CHAPTER FIFTHEEN: THE THIRD TASK

Going through the maze was put on hold for five minuites until Harry and Victor were quickly caught up with Fleur and Cedric after a shrill whistle echoed above the Maze. The four champions routinely and methodically chose each option and fought each obscure obstacle together. When they came across one of Hagrids' Blast-ended Skewts Victor managed to flip the Skewt on its back with a well aimed Flippindo. When the group went through a strange gold mist and ended up upside down Fleur sussed it out efficiently and Cedric sent the boggart down with a Riddikulus and a good laugh. The group hit many dead ends and liberal use the point-me spell until they were sure they were close to the centre of the Maze.

"We're not meeting many obstacles are we" Fleur remarked just as they turned around a corner and noticed a Sphinx

"You have to pass me to reach the cup" the sphinx announced somewhat jovially as the champions approached her.

"May we pass then?" Harry asked feeling cheeky

"No to pass me you have to awncer a riddle" The Sphinx awncered shifting herself to sit more comfortably.

"Do we have to awncer one each or do we awncer one all together?"Victor asked frowning slightly

"You can awncer one together" The Sphinx awncered with a thoughtful grin "Saves me and you time I suppose"

"Well go ahead Miss Sphinx" Cedric said after a shared look with the group

*Taken from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Chapter 31, The Third Task.*

"Think first of the person who lives in disguise,

Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.

Next, tell me what's the last thing to mend,

The middle of middle and end of the end?

And finally give me the sound often heard

During the search for a hard to reach word

Now string them together, and awncer me this

Which creature will you be unwilling to kiss?"

*Taken from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Chapter 31, The Third task.*

The group mulled it over before they politely asked the Sphinx repeat the riddle twice to fully understand the riddle.

"Spy er Spy er" Fleur began frowning and thinking intensely as Victor and Cedric scratched their heads and looked highly puzzled.

"A spider" Harry announced thoughtfully with a tilt of his head to the Sphinx herself.

"You are correct the four of you may pass" she announced and moved aside with a surprising grace.

"Thank you" Harry and Cedric said grinning as they passed quickly

"Merci" Fleur said following behind them with a slight flounce to her walk and a pretty smile

Victor thanked her in Bulgarian and followed the group down the passage. Another five minuites of walking and two Point-me spells and three dead ends later they had reached the centre of the maze sitting before them on a Romanesque pillar was the Triwizard Cup.

"What do we do now?" Cedric asked as they surrounded the cup taking wary looks around them down the other paths before looking over the cup itself.

"Who takes it?" Fleur continued as unsure as Cedric as they looked around the small group

"We all take it" Victor awncered sharing an understanding look with Harry.

"We all worked hard together why not" Harry continued with a grin "On three" they all raised a hand and hovered over the cup "One Two THREE"

Harry felt the familiar pull of a portkey and the group was pulled away.

The four of them landed in a graveyard of all places far away from the grounds of Hogwarts the four of them sat up looking around warily and trying to shake off the pain of landing awkwardly

"Where are we?"Cedric asked frowning slightly getting to his feet and giving Fleur a hand "Did they add a fourth task?"

"We're in a mundane Graveyard" Harry awncered shaking off the dirt and looking around as Victor got to his feet beside Harry "And I highly doubt they would add something to the third task"

"Are you sure?" Fleur asked sounding unsure herself

"I'm pretty sure Fleur that If they did they would have told us at the meeting on March 31st" Victor huffed in his usual gruffness

The group walked around for a few minuites to regain normal feeling in their legs before Harry felt the strange feeling of being watched in the back of his mind and froze as he saw a small black figure approaching them

"You three take the cup and leave now go get Amelia now and bring her back" Harry ordered icily stepping forwards to protect them

"We're not leaving" Victor replied frowning angrily as Cedric saw what harry saw

"DO IT NOW" Harry ordered as Cedric grabbed hold of Fleur and Victor

"Kill the spares" Came a shrill voice as Harry brought up a shield spell

The three other champions scrambled towards the Cup and grabbed it. Harrys shield fell as a spell was fired towards him and knocked him unconscious. As he blacked out he heard his fellow champions cry out as they were pulled away from harm.

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Whilst the champions forth their way through the maze Luna produced all the evidence against Moody she had and gave it to Amelia who promptly read through it as well as reports from several other students including Daphne and a report on Polyjuice ingredients being stolen from Snape before Christmas and Professor Hardbroom after Christmas as well as reports from Elphaba and Susan herself.

Elphaba suddenly thought back to the final nail in the coffin about Moody.

FLASHBACK

Harry and Cedric headed towards the Quiddich pitch with Daphne, Elphaba and Padma talking jovially and laughing about nothing in particular. Elphaba snapped her head towards the forbidden forest positive something was there just beyond the tree line.

"Are you alright there Elphie?" Daphne and Padma asked at the same time.

"Yeah" Elphaba replied distractedly "Just thought I saw something"

The details for the final task passed quickly and soon Fleur was pulled away from the group by her headmistress Victor outright refused to walk back to the ship with Karkeroff but promised he wouldn't be long. What followed would haunt Elphaba's dreams for a good month. Crouch Senior appeared from the trees stumbling haggard and clearly had been on the run since Christmas.

"Get Dumbledore" He wheezed repeatedly not even hearing the groups reply that Dumbledore was gone from the castle for good. Harry, Daphne and Padma ran for the castle to find Minerva and other teachers.

When they disappeared out of sight Elphaba went extremely dizzy before her vision went dark and she passed out.

FLASHBACK END

Elphaba brought herself back to the present as a strange feeling of dead and fear echoed over her link with Harry.

"Are you absolutely positive about this?" Amelia asked shocked looking up from the evidence to the young woman before her fellow Aurors and the other Cabal members.

"Positive" Luna replied honestly with Daphne, Susan and Elphaba sitting right beside her. Amelia shared a psychic link with Amelia sharing everything she had mentally collected on Moody herself

"Shacklebolt, Tonks and Kendal" Amelia called out "Go after Professor Moody and bring him in"

The three aurors nodded and went after the hobbling professor passing below them. As Fleur, Cedric and Victor appeared before them on the grass before the maze to cheers from all three schools. All three looked fearful or terrified; it took Cedric a moment to recognize Amelia and the cabal in the crowd before he threw himself up the stairs towards them with Fleur and Victor close on his heels.

"Madam Bones" Cedric wheezed breathlessly catching up to Amelia and his friends "Harry is in trouble, he needs your help"

Elphaba, Daphne and Amelia shared a looked before Amelia started firing orders at the remaining aurors around them.

"What's wrong Amelia?"Minerva asked in surprise Cedric launched into an explaination about landing in the cemetery as a tied up moody floated into view with aurors Shacklebolt, Tonks and Randal appeared behind him looking tired and shocked.

"We'll send some teachers back with the Aurors just to be sure Mr. Diggory" Minerva announced in sympathy "We need Mr. Potter back, now why is Professor Moody tied up?"

"I'll tell Headmistress McGonagoll everything now GO" Elphaba semi-ordered in an angry tone no-one ever heard her speak in before.

Elphaba began explaining to the Head-teachers exactly what they had found out about Alestor Moody at lightning speed and what she could see happening through her link with Harry as Amelia shot a copying Port-key spell at the cup and tied it to a secondary item. Amelia, Shacklebolt and the three other Aurors joined the champions, the cabal minus Elphaba and five teachers as they scurried towards the ward line. Tonks and Randal took the floating Moody towards the ward line behind them and apparated him to the Ministry the moment they crossed it to see who exactly he was and get all the gory details. The large group separated themselves into two and held part of the port-key they could reach.

"Portus" Amelia announced clearly and the Port-keys pulled the rescue group away.

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