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Chapter 7: Bad dreams, and the Goblet of fire.
There was a small village, in it up on a hill sat a large run down mansion, over looking a cemetery, it was dark out, but only one light shined in a window of the mansion, an up stairs window, in a large sitting room, where a short, dumpy, bolding man was sitting a fire in the fireplace.
"Is everything going to plan?" A hissing snake-like voice demanded, it was coming from a chair sitting in front of the fireplace, where a fire was soon burning bright, the owner of the voice could not be seen, but the person it was talking to stepped into the light, it was Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew, he bowed to the chair and replied in a shaky voice.
"Yes, everything is going right." He bowed again. "We just have to wait in till the tournament starts."
"Good, good." The voice said. "I don't have too much longer than, Harry Potter will soon be mine."
"Mas..ster," Wormtail said. "We could do it with out the boy, there is others we could use, and then you won't have to wait so long, and...and..you're get your power back sooner..and.."
"Do it without the boy." The voice thundered. "Yes, I could, but I will not, I want my revenge for what that little bastard did to me, I have waited six years, I can wait seven more months, it's nothing, I will get my hands on Harry Potter. And he shall die. Lord Voldemort will not be made a fool of. defeated by an eight year old, do you know how that looks? I will not stand for being made to look like a wimp, I will have my revenge Lord Voldemort will kill Harry Potter. By no later than June, Harry Potter will be dead."
Harry's eyes flew open and he clapped his hand over his scar and cried out in pain, he then sat up in the bed he was laying in, and leaned over the side and got sick all over the floor.
"What's wrong with him?" He heard Cody ask. "Do something." Harry heard footsteps running to him, and then a hand on his shoulder was pushing him back down.
"Mr. Potter, where does it hurt?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Where do you think?" Cody demanded. "His scar, do something for him." Harry suddenly started choking as he fall back in the bed, and his whole body shook, flashes of the run down mansion, Wormtail, and the chair with the voice was going through his mind, as he fought to pull himself back to reality.
"What the hell?" Cody screamed. "He's having a seizure he's never done that before. Don't just stand there staring, do something, damn it."
"Hold him down." Madam Pomfrey demanded, Harry felt strong hands holding him down, as a set of footsteps ran across the room, they were gone for just a few seconds, before they came back running his way. He felt someone opening his mouth, then a potion was forced down his throat, his mouth then forced shout, and someone rubbed his throat to make sure the very nasty tasting potion went down. Almost at once his shaking stopped, and his eyes closed as he suddenly felt sleepy, he soon fall back to sleep.
Two, maybe three hours past as Harry slowly opened his eyes again, at first he wasn't aware of what was going on, he was laying in a bed somewhere, there was footsteps, and voices, a lot of voices, that wouldn't shut up, they were making his headache worse, and it was already a splitting headache, it felt as if his head was going to burst open any minute now.
"Wh..at?" His voice was shore, and scratchy, it felt as if he had spent hours doing nothing, but screaming his lungs out. "What's going on?" He finally got out. The people nearest him, rushed to his side, as the others, who were farther in the room, were still arguing.
"Harry, how do you feel?" A familiar female voice asked, then a small hand was laid on his forehead. He opened his eyes to see, sapphire blue eyes filled with worry.
"Ginevra?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, bab...buddy, it's me." She said, and ran her hand through his hair. "Are you okay, do you need something?"
"My head hurts." He said. Ginny laid her hand on his scar.
"Is it your scar again?" She asked. "Or just your head?"
"Headache." Harry said. Ginny sighed in relief, and on his other side someone said.
"Thank Merlin." Harry looked to see his other best friend Teddy Lupin, with almost as much worry in his light brown eyes than Ginny had in hers. At the mention of his scar everything that had happen came back to him, his scar hurting, passing out, Cody picking him up and carrying him. Then the weird dream. He must be in the hospital Wing.
"You really scared the hell out of us." Teddy told him. "We were just leaving the Great Hall to hunt you down; when Cody ran past carrying you, then Madam Pomfery wouldn't let us in, but Cody wouldn't leave, so he got to stay, and we were waiting outside, when we heard Cody screaming about you having a seizure, so we ran back in here, but you were already out again by then."
"Who's shouting?" Harry asked, and even though it hurt his head, he sat up and looked on the other side of the room, he saw Cody, and Rigel, their backs to him, they were arguing with Madam Pomfrey, Snape, Flitwick, McGonagall and of all people Dumbledore.
"We have every right to know what is wrong with Harry." Rigel growled. "He is my best friend, he is Cody's brother."
"We know, Mr. Black." Madam Pomfrey said. "But at the moment I have no idea."
" I bet he does." Cody said, pointing at Dumbeldore. "You know don't you?"
"I have a few guesses, all of which, are more unlikely then the rest," Dumbeldore said. "But I do not wish to say untill I know for sure."
Harry groaned and laid back down. "Can't they just shut up." He must have said it louder than he meant to, because it suddenly became real quite, and Ginny smirked down at Harry, as Teddy looked amused, then footsteps came running over to him.
"Harry!" Cody shouted, pushing Teddy out of his way to stand at his little brother's side. "How are you doing? Dose your scar still hurt?"
"He says he's got a headache." Teddy said.
"Just a normal headache?" Dumbledore asked, appearing on his other side, and to Harry's displeasure Ginny stepped back to give him room. "Not your scar?"
"No, sir, just a headache." Harry answered.
"I'll get you a headache potion." Madam Pomfrey said, then walked toward her office.
"Sir," Harry asked. "What's happening to me? Why's my scar hurting after all this time? And the dreams, why am I having all these weird dreams?"
"What dream, Harry?" Cody asked, Harry explained to all them about the weird dreams he had had, when he was done Dumbeldore looked more worried than before, but the others just looked confused, all but Snape, who had a thoughtful look on his face, as he rubbed his left forearm as if it hurt.
"I wouldn't worry too much about it, Harry." Dumbeldore said. "Just get some rest now."
"Yes, I believe rest is what you could use." Flitwick said. He took the potion out of Pomfrey's hand and handed it to Harry himself. Harry and Ginny were his two favorite students. It had been Flitwick to suggest Harry to play on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team in his first year. Harry drain the potion, then handed it back. "Now, just go to sleep, you'll be staying in the hospital wing over night ,so Madam Pomfrey can keep an eye on you, make sure you don't have anymore seizures."
Harry nodded, but wasn't really paying attention, for he was falling back to sleep, last thing he knew someone kissed his forehead, before everyone started leaving the hospital wing.
The next morning Harry was feeling like his old self again, and was let out of the hospital wing, around lunch time, and was even able to attend his after noon classe, of which to his horror was potions.
"Just the ugly face I was wanting to see when I just got out of the hospital." Harry said to Rigel and Teddy, as they parted ways with him and Ginny, as they had Transfigurations, and Harry and Ginny was heading to Potions. They sat next to Justin Finch-Fletechley, and Hannah Abbott, like they always did, they had Potions with the Hufflepuffs.
Snape was in the worst move then ever, he snapped at just about everyone, even when they were doing the hard potion he had a signed right, and made Justin cry when he melted his cauldron, which he did in almost every class, Harry got smart at Snape for it, earning him both a detention and a smile from Hannah Abbott, which for some reason made Harry blush as he noticed for the first time, she had very pretty pale green eyes.
September seemed to pass in a blink of an eye, before Harry knew it, it was October, and thankfully he hadn't had any more episodes like he did before, his scar hurt ever now and then, and sometimes he had a weird dream, and had even been sick a time or two, but to Cody's great relief, he hadn't had anymore seizures, or had it hurt anywhere as bad as it had that first night and Harry was able to enjoy school, joke with his friends, and get in trouble.
Harry also decided that Hannah Abbott was a pretty girl, and made sure she sat with him and Ginny in every class they had with Hufflepuff, which greatly annoyed Ginny, even though she had always liked Hannah, and she even sometime studied with her, and Harry had become annoyed with the fact Ginny had started spending every bit of her free time with Seamus, and even started sitting with him during meal times, which also seem to tick off Fred and George who started shooting Seamus dirty looks, and he had become their main prank target.
The worse thing to happen yet this year, happen one after noon in potions, when Snape announced they were going to start making antidotes for poisons, and to make sure they did them right they would be tested on them.
"He can't do that." Hannah said. Harry gave her a reassuring smile and laid his hand on hers, in comfort,, Hannah blushed, and Ginny glared at them and crossed her arms.
"Don't worry, Hannah." She said, in a mocking voice. "I'm sure the Boy-Who-Lived, can handle it." Harry had looked at her in surprised and a little hurt, none of his friends had ever mentioned his fame, they all know how he hated it, and how it reminded him of that night, seeing his parents killed. They didn't speak to each other the rest of that class, and Hannah had held his hand in comfort. And after that class, Harry started hanging out with Hannah a lot and Ginny had become more snapping, and smart mouth, even landing a detention from Flitwick, the one Professor who hardly gave anyone detention. Teddy even started joking about it being "her time of the mouth" which Ginny didn't find funny at all.
Defense Against the Dark Arts, had almost become as unbearable as potion class, Moody had decided that showing them the unforgivable curse was not enough and that he was going to start putting them all under the Imperius curse, Harry and Rigel had been the only two in class that was able to threw it off, Ginny was very close, but still had trouble, and Teddy couldn't throw it off at all. Moody told him it because he was too emotional. By the time they had their third class, Ginny had become more and more suspicious, of Moody, she kept saying it didn't seem like Moody at all, the Mad-eye Moody she knew growing up wouldn't put anyone, mainly underage kids under the Imperius cruse, in fact he would never have cast the curses in the first place.
Their other classes where going fine though, Harry was the only one in his year who could turn a hedgehog into a pincushion, Ginny could have if she wanted to, but when transfiguring something involve in turning an animal into something else she refused to do it, saying it was cruel. Ginny was a great lover of Animals. Harry could see were she was coming from, it did seem a little cruel, but it still didn't stop him from making a pincushion out of his hedgehog.
Like most their other classes, History of Magic was with Hufflepuff, and Harry use to spend his time, either sleeping or playing hangman with Ginny, they both proffered to read about the listen in their History of Magic text-book, rather then listen to Binns, but lately Harry had taken to setting next to Hannah Abbott and they passed notes back and forth. After the first Hogsmeade weekend of the year, which happen in the first week of October, Hannah had become Harry girlfriend. And Ginny was now dating Seamus, something her older twin brothers did not like one bet.
Thankfuflu Britney Lupin's first full moon at school went smoothly, Teddy had found himself in detention that night, so Ginny and Harry had walked Britney down to Madam Pomfrey themselves, she was giving a potion, then locked in the room Dumbledore had made for her in the hospital wing. Britney seemed to like school once she got the hang of it, and had even made a friend from her dorm. But sadly Cody's year wasn't going all that great, his grades were slipping, he was getting more detentions the usual, all because him and Hermione was spending most their time arguing or not talking to each other, on top of being extremely worried about Harry, he had even sent Jesse an Owl, in which Jesse replied with one telling Cody to keep a close eye on Harry, and Harry was now made to owl Jesse once a week and let him know how he was doing.
It was now Friday, the last week in October, and Harry and Ginny found themselves at 6:00 walking down toward the lake with the Ravenclaws. Today was the day Beauxbatons, and Drumstrang would be arriving for the tournament. They followed along the ones in front of them. Wishing they could go back in, because it was cold outside. Professor Flitwick made them stand in a straight line next to the Gryffindores. Harry couldn't help, but let his eyes wander down Ginny's body, as he cheeked out what she wore. For the first time he could remember she had on a skirt, a blue and bronze school skirt, with black fish net stockings, and combat boots. Her shirt untucked and rob was faded and patched. She also had safety pins going around the bottom of her skirt. She had her long fiery hair pulled back in a ponytail, and what ever foul mood she had been in lastly seemed to be gone, as she was her regular smart mouth, chatting self instead of the smart mouth snapping mood she had been in. And Harry couldn't help but smile as she complained that a bunch of strangers were not worth standing out in the cold for.
But at least the Ravenclaws was having an easier time then the Gryffindores, McGonagall was in a nasty mood, having her nerves wrecked by the arrival of their gust, and was snapping orders at them all.
"straighter line."She barked out. "Black, straighten that tie." She turned to Teddy and scowled. "Lupin, what on earth are you wearing?" Harry and Ginny looked that way, to see Teddy had on his usual, black pants with the zippers, his vest and tie was shabby and old-looking, and a set of robs that had patches and holes on them. "I told you not to dress like that. Oh, well, too late to change now, just do something about that hair." Teddy scowled, but knew not to refuse and turned his hair to its natural light brown color, and kept it a regular short hair cut. McGonagall seemed satisfied and moved on to someone else.
"Petal, take that thing out of your hair." She snapped. Harry turned from the Gryffindores, and looked to the Hufflepuffs on his other side. Hannah waved at him, her golden blode hair falling past her shoulders, in waves. Harry winked back at her, before facing front.
"How do you reckon they are coming?" Ginny ask, as she gave a wave at Seamus, who blow her a kiss, making Harry feel sick to his stomach, but then had to hold his laughter, when Cody who was standing behind Seamus, started making mocking kissing faces at Harry.
"Don't know, train maybe." Harry answered. It was a cold clear evening; dusk was falling and a pale, transparent-looking moon was already shinning over the Forbidden Forest.
"No, not the train." Ginny said. Then shrugged. "Oh well, I guess we'll she when they get here, if they ever get here." They looked around, but saw nothing.
"Bloody hell." Harry heard Rigel curse. "They don't hurry, I'm going in rather McGonagall likes it or not, I doubt they would even know one student is missing."
"Aha! Unless I am very much mistaken, the delegation of Beauxbatons approaches!" Dumbledore called out. Many students asked where, but Harry heard Rigel mumbling it's about time, and he had to agree with his long time friend.
"There." Yelled someone, pointing over the forest. And something large was hurtling across the deep blue sky toward the castle.
"It's a dragon!" Someone yelled, and Ginny snorted.
"Don't be stupid," Someone else said. "It's a flying house." Now Ginny was creaking up.
"Flying house." She repeated. Neither stupid guess was right, as the shape got closer Harry saw it was gigantic, powder blue, horse drawn carriage, the size of a large house, pulled through the air by a dozen winged horses, each the size of an elephant, soon the carriage landed, and Harry saw the door on the carriage bore a coat of arms (two crossed, golden wands, each emitting three stars) before it opened. A boy in pale blue robs jumped down from the carriage, bent foreward and fumbled with something, then unfolded a set of golden steps.
"Oh good lord." Ginny said, rolling her eyes. "They kept us waiting on their arrived, and now they're going to take forever getting out, just because they're trying to show off. " Harry couldn't help but agree as he saw a very large high heeled shoes step out on the steps, followed by a very taill women. She walked over to Dumbledore and held out her rather large hand to shake.
"My dear, Madam Maxine," he said. "Welcome to Hogwarts." Harry turned away from their convention, as they begin to ask if each other was well.
"Now if Durmstrange would get here, maybe we could go in where it's warm." Harry said.
"And eat." Ginny said, making Harry snort. Madam Maxine soon got through talking to Dumbeldore and took her students, a bunch of boys and girls in their late teens, and all wearing pale blue robs, in to warm up.
"Why do they get to go in and we have to stand out here?" Rigel complained. Teddy caught Harry's eye and rolled his at Rigel, Harry snickered, nodded his head at Ginny, who was complaining about being hungry and rolled his eyes, making Teddy snicker also.
"Look at the lake!" Someone yelled out. Harry looked over to see something was emerging. Then after a few minute a ship appeared. And then after few mintues students in their late teens, begun to climb out All built a long the lines of Crabb and Goyle. Even the girls.
"Good-looking bunch aren't they?" Ginny said, and Harry laughed. He looked over to Teddy and Rigel and saw Teddy lean in and tell Rigel.
"They's your next girlfriend." And pointed at the largest girl, Teddy then cried out as Rigel hit him on the back of the head. Harry turned away from his two friends shaking his head at them, and saw a man who could only be the Durmstrange Headmaster walking toward Dumbledore. He was a tall man, and had short white hair. Harry didn't like the guy one bet, there was just something about him.
"Karkaroff!" He heard Rigel growl, Harry looked his way, and Rigel mouthed "ex-Death Eater." Harry's eyebrows shout up. And he looked over at Karkaroff. No wonder he thought there was something off about him.
"It's Krum." Ron Weasley suddenly shouted. Harry looked his way to see him talking to Collin Creevey and pointed to Victor Krum. Ginny nudged Harry and when he looked at her she rolled her eyes.
They were soon led into the castle after the last Drumstrange student went in, Harry could hear girl yelling about getting Victor's autograph, and even some boys, and a lot of teens asking each other if they had a quill.
"Oh my god, he's not even good-looking." Ginny cried, when a Hufflepuff Fifth year, asked her friend if she thought Krum would sign his name with her lipstick, said girl shot Ginny a glare.
"It sucks, that we have to set at our own table tonight." Ginny said, as her and Harry sat down across from Britney and her new friend; a chubby blonde hair girl name Tiffany.
"Yeah, it does." Harry agreed. Ginny then made a face when the Beauxbatons choose to set at their table, and not too far down from them.
"Now I really want to set at the Gryffindore table." She mumbled, as she watched the girls look around the Great Hall with glum expressions on their faces. Three of them clutching scarves and shawls around their heads.
"Oh come on it's not cold in here." Ginny cried. Making a face, the girls glared Ginny's way and she glared right back.
"At least the Drumstrange students look happy being here." Harry said, looking toward the Slytherin table, where the Drumstrange students were pulling off their furs, and looking up at the starry sky or examining the golden plats and goblets.
"There's only two extra people." Ginny said, looking toward the staff table. "Why's Filch putting out four chairs?"
"Don't know." Harry said. "Maybe someone else is coming."
"Good even," Dumbledore said, standing. "Ladies, gentlemen, ghost and-most particularly guests, I have great pleasure in welcoming you all to Hogwarts. I hope and trust that your stay here will be both comfortable and enjoyable."
One of the Beauxbatons girls still clutching a muffler around her head gave what was a derisive laugh.
"No one put a wand to your head and made you come." Ginny said, loud enough for her to hear. She huffed and crossed her arms.
"The tournaments will officially open at the end of the feast," Dumbledore said. "I now invite you all to eat, drink, and make yourselves at home. He sat down, and the plate filled with food as usual. The house-elves in the kitchen seemed to have pulled out all the stops; there was greater variety of dishes in front of them than Harry had ever seen, including several that were definitely foreign. Harry ignored those and choose a steak and kidney pie.
The Great Hall soon filled with talking and laughter, and the clattering of dishes. Harry looked over at his friends, Teddy had his hair back into his gold and red mohawk. He was talking with Rigel, and when he saw Harry watching, he pulled on the tie he had around his neck, pulling up word, while rolling his eyes, and sticking his tongue out, acting like he was choking himself. Rigel then hit him on the back of the head, and Teddy glared at him. Rigel was always hitting Teddy on the back of the head when we was acting silly.
Harry turned back toward his dinner and him and Ginny chatted as he begun to eat.
"Mum." Britney, suddenly said, pointing at the staff table. Both Ginny and Harry looked that way. Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch, where now seated at the table enjoying the meal, and chatting, but that's not who Britney was pointing at. It was the ones standing behind the staff table. Nymphadora "Tonks." Lupin. Teddy and Britney's mum, Kingsley Shackelbott, and Harry's godfather Sirius Black.
"Why are they here?" Harry asked as Sirius spotted him and gave a smile and a wave. Harry smiled as he waved back.
"I don't know." Ginny said. "Bagman, and Crouch are here because their judges, but I have no idea why they would have Aurors here."
When everyone had seem to have eaten enough, the plates cleared and Dumbledore once again stood.
"The moment has come." Dumbledore said. "The Triwizard tournament is about to start. I would like to say a few words of explanation before we bring in the casket-"
"The what?" Britney's friend Tiffany had asked.
"Just to clarify the procedure that will be following this year. But first, let me introduce, for those of you who do not know them." Dumbledore went on to introduce Bagmen and Crouch. Harry didn't listen, he already knew who they were. He then explained about them sitting up the tournament, and how they would be judges, along with the Heads of the schools. "Now, I'm sure that you all have noticed the Aurors behind us." At the mention of the Aurors, Harry looked back toward Dumbledore because he wanted to know why Sirius was here.
"Head of the Auror Department, Sirius Black, and two of his best Aurors, Kingsley Shacklebott, and Nymphadora Lupin are here to insure that everything goes smoothly." Dumbeldore said. "Their job is to make sure no one attacks any of the Judges or the champions, they'll be patrolling the halls and grounds; once the tournament begins, but please do not let their being here make you uncomfortable, just act as if they are not here."
"Wonder if Teddy is happy to see his Mum." Ginny leaned in and asked, snickering (as Dumbeldore went back to talking about the tournament.) They both knew with his mum being here, Teddy wouldn't be able to get in half the trouble he liked to get into.
"The instructions for the tasks the champions will face this year have already been examined by Mr. Crouch and Bagman." Dumbledore said, "and they have made the necessary arrangements for each challenge There are three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways...their magical prowess-their daring-their powers of deduction-and of course their ability to cope with danger, one champion from each school will compete in the tournament." Dumbledore then went on to explain about the Goblet of fire, and puting your name in and once you're chosen you can't back out, so be sure you really want in the tournament, before dropping your name in. Then Flch brought in a little box, and Dumbledore tapped it three times with his wand. The lid creaked slowly, and Dumbeldore reached in and pulled out a small wooden cup, which was filled with blue flames.
"Anyone wishes to enter only has to write their name on a piece of paper, and drop it into the cup." Dumbeldore said "Those wishing to do so only have twenty-four hours. tomorrow night, on Halloween, the names of the champions will be called out. To make sure no one underage enters their name, I will be drawing an age line."
Harry once again toned out Dumbeldore and looked over toward Teddy and Rigel. Rigel had his head down on the table, but Harry couldn't tell if he was asleep or not, and Teddy had pulled out a muggle pen and was drawing on a napkin. His friends were just as bored as he was.
Finally Dumbedore sat back down and they were able to go on up to their common rooms. Ginny and Harry, along with Britney walked over to Teddy and Rigel to walk with them. As they were heading out Karkaroff and his students were walking by, Harry stopped, so they could pass by first, and he nodded at Harry as he passed, but then paushed, did a double take, and his eyes went right to Harry's scar. He stood there a good three mintues staring, and his students begin to stare, some even pointing up at Harry's scar.
"So, it's Harry Potter, big deal." Rigel growled out. "You don't have to stare, and you're blocking the doorway."
"What's going on?" Sirius asked, as he pushed his way through, along with Tonks, and Cody. "Way is everyone just standing around and not leaving the Great Hall." He walked up next to Harry, his and Karkaroff's eyes locked on each other. And they stood there giving each other glares.
"Alight, come on." Tonks said. She shoed Karkaroff along "Unless you plan on standing here, into the names come out of the Goblet tomorrow, I would suggest for you to go." Karkaroff glared at her; which made Teddy step infront of him Mum as if to protect her if Karkaroff tried something. But all he did was turn and leave, his students following.
"Harry, do me a favor." Sirius said "Stay as far away from that guy as you can." Harry nodded. "That goes for all of you." He added to the rest of Harry's friends. A after a few goodbye, and waiting for Teddy and Britney to greet their mum, they walked on up to their common rooms. Harry taken one last look at the Goblet, before leaving the Great Hall, and as he looked, he fault a shiver go down his spin.