Chapter 6

It was only one day before Harry's first task. And neither Harry or George had taken the incentive to fire-call Mr. and Mrs. Weasley…

It wasn't that they didn't want too, the thing was that the boys were afraid.

It wasn't until Fred and Hermione had forced them to sit in front of the fire and they had sealed off the common room from every other Gryffindor. George had spent more time with Fred and the two of them had already begun with new inventions and pranks.

Fred felt bad for making the couple to "split up" because of him, but Harry said it was nothing. Besides Harry got George during the night so it wasn't such a big deal anyway!

But anyway, now the boys sat in front of the fire and both were equally nervous…

"Hello?" said Mrs. Weasley's face when it came up from the fire, "Hi mom!" said George with a nervous smile. "George! How are you dear?" she asked and then saw Harry sat beside him "Oh, and Harry! Is everything alright with you?" she asked with concerned eyes. Harry nodded and gave her a nervous smile too.

She frowned "Okay, what's going on?" she was right to the point then!

George and Harry looked at each other then back to her "Is dad there? The two of you should hear this…" George said and she suddenly got thunder in her eyes "Is it about Ron?! What did he do NOW?!". Harry had to choke the laugh that was coming from him and the boys shook their heads.

"No, mom it's not about Ron" George said and she frowned but nodded and disappeared. The boys sighed and looked at each other, they didn't say anything they didn't have too. Instead George took Harry's hand and gave him Harry's favorite smile. He smiled as well and then the two elder Weasley's faces came up in the fire.

"Oh hello there George and Harry!" said Mr. Weasley and Harry nodded a hello, but then everything became so quick.

"HarryandIaretogether!" said George fast and the two got a frown on their faces, and Harry looked surprised at George. What happened with saying it in a slow way?

"I'm sorry but what did you say, honey?" asked Mrs. Weasley. Mr. Weasley seamed to have heard what George had said because he got a surprised smile on his face.

"Me and Harry are a couple…" Mrs. Weasley's expression didn't change, and Mr. Weasley started to cheer and disappeared from the fire. But they both heard him say "I KNEW IT! I KNEW SOME OF OUR BOYS WAS GOING TO FALL FOR HARRY!" George blushed and Harry choked a laugh again and blushed as well.

However, Mrs. Weasley didn't say anything. "Mom?" asked George with fear in his eyes. She turned to Harry and she started to get tears in her eyes.

"I-I'm so-o h-happy for y-you!" she said and the tears started to fall from her eyes. Harry felt relieved and gave her a smile. Then she turned to George and the sad/happy expression she had for Harry was long gone.

"Now, George! I hope you take care of him during this hard times, and I HOPE that you start to be responsible from now on, young man! I will be damned if I hear that you have hurt Harry in a way or two!" she said with her famous glare and George nodded "Y-yes m'am!"

After Mr. Wealsey calmed down (actually Mrs. Weasley had to hit him with a frying pan so he blacked out) Mrs. Weasley told them that she and Bill was coming to Hogwarts the next day to see the first task. And that she was going to inform Remus, who knew where Sirius was. She said though that they all should have a talk when they all were togheter.

"So how did it go?" asked Fred and plopped down beside Harry. Then Harry couldn't control himself and started to laugh in relief. George started to chuckle as well and Fred looked at them confused.

"I guess it went well?" he said and Harry nodded and put his head against George's shoulder and George pressed a kiss on his head. Fred shook his head and went up to his bed.

The next morning Harry wanted to disappear.

He hadn't learn to do a proper Accio spell yet and he didn't know how he was going to survive this now… He didn't eat his breakfast too George and Hermione's fear and it didn't help when Malfoy and his Slytherin gang shouted and whished him "good luck".

Dumbledore and Moody came up to him tougher with Cedric and they all headed towards the stadium were the first task were going to be held. Cedric nodded to Harry and Harry gave him a weak smile. When they reached the tent were Viktor and Fleur already there together with Karkaroff, Maxime and Mr. Bagman.

"Ah! There's the other two!" said Mr. Bagman with a smile and greeted them "We are going to wait for awhile before you all are going to pick which dragon you are going to meet, so in the meantime you should change your cloths!"

Harry meet Cedric's face and he nodded to Harry, both knew that if Harry hadn't told Cedric about the dragons a few days before, he would be screwed. Harry went in to his changing looker and pulled the curtains so no one could see him. The cloths he got laid on a small chair and Harry thought they look just like his Quiddich outfit.

If the dragon used its fire against him, he would surly be couth on fire by these robs!

The rest of the castle started to come to see the show and the four champions changed their cloths. Then Harry heard a roar. It frighten him and then he knew that this was it. He would go out there and then it would be over.

He felt tears form in his eyes and he thought about George…

He would miss his smile… The pranks… The jokes… His love…

A tear slipped from his eye and he quickly whipped that away.

"Harry?" he heard Dumbledore's voice through the curtain "Yeah?" he answered the headmaster. "There's someone here who wants to see you…" Harry frowned but got out of the curtain. Dumbledore pointed at an opening of the tent and Harry went to it.

"Hello?" asked Harry "Harry?" George's voice came from the other side of the tent. "George!" he whispered back "What are you doing here?" Harry heard George snorted to that question.

"I wanted to know how you are doing… Are you okay?" he asked and Harry felt the tears come to his eyes again. He hadn't told George that he hadn't learned Accio well, he had to be at Snape's detention the whole night and didn't make it to Harry.

"Yeah…" he said trying to sound calm but George saw (heard) right through it.

"Hey, everything will be alright…" George said trying to comfort Harry through the wall of fabric. Harry got a small smile on his face and let out a sigh.

Then George said something that gave Harry the strength he needed for this challenge:

"I love you…"

Harry's face lit up and he opened the opening of the tent and meet George's brown eyes. Harry smiled "I love you too…" he said and kissed George. George took him in his arms and hold him tightly against him.

"Ehem!" said a voice and the two off them broke apart. Fred, Hermione, Neville, Mrs. Weasley and Bill were starring at them. Bill, who Harry hadn't really met before, looked choked at first but then smirked at them. Bill was handsome, if not the most of all the Weasley brothers. That would Harry never tell to George!

"Now, now boys!" said Mrs. Weasley "You said you didn't want the whole school to know, right?" the boys blushed and the others started to laugh.

"Harry?" said Dumbledore and came out to see where he had gone. "Ah, hello there Molly! And Bill! It wasn't yesterday!" he said and the men shook hands. Then Dumbledore turned to Harry who held George's hand.

"It's time Harry" he said with a twinkle in his eyes and returned in to the tent. Harry sighed and faced the others. He gave them a smile and was going to enter the tent but George caught his arm.

He didn't say anything, they just starred into each other eyes and George stroke his hand over Harry's cheek before Harry went in.

"So, you and George hmm?" whispered Dumbledore when they got in, Harry blushed and also a bit shocked to have heard his headmaster say such thing. And it didn't make any better when Dumbledore started to giggle.

"Okay, then!" said Mr. Bagman and Dumbledore stopped to giggle and became serious again. "Champions! If you would like to come and gather around me!" Mr. Bagman said and Harry, Cedric, Viktor and Fleur did as he said.

"WAIT!" said a woman's voice and Harry knew who it was.

Rita Skeeter came in to the tent without her photographer but she had a quill and a notebook in both of her hands. She looked more as a muggle journalist this time, then a magical one thought Harry.

"Bagman! I'm shocked that you didn't inform me about this! I have to write about which dragon will be picked to our lovely champions!" and when she said "lovely" she squeezed Viktor's arm muscles, and it was obvious that he didn't like it one bit!

"It says in our contract Ludo!" she said and Bagman sighed, "I'm sorry, Rita! I 'forgot'!" he said and Rita Skeeter smiled at him as she had won a chess game.

"Anyway, Miss Delacour! Ladies first!" said Bagman and held a leather paunch to her. She had a slightly greenish color on her pretty face, Harry noticed and she put her hand into the paunch and took out what it looked like a little lizard.

It was a miniature of a Welsh Green and it had a number on it that said "Nr 2", she seamed relived to not be facing the dragons first. Then it was Viktor's turn and he didn't change his facial expression when he got "Nr 3" and was going to face a Chinese Fireball. Then it was Cedric's turn and he got a Swedish Short-Snort and was going out as Nr 1.

Then it was Harry's turn, he knew already he was going out last and that he was going to meat the Horntail. And by everyone's gasp when he took out the small dragon, he knew he was right…

When the task finally begun the nerves started to kick in, hard. Harry thought he was going to through up any time and he looked over to Cedric, Fleur and Viktor and it looked like they felt the same, even if Viktor tried to look confident.

When Cedric went out he nodded to Harry and the three of them heard how the stadium erupted by cheerful fans. Harry could only imagined when it was his turn, they probably was going to hex him, especially Malfoy and the Hufflepuffs.

After Cedric was done and his points received, Fleur went out and left Harry alone with Viktor. They didn't spoke to each other and when Fleur was done Viktor went out and left Harry all alone.

After what felt like a lifetime, it was Harry's turn. He stopped at the opening of the tent and took a huge breath and went out.

This was it…