Chapter 8: The Goblet has spoken
The Elementals were the Great Hall watching as students from Hogwarts and the other two schools threw their names into the goblet of fire. It still surprised them how people would put their lives at risk all for "Eternal Glory."
"I can't believe these people would want to risk their lives all for a silly cup." Bethany thought.
"Well, apparently it's super serious if almost everyone age 17 is putting their names in the cup." Jimmy replied telepathically.
"What a bunch of idiots, if dying is what you need to do to obtain eternal glory, then I don't want it." Samantha commented.
"What a bunch of gits!" Chelsea added.
"What's git mean again?" Amelia asked.
"Oh, it means idiot." Chelsea replied.
The others just looked at her.
"What, we've been here four years now. Don't you think we should know at least some of the slang?" She asked.
The others just rolled their eyes and Samantha went to sit down next to Hermione and read her book.
After everyone watched Cedric put his name into the goblet, Fred and George came in, each holding a potion vial in their hand. Everyone started cheering.
"An aging potion." Amelia whispered to a very confused Bethany.
"It's not going to work." Hermione said to Fred and George in an almost sing-song voice.
"Oh yeah?" Fred countered.
"And tell us Granger, why is that?" George asked.
"See this, this is an age line, Dumbledore drew it himself." Hermione stated pointing to the white circle surrounding the Goblet of Fire.
"So?" Fred asked.
"So, a genius such as Dumbledore can't simply fall for something as pathetic and dim-witted as an aging potion." Hermione declared.
"Ah but that is what makes it so brilliant." Fred replied.
"Because he's so pathetically dim-witted." George added.
"Well he was smart enough to send us here." Samantha thought.
So the twins drank the aging potion and stepped over the aging line. Nothing strange happened after so everyone cheered, and then once the twins threw their names into the goblet again nothing happened so again everyone cheered. That was until the flames in the goblet turned red and shot out at Fred and George. Then the twins looked at each other and saw that they had the faces of old men.
"You said…" Fred stated angrily.
"You said…" George countered.
Soon both of them were wrestling with each other and everyone was watching them in excitement and yelling "Fight, fight!" Everyone except the Elementals and Hermione who just rolled their eyes and went back to what they were doing. A few seconds later though, Viktor Krum entered the room everyone even the Elementals stopped to watch as he placed his name in the goblet of fire before turning slightly in the Elementals direction to take a glance at Hermione who smiled slightly. Once he was gone the Elementals looked at her curiously.
"What?" She asked them.
"Don't what us, what was that all about?" Chelsea asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Hermione replied before returning to her book.
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Thursday night had finally arrived, everyone sat in the Great Hall, waiting for Dumbledore to begin.
"Welcome everyone! The time has come to select our three champions." Dumbledore finally announced. He magically closed the curtains of all the windows and dimmed the light of torches hanging on the ceiling till the Great Hall. Then he went over to the goblet of fire and waved his hand in front of it. It then shot out a tiny piece of parchment which he caught.
"The Durmstrang champion is Viktor Krum." He announced.
Krum went up to shake Dumbledore's hand and then take his place in front of the professor's table.
Dumbledore turned to the goblet again and another piece of parchment flew out.
"The Beauxbatons' champion is Fleur Delacour." Dumbledore announced.
Fleur went to shake Dumbledore's hand and take her place next to Krum.
Dumbledore turned to the goblet for one final time and grabbed the parchment that flew from it.
"The Hogwarts champion is Cedric Diggory." Dumbledore announced.
Cedric went to shake Dumbledore's hand just as the other two did and then took his place next to Fleur in front of the professor's table.
"Excellent, now we have our three champions, but in the end, only one will be victorious. Only one will wield this chalice of champions, the Triwizard Cup." Dumbledore announced as Mr. Crouch revealed the cup. Everyone applauded, but suddenly something strange happened. The fire in goblet burned red and it shot out a fourth piece of parchment, which Dumbledore caught and looked at.
"Harry Potter…" Dumbledore mumbled in shock.
"What?!" Amelia thought, having heard Dumbledore mumbled the name.
"Harry Potter?!" Dumbledore said a bit louder so everyone could hear.
"What?" Bethany said in whisper.
"No, it can't be." Chelsea whispered.
"Harry Potter!" Dumbledore yelled.
Hermione, pushed Harry up from the Gryffindor table and he made his way toward Dumbledore. He took the parchment from Dumbledore's hand and then he gave the professor a look of absolute shock before walking toward all the other professors.
"He's a cheat!" One of the students yelled.
"He's not even seventeen yet." Another student added.
Shut up all of you!" Samantha thought.
"It is his name on that parchment; and believe me, he's just as shocked as anyone else." Amelia stated.
"How the hell did that happen?" Jimmy thought.
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After the big shock in the Great Hall, Harry and the other three champions were sent to the trophy room were the professors came and questioned Harry. The Elementals tried to follow so they could defend their friend, but Dumbledore and the other professors locked them out. All they could do was watch in shock and horror from the gates as Barty Crouch Sr. explained that Harry had no choice but to compete.
Anyway, later that night the Elementals were up in their dorms, think about what happened today.
The Girls' Dorm
"How the hell did this happen?" Chelsea asked.
"You're honestly surprised that something like this happened with all the stuff we've dealt with in the past three years?" Bethany asked.
"Well, you are right, but in Chelsea's defense, I didn't expect something this big to happen. I mean, I know Harry has a reputation for getting into trouble, we do help with that sometimes; but I know for a fact that Harry would never have done something this drastic." Amelia stated.
"Amelia's right." Samantha stated.
The other three turned to look at her.
"Harry didn't put his name in that goblet, and I don't have a clue who could've, but I have a really bad feeling about this. She stated.
Bethany, Amelia, and Chelsea just looked at each other. They knew for a fact that Samantha's bad feelings have always been right, so the worst was definitely yet to come.
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The Boys' Dorm
The boys were getting ready for bed. Harry just sat on the window sill looking out at the sky. Jimmy wanted to ask him about the whole incident with the goblet, but he knew for a fact that Harry was still trying to take this all in.
"How did you do it?" Ron asked.
Harry turned and gave Ron a confused look.
"Do what?" He asked confused.
"Oh forget it, not telling your best friend anything." Ron complained.
"Ron you seriously can't believe that Harry would do something this extreme." Jimmy commented.
"Oh, did he tell you then?" Ron argued.
Jimmy looked at the other boys in the dorm, feeling a bit awkward now.
"No, he didn't, but that doesn't automatically me he did it." Jimmy replied.
"I didn't do anything Ron, stop being stupid." Harry stated.
"Yeah that's me, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter's stupid best friend." Ron said lying on his bed and turning his back toward Harry and Jimmy.
"I didn't put my name in that goblet, I don't want eternal glory. Look, whatever happened today, just forget about it." Harry said looking Ron in the eye.
After that Harry went to sit on his bed and prepare to fall asleep. Jimmy just let out a sigh of defeat before going to do the same.
"Things are about to become hellish around here." He thought.
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Hi again. So the deadline that DevilDragon8 and I decided on for this story is quickly approaching, so don't be surprised if you see two or three chapters a day over the next five day period. And to clear any confusion you might have with the italics, I only use them for the OCs thoughts and telepathic conversations with Jimmy. Please write reviews, my coauthors and I greatly appreciate feedback. See you in the next chapter!