Harry Potter and the Cardcaptors
Chapter 4
The next few days of the holidays past in normal holiday fashion, the boy's played Quidditch and Hermione rested by a tree and watched while reading a book from Harry's library. Harry also spent time on his own or at least everyone else thought he was on his own, he however was listening too Kero as he spoke more about the cards and of Clow Reed himself as well as the Guardian of the moon Yue. Kero also told Harry that if he wanted to become the master of the Clow cards he would have too defeat Yue in battle when he had caught all the cards.
So now here he was on the train back to the first place he had ever called home, he was on his way to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was at the moment just starring out the window into nothingness but in his head his thoughts were going a mile a minute thinking over the last few days from when he first opened the Clow book and setting the cards free and Kero telling him he was too catch them or they would destroy the planet earth as they knew it.
Well so far no cards had sought him out as of yet but Kero said too give them time and they would, it was inevitable. He was thankful for the fact that none of the cards come for him while he was at the burrow or it would have been extremely difficult too catch the cards with the ever watchful Mrs Weasley around, so if any did turn up and attacked them, then she would of been straight to the floo too contact Albus Dumbledore the headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry can guess that his secret would be out and Dumbledore may have asked for the key, book and cards and Mrs Weasley would have insisted that he hand them over. He was doubtful that even Kero could of done anything too talk them out of it, well Dumbledore might of listened but Mrs Weasley would not, as far as she was concerned they're all children and have no business in messing with something that should be handled by adults.
However it will be a hell of a lot easier and harder at school, easier because he can slip away much better than he could at the burrow and harder because there were a lot more people too hide it from. He wondered if Ron would ever find out although Ron wasn't the problem he hardly ever noticed anything, it was Hermione who would be harder to fool as with her it wasn't a matter of if but when she found out.
The only good thing about Hermione was that she would allow him too explain himself then she would make up her own mind, but she will listen to both Harry and Kero. She was good like that always the highly logical one of the golden trio so when she was done listening she would study it to the best of her ability and she would also watch his back when needed, well that was only if she decided to keep the secret.
Later that day Harry and his friends were sitting at their house table of Gryffindor waiting for the rest of the students to arrive and it wasn't long before the school hall was filled and the sorting of new students was complete.
The headmaster stood up at the head table and opened his arms wide in welcome. "Welcome to another year at Hogwarts. Now there is a time for speeches but this is not it so I invite you all to eat and drink your fill so I have two words for just that. Tuck In." As soon as the last two words left his mouth the food appeared on the tables and everyone started to pile the food onto their plates and as normal Ron was the almighty vacuum cleaner any food within his reach went into the black hole he calls a mouth.
When everyone had had their fill the food vanished from the tables and again the headmaster got to his feet in order too give his start of term notices.
"First i would like too say to the new students, Welcome to Hogwarts and to the older students, Welcome back for a new term. Now for the new students the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all students and a few of our older students ought to remember that also. Next the list of band items in school has grown in size and now has a record number of four hundred and thirty seven items on it, anyone wishing to see the list can find it on the door of Mr Flichs office." Said Dumbledore although he gave a little chuckle at the end as if he knew that no one would look at that list. "Finally it is my sad news that I must inform you all that the Quidditch cup will not be held this year. This is because..." However he could not continue as all the students in the great hall had started too shout their protests.
"SCILENCE!" Shouted Dumbledore and he waited until all the noise had died down so he could continue with his speech. "Now the Quidditch cup has been cancelled for this year this is because of an event that will be starting in October and lasting until June there for taking up the teacher's time. There for it gives me great pleasure to announce that Hogwarts for this year will play host to the legendry event known simply as the Tri-Wizard tournament."
"You have got to be joking!" Shouted the Weasley twins Fred and George.
"No Misters Weasley I am not, but now that you mention it I did hear a really good one over the summer holidays about a troll, a goblin and a hag..." Replied Dumbledore however he was cut off by a cough from Professor McGonagall and so got back on track. "Perhaps this is not the time for jokes. Anyway for those that do not know the Tri-Wizard tournament brings together three magical schools and from each school a single student is selected to complete in three magical tasks, three difficult and highly dangerous tasks. Make no mistake this tournament was started some seven hundred years ago as a friendly compaction between the three schools that is until the death toll mounted so high it was discontinued. However the heads of the department magical games and sports and the department of international magical corporation have decided the time is ripe for another attempt. Now I must warn you all, eager as you all are too be made champion the ministry has seen fit too impose some new rules and one is that a contestant must be of age, that is to say seventeen or older and I will be making sure that no one cheats their way in. However more on that later now off to bed pip pip."
When Dumbledore had finished his start of term speech everyone in the great hall got up and made their way to the dormitories chatting away about the tournament. Harry had hardly paid attention as he just wanted too get to bed and go to sleep, he didn't care about the tournament he wasn't going too enter anyway. When he got to the room he shared with four other boys he got ready and got into bed he was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
So the year began and Harry had no idea how hard it would be.