What Happened Underwater

by LeviosaLove

What exactly happened in the second task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament? Under the waters of Black Lake,dwell the merfolk, grindylows and giant squid. And now, the champions of the Tri-wizard Tournament and their loved ones... "You will be awake and yet asleep, with no memory of the what happens underwater..." "No." "Pardon me, Miss Granger?" "I want to remember..." "Do you?"

5. Chapter 5

What Happened Underwater

~Love Thy Enemy~

I don't own the Harry Potter series, or any of the characters, franchises, or concepts you may recognize.

Krum

They haf taken my Herm-o-ninny. I vill save her. My Hermy-own, she is beautiful. She is smart. She vould make a vairy good wife for a vairy lonely man. All of these girls who are my biggest fan… cannot compare. Karkaroff, he does not approve. Tells me we are not here to make friends. "Don't get attached.", he says to me. But what friends do I have, at Durmstrang, where I am golden boy of Karkaroff's? But none of it is real. The whole world would consider itself lucky to be my friend, and any woman mine. But none of it is real.

But my har-mo-nie and those at Hogwarts are different. Everything is real. I should have liked to be real as well, because on the ground, I am nothing but a famous face. My harm-ione, she saw past it. I hoped we would be happy, me and her.

But, at the Yule Ball, she did not seen happy. Ronald, the boy who asked for the autograph, kept glaring at me and her. I left to go get her some drinks. I come back, and he is shouting about fraternizing with ze enemy! They don't understand- like I have some ulterior motive. Ha! I know she would never tell about the egg. I'd think less of her if she did. Harry-he understood, but he didn't want to intervene. That Ronald… 'Fraternizing with the enemy'… He is just like Karkaroff, he is. I had hoped better, from a fan. My her-mo-nie, she deserves better.

But I wonder… I met her just a short time ago. My Hermione… I think I love her. But he has known her for years… How can he not love her even more? And how can he not realize how lucky he is to know her, and be her friend? I can only hope that I can do the same, and more… So I vill save her, for the sake of all who love her… even those who don't realize it yet.

Hermione

As Ron and Cho bickered, I sat thinking. Finally, it struck me. I, Hermione Granger, notorious bookworm, was the thing that mattered most to Viktor Krum, world-class quidditch player. How the heck did that happen? How did a chance meeting in the library lead to a date to the ball? And how did that lead to this?

Viktor… He was so troubled, longing for privacy and unwilling to accept the fame that now was his. He could have had any girl at Hogwarts, any girl in the world for that matter. But he chose me.

How was it that I, a girl he had only known a few weeks the most important thing? Was his life so artificial that no friend of his at Durmstrang was true? What about his family? Did he even have a family?

I was struck by how little I knew, all the things he never told me-the things I never bothered to ask. I hardly knew him. He hardly knew me.

Oh, God. Does he love me? Do I love him? How can he? How can I?

We're young. We've grown up faster than most, but still. I don't know what he is to me, or what I am to him. And I think that's okay. We can find out.

But one thing I know for sure about Viktor. He is not the enemy.

Hatred, prejudice and bitterness are the enemy. Voldemort is the enemy. Fleur is not the enemy. Viktor is not the enemy. We are not their enemies. They are not the enemy.

They might just be our friends.