Chaptre 6

As he packed his trunk , preparing for the summer holiday, Harry recalled what happened this last school year. He had with, his sister help, succed in building a strong friendship with Neville and Luna, and the four of them had trained togheter and they had made excellent progress, of course for the other students they were just doing homework, but in truth they were doing much more.

They had worked with Neville to improve his self estime and confidence, and they used his fear of Snape to began training him in meditation, and when he was profiscient they began training him in occulomancy. They also inclueded him and Luna in their physical training, and after few weeks they began to hold their own.

They had also made good progress in their school work, and they made excellent use of Ron tantrum, as his jalousy droove him from their group, they didn't have to made excuses anymore to do their work or their research, wich had given them a month free of the red head, and after his return they didn't change their shedules to give in his demands,in fact Harry and Hermione had made it clear that they enjoyed their work and that Neville was now a permanent part of their friends. They had been amused at his reactions to that, he didn't know what to do with his friends anymore, and though he had tried to keep up with them, he was very lazy and soon began to leave them to their training and hang out more with Seamus and Dean.

Most of their teachers had seen what happened to the golden trio, and their row after Harry was choosen for the tournament, and they had keep watching the progress of the young champion. Most of them had been pleased by his new attitude, and his focus to progress in his school work, but even the most optimistics of them didn't know how far this group had advenced in their school work. In fact all of them had finished the spell work o their fourth year for their wanded subject by chrismats, and by now they all could pass some of their OWL, and NEWTS, but nobody knew excatly how advanced they really were.

The first task had happened excatly like descipted in the book, but Harry had avoided been injuried. His instincts honed by years in the army had made him extremely aware of his surronding, and he succed in escaping the dragons without a scrape. Ron 's reaction had been amusing to both of them but they had accepted his return without making a big deal about the matter. They had gone by the saying keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. They didn't know in what category the red head fit but they would keep him and his family in a close watch.

Harry and Hermione had also began making plans to extand their circle of friend, they had began including the Creeveys brothers, Susan bones and Hannah Abbot in some of their training session and were pleased by the enthusiastic reaction of the the new members. They were very careful with whom they were inviting to avoid some undesirable questions.

They had tried to act like more in caracters and keep the important events that happened during the fourth books, but they had made some changes to improove the situation. Like with Sirius, they knew that he would come to hogsmade to meet Harry, and that he would hide in a cave nearby. Wile that was accepted in the book, they knew that it needed to change. They needed Sirius sane, because he could help them with two horcruxes. The locket and the cup.

They had found accidently that a head of noble house could take control of the vaults of any member of said house, without the gouvernement approval. And with the goblins disdain of the wizards and the ministry, they knew that they wouldn't talk to the aurors about that.

Harry recaled the conversation they had with his godfather with amusement

Flash back

'it must be difficult for you to sleep here, I bet it's very cold at night. And you can't find food easyly. I wished you had a house where you could hide' said Harry

'from what I have heared my old flat had been rented, and I don't think that they would give it back to me anyway.' Replied Sirius

' but surely you have a family house Sirius' asked Hermione

' oh yes, dear old mother had been living in it til her death, but I don't want to go there'

'why ? it must be more confortable than here, at least you would be warm and would eat more substantiel food' replied Hermione

They had argued with him for several more minutes, before he finally gave in and promise them that he was going to live in his ancestral home. They had made him promise to leave kreatcher alone, and they had argued that the house elve could go to the malfoys and told them where Sirius is if freed, so he'd have to remain bonded to him and he'd have to ordre him directly to not speak about it to anyone. They had conforted him by telling him that they 'd send him Dobby and Winky to help cleaning the house.

They also had complained about the lack of security, and the risque of their relationship fond if their letters were intercepted, so Sirius had offered to search for the two way mirrors, to avoid this problem.

The rest of first term pass quickely, Harry had wanted to follow the book for the clues of the egg, because it would allow him to built a friendship with Cedric,but Hermione had found it stupid, and she argued that they could used it to consolidate their friendship with Neville, and give his selfestime a needed boost, and though the huffelpuf was a good block, he had also traited Harry with a patronizing attitude, he hadn't said anything to his house mates about the badges and the slander Harry was facing. They had finally agreed that Neville was much important to them so they formulate a sneaky plan to help them.

They with their close friends had took the egg to the ground to spend the day and to celebrate Harry's victory. Haryy had made sure to make it look like he had trown the egg in the lack accidentely, so nobody would suspect anything. He had played his role masterfully, and his surprised face had seemed guenine. And so they had discussed the task and what he could do on it.

Their plan worked wonderfully as Neville had helped them with the gillyweed, and they all began experimenting with it in the ROR, and in the lac afterwards.

The ball had also been an amusing interuption, and they had secretly enjoyed watching Ron making a fool of himeself. What was more surprising was Harry choice partner. He had asked Susan bones, because he wanted to make it known that she was his friend and that she was under his protection. Hermione had gone with Krum, and Neville had surprisingly asked Luna. They had spend a good evening and were pleased by their entourage.

The next few months were uneventful, they kept up with their training, and soon speed it up, to drove the Weasleys out. They were also in constant contact with Sirius, and he often made them good advices with spells and jinxes they could use.

As the third task approche, Harry grow more nervous, he had let Barty jr kill his father, and he hadn't felt guilty at all. That man was an hippocrite at best and a criminal at worst, and he felt it was justice. He knew that he hadn't the right to judge people but he had disliked the man, and he knew that he knew that he couldn't avoid all the deaths.

He felt that he should speed his moves to get the locket and the cup, and so he had convinced Sirius to take control of the Bellatrix Lestrange vault. He had to tel the marauder that it would be a good blow to the deatheaters and Voldemort to loose the financial support those vaults contain. Sirius had agreed, and had confirmed the action, the night before the third task.

Harry had meditate for two hours before the third task to keep his calm. He knew he had a task to do and he was ready to do it.

He entered the maz first as he was in the lead of the tournament. It had been one of the advantages of knowing the tasks and preparing accordingly, tough Karkarof had always given him poor marks, the other juges was very fair and so he was the first, with Cedric in second place, Krum third and Fleur fourth.

He quickly made his way through the maz to its centre, he had passed the sphinx and was very amused by his riddle, and he had passed some of the creature of Hagrid, he wasn't taking unnecessary risk, so he had used spells that could incapacite the creature, and he wasn't shy of harming them if he found it necessary. He had crossed the other male champions and had thrown two stunners at them. He had made it look like he tried to help Cedric with Krum, but that his spell had missed his target. He quickly made his way through the rest of the maz.

Soon he took the cup, and he felt the tug of the portkey. He arrived in the cemetery, and had some time alone to recall all he would do. Soon Wortmail arrived, and Harry found himeself chained. The ritual had began.

Harry and Hermione had tried to study the ritual, to find some way to weaken Voldemort, and they had used the ROR, for that purpose. They had found that the blood of enemy was a key ingredient to the ritual, it will influence the level of power of the recipient, so if the enemy was powerful, the recipient would have at least the same level of power if not more, it was the reason why Voldemort had insisted that he use Harry for this task. The freewill of the enemy would also affect the ritual, but it was to a lesser degree. So they had made plan accordingly, they had druged Filch and had taken some blood from him the night before. They knew that it was wrong, but desperate time calls for desperate measures. And he had hidden the blood in a bags under his sleeves , he had made two bags, for his two forearm, he wasn't taking a chance with it

So when Wortmail had to cut him he made it look like he was wincing with pain, and he waited til the wizard had his head turned to the coldron to make a quick work of his restrains, before summoning wandlessly and wordlessly his wand and firing a stunner at the quivering wizard. He waited just for the dark tosser to emerge from the coldron, before summoning the cup and the rat and returning to Hogwarts.

The aftermates had been hectic, he made sure to have Rita Skeeter in audience, before talking about what happend. He told them that his restrains had given up and they had all believed him because Petigrew was a mediocre wizard. He had made sure to send an invitation to Amelia Bones, to the third task, and had been pleased by her presence, so when he had shown up with Petigrew he had made sure that she saw him, and she was present when he and Barty jr had talked about what happened.

He was extremly happy when the next day, he found out that Sirius was now free, but there wasn't a talk about Voldemort return. Though he found that he must spend some time at the dursleys, but it was a small inconveniance, and he was willing to support it for now. It will also give him the opportunity to make a fool of the ministre and his under secretary Umbridge.

He was very optimistic, and he would made sure that Voldemort would be dealt with by that time next year. Before he began taking active control of his life.