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This was written for the Mint Tea series.

^Viktor^

Before the second challenge.

Viktor Krum the famous seeker was ashamed of himself.

He had been the last one to unlock the egg out of all four of the champions including the Potter child.

Beaten by a child!

He sat now in the library. This time not to try to get the courge to ask Ms. Granger to the dance but to try and find a way to help him breath underwater.

He would not let the child beat him again.

Viktor was actually quite decent with transfiguration but he knew it would a but a hard spell to put on his entire body.

No matter he was going to try it.

He grumbled as he took out a flask from one of the deep pockets of his cloak and took a long gulp before tossing another book was tossed onto the ever growing pile of usless books.

The one thing that a very small group of people knew was that Viktor Krum did not drink. He found that it messed with his flying skills.

Instead he had filled his flask with burning pirinski tea from the mountains of Bulgaria.

Looking into the flask now he could see only dregs and placed it back in his robes.

Oh how he missed the mountains. The fresh cold air that stung your face. The bumpy terrain almost the exact opposite of Hogwarts flats grassland and woods.

He couldn't wait to get the whole tournament over with and return to the mountains. His home.

He would have to wait until he had won Durmstrang the triwizard cup.

The hard wooden chair had began to dig into his back but he had told himself that he wasn't going to give up until he had found a way to perfect the transfiguration. If only he could ask a teacher for help.

Viktor would most likely not ask even if he could for it would show weakness.

He would rather lose then have a single person think of him as a weakling or an attention seeker like the child Potter.

He did wonder how Potter had managed to weasel his way into the tournament though.

Viktor pulls out the flask and stares at the dregs once again before sighing.

He wouldn't get anything else done is he didn't have his tea.