It's time for the first task! Dunn Dunn Dunnn! Unfortunately, no one got the trivia question correct :( Fortunately, I get to dedicate this to whomever I want! So this chapter goes to: My best friends Caroline & Lisha! I know you guys probably aren't reading this, but you're amazing! xxx

The correct answer for the last trivia question was: 2 sickles!

This chapter's trivia question is: How old is Rita Skeeter? (Hint because it's hard: it's mentioned very breifly in the chapter called The Weighing of the Wands {in the US version anyway})

Enjoy & REVIEW! Please, please, please, I beg of you! {hehe, that rhymes :D }

Fabian's POV

"What do you mean Ms. Martin?" Dumbledore asked politely.

"I mean, whats going on here and what do Victor and Rufus-or Professor Zeno- have to do with it? And don't give me any of that, 'Oh, you'll understand soon enough, you're too young and naive to understand it now.'" Nina was...crazy. I had never seen her like this. She seemed part excited and part angry. The effect was quite scary.

"There is nothing going on. And what does Professor Zeno have to do with anything?" said Dumbledore.

"What-what does-he-Rufus has to everything to do with it!" Nina spluttered.

"Everything to do with what?" Dumbledore asked.

Nina looked ready to explode, so I stepped in. "Professor, we were just wondering..." I paused. Something had just occured to me. "Do you know who Rufus Zeno is?"

"Of course I do, he is the headmaster of Durmstrang." Dumbledore replied.

"Yeah, but do you know him as anything else?" I asked. Dumbledore looked at me curiously and shook his head. "Okay, I need to speak with Nina for a moment." I grabbed Nina and pulled her over to a corner of Dumbledore's office.

"What are you doing?" She hissed. "We need to interrogate him, find out what he knows!"

"Okay, first of all, chill." I said, looking her in the eye, and putting my hands on her shoulders. She took a few deep breaths.

"I'm sorry. I'm just angry at Dumbledore for hiding all this stuff from us." She said.

"Understandable. But, we need to be at least slightly sane if we're getting any answers." I said. "Now, Dumbledore doesn't know what Rufus has done. Should we tell him?"

She nodded. "Yeah. We should. And about how he stopped me in the hallway yesterday. But we should ask him about Victor too. And why Harry and I are so powerful that we needed to be separated for the first fourteen years of our lives."

"Yeah," I said, looking over at Dumbledore. He was watching us curiously. "Okay, lets go."

We walked back over to Dumbledore's desk. "Sorry about that Professor." Nina said, smiling sweetly. "I just got a little worked up over...some things. Anyway, we just wanted to tell you and ask you some stuff."

Dumbledore nodded. "Tell and ask away."

Nina and I looked at each other for a moment. "Well, we, er, know Professor Zeno." I began.

"How?"

" Well, Patricia was freaking out that Joy disappeared. He stalked Patricia for a while, then approached her and told her he was a private investigator working on finding Joy. She believed him, and then it all got very weird. We had a school play, and he showed up and Patricia got a message from Joy telling Patricia to meet her somewhere. Rufus went with her to meet Joy, who never showed, and ended up kidnapping Patricia. We got her back, obviously, and we hadn't heard from him again...until now."

"But, I ran into Rufus in the hallway yesterday." Nina said. "He asked why I wasn't at Anubis house, and then he mumbled something like 'Oh, this is very bad.' Do you know what this means?"

Dumbledore looked at us thoughtfully for a while. "No, I do not know what this means. Thank you for telling me this."

"You don't believe us." I said.

"Oh no, I believe you. But I assure you, you are quite safe."

"But Rufus-"

"You don't need to worry about him. I will take care of it. Now, what questions did you have to ask me?" Dumbledore asked.

"You know what? Never mind." Nina said angrily. "You won't give us a straight answer anyway. It's always vague, and then when we ask for more its always 'Oh, your just children, you won't understand.' Well I'm sick of it!" she turned on her heel and stormed out of the office. I stared after her in disbelief. I had never seen Nina lose control like that.

"Erm...well...thank you for your time, professor." I said before hurrying out after Nina.

I stepped out of Dumbledore's office and into the corridor just in time to see Nina rounding the corner at the end of the corridor.

"Nina!" I called out running after her. She stopped and waited for me, but as soon as I caught up, she started walking at top speed again.

"Where are we going now?" I asked, but she only shook her head. We continued walking, stopping only to let the staircases move. We walked out the front door and on to the grounds. She stopped when we arrived at the edge of the lake, and burst into tears.

"Fabian, I'm so sorry!" She said, sinking to her knees. "I was so angry at him, and I didn't know what to do! I'm just so tired and stressed and-" She gulped and continued sobbing.

"Shhh, it's okay." I said, kneeling down next to her and awkwardly rubbing her back. I hated seeing her like this. I wish we could just get straight answers from somebody! But nooo, these are our lives we're talking about, that would be way to easy, right?

After a few minutes, Nina stopped crying. "I'm sorry." She said again, mopping her eyes on her sleeve.

"It's fine." I said, putting my arm around her.

We sat there like that for a few more minutes. "Listen, I've been thinking," I said finally. "that maybe we should just...forget about all this for a while. You know, take a break. Get on with our lives, and not worry about all this."

She turned and looked at me. "Yeah, I agree. I could definetly use a break. And I mean its not like they're attacking us or anyting...maybe we could just wait and see what happens."

I nodded. "Sounds like a plan."

Mara's POV

"So, what gave Hagrid the idea that we WANTED to take the skrewts for a walk?" I asked Harry as we were trying to get the leash on our skrewt without being burnt or stung.

"No idea," he replied, shaking his head. "Hagrid's great and everying, but sometimes I question his sanity."

"Hey, Harry!" Hagrid called. "Come help me with this big one!"

Harry gave me an apologetic look and hurried over to help Hagrid.

I finally got the leash on the skrewt and it took off, dragging me along with it. I mananged to hold on to it, but after a few minutes it slipped out of my grip and headed straight for Malfoy.

As soon as Malfoy saw it coming at him, he screamed at the top of his lungs and started to run away, but the skrewt followed.

"Get it away from me!" he shrieked as he ran towards the forest.

The Gryffindors roared with laughter. I was torn between being horrified and being amused. Pansy Parkinson was screaming, and all the other Slytherins looked concerned.

Hagrid finally managed to grab the skrewts leash and put it back in its crate.

Malfoy walked over to me, looking extremely angry. His robes were disheveled and covered with dirt.

"You'll pay for that, Jaffray!" he said, taking out his wand.

"Leave her alone, Malfoy!" Harry shouted, pulling out his wand.

"What's going on over there?" Hagrid called over.

The bell rang, and Malfoy gave me one more venomous look before heading up to the castle.

"That was brilliant!" Ron told me, grinning as we headed back up to the castle.

"Seriously, that was probably the best Care of Magical Creatures class we've ever had!" Jerome chortled.

I sighed. "Maybe so, but now all the Slytherins hate me!"

"Cheer up, they already did." Harry said, grinning. "They hate all Gryffindors.

The first task was in four days, and I'm pretty sure Harry was going to have a nervous breakdown. Everyone was being so mean to him! And it was hard because I couldn't defend Harry without being mean back, and I hate being mean!

Sunday morning, Harry came down to the common room looking like he hadn't slept in a week.

"Whats wrong? You look horrible!" I said.

"Thanks." He said dryly. "I need to talk to you."

"What about?" I asked.

"The first task." He said grimly. "It's dragons."

I gaped at him. "You're not serious? How do you know?"

"Hagrid showed me last night." he replied, sitting down on the couch next to me. "So, I'm pretty much dead."

"Harry, don't talk like that! You'll do great!" I said encouragingly.

"Tell that to the dragon." he muttered.

"No, seriously. I can help you. We'll find a way!" I said, getting up. "Are you coming?"

"To where?"

"Breakfast! And then the library to find out ways to get past a dragon!"

"It's no use. I'm done for."

I sighed, and grabbed his arm and stood him up. "Harry." I said, looking him in the eye. "I will help you get past that dragon if its the last thing I do! Now come on!"

I woke up the morning of the first task feeling anxious and exhausted. But that was surely nothing compared to what Harry was feeling.

He, Hermione and I had spent almost all night teaching Harry how to do a summoning spell so he could get his broomstick during the task to beat the dragon(thanks to a little tip from Professor Moody). He eventually got pretty good at it, but I was still nervous that something would go wrong.

I followed Harry into the champions tent when it was time. Fleur, Krum and Cedric were already there.

"Be careful." I told him. "And don't forget it's accio-"

"Okay, mom." he said, smiling slightly.

I sighed. "I'm sorry. It's just I couldn't bear it if something were to happen to you..."

"I'll be fine." he said, though he didn't sound convinced. I threw my arms around his neck, and he wrapped his around my waist. "I'll be fine." he repeated in a whisper.

Suddenly there was a flash of light, and Harry and I jumped away from each other. We turned and saw Rita Skeeter and her photographer standing in the entryway of the tent.

"Charming!" She said, smiling at us. "That'll be one for the front page."

Harry and I both turned red. "I guess I better...go..." I muttered. "Good luck! You can do it!"

Rita stopped me as I was hurrying out of the tent. "Sorry honey, I didn't catch your name?"

"Er...no comment." I said and left the tent at top speed. I didn't need the whole wizarding world to know me when I had only been a part of it for a few months! Although with that picture they probably will.

I walked into the stands and sat next to Hermione. "Where were you?" she asked.

"Er...just wishing Harry luck." I said, blushing. I didn't mention what had happened with Rita Skeeter for fear of Amber overhearing, who was sitting close by. If she found out, I'd never hear the end of what a cute couple Harry and I would make. Not that I'd have an objection to Harry and I making a cute couple, just that...Oh, never mind!

Cedric, Fleur and Krum all made it past their dragons without getting too badly injured, and I hoped the same would be for Harry. As soon as the announcer(Bagman) called Harry out of the tent, I started gripping the back of Amber shoulders in fear. What if it didn't work? Surely if he was failing horribly the professionals would restrain the dragon?

Harry walked out on to the field. He stood there for a moment, then pointed his wand and shouted something inaudible that I couldn't hear over the crowd that I hoped was "Accio Firebolt!"

Sure enough, seconds later, his broomstick came flying over the stands towards him and he lept on it. I was screaming a cheering at the top of my lungs. He was doing brilliantly!

After about ten minutes, he finally got the egg with only a minor scratch. When he came out of the medical tent, they showed his scores and we headed back to Gryffindor common room for a celebration.

The common room was in total chaos. People were running around, screaming, throwing things all over the place. Someone had even set off fireworks.

"Have you seen Harry?" Fred Weasley ased me.

I shook my head. "Nope. He's probably still getting his arm patched up. Ron and Hermione are with him."

I sat down on a couch near the portrait hole with Nina, Fabian and Amber.

"Ohhmigosh!" Amber squealed. "Viktor Krum was sooooo hot when he was battling the dragon, right Neens?

Nina laughed a little and gave Fabian a sideways glance, who was rolling his eyes.

"Mara, you agree with me, right?" Amber asked.

"Uh...sure."

"See Nina, Mara has a real taste in guys. " said Amber. "I mean seriously, how can you not think Viktor is at least slightly good looking? He is totally-"

But at that moment, Harry, Ron and Hermione stepped into the common room and there was a deafening roar of cheers. I stood up, ran over to Harry and threw my arms around his neck. He hugged me back so tightly that he lifted me off my feet.

"You were brilliant!" I said when he put me down, my arms still around his neck and his still around my waist. He smiled, looked into my eyes for a few seconds and then leaned in a kissed me.

It took me completely by surprise, but it was wonderful. When we finally broke apart after who knows how long, the common room had erupted into cheers again. Nina, Amber, Hermione and almost everyone else were smiling, Mick was staring angrily at Harry as if he wanted to punch him, and Jerome and Alfie just looked repulsed.

Harry and I were both grinning from ear to ear. He took my hand and we walked through the portrait hole together.

Well, there ya go. I know I totally stole the scene in the champions tent with Mara and Harry from the movie, but it sorta fit so I couldn't resist. So, remember: if you answer the trivia question, the next chapter will be dedicated to you! And PLEASE review!