And here's Chapter Nineteen! The third task! :)

The next day Melissa is walking down the hall by herself when she hears voices coming from inside a store room. She walked up to the door so she could listen better.

"It's a sign Severus," Melissa heard Karkaroff say. "You know what it means as well as I do."

The door opened and Snape and Karkaroff saw Melissa standing in the hallway. Karkaroff leaves and Melissa starts to but Snape grabs her by the shirt.

"Potter," Snape yelled. "What's your hurry? Congratulations, yours and your brother's performance in the black lake was inspiring," Snape said with sarcasm in his voice. "Gilliweed am I correct?"

"Yes sir," Melissa told him.

"Ingenious," Snape said with the same sarcasm. "A rather rare herb gilliweed, not something found in your every day garden," Snape said as he walked into the store room and climbed a ladder. "Nor is this," Snape said as he took a small bottle from a shelf and he climbed down the ladder and showed the bottle to Melissa. "Know what it is?"

"Bubble juice sir," Melissa said.

"Veritaserum," Snape told her. "Three drops of this and You Know Who himself will spill his darkest secrets. The use of this on a student is regrettably forbidden, however should you ever steal from my personal stores again, my hand might just slip over your morning pumpkin juice."

"I haven't stolen anything," Melissa told him.

"Don't lie to me," Snape said in an angry voice. "Gilliweed might be innocuous, but boomslang skin? Lacewig flies? You and your little friends are brewing Polyjuice Potion and believe me I'm going to find out why," Snape said as he slammed the door in Melissa's face.

Night finally fell on the day of the third task. Melissa was nervously changing into her Hogwarts Champion uniform. She pulled on a long sleeve shirt. The right sleeve was black while the left sleeve was a bright red. The left side of her shirt was red and the right side was black. A badge of the Hogwarts Coat of Arms was placed on the front of her shirt and Melissa Potter was on the back in bright red letters. She pulled on a pair of black pants with bright red streaks running down the sides and she put on black tennis shoes. And to finish off the look, she pulled her long red hair back into a braid to keep it out of her face as she was running through the maze.

She took a deep breath and she spoke out loud. "This is it."

Melissa picked up her charm bracelet off of her nightstand and she put it on her right wrist. She then pet her cat that was fast asleep on the foot of her bed before she walked down to the common room where she saw Fred and George waiting for her.

"Hey," the twins said.

"Hi," Melissa said.

"You ready for the third task," George asked as they crawled out of the portrait hole and headed towards the Grand Staircase.

"Not really," Melissa said. "But I have to go through with it."

"You'll be fine," Fred assured his best friend.

"Yeah if you just remember the spells we practiced you'll be okay," George told her.

"I am so glad that I met you guys on the Hogwarts Express in my first year," Melissa said as she held onto George's arm.

They gave her a smile which she returned. There was no more talking after that. They just walked to the Quidditch Pitch in silence. They walked into the stadium where a crowd of students were cheering for their favorite champions. George kissed Melissa and Fred gave her a hug. They walked up to the bleachers to join Ron and Hermione.

Melissa walked up to her brother and the other three champions.

"Hey," Melissa said to Harry.

"Hi," Harry said. "I am so glad that this is the last task. I want this to be over."

"Me to," Melissa told her brother.

Loud music started playing and the crowd cheered louder as Dumbledore came up to the champions. When the music died down Dumbledore spoke.

"Earlier today Professor Moody placed the Triwizard Cup deep within the maze. Only he knows it's exact position. Now as it was a three way tie for first place between Mr. Diggory," Dumbledore said but was cut off by the loud cheers from the Hogwarts students. "Mr. and Miss Potter, they will be the first to enter the maze. Followed by Krum," Dumbledore was again interrupted by cheers from students but this time from the Bulgarians. "And Miss Delacour."

It was now time for the Beauxbaton students to cheer for their champion. After the cheers from the Beauxbaton students died down Dumbledore continued.

"The first person to touch the cup will be the winner. I've instructed the staff to patrol the perimeter, if at any point should a contestant wish to withdraw from the task he or she need only send up red sparks with their wands," Dumbledore then turned to the Contestants while the crowd of students from all three schools cheered.

"Contestants gather around please," Harry, Melissa, Cedric, Fleur, and Krum walked up to Dumbledore and they listened carefully to what he had to say. "In the maze you'll not find dragons or creatures of the deep. Instead you'll face something more challenging. You see, people change in the maze. Find the cup if you can, but be very wary you could just lose yourselves along the way."

Dumbledore turned back to the crowd and Harry and Melissa turned to each other even more terrified than they were before. Melissa turned to Cedric and saw that he looked just as frightened as they were. Krum had a confident look about him while Fleur was frightened as well but she did her best to hide it.

"Champions prepare yourselves," Moody yelled.

"On the count of three," Dumbledore yelled. "One," he started to say but Mr. Filch accidentally fires the cannon. Dumbledore and the champions turn to him and he shrugs it off. Dumbledore sighed and he walked away from the champions.

The music begins to play again as Harry, Cedric, and Melissa enter the maze in different directions. Once they took a few steps into the maze the entrance closed behind them. It was pitch black in the maze and a white mist started forming on the ground and slowly worked its way up.

Harry started to walk through the maze cautiously. He felt like taking off at a run but decided against it. It was better to take your time. Melissa was off in another part of the maze. She was terrified but she walked cautiously like her brother was. She heard twigs snapping around her and ruffling noises.

"Lumos," Melissa said as she held up her wand. The tip of the wand lit up and she held it out in front of her. It wasn't a lot of help since the mist was so heavy but it helped a little.

Just then Harry and Melissa heard Fleur scream out in terror. They wanted to rush to help her but they couldn't tell what direction the scream was coming from. It echoed throughout the entire maze. Melissa continued walking but picked up the pace a little. As she walked she looked around her for a sign of Fleur. Just then there was a gust of wind and the sides of the maze started to close in on her.

"Damn it," Melissa cursed as she ran as fast as her legs could carry her. She made it to the end of the row before the sides closed in. When she turned a corner she ran into Cedric. Melissa fell backwards and Cedric stumbled a little but he regained his balance quickly.

"Who's there," Cedric asked in a frightened voice as he held out his lit wand.

"It's me," Melissa said as she got to her feet. "I'm sorry. I was trying not to get squished. The sides were closing in on me."

Cedric sighed in relief when he saw who it was. He lowered his wand and spoke. "Yeah the sides tried to close themselves on me to."

Just as he said that the sides of the maze started moving threateningly.

"Run," Cedric yelled as he grabbed Melissa's hand. The two sprinted down the row as the sides collapsed.

As Harry moved through the maze he heard the last sound he wanted to hear. He heard his sister scream and it echoed throughout the maze like Fleur's.

"No," Harry said in a horrified voice. He ran down the maze and turned corner after corner to try and find her. He stopped running when he saw a figure of an unconscious girl on the ground. Harry rushed over to her and saw the figure of Fleur being swallowed by the growth. "Fleur," Harry yelled as he tried to grab her hand but it was to late. The hedges of the maze had pulled her in.

Harry began to panic. Not for his own safety but for the safety of Fleur. He pointed his wand up to the sky and shouted a spell sending red sparks into the air. Just as he did this, a strong wind shot past him. He spun around and saw the walls of the maze closing in on him. He took off at a run but as he was running he saw something glistening in the distance.

"The cup," Harry said as he headed towards it.

Cedric and Melissa continued running through the maze. They had decided to work together so they could get out of the maze in one piece. They turned a corner and they saw Harry sprinting down a row to avoid being flattened by the sides of the maze.

"Harry," Melissa shouted.

Harry made it to the end of the row without being harmed and he looked around for Melissa. A smile came across his face when he saw her and Cedric running up to them. They were only a few feet away from him when they saw Krum step out in front of them. His eyes were white and he looked like he was in a trance. He pointed his wand at Melissa and shouted the incantation "Stupefy."

"Look out," Cedric yelled as he pushed Melissa out of the way when a red flash of light started coming towards her.

Melissa hit the ground with a thud and Harry ran over to her. He pulled her to her feet and he threw his arms around her.

"I thought for sure something happened to you when I heard you scream," Harry said as they parted. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine," Melissa assured her brother. "It was a good thing I ran into Cedric. He helped me out a few times."

Harry smiled and the twins spun around and saw Cedric and Krum shooting spells at each other.

"Stupefy," Cedric yelled as he pointed his wand at Krum.

The jet of red light shot out of the tip of Cedric's wand and it collided with Krum. Krum flew backwards and landed on the ground with a hard thud. Cedric then rushed over and kicked Krum's wand out of his hand so he couldn't attack anyone when he woke up. He then pointed his own wand at Krum's unconscious body and was about to cast another spell but Harry and Melissa rushed over to him. Melissa grabbed Cedric's arm and spoke.

"Cedric no," Melissa pleaded with him. "He can't help it!"

"He's bewitched," Harry said. "Dumbledore said the maze can change you."

Harry and Cedric struggled as Harry tried to stop Cedric from attacking Krum. Melissa then noticed the Triwizard Cup in the distance and she turned to them.

"Guys stop it," she yelled at her brother and friend.

Harry and Cedric stopped and they turned to her.

"The cup's down that path," Melissa said pointing to the cup. "The only way that we can get out of this maze is for one of us to touch it. So come on."

Harry and Cedric glanced at each other and Cedric nodded.

"She's right," Cedric said.

With that Harry, Melissa, and Cedric took off towards the cup. They only ran a few feet however before roots shot up and grabbed a hold of Cedric's ankle. He tripped and fell to the ground.

"Harry," Cedric shouted. "Melissa!"

Harry and Melissa spun around and saw the roots pinning him down to the ground.

"Help," Cedric shouted as he struggled to get free from their tight grip but the more he seemed to struggle the tighter the grip became.

Harry just stood there looking from Cedric to the cup. Melissa however rushed to Cedric and she pointed her wand at the roots. "Cedric stop moving I don't want to hit you," Melissa said.

Cedric did as he was told and she said the incantation "Diffindo," the spell shot out of the tip of her wand and it collided with the roots. The roots then fell off of Cedric and she rushed over to help him to his feet.

"Are you alright," Melissa asked him.

"Yeah," Cedric said gasping for breath. "Thank you. This is some game huh," Cedric said with sarcasm in his voice.

Melissa chuckled and she spoke. "Yeah this is some game alright."

The two ran up to Harry and Melissa saw that his eyes were white like Krum's were.

"No Harry," Melissa said as she grabbed his shoulders and started to shake him. "Harry snap out of it!"

"What's wrong," Cedric asked.

"He's bewitched," Melissa said. "Like Krum was. Harry please snap out of it. You're bewitched."

Just then Harry shook his head and he blinked his eyes a few times. When he opened them again they were green again.

"Melissa," Harry asked. "What happened?"

"The maze was starting to bewitch you," Melissa explained. "I had to snap you out of it before you attacked one of us."

"Thanks," Harry said.

"Hey what are sisters for," Melissa asked.

Just then a gust of wind shot passed them and the sides of the maze started moving back and forth threateningly.

"Guys we've got to go," Cedric said.

Harry and Melissa nodded and the three of them took off towards the cup as the sides of the maze started closing in on them. Once they got to the cup Cedric spoke.

"Look one of you should take it," Cedric told them. "You saved me."

"But you saved me," Melissa said. "You take it.

"We'll all take it," Harry said. "That way we'll all get out of here. It'll be a three way tie. Deal?"

"Deal," Cedric and Melissa said.

"On three," Harry said. "One, two, three!"

Harry, Melissa, and Cedric grabbed the cup and they disappeared from the maze.