Chapter nine! Sorry for the long wait(again) but I've been extremely busy! Sorry! Anyway, Please review! Also, let me know if you think its boring or needs more romance or adventure or something. Thanks!
The correct answer to the trivia question was: Fred and George bet 37 galleons, 15 sickles, 3 knuts and a fake wand that Ireland would win, but Krum would catch the snitch. As promised, this chapter is dedicated to the reviewer that answered the trivia question correctly: HarryPotterRoxMySoxForever! Nice Job! cammiestar58 was also close, but you just forgot one thing!
This chapters Trivia Question is: What types of wands did Fleur, Cedric and Krum have? Ex. Harry's wand is Holly and Pheonix feather. The reviewer that answers it correctly will get the next chapter dedicated to them!

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Hermione's POV

Nina and Fabian looked terrified.

"Who's Rufus Zeno?" Ron asked.

"A very, very, very bad guy." Fabian said, not taking his eyes off of Dumbledore and Rufus.

"He kidnapped Patricia!" said Nina in a frightened voice. She ran over to where Patricia was standing with Alfie and Jerome and dragged her over.

"Patricia, Rufus is over there! Look! Talking to Dumbledore!" Nina said.

"What? Thats not possible!" Patricia exclaimed.

"Yeah, well tell that to him!" Fabian said.

"Oh no...we've gotta get out of here..." Nina muttered under her breath, looking horrified. "Sibuna meeting?"

"Obviously." said Patricia. "I'll get Amber."

"Wait! Whats Sibuna?" I asked. Nina, Fabian and Patricia looked at each other.

"Uh...never mind, we've gotta go." Fabian said, and he, Nina and Patricia walked quickly away.

I looked at Ron. "Do you know what they were talking about?"

He shook his head. "Maybe Harry will. "

I called Harry's name, but he was too busy flirting with Mara to hear. I walked over and poked him hard in the back.

"Ow! Blimey Hermione, all you had to do was say my name." Harry said, turning to face me. "What's up?"

"Fabian, Nina and Patricia all freaked out when they saw the headmaster of Durmstrang. They said he kidnapped Patricia and one point and said he was dangerous. And then they said they were going to have a Sibuna meeting. Do you know what that means?"

He shook his head. "I don't know about the headmaster but...the other day, I was walking down the corridor and I heard them talking about finding out more information. And then they did this weird hand thing and said 'Sibuna!' I don't know what it means but...do you think they could be spies?" he asked tenatively.

"I don't know...but they seemed so scared of the headmaster...Rufus Zeno I think they called him." I replied thoughtfully.

"We should confront them about it. Ask what's going on." Ron said.

I nodded. "Yeah, thats a good idea. And I'll look it up in the library."

"I'll ask Mara if she knows anything about someone named Rufus Zeno." Harry offered.

"Sounds like a plan. Now lets get some dinner, I'm starving!" Ron said, massaging his stomach.

Fabian's POV

"What are we gonna do?" Nina moaned, pacing around the classroom where we were holding our Sibuna meeting. "He's a phsycopath!"

"No kidding. I'M the one he kidnapped." said Patricia.

I frowned. "Guys. Maybe it's not Rufus. Maybe it's..."

"His evil twin?" Patricia suggested sarcastically. "Come on Fabian,, who else could it be?"

"Ugh, Rufus has an evil twin? I didn't think Rufus could get any more evil! Or maybe Rufus IS the evil twin...and that one's the good one..." Amber said thoughtfully.

"Come on Amber. I was being sarcastic! Get with it!"

"I say we just go down to dinner and see what happens." I said.

"No way! Not with that maniac down there!" Patricia said.

"What do you think Nina?" She had been unusually quiet. I turned around and saw her looking pale as a ghost and leaning on one of the desks for support.

"Nina?" I ran over to her and grabbed her shoulders, steadying her. "What's the matter?"

"I..I...I.."

"She's having a panic attack! Sit her down, now!" Patricia ordered. Amber pulled out a chair and I helped her sit down.

"Nina! Nina! It's okay! Everything's gonna be ok!" I said, rubbing her arm. I turned to Patricia. "Get her some water."

"Okay..." She looked around the room and picked up a goblet. "Aguamenti!" She shouted and the goblet filled with water. I gave it to Nina and helped her take a sip.

She took a few shaking breaths, and after a few seconds, her eyes went back into focus.

"Fabian...? What happened?" She asked.

"You got worked up over Rufus and you had a panic attack." Patricia said.

"Nina! Don't you ever do that again! You made me worry, and worrying causes wrinkles!" Amber told her.

She smiled faintly and said "Sorry Ambs."

I breathed a sigh of relief and hugged her tightly, letting go only because Amber started giggling.

"So, what did I miss?" Nina said a few minutes later after she was back to normal.

"Nothing, we were just debating over Rufus." I said. "Are you sure you're alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just got really scared about Rufus and...stuff." She replied. "So, anyone want to go to dinner? Having a panic attack really makes you work up an appetite."

I smiled. "Sure, let's go."

"Wait! What about Rufus?" Patricia demanded.

"Well, we have to eat, don't we?" I said.

"Fine." She grumbled, and we headed down to dinner.

We walked into the Great Hall with our heads down, avoiding Rufus's gaze and sat with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Mara and the others.

"So, you guys missed Dumbledore's explanation of how the champions are going to be chosen." Harry said.

"Really? How are they going to be chosen?" I asked.

"They put their names in the Goblet of Fire, and Dumbledore will pick them tomorrow night at the Halloween feast." Hermione explained. "But, Dumbledore drew an age line around the Goblet so that no one under 17 can get through."

"Which I was very dissapointed about." muttered Jerome.

"Oh! I just realized that I forgot to ask you guys to join S.P.E.W.!" Hermione exclaimed.

Harry and Ron both groaned.

"To join what?" Mara asked.

"Society for the Protection of Elvish Welfare! House elves are the ones that provide us with food, water, and clean common rooms here at Hogwarts, yet they've never been paid a single cent! All over the wizarding world, elves are mistreated and nobody has ever done anything about it! They work and work and work and work and never get a break-"

"Hermione. I'm pretty sure they don't care about house elves and certainly don't want to join 'spew'. Plus, house elves like working." Ron interrupted Hermione's lecture.

"S.P.E.W.! And that's because they're brainwashed and don't know how to think! If they were all like Dobby-"

"Who's Dobby? And what's a house elf?" I asked.

Hermione sighed. "I'll take you down to the kitchens. Then you can see their horrible working conditions and agree to join S.P.E.W.!"

She got up and bekoned for me to follow and I got up and went with her down to the kitchens.

Harry's POV

Later that night in the common room, Ron and I were teaching Fabian and Nina how to do well on Divination homework. They had returned from the kitchens a little while ago and agreed with Ron and I that the house elves enjoyed their work, but bought a badge just to be nice.

"See, you don't even need any of these planet charts." Ron was saying. "You just have to make up a bunch of bad stuff to happen to you and she'll lap it up."

"So...On Monday, I could be in danger of...burns?" Nina said.

"You will be, we're seeing the skrewts in Care of Magical Creatures again." I muttered darkly. "But yeah, you get the idea."

"Ok so, on Monday, I'll ...break my wand arm." Fabian said, scribbling it down on his chart.

"Perfect." We continued this for the next hour, until Mara returned.

"Not going to have a good month are you?" She said, looking over our charts. "I'm glad I'm not taking Divination, Hermione convinced me it was rubbish and to drop out like she did."

"Oh, yeah she certainly 'dropped out'." Ron snickered.

"What do you mean?"

"She stormed out last year, calling Professor Trelawney an old fraud. The look on Professor Trelawney's face was probably the highlight of that class last year." I said.

"Wow. I never would've thought she had that in her." said Nina.

"Yeah, neither did we." I said. "So, where's Mick anyway? Didn't you go to the library with him?" I asked Mara.

She looked uncomfortable. "Well we sort of...had a row. So I left."

"Oh." I looked down and pretended to be adding something to my homework, so she couldn't see my expression.

Did a row mean they broke up? Or was it just a small fight? Would I finally get my chance with Mara? She and Mick were obviously not right for each other, she's probably only dating him because she thinks he's good looking and good at sports. But now that there were no sports here, was she finally seeing through all that?

Mara's POV

The next morning I woke up early and decided to read for a little while. I opened up my Standard Book of Spells Grade 4 and started learning the summoning charm. It was not easy. After a half an hour of trying, all I could get to even twitch a little was a piece of parchment laying on the table in front of me. I sat back, defeated.

"Hey." I heard a voice in my ear. I jumped and turned around.

"Harry! You scared me!" I said, lightly punching him in the arm.

He grinned. "Sorry. Want to come down for breakfast?"

I stood up and followed him to the portrait hole. When I pushed it open, I found myself face-to-face with Mick.

"Hey, Mara. Listen." He said. "I'm really sorry about last night I just-"

"Save it Mick." I said, angrily pushing him out of the way so Harry and I could climb out of the portrait hole.

"But Mara-" He started.

"No. I'm done with you." I turned on my heel and headed towards the Great Hall, with Harry behind me.

"So...what did you guys row about?" Harry asked tenatively after a few minutes.

I shook my head. "Oh, nothing imporant. Just him being an idiot, like usual."

He nodded. Was that a smile I saw on his face? Nah, it couldn't have been.

As we walked into the entrance hall where the Goblet was sitting with people milling around it, we saw Alfie and Jerome and Fred and George Weasley run up to it, all looking extremely triumphant.

"We've done it!" George yelled and everyone standing around the Goblet cheered. Harry and I groaned. Alfie and Jerome had begun to look up to Fred and George as their mentors.

"Yeah, thats right! We've taken the aging potion!" Jerome said, to more applause.

"Ready guys?" Fred said. "One...two...three!" They all dove into the circle.

For a second, it looked like it had worked and everyone cheered. Then, they were all thrown backwards out of the circle, each with a white beard growing steadily on their faces. The crowd roared with laughter, Harry and I included.

The day passed slowly and uneventfully, and we spent much of it speculating who would be chosen as a champion.

None of us had suspected who actually was chosen.

After the feast, Dumbledore stood up and walked over to the Goblet. The flames turned blue and a piece of parchment flew out.

"The Durmstrang champion," he said, "is Viktor Krum!"

I could hear Amber and many other girls squealing with delight. The flames turned blue again, and another piece of parchment flew out. "The Beaxbaons champion...is Fleur Delacour!" Dumbledore read. The rest of the Beaxbatons champions did not cheer for Fleur, instead they looked miserable. One girl even burst into tears.

"The Hogwarts champion," said Dumbledore, as the last piece of paper flew out, "is Cedric Diggory!"

It sounded like a bomb went off at the Hufflepuff table. The cheering and stomping was deafening.

All of a sudden, the flames turned blue again and another piece of parchment came flying out. Dumbledore cautiosly reached out for the paper.

"Harry Potter." he read.

I gasped and turned to look at Harry. He looked just as shocked as I did. Dumbledore called his name again and he hurried up to where Dumbledore was standing.

I was dumbstruck. This was not possible. I had spent the whole day with Harry, and we weren't anywhere near the cup! He, Ron, Hermione, Nina, Fabian and I had gone down to visit Hagrid for most of the afternoon so he wouldn't have had a chance to put his name in!

I had a feeling there was more going on in this tournament than meets the eye.

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