CHAPTER Eleven -

The announcer began as Neville went to the stands "Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the Triwizard Tournament second task. Are the Champions ready?" All four nodded to them.

Harry looked at Professor McGonagall and mouthed "Where are Hermione and Daphne?"

Professor McGonagall frowned and pointed to the lake. Harry turned red and became enraged he took the Gilly weed and then jumped out in the lake as the cannon went off because he flicked his fingers and made it go off. Harry felt gills form and then his fingers and toes elongated and became webbed.

He took off at a fast pace towards the center of the lake. As he passed the edge of an underwater drop off, he dove quickly and could barely hear the Mere people song. He changed his direction slightly and then dove almost straight down. His eyes were a very bright green and they could be seen clearly even at this depth.

Harry found the outskirts of the village and then the song became stronger. He finally saw a town center with mere people around it and four bodies tied loosely to stone pillars. When he got closer he could see a fifth person tied to another. She was awake and struggling to get the rope that kept her down off of her ankle. The mere people were watching and doing nothing to help.

The person kept putting her hand toward her face and the other hostage's face every three or four minutes. When he finally saw the hostage's eyes he became frantic as he saw fear in them. Hermione stopped her struggle as Harry neared.

Hermione pointed at the other hostage and said "Air, Need air."

Harry cast a quick bubble head charm on both and then cast a cutting curse on the binding that held them in place. He looked over at the other hostages and saw Cho Chang and a mini version of Fleur. Hermione had taken off with Daphne to the surface.

Harry went to cast a cutting curse on the other Hostages and the mere people came closer and threatened him with their tridents. Harry without any thought waved his hands in a circle as the Mere people warriors were shoved violently away.

When they started coming back Harry pointed at the nearest building and pointed as it blew up under water. This stopped the Mere people in their tracks. Harry pointed at another before a mere person with a crown and waved the other warriors back.

The Mere King as Harry thought of him motioned for him to take the hostages and go. Harry nodded and then cutting the remaining ropes holding them down. As he was grabbing their collars Victor came up and took his hostage and then nodded to Harry before swimming upwards.

Soon Cedric came and took Cho from him and Harry continued towards Hermione who looked to be struggling to reach the surface. He came by her and grabbed her collar as she held on to Daphne. They reached the surface and then Hermione called out "Help us, Daphne is not breathing!"

Harry looked over and panicked as he grabbed Daphne and floated her to madam Poppy. Hermione was having a difficult time trying to swim. Hermione looked into his eyes "I am sorry Harry I think I have been poisoned." Harry then floated her over to Poppy too.

When he looked at a smaller version of Fleur he saw that her lips were blue and he became worried. He surfaced by McGonagall and motioned for pen and paper. She conjured a pen and paper but it became wet very quickly. He took his wand and spelled 'Poison' in flaming letters. McGonagall turned quickly and yelled at the matron "Poppy they may have been poisoned."

Poppy looked at her and then cast a spell "Holy mother of god." She pulled a potion vial and threw it down Daphne's and then Hermione's throat and they both clearly woke up and then began to vomit into the lake.

Harry scared beyond reason and then realized that Fleur wasn't around. He tugged on the Professor's dress to get her attention. Harry waved his wand and the words "Fleur?" appeared before her. She frowned and then pointed at the lake. Harry's eyes widened and then he dove quickly.

Harry searched for ten minutes and was very worried before he saw a flash of something off to his left. He turned and then found a small depression with twenty or more grindylows around something. He then saw a leg kicking and it was definitely human. When he got closer he saw the wild eyes of Fleur and no bubblehead charm as it had been popped and they were watching her drown.

Harry roared under the water and then started throwing reductor curses at the little things. They began to scurry away to avoid the curses. They started to turn and attack but Harry started throwing small metal spikes and after three were skewered the others decided to flee. Harry found Fleur slowly blinking and her life ebbing away. He placed a bubblehead charm on her and then when she began to come around he helped her to the surface. He came out of the water about ten feet and landed on the platform besides Madam Poppy with Fleur held in his arms.

Harry's gills vanished and his toes and arms returned to normal. He sat Fleur down on a blanket and then pulled another around her. He looked at the matron "Is everyone ok?"

Poppy looked towards the little girl and then shook her head "She is dead I am afraid, she drowned."

Fleur looked over and wailed loudly "Non, NON!"

Harry looked at the little girl and then held her head in one hand. He looked down and felt his magic coil around him and her. He didn't realize that the air had stilled and that both he and the little girl were both in a dome of silence created by the magic within him.

He looked at her and then tears formed in his eyes as he held the frail little girl. He breathed in heavily two times and to everyone's amazement they saw his magic drawn into his body. He then leaned down and blew the magic into the little girl's mouth and everyone watched with amazement as the magic traveled into her chest and then began to spread to the rest of her body.

Harry watched with much hope as the little girl took a breath. Her eyes fluttered open and then she looked up into the prettiest green eyes she had ever seen. She spoke softly "That is strange because your eye's look just like the description my sister gave me for the man that has stolen her heart."

Harry smiled and hugged her closely before he replied "I will have you know that Lord Potter did not steal her heart, she gave it to me." The little girl smiled up at him and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Fleur suddenly sat up and screamed "Gabrielle, your alive."

Gabrielle grinned at her then responded "Would you quit screaming. You are ruining my moment with this handsome guy."

Fleur placed her hands over her mouth "You spoke in English but…you don't know English."

Fleur and then Poppy came over and Harry released her to their care. Harry stood up and saw that Hermione and Daphne's color had come back. Harry kneeled between them and held their hand "Are you doing better?" Both nodded to him causing Harry to sigh in relief "What happened?"

Daphne answered "I awoke in the water and I was drowning. I can't cast silently but my thrashing woke Hermione but there was something wrong with her. She cast a bubblehead charm on her and me.

Hermione finished "I was extremely weak and my magic wasn't working well. The charm was weak and I don't know how I cast it wand less. The first charm was failing just before you came and I couldn't seem to cast another. I was getting more groggy so I knew that I was poisoned."

Daphne looked at Hermione "She saved me Harry."

Hermione smirked "You would have done the same." Daphne smiled "Shh, don't ruin my rep. It has taken me years to build it up." Harry leaned down with a smile and kissed their foreheads.

Harry stood up "You both owe me for scaring the shite out of me but excuse me because I am kicking someone's ass for this."

Hermione squeezed his hand "Harry the last thing I remember is a weird dream about Albus and Ludo Bagman."

Harry's face turned almost purple "I think I have had enough!"

Daphne's face looked surprised "Oh, bloody hell. Somebody won't be happy in a few moments."

Harry stopped at Madam Poppy and had a quick word before stepping away towards where the judges stood with the Heads of the other schools. Harry burst into the little group. "Excuse me but whose bright Idea was it to involve student's and loved one's in this task?"

Albus turned to him "Harry, the Triwizard committee agreed to this."

Harry snorted "Who is on this committee?"

Albus turned to more directly face him "Well myself and Ludo Bagman."

Harry reached up and slapped him across the face "Are you stupid? Hermione just came back from being controlled for almost three months and you put her back into danger."

Albus looked up "She is what you hold most dear and we needed her for the tournament."

Harry's eyes suddenly flashed and with a bang Albus was thrown out into the lake. Harry then turned his anger towards Ludo Bagman. "If I were you I wouldn't want to piss me off anymore this morning. So just answer the questions I ask."

Ludo looked very worried but nodded slowly. Harry asked very quickly "Who was involved with grabbing the hostages and who cast the stasis charm on them?"

Ludo looked very unsure and didn't want to answer. Harry raised his hands and Ludo bagman rose into the air until he was over the water and then Harry brought his hand down submerging him completely in the water. Harry held him down as he struggled.

Harry looked at Madam Maxine and Headmaster Karkarov "Did you know this was going to happen to the hostages?" They both shook their heads vigorously no. Harry then asked "So just these two morons were in on this?" They both responded with nods indicating yes.

Harry raised Ludo up from the water sputtering "Care to explain why my betrothed and my two concubines were involved with this and then why somebody attempted to kill them." Bagman suddenly looked very frightened.

Harry didn't get a response quickly enough so dunked him again. Minerva came up to him "Mr. Potter if you kill him there will be problems."

Harry turned to her "Fleur was being drowned by Grindylows when I found her, her sister was drowned on purpose. Hermione and Daphne were tied together and if Hermione would not have been able to cast wordlessly and wandlessly, they would have drowned and they were both poisoned. Someone was trying to kill everybody I care about to hurt me."

Minerva seemed in turmoil "Drowning him won't help."

Harry smirked "I am not trying to drown him just get information." Harry then raised the very frantic Ludo from the water "Last chance to live."

Bagman frantically cried "OK, I will talk."

Harry responded "Talk, then."

Bagman sagged "It was me, Albus, and Professor Moody."

Harry thought quickly "Who prepped the Hostages for the lake?"

Ludo sighed "Professor Moody."

Harry's voice turned ice cold "If you involve anybody else in this tournament that is not a contestant, you will wish you had drowned today." Harry dropped him back into the water.

"Potter watch as I kill this Blood traitor bitch. The first of many that will be killed that associate with you." Professor Moody said from behind Daphne holding her by her hair and with a wand.

Harry turned and walked closer "So it was you then. You entered my name into this tournament?"

Moody laughed "Aye, it was me because you are nothing but a minor roadblock to the Dark Lord but don't worry Potter you will be seeing him very soon."

Moody looked around him "Clear a path for me and the bitch." Moody tried to move but found his legs embedded into the dock. "Release me Potter!" and he turned and looked at Harry. "Release me or the bitch gets it right now."

Harry smirked "You just said you were taking her with you to kill her but here is the deal Wanker because if you kill her you don't have another hostage and then I will kill you and I don't think you want to die. You want to see your boyfriend Lord Moldy shorts. You can't serve him if you are dead."

Moody looked around and thought for many seconds before he realized what Potter said was true. He looked lost before he pointed his wand at Harry. "Fine I will kill you then."

Harry smiled as Daphne had reached her Dagger and stabbed Moody's leg. She then grabbed his wand arm and pulled down very hard causing Moody to scream in pain as his arm snapped. He released her hold on her hair and she twirled away from him. He fell to his knees as he tried to transfer his wand to his other hand. Harry reached down and kicked it out of his hand and into the water.

Moody looked up at him and smiled "Don't worry Potter I will live to fight another day."

Daphne began to chuckle "I don't think so because that dagger had a very obscure poison on it and you have about four minutes left to get the antidote."

Moody looked at her "Don't supposed you would be inclined to give it to me?"

Daphne smiled evilly at him before crossing her arms "What the Blood traitor bitch who you just tried to kill twice today." Moody winced as the poison began to make him gasp in pain. Daphne stated "oops, did I forget to tell you that the poison causes severe pain for a few minutes before you can die? My bad."

Daphne then kicked him in the stones "I will be glad to be shot of you and I love the fact that you will be in extreme pain before you die."

Moody looked up as he morphed back into Bartemus Crouch Jr., Karkarov yelled "That is Bartemus Crouch Jr, he was reported dead eight years ago."

Barty looked at him "Still have that traitorous tongue don't you Ivan? You will be one of the first he gets revenge over…. Barty scrunched his face and then yelled in pain. He looked at Daphne and stated "I will see you in hell bitch and then we will have our dance." Barty wailed in pain for a few more minutes before gasping his last breath.