and rubbed her eyes as she stumbled over to the bathroom

"You didn't happen to bring any food with you from the Great Hall did you?" she asked as she checked her reflection in the mirror.

"No. I didn't think you'd be up to eating anything," Hermione answered as she waited by the door for Annie.

"I'm always up for eating anything. Don't you know that by now? Fifteen minutes you said? I guess it's too late to kip down to the kitchens for some food. Oh well," Annie ran a brush through her hair pulled it up into a ponytail. She walked out of the bathroom and picked her robes from yesterday off the floor and pulled them on. "Ugh, I've got circles under my eyes. Glad I've got these." She reached over and picked up Sirius's sunglasses off her bedside table and pushed them on to her face. She grabbed her wand and backpack and walked over to where Hermione stood waiting. They walked down the stairs together and found Harry and Ron waiting in the common room.

"You smell like stale Firewhiskey and you're not wearing any shoes," Harry noted as they climbed out of the portrait hole. "Nice glasses by the way."

Annie looked back at the Fat Lady as she swung her portrait shut. "Shoes are overrated and I can't shower now or I'll be late. Or I could just skip," she said, but one look from Hermione changed her mind. "Or not. And thanks by the way. They do look rather dashing on me I'd say." Annie stopped to admire her reflection in a suit of armor.

Ron and Harry laughed as Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Come on," Hermione said giving Annie a slight push forward. "I am not going to be late for Charms due to your tendency to look at yourself in every shiny object."

A/N: I hope you enjoyed reading about the First Task as much as I did writing about it. I also hope you enjoyed the reappearance of Remus. I think this is my new favorite chapter. Until next time, then! XO