AN: Here is another chapter. A bit longer than the last. For the Harry/Mina fans there is a little scene for the two of them.
With the DADA lesson, I had to think of good things to make them do and stuff. I particularly liked what Ron had to do, makes a small Ami/Ron moment
Thanks for the reviews guys and in response to some (I just used shortened versions of your usernames:
Kali - glad you liked the pairings, I personally got sick of all the Harry/Usagi pairings out there and all the stories centered on her that I decided to write my own stories that don't include her too much. No offence to you or anyone else that likes Usa. With your comment about Draco being a tad OOC, I am a little worried about that but I believe because I gave a pretty good reason for him to be nice to Mina I think it is okay for now, as you said it is part of the story development. Loved the comment about the divination homework I didn't even think of saying something to do with Neptune and Uranus lol...
MissOrange - I have never actually seen a Draco/Ami pairing before. It is a very interesting idea, I wont be changing the couples this late but it might be a good idea for a different fic or maybe I will have to read one it is a very unusual couple but I am glad you still like the couple of Ami/Ron. Thanks for reading and for the review!
Yumi - Harry and Mina will be dancing around each other for a while. You saw how long it took for Ron and Hermione to get together in the actual HP books. They will get together in this story at least, you wont need to wait for like the 6th book (like in HP) It may take a while though. I like developing more on the friendship and hate when couples get together straight away. Plus I like adding more conflict and having love triangles and stuff like that. Also they are only like 14 so they are shy around the opposite sex, I don't really think Mina and Ami would be because they remember their previously lives and would be very mature because of that and Draco well, you will have to wait to see what happens with him.
Nxkris and Salamander - thanks for your reviews as always
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The next morning Minako was awake bright and early. She didn't get much sleep the night before because she was worrying about Harry. She sat down at the desk in her room and decided to write a letter to the other senshi. She didn't have much to write but she missed them after only about a week. She quickly wrote to each of the senshi about different things.
Hey Everyone!
Well I am just writing to say how much I miss you all! I am sorry I didn't write sooner everything has been happening so fast. We got told our mission, had to get all the required things, try and learn everything so we would be up to fourth year standards, getting our wands etc.
We never showed you our wands but they are so pretty. Everybody else here has boring wands that are just made from wood but ours have jewels as the handles and are just pretty!
Both Ami and I got sorted into the Gryffindor house. I am not sure how much Sets told you about Hogwarts but there are the four houses, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Ami almost got put in Ravenclaw and I was almost put into Slytherin but I am happy I am in Gryffindor, the people are so much nicer than the Slytherins.
I hope everybody is great, especially Usagi! You all better be taking very good care of her. I really do miss all of you! Makoto you would be so jealous, there are some really cute guys here at Hogwarts. I am sure at least one of them looks just like your old sempai! Maybe someday you can meet some of the cute guys we have met here.
Setsuna seems to enjoy teaching Magical Mythology, she is really a natural at teaching. It is a little awkward for me sometimes just because I know exactly who she is talking about and we have to pretend that we don't know anything about it! It is my favourite class though because I don't have to pay much attention in class.
I hope you are all taking good care of Artemis for him, I miss him loads! Though I bet he doesn't miss me as much, he gets to spend all day with Luna now!
Anyway I think that is all I have to say for now. I hope the owl didn't scare you guys when it delivered the letter. It is just the way wizards deliver their letters, weird huh?
I miss you all so much and can't wait to see you all again!
Love Minako xo
Mina finished the main letter and then wrote one to Rei, who was her best friend. Mina may have been close to Usagi but Rei was the closest to her. They both knew what it was like to have parents that didn't really care for you, Rei was her second in command and they both had trust issues. Rei was the only other person about from Usagi that knew about her supposed curse.
Rei,
I miss you, I really wish that you could be here with me right now. I love being around Ami and we are getting closer but it isn't the same. She doesn't know everything about my past like you do.
It is strange being here, everything is so different from Japan and the England that I remember. The magical world is so... so well there is no describing it really. I know we have seen a lot of stuff in our time but here is just so pardon the pun magical! I can't believe half the stuff people can do in this world.
I can learn how to make fire, water, electricity, heal somebody is I wish. It is like I can weild everyone elses power, though Setsuna says that things that are natural to our planets will work a lot better. I think that is why I am good at charms because Venus is all about charm! Ami is loving learning about all these new things and I am really enjoying it here too.
Please keep me updated on your fire readings, I am doing divination but I have no talent for it. I will need you to keep me informed if you see anything.
Say hi to grandpa, Ami and I miss his antics! Miss you.
Love Minako xoxo
After she finished wrote a quick note to Ami saying she was taking the letters they both wrote down to the Owlery to send them. She also wrote that she would send Chie and hopefully that would be okay.
Mina lay the note clearly on her desk, quickly got dressed and headed quietly through the school till she reached the Owlery. The Owlery was a cold, circular room with straw covering the floor. It smelt slightly but Minako expected that.
She walked over to the little pygmy owl that belonged to Ami. As she gently nudged it awake the little owl gave off a small hoot and rubbed into her palms, making Minako smile and miss Artemis.
She smiled down at the little owl. "Good morning Chie, how are you today?"
The owl hooted in response and stared at Minako.
Minako giggled as she bent down to attach the letter just as somebody else entered the room making her jump. She swirled around to see Harry standing there looking stunned.
"Oh, Good Morning Harry! I didn't think anyone else would be up at this time. "
Harry smiled nervously, "yeah I didn't sleep to well and had to send a reply to the letter I got last night. What are you doing here?"
Mina dropped to her knees to pick up the letters that she dropped when Harry surprised her. She rose back to her feet and sent a blinding smile to Harry.
"I couldn't sleep either. I was worried about you actually. You seemed so upset and angry that I was concerned. As for why I am here, I am sending a letter of course, to my friends back in Japan."
Harry blushed at her words. "You were worried about me?"
Mina nodded as she played with her hair. "Well I care deeply about all of my friends and well I consider you a friend... so yes I was worried."
He smiled at her words as he walked over beside her. It looked as though he was just walking over to stand in front of Hedwig but in reality he stood there to be closer to her.
"That is really sweet Mina. It is just some personal problems. Maybe one day I will be able to talk to you about it but not right now. I hope you can understand and forgive me for the way I treated you last night."
"It's okay Harry, really I understand. There are some things that you don't want to tell anyone."
Harry watched as her eyes glazed over, like she was remembering something painful. He found himself hoping that one day they could let each other in.
Harry leant over and grabbed her hand. Minako blushed as she looked down at his hand. After a few seconds she gently pulled her hand away and finally attached the letter to Chie's leg.
Harry on the other hand was struggling to get Hedwig to do what he wanted. She was still annoyed at him for his attitude the previous night. Mina giggled slightly at his attempts before deciding to help him out. She handed Chie over to Harry and gently stroked Hedwig's wing.
"Sorry, girl but Harry needs to send this letter. When you come back we will get you something yummy. "
Hedwig glared at Harry slightly before turning to Minako and hooting.
Mina gently took the letter attaching it Hedwig's leg. The two then let the birds go and fly off into the sunrise.
"Wow you are good with animals and people. Hedwig doesn't usually like people."
Mina shrugged as the two stepped out of the Owlery. "I don't know why she likes me, maybe because I was nice and all. Who knows? She is beautiful though."
Harry nodded, "Yeah I got her for a gift from Hagrid during my first year. What about you do you have a pet? If I recall correctly that owl belongs to Ami right?"
"I don't have a pet here, I used to have one back in Tokyo but I couldn't bring him along. He was a beautiful white cat named Artemis. I have had him since I was like 10 and I miss him heaps. You are correct in saying the owl was Ami's she named him Chie and it too was a gift from somebody. Instead of a pet I got a firebolt which I named Honoo."
Harry laughed slightly at the last bit. "That is sad about your cat, I hope you get to see him again soon. Do Honoo and Chie mean anything they sound Japanese?"
Mina nodded enthusiastically. "Yes Chie means wisdom and Honoo means flames. I thought it was perfect flames...firebolt, you get my drift."
"It is a little strange you named your broom but I think it's cute. Are you good at flying?"
Mina blushed in response to this, "Well I never actually learnt how to fly. I have always wanted to learn but never had the time. I hope to learn this year."
The two then reached the hall for breakfast, before Mina could walk in Harry stopped her. "I can teach you how to fly if you like. We will have to ask Dumbledore but I am sure he would say yes. Then whenever we both have free time I will coach you on flying. I was a member of the Quidditch team during my first year, as you know first years aren't allowed to play so I like to think I am pretty good at flying."
Mina was so happy that she flung her arms around his neck pulling him into a tight embrace. Harry turned bright red as wolf-whistles and cat calls were heard from those inside eating breakfast.
Mina pulled away slightly embarrassed. "That would be really great Harry thank you!"
Harry shrugged his shoulders and followed the blonde into the great hall. The two sat down beside Ami, Hermione and Ron as they began their breakfast.
Over the next couple of weeks everything was smooth sailing for the girls. They got attention because of their wands, they were a lot more extravagant than everybody else's. The senshi back in Japan all wrote back and they were happy to hear from them making their time more enjoyable.
Through this time Hermione still didn't trust the new girls. She could sometimes get along with Mina but found herself jealous of the new girls. Jealous of Mina mainly because of her looks and the fact that she was doing better than her in magical mythology and charms and jealous of Ami because she was better than her at everything. Hermione prided herself on being one of the best at all her subjects but found herself coming second to Ami in most of the subjects. It also bugged her that Ron started to go to Ami to help him with his work.
Ron and Harry on the other hand really enjoyed the girls company. Mina got along really well with both the boys being like a ray of sunshine and Ami got along really well with Ron. She helped him with a lot of his homework and basically doing what Hermione used to do except in a nicer less condescending way.
Though Harry was enjoying his time at Hogwarts getting to know Mina better he continued to worry slightly about Sirius. Every morning when the post arrived her couldn't stop himself for checking for Hedwig.
The only thing that kept him mildly distracted was Mina and his school work. The lessons were becoming more difficult and demanding than ever before, particularly Defence Against the Dark Arts.
To everybody's surprise, Professor Moody had announced that he would be putting the Imperius curse on each of them in turn, to demonstrate its power and to see whether they could resist its effects.
Hermione as usual was the first to say something, "But you said it was illegal Professor. You said to use it against another human was..."
"Dumbledore wants you taught what it feels like." Moody answered, as he swivelled his magical eye to look at Hermione. "If you'd rather learn the hard way, when somebody is putting the curse on you, you can be excused. Off you go."
Hermione turned red and mumbled under her breath. "That didn't mean I wanted to leave."
Mina stifled a small giggle at this. She sometimes hated the way Hermione thought she knew everything. Ron and Harry also smiled knowing that Hermione would hate missing such an important lesson.
Moody then began to choose students to come forward, he then placed the Imperius curse upon them. The group watched as one by one their classmates did the most extraordinary things. Dean Thomas hopped three times as he sang the national anthem, Lavender Brown imitated a squirrel, Neville performed a series of astonishing gymnastics and then it was Ron's turn he had to recite some Shakespeare.
He ended up in front of Ami on one knee and began to spout of words.
"I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"
Ami didn't know what to do with Ron in front of her reciting Shakespeare. Her face turned bright red and she fidgeted uncomfortably as Ron spoke. Finally Moody took the curse off as everybody but Ron and Ami were laughing. When the curse was off Ron was looking extremely confused and embarrassed. He kept his head down and walked back down to his seat.
"I didn't even know you knew any Shakespeare Ron." Harry teased as Ron sat back down. Ron managed turned crimson as he put his head into his hands.
"Neither did I."
Moody continued to call up each of the students. None of them had been able to fight the curse. He finally called out Harry's name. Harry was the first student that almost fought the curse. He was told to jump onto the desk and had stayed still for most of it until he finally went to jump but instead ended up falling into the desk as he tried to fight it off.
"Look at that you lot... Potter fought! He fought and he almost beat it. Okay Aino, your turn."
Minako looked sceptical as she stepped to the front of the room. Moody turned to her and placed the curse upon her.
She felt a weird feeling wash upon her like she was floating. Then she heard Moody's voice echoing in the back of her mind. It was telling her to grab a guy and give him a kiss.
Minako went to grab the first guy in her sights until she stopped.
She started questioning herself on why she wanted to kiss somebody. Why would she do that unless she liked the guy?
Suddenly the voice was back. Grab a guy and give him a kiss. It repeated.
Mina screamed into her head. No I don't want to kiss just any guy!
The voice kept on repeating the words grab a guy and give him a kiss. Each time the voice said the words it got louder and more forceful but Mina kept questioning why.
The class watched captivated as they watched Mina resist the curse. Her hand was left outstretched from the first time Moody told her to grab a guy but after that her body stayed completely still. Finally Moody broke the curse and patted her on the back.
"Now, that's more like it. Did you see the way her eyes were? I have never seen anything like that before Aino. Nobody has ever been able to fight the curse so well on the first try. How did you do it?"
Mina blushed and said nothing as she sat down. She knew the reason she would be able to resist was because all the senshi had to be able to block out their minds from others. Hers was especially strong as she had spent a lot of time training her mind to block out her empathic abilities.
When Ami was called up Mina knew that she too would be able to resist. Mina was right in this assumption. Moody had told Ami to sing a song and Ami had opened her mouth and let out one note before she stopped. The same thing that happened to Mina happened to Ami.
Ami hated to sing out loud and stopped herself from doing as she was told. Moody was impressed with the two girls and demonstrated on them and Harry for the rest of the lesson. He kept going with Harry until he too was able to fully block the curse.
Hermione was again jealous that the two new girls had done better than her in a subject. "They way he talks you'd think we were all going to be attacked any second!"
Ron nodded as he walked with the group. "Yeah I know and when are we supposed to find time to read up on resisting the Imperius curse with everything else we've got to do?"
All the fourth years had noticed a definite increase in the amount of work they had to do that term. Professor McGonagall had explained why. "You are now entering a most important phase of your education. Your Ordinary Wizarding Levels are drawing closer –"
"We don't take the O.W.L.S 'till fifth year" interrupted Dean Thomas.
"Maybe not, Thomas but believe me you all need all the preparation you can get. Miss Mizuno and Miss Granger remain the only two able to turn a hedgehog into a satisfactory pincushion. Miss Aino gets relatively close but some of the pins are still the needles from the hedgehog. As for yours Thomas, it still curls up in fright if anyone approaches it with a pin!"
Ami had turned pink from the praise while Hermione was sitting there with a smirk on her face trying not to seem too pleased with herself but failing miserably.
Harry, Ron and Mina were deeply amused when they received top marks for their Divinations homework but were less amused when they were asked to do the same for the following month. All three of them were running low on ideas for disasters.
Meanwhile, Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes which they all took very seriously. He had hinted that he would poison them to see if their antidotes were working. In history of magic they were writing weekly essays.
Even Setsuna was piling on the workload. After each of the lessons the students had to write an essay about the things learnt in her class. So fair she had gone through the information on all the planets but hadn't yet taught them anything about the princesses or love stories. The assignments were to basically was to write about what sort of a society it was in those times. Mina and Ami had no problems with doing the homework and used that time for their other subjects.
Finally Hagrid had added even more to their workload. He had told the students that for their project the students would come down to his hut on alternate evenings to observe the Skrewts and make notes on their extraordinary behaviour.
"I will not! I see enough of these foul things during lessons thanks." Malfoy said flatly when Hagrid proposed this. Mina gave a frown at Malfoy's attitude but in a way agreed with him. She was starting to hate the disgusting creatures.
Unfortunately Hagrid told them all that they would do as they were told or he would take a leaf out of Professor Moody's book. This made both Malfoy and Mina flame up from remembering that incident.
The group of five returned to the castle after that lesson and when they arrived in the Entrance Hall., the found themselves unable to proceed. There was a large congregation of students in that hall around a large sign. Ron the tallest of the five stood on his tiptoes to read the sign to the others.
"It says. TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT, the delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving at 6 o'clock on Friday 30th of October. Lessons will end half an hour early. Students will return their bags and books to their dormitories and assemble in front of the castle to greet out guests before the Welcoming Feast."
Harry smiled widely, "Brilliant, its potions last thing on Friday! Snape won't have time to poison us all!"
"Only a week away!" said Ernie Macmillan of Hufflepuff, emerging from the crowd, his eyes gleaming. "I wonder if Cedric knows? Think I'll go and tell him..."
"Cedric?" Mina questioned with a blank look on her face.
"Cedric Diggory. He is a sixth year here; I assume he is entering the tournament." Replied Harry.
Ron scoffed at Harry's response. "That idiot, as Hogwarts Champion?"
Hermione rolled her eyes at Ron. "He's not an idiot; you just don't like him because he beat Gryffindor at Quidditch. I've heard he is a really good student and he is a prefect.
"People at this school only like him because he is handsome and you are no different Hermione." Said Ron scathingly.
Hermione scoffed and glared at Ron as she walked away.
Mina on the other hand was rather intrigued. "I think I would like to meet this Cedric."
Harry who had started to follow Hermione whirled around and gaped. "Why would you want to do that?"
Minako giggled slightly as she walked passed Harry and winked over her shoulder. "Duh Harry, he must be handsome if Ron thinks so."
Ron turned bright red and tried to splutter out that he did not think Cedric was handsome but it was too late. Mina had already walked away giggling to herself. Ami gave him a smile and followed after Mina.
Harry and Ron looked at each other before shaking their heads. "Girls I will never understand them!"
Ron nodded in agreement as they walked after the girls.
The appearance of that sign in the Entrance Hall had greatly affected most of the inhabitants of Hogwarts. During the week there seemed to be no other topic of conversation besides the Triwizard Tournament. Mina, Ami, Setsuna and Harry seemed to be the only ones not affected by the news. Surprisingly even Hermione was affected by the tournament.
When they went down to breakfast on the morning of the thirtieth of October, they found the Great Hall had been decorated over night. Enormous silk banners hung from the walls each of them representing a different house. For Gryffindor the banner was red with a gold lion, blue with a bronze eagle represented Ravenclaw, Slytherin's was green with a silver serpent and Hufflepuffs was yellow with a black badger. Behind the teachers table there was the biggest banner of all, depicting the Hogwarts coat of arms: lion, eagle, badger and snake united around a large letter 'H'.
The five of them saw Fred and George talking quietly away from everyone. They walked up to the boys and sat down beside them after overhearing small parts of their conversation. Ron questioned his brothers but they were saying nothing. Ron sighed and gave up before moving onto his favourite topic of conversation.
"You two got ideas on how to enter the Tournament yet?"
George shook his head bitterly, "I asked McGonagall but she told me to shut up and get on with transfiguring my racoon."
"I wonder what the tasks would be? I bet we could do it Harry, we have dangerous stuff before..."
"Not in front of a panel of judges. McGonagall says the champions get awarded points according to how well they have done in the tasks." Fred replied.
Harry who was slightly interested now asked, "Who are the judges."
To everyone's surprise it was Ami that answered the question. "Well the heads of the participating schools are always on the panel because all three of them were injured during the tournament of 1792. It happened when a cockatrice the champions were supposed to be catching went on the rampage."
Hermione answered the questioning looks on all their faces. "She read it in Hogwarts: A History though it should really be called a Revised History of Hogwarts or a Biased History of Hogwarts and a Selective History of Hogwarts, Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School."
Mina leaned over to Harry and whispered in his ear. "She really needs to come up with shorter or better names. Seriously the one she came up with for S.P.E.W first was so long and then she came up with S.P.E.W which is even worse! Now this, she does not have a career in writing catchy phrases."
Harry laughed softly and Mina's response which is why he was unable to stop Ron when he asked the dreaded question.
"What are you on about?"
"House-elves! Not once in over a thousand pages, does Hogwarts: A History mention that we are all colluding in the oppression of a hundred slaves!"
All of them were ignoring her small tirade. Though Harry, Ron, Mina and Ami had paid their two sickles to join, they mostly did it just to shut Hermione up. None of them wore their badges which often resulted in glaring and yelling from Hermione.
Luckily Hermione's tirade was broken by the arrival of the post owls. The group had looked up to see Hedwig and Chie flying towards their table. Chie looked like he was about to fall from the weight of two little boxes attached to his legs and Hedwig carried a single letter.
While the two senshi were busy pulling the boxes off Chie, Harry took the time to read the letter Hedwig brought. Harry gave Hedwig some of his breakfast as he opened the letter. It read:
Nice try, Harry.
I'm back in the country and well hidden. I want you to keep me posted on everything that's going on in Hogwarts. Don't use Hedwig, keep changing owls and don't worry about me, just watch out for yourself. Don't forget about what I said about your scar.
Sirius.
Harry rolled up the letter and placed it in his robes as he turned around to Ami and Mina to see what was in the boxes.
"Hey girls, what did Chie bring you?"
Mina smiled widely as she handed him two little black boxes. He opened them and his mouth opened as he saw a beautiful pair of earrings in one box and a matching necklace in the other. The earrings had two small circular diamonds hanging down with a medium sized diamond heart at the bottom. The necklace was a delicate gold chain with a diamond heart hanging off the chain.
"Wow, they are really pretty Mina." Hermione said as she studied the jewellery.
Ron nodded with his mouth open, if they were real diamonds it would have cost a fortune. "What are they for? Are they real?"
"Who did you get them from, your boyfriend?" Harry questioned not being able to fully cover up his jealousy that somebody else was sending Minako beautiful, jewellery.
Minako shook her head and blushed slightly. "I don't have a boyfriend Harry. They were from a group of my friends back in Japan and yes Ron they are real and were for my birthday."
Harry cleared his throat red from his embarrassing assumption until he realised she said birthday.
"Birthday? When was you Birthday? You never told us when your birthday is."
Mina shrugged lightly as she put the jewellery into her robe. "My birthday was the 22nd of October. I didn't really want to make a big deal about it so I never told you guys. Plus with everyone so excited about the Triwizard Tournament it didn't seem to matter. It isn't like 14 is a really important age. "
Harry reluctantly agreed and the five headed off to their classes. During the day not a lot of work was done. All were too excited about the arrival of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students even potions was more bearable as it ended half an hour earlier. When the bell rang Harry, Hermione, Ron, Mina and Ami hurried up to Gryffindor Tower and deposited their bags and books. They then proceeded to pull on their cloaks and rushed back downstairs into the Entrance Hall.
The head of houses were ordering their students into lines.
"Follow me please, first years in front and no pushing." Professor McGonagall ordered as she led the Gryffindors down the front steps and up in front of the castle. The students waited in the cold weather for the visiting students. Finally Dumbledore called out from where he was standing.
"Unless I am very much mistaken, the delegation from Beauxbatons approaches."
Everybody began looking around for Beauxbatons until a sixth year pointed over the Forest. "There!"
A giant black shaped was skimming over the top of the Forbidden Forest. As it got closer they were able to make out a gigantic powder blue, horse-drawn carriage. It was pulled through the air by a dozen winged horses, all palominos and each the size of an elephant.
The carriage landed with an almighty crash that made a few students jump. The door of the carriage carried a coat of arms which consisted of two golden wands crossed over and emitting three stars.
The door then opened and a boy with pale blue robes jumped down from the carriage and pressed a button making golden stairs unfold from the carriage. Mina and Ami could not help but stare at the giant woman that stepped out of the carriage. She was as large as Hagrid with olive skin, black eyes and her black hair was drawn back into a shining knob at the base of her neck.
Dumbledore started to clap making the students stop staring and follow his lead. She smiled and walked over to Dumbledore.
"Madame Maxime, Welcome to Hogwarts."
"Dumbly-dorr I 'ope you are well. My pupils. " She replied as she waved one of her hands towards a group of students that had just got out of the carriage.
There was about a dozen boys and girls dressed in light blue silk robes. They were shivering slightly which was too be expected by the clothes they were wearing. Mina and Ami admired the robes and whispered to each other.
"I love the colour, I should have went there, they wear blue all the time!'
Mina laughed quietly and Ami and nodded. "It is a beautiful uniform and made of silk!"
They also subtly looked at the boys from Beauxbatons, admiring some of their looks. They discussed this quietly but Ron and Harry were eavesdropping on their conversation and could feel a slight hint of jealousy.
Ami and Mina were too busy discussing the visitors that they did not even notice that Madame Maxim had led her students inside the building to warm up. Unfortunately the Hogwarts students didn't yet have that luxury as they were still waiting for Durmstrang to arrive.
A loud and oddly eerie noise was drifting towards the group from out of the darkness.
Lee Jordan was the first to realise where the sound was coming from. He pointed towards the lake and the rest of the students followed his gaze.
In the very middle of the lake a whirlpool had appeared. A large black pole began to rise out of the whirlpool, then a rigging followed. The students all watched in wonder as a magnificent ship rose out of the water, gleaming in the moonlight.
Mina couldn't help but think that the ship reminded her a little of the Black Pearl from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It looked like a resurrected wreck with misty lights shimmering at its portholes.
The anchor was thrown down into the water and planks were lowered onto the bank. A group of figured disembarked the ship and began to walk up to the Entrance Hall.
The students were wearing cloaks made of some shaggy fur, it appeared to be the opposite of the Beauxbatons uniform. It was heavy, furry, brown and clearly made for cold weather. The man leading the bunch of students was wearing a silver fur coat that matched his hair. The man was tall and thin with white hair and a goatee.
"Dumbledore, how are you my dear fellow?" he called out heartily as he walked up to headmaster of Hogwarts.
Dumbledore smiled and shook the stranger's hand. "Blooming, thank you, Professor Karkaroff."
"How good it is to be here. Viktor, come along here, into the warmth. Dumbledore you don't mind do you? Viktor has a slight head cold..."
Karkaroff beckoned one of his students forward. As the boy passed Mina and Ami caught a glimpse of a prominent curved nose and thick black eyebrows. The whirled around as they heard Harry admit a small groan at the punch he had just received from Ron. It appeared that this Viktor was famous.
Ron was standing there with his mouth open barely getting out the words.
"Harry – it's Krum!"
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