Roman sat in the empty great hall, staring dejectedly at his new time table, being a quidditch player and a student was going to be a lot harder this year, because of his schedule the Vultures had thankfully allowed him time off, the same could not be said for the national team, they had just finished the group stages in the European qualifiers and were now in the last sixteen and Roman had no choice but to play.
That just meant extra travel and training and it really irritated him, to top it all off, Karkaroff had informed them that they would have to take some classes with the Hogwarts and Beaxbatons students.
Which meant that he had zero time for himself
"Everything o.k.?" asked a voice, Harry looked up to see a man with short brown hair and brown eyes
"Remus Lupin" the man said extending his hand, "I'm the Professor of care of magical creatures" he said, "I just don't usually see students up at the crack of dawn" he smiled
"I could not sleep" Roman replied with a smile, although it came out as more of a grimace
"So have you put your name in the cup, yet" he asked
"Yep, did it first zing" Roman said
The door suddenly opened and in walked a boy wearing blood red robes with a military hair cut and grey eyes
"I'll see you later" Remus said getting up
The boy sat across Roman and picked toast off of his plate, "I will never know why you insist on waking up so early" he said in Bulgarian taking a bite
"And I will never know why you insist on eating my food" Roman replied
"What's wrong with you?" asked the boy, worried
Roman passed him his schedule sheet
"Ouch" said the boy, "there's no way, you can do all this, and you'll have to miss some lessons"
"I know" Roman replied, "You put your name in yet"
"Yep" said the boy, "although, I pray to Merlin that my name does not come out of it"
"Xavier, you really have some issues" Roman joked, "why did you come, if you didn't want to be picked"
"For the girls of course" Xavier said as if it was obvious, and Roman burst out laughing, a few students entered the hall but none sat down on their table
"So I saw the Potters" Xavier said, still speaking in Bulgarian
Xavier was Roman's closest friend and the one person Roman confided in
"So" Roman replied
"So, did you think about what they said" Xavier asked
"I am not Harry Potter" Roman whispered although unlikely that anyone there spoke Bulgarian, they could understand the name Harry Potter
"Are you sure, there's not even the smallest possibility"
"of course, there's a possibility but it doesn't matter even if I was Harry Potter, what then, I don't want to get to know the Potters, I already have a family, a home and a life, what good would it do to find out"
"It would give the Potter's piece of mind" Xavier argued, "your not selfish, I know your not, but you're acting like it, Roman imagine your child went missing and then you found him years later, but the little brat wouldn't even take a stupid test to prove who he was"
"Will you drop it" Roman said, seeing Durmstrang students headed toward them
"Say you'll think about it" Xavier said
"Fine I'll think about it, now drop it" Roman said hastily
The great hall was fully decorated for Halloween, the pumpkins and the candles, reminded Lily of her Hogwarts days. Dumbledore stood in front of the students, behind the goblet of fire, the tension was mounting as Dumbledore spoke
The fire inside the goblet suddenly turned red , sparks began to fly from it, a tongue of flame shot into the air, a charred piece of parchment fluttered out of it-the whole room gasped, Dumbledore caught the piece and held it at arms length
"The Champion for Durmstrang" he read clearly, " will be Roman Pollius"
A storm of appaluase and cheering swept the hall, the Durmstrang students stood up and cheered as Roman made his way towards the room behind the teacher's table
"oh no" said Lily to James, " do you think, he'll be alright"
"of course he will" said James clapping, "he's got to be!
"Bravo, Roman" Yelled Karkaroff, so loudly that everybody could hear him, even over all the applause, "knew you had it in you!"
The clapping and cheering died down and now everyone was focused on the goblet, which seconds later , turned red and a second piece of parchment shot out
"the champion for Beauxbatons" said Dumbledore, "is Elise Adelaide" the hall again burst into applause as a brown haired girl walked between the tables towards the door
The goblet turned red and another piece of parchment shot out, "the Hogwarts champione" said Dumbledore, "is Susan Bones"
Every single Hufflepuff jumped up and got to his or her feet, screaming and stamping, as Susan made her way past them, off towards the chamber behind the teachers table
"You're not suppose to duck!" said Roman in Bulgarian exasperated, "how many times do I have to tell you"
It was the morning after the champion's were announced and he was currently practising his scoring, with Xavier as goalie; sadly Xavier instead of trying to catch the balls was ducking every time one came near him
"You know I hate quidditch" Xavier moaned
"How are you supposed to become a decent aurror, if you duck all the time?" Roman asked
"that doesn't make any sense" Xavier said, "i'm not suppose to stand still and wait for a hex to hit me, i think you've taken to many Bludger's to the head my friend"
"And I think your stalling" said Roman, throwing the Quaffle at him, Xavier for the first time caught it
"Why can't you find somebody else, there are plenty of volunteers" he said looking below them, a lot of students were watching him train
"Don't they have lessons" Roman asked
"Probably" Xavier replied, "we should get going, if we don't want to be late"
"We have half an hour till our next lesson" Roman complained, then seeing the look on Xavier's face, he said "Fine"
Just as he landed a young girl ran up to him, "erm..Mr Pollius...they err..need you for the wand weighing" stuttered the girl
Karkaroff had already told him about the weighing, so he understood what the girl was trying to say
"o.k" said Roman,
"See you later" Xavier said in Bulgarian, as he happily walked off
Roman followed the girl in to the castle then up the steps, he entered a small classroom, most of the desks had been pushed away to the back of the room, leaving a large space in the middle, some of the tables had been pushed together to form one large table covered in cloth, everyone except Susan Bones seemed to be in the room, Roman walked to the back and leaned against the wall, wand in hand.
Elise Adelaide sat in a chair a little to his left, the door suddenly opened revealing a very angry Susan Bones, with Rita Skeeter right behind her
"Bitch" Susan said rather loudly, causing Roman to chuckle, he had dealt with Rita Skeeter enough times to know that she was indeed a bitch.
Lily Potter and Ludo Bagman walked through the doors and Roman looked away, he wanted nothing to do with the Potters, he had his own problems for now.
"May I introduce Mr Ollivander?" Dumbledore said, taking his place at the Judges table with the other head teachers and the ministry officials, "he will be checking your wands to ensure that they are in good condition before the tournament "
Ollivander stepped forward, "ladies first" he smiled, Susan stepped forward and handed him her wand
"ah, now, this is one of mine, isn't it?" said Ollivander excited, "yes, i remember it well. Containing a single hair from the tail of a particualry fine male unicorn...must have been seventeen hands ;nearly gored us with his horn...twelve and a quarter inches ..ash..pleasantly springy, it's in fine condition" Mr Ollivander sent a stream of silver smoke rings across the room from the tip of Susan's wand , pronounced himself satisfied and then said, "ms Adelaide, if you, please"
Elsie got up and handed him her wand
"hmmm" he said, he twirled the wand between his long fingers like a baton and it emitted a number of pink and gold sparks , then he held it close to his eyes and examined it carefully. "yes" he said quietly, "nine and a half inches...flexible...rosewood...very well, its in fine working order" said Mr Ollivander handing the wand back
"and now for Mr Pollius" said Ollivander, Roman handed him his wand, "my, my, can it really be...why yes...how well I remember" and then seeing the confused looks he elaborated, " six years ago, Gregorovitch wrote to m, he was having a problem finding a wand for a young boy, he had a feeling that one of my wands would suit the boy just fine, so i sent him a batch, including this one, although i never expected you to end up with this wand" Ollivander said, "imagine my suprise, when i found out, i was rather fond of it"
"it vos obvious by 'ow much you charged for ze wand" Roman scowled, "my father almost killed Gregorovitch ven 'e named the price"
"Yes" smiled Ollivander, "it's my most expensive wand to date...eleven inches...made of holly..with a phoenix feather at its core, just magnificent" Ollivander then made a fountain of wine shoot out of its tips, announcing that it was still in working condition
"Photo's "yelled Rita Skeeter, "its time for the photos"
The minute the photos were finished Roman ran out of the room, and headed towards McGonagalls classroom, he silently slipped in and sat next to Xavier, who was talking to a girl
"This iz Roman" Xavier introduced, "Roman this is Luna Lovegood"
"Pleasure" Roman smiled#
"Very nice to meet you" Luna Lovegood
"luna 'as agreed to be my date for 'ogsmead" Xaveir said
"vhat!" said Roman , "who I'm I suppose to go vit" he asked
"I spent all morning getting hit by Quaffles, and this is the first girl i actually like, so suck it up" Xavier said in Bulgarian " and try to make some friends, who like playing quidditch"
"Alright" Roman said in English
"erm, " said a voice behind them, and they both turned around to see a red headed boy, " i could show you around Hogsmead" said Ronald Weasley
"Do you like quidditch" Xaveir asked
"Yeah" said Ron, "i player keeper for Gryffindor house"
"Tank Merlin, he vill go" Said Xavier