Time and Setting
The year is 1994. The place is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This year, the Tri-Wizard Tournament is being held at Hogwarts. The Tournament is an inter-school competition between Hogwarts, Durmstrang Institute, and Beauxbatons Academy, the top three wizarding schools in Europe. One student from each school is chosen to compete in a number of tasks, which are graded by the schools' headmasters, and whoever ends up with the greatest number of points wins. Candidates would enter their names in the ominous Goblet of Fire, and later the goblet would decide the three students who would compete. The only restriction was that you had to be in your sixth year or higher to register. From Durmstrang, Viktor Krum was picked. Fleur Delacour was chosen as the representative for Beauxbatons. And BMOC Cedric Diggory was picked as the Hogwarts champion. But as celebrations were dying down, another name spewed forth from the goblet: Harry Potter. Everyone was shocked, including Harry himself, who was a measly fourth year student. But because his name was spewed from the goblet, he had to compete. If he didn't, the consequences would be bad. How bad, you ask? Well, try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. That's right, total platonic reversal. It's that bad. So Harry competed. He'd fought dragons in order to retrieve a golden egg, and he'd gone to the bottom of the Hogwarts lake to rescue his friend Ron from mermaids. I'm not even kidding about that last part. We find our hero in a giant hedge maze, the center of which contains the coveted Tri-Wizard Cup. He's tied for points with Cedric Diggory, so he has no time to lose if he wants to guarantee his win. Let's see how he's doing so far...