An: Onward and upward. On to the summer before 4th year and the first part of my Goblet of Fire cover. Not a ton of AU for this one. But the *hits gonna hit the fan in book five. ;)

A tiny bit sad that no one has either picked up on my bread crumbs or they have and haven't said anything.

Sorries for the wait in updates my muse has come down with a bad case of 'ADH... oh look squirrel!' and won't focus long enough to finish a full chapter. So I'm bouncing back and forth adding a few paragraphs to my fics here and there trying to get my mind restarted and the creative juices flowing.

I didn't realize 14 hadn't been posted, so sorry

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One major event rested on the horizon that determined the rest of Harry's summer. BOX SEATS AT THE QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP! Sirius had gotten him, Dudley and Terry tickets. Ever since they learned back in first year of the Boot's dislike and fear of magic the friends have been letting him stay at one of their homes during breaks. Terry spent his summers bouncing from house to house and loving spending time with all his friends.

The whole crew arrived the 2 days before the matches were to start. The 5 of them were joined by Susan and her aunt who was head of security, along with an auror (that was also Sirius's cousin). Luna and Colin, his brother and dad also came. She was there as a reporter and Colin had been conscripted as her photographer. Harry thought the boy might have a crush on Luna and was watching them closely. Remus and Amelia both thought Dennis was the cutest thing in the universe.

The 'tent' using the term very loosely, for the gigantic piece of charms magic. It was a large tent to start with, with 3 projections off the main area. Inside it was a whole house. Each of the 3 offsets were a suite of rooms. The boys would stay in the right one, the 4 adults in the middle and the 2 girls on the right. 3 of the Potter elves were even along for the trip and they were providing the food and keeping the place clean. The main living area had all the comforts of home. Living room, dinning room, kitchen, even an air hockey table that used levitation charms in place of air.

Even though the festivities didn't start for 2 more days there was still plenty to do. There were games, duels, other performances. It was like a fair. With loads of booths selling everything under the sun. They were all having a good time.

Late in the afternoon the day before the Cup the entire Weasley clan (minus 2) arrived. They only 2 missing were Molly and Percy. Harry was glad to meet Charlie(officially), and Bill. Harry did feel a bit bad when Luna started interrogating the Beast Master. He was surprised that some creatures he would have labeled as fiction Charlie claimed were real. Bill was just cool. Ginny had toned down some so he didn't mind her tagging along with their group.

Bill and Charlie both noticed the large group of kids assimilate the twins, and Ginny, yet act as though Ron didn't exist. They asked the twins about it later and were not pleased with what they heard. The fact that Ron's jealousy and bigoted attitude had him liked less than Malfoy by his year mates was awful. Ginny and the twins agreed that Harry tried to be friends with everyone but when Ron insulted Terry and later Hermione he just wouldn't stand for it. Since the end of second year when they had all been praised for their rescue the whole group ignored Ron's presents. His and Percy's reactions had turned most of the school against them. Most people thought those 2 were adopted because the twins were awesome and poor Ginny was innocent. And the older years remembered how nice and laid back Charlie had been.

The 2 eldest were saddened but there was nothing they could do.

When the game finally began Sirius stopped the twins for betting with Bagman. He knew the man was a cheat and charlatan. Instead he took their money and placed an official bet under his name promising to give them the winnings if they were correct. Turns out Percy did attend the game. As the Minister's and Malfoy's personal brown nose-er. The 3 oldest Weasley's were embarrassed by his company and it was only Harry and the twins that prevented Mr. Weasley and Sirius from doing something. They told Sirius that it was not the Marauder way. He quit struggling and his face broke into a vicious smile that had Malfoy flinching. Arthur didn't like it but he could appreciate a more satisfying revenge later.

Harry liked the Irish opening but was confused by the Bulgarian's. The women were nice but he didn't understand everyone's reactions. Mr Weasley, Bill and Remus were the only men other then Harry and Dennis that were unaffected. Once they calmed down Charlie explained about the women. Turns out they were actually creatures called Vella. They were like sirens but weren't restricted to water.

The game was amazing. Krum was so fast and the Irish chasers were so in sync. Harry was on the edge of his seat through the whole game. He nearly screamed himself horse. When Krum caught the snitch. The twins screamed there hearts out nearly knocking Sirius over the rail in their enthusiasm to hug him. Remus just laughed as the junior Marauders professed their love for his partner.

They were all riding the high from the game and the twins were over the moon. Sirius just as he promised gave them the winnings and they would have the funds to start up their business. They were nearly in tears when Sirius asked if they needed a hand with research and ideas. Working with one of their idols was more than a dream.

But their fun and games came to an end with the first explosions. The screams and explosions rocked the tent and they all headed out to see what the ruckus was. The Weasley's, save the over zealous twins, had returned to their camp site hours ago to get some sleep. They all pulled their wands and got the elves to take Mr. Creevey and Dennis home. Remus tried to get Dudley to go as well but he just picked up a beaters bat and joined the rest of them. Dudley could do all the first year spells (save levitation) and a few from second year but any that required much power or extended focus were beyond him.

The whole group headed toward the commotion. Remus sent up a prayer that either no one was hurt or that he himself was so badly injured that Petunia wouldn't kill him for allowing the children (Sirius included) to rush into danger.

The kids held there own and Remus had to admit it was great fun cursing Death Eaters once again. Sirius was a thing of beauty he thought. All grace and joy. The curses and jinx flying near silent from his smiling lips as he seemed to dance away from the spells being thrown at him. Remus had to be saved a time or two, due to being so distracted by his lovely mate.

Harry and Dudley fought so in sync, like only those who knew and trusted one another completely could. The twins were the same but they were less concerned with fighting the bad guys and more so with finding their family.

Colin threw himself into battle letting Terry shield him and Luna. She was viper quick but her spells didn't pack the punch Colin's did and Terry was much better suited to defense his shield was able to hold against Susan when she was pissed and against Harry's raw power.

The battle came to an end not even 20 minutes after it started, when all the Death Eaters fled. Some running from the power of the 'chosen one' and his deadly Black godfather, and the rest from the might of a teed off Madame Bones who was fighting her way to her niece. Just before the last one fled an ugly dark mark was cast in the sky. It was a skull with a snake running through its eye and out its mouth. Harry found it disgusting. He thought it was an appalling and almost demonic calling card.

He paused and thought about that. If Voldemort had made a deal with the devil that could be why he wouldn't die. He would have to look into that. Ways to survive death. He already had a few clues. Like that his spirit was in more than one place at once. Assuming the book Ginny had and Quirrell were possessed at the same time. He wondered if the Goblin's would know. They, and uncle Vernon got on swimmingly so he would ask his uncle to ask them.

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All anyone could talk about on the way to school was how an elf was caught using a wizards wand to cast the mark. Harry thought that was the single most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. Well outside that time Gabriel covered himself in rainbow dots and claimed to have caught the mortal pox to get out of his duties. But no one really knew about that. Harry also wondered if he should tell any of them. He loved his friends but all it would take would be one little leak and the world would think he was crazy. He would consider it.

Harry had little interest in rehashing what happened after the game. He was much more interested in what had occurred on the field. So while the others were discussing the attack he chatted with Neville and Luna about a strange seed Luna found while on safari with her dad in Cambodia. They were also happy to listen to him chatting about the amusement rides at the theme park Aunt Petunia had taken him and Dudley to. Harry loved the fast rides especially the ones that took you upside down and through loops.

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Harry was far more upset at the lack of Quidditch than there being some kind of tournament he was not eligible for. He spoke to the team and they too weren't interested. Oliver had graduated and last they heard was doing tryouts in a few weeks for a couple different teams. All the other players still loved the game though and for once Harry and Ron Weasley were on the same page. Ron was hopping to take Oliver's spot as Keeper and was angry that he couldn't. As they chatted up and down the table soon all of Gryffindor was up for a rally, a protest against the lack of sport.

Harry used his contacts in the other houses and even approached Flint and Malfoy about the unfairness. Every one agreed and on the Friday before the schools were to arrive, all the quidditch players stood as one and approached the head table. They all pleaded their case which had been built using Ravenclaw facts, Hufflepuff heart, the Slytherins cunning and the bravery of the Gryffindor's. There was not an argument that could be brought against the teens since they had thought through everyone posed to them.

They had crafted a schedule that could be worked around the tasks and a competition bracket which included space for one or two teams from each of the visiting schools. In the end they won the debate with the teachers and quidditch was back on. The whole hall gave deafening cheers.

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The school was still riding high on their success when the other schools arrived. It was 2 weeks till Halloween, when the drawing of champions would be held.

The entrance of the Beauxbaton was far too feminine for Harry's taste but he smiled anyway thinking that maybe it was just magic that made girls beautiful. He would be more than happy to associate with 20 or so more lovely young ladies.

Dunstram's in contrast was almost frightening to most of the student body. Harry though had to keep himself from giggling. The march reminded him of Michael doing drills with the Seraphim, trying to show off. He was just as amused and unimpressed with the Bulgarian's show as he was when his brother decided to act like a peacock.

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Time passed relatively normal. You almost couldn't tell there were 50 extra students and 10 extra staff in attendance. Outside meal times the foreign students were rarely seen in the castle. They learned that while most of the French students spoke a passable amount of English only a third of the Bulgarian's understood any of their language. Krum's broken English was the best from his school. Save their headmaster, who Harry learned was English.

Susan passed her aunt's warning on, stay away from Igor because he was a Death Eater. Once he heard that Harry wrote to Remus and Sirius about him and learned the man sold out his fellow Death Eaters to avoid going to prison. Sirius was livid about it because Igor wasn't even remorseful about what he did to others.

Harry took the warnings to heart and stayed away from the Bulgarian delegation. He attracted enough trouble and didn't need to go looking for more.

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Halloween rolled around. For the past 3 years Harry and at least two of his friends had given the feast a pass so he could grieve and remember his parents on the day they died. This year thought Harry didn't want to miss the festivities so he planed to hold them the next day, on Día de Los Muertos. Which his pen pal from America told him about. His pal was a few years younger than him but she was super nice. She had become like the little sister he never had.

The feast was excellent and the whole hall was charged with energy. Everyone was excited and placing bets on who would be chosen. Harry had money on Krum for Dunstram, A Slytherin for Hogwarts and he placed bets on 3 separate members of the French delegation that he thought had a shot.

Once the goblet was brought forward they all waited with baited breath. The first name was... Viktor Krum. Harry cheered loudly before collecting his winnings from the twins, discreetly of course. The next was Felur Delacroix. Harry politely clapped, he hadn't bet on her so lost that wager. Harry was frowning when Cedric was chosen. Sure the older boy was fast and the second best seeker in the school but he wasn't even in Delacroix league. Harry was wondering if all the students with a real chance of winning had even entered. Didn't seem like it since there were 6 other students Harry would put before Cedric in the running.

He had just turned back to chat with his friends about the implications and weather it would be considered wrong to bet against their own school, when the goblet began to hiss and spark. The blue flames changed to green, then black and finally burned in a clear flame that was near invisible. After the light show another name was spit out and the goblet went dark. Dumbledore took the slip and read the name eyebrows raising before he looked around the room.

"Harry Potter." He called into the now silent room. Everyone turned to look at him some in shock, other accusation. Harry's bright mood turn foul.

Harry knew he needed to nip this in the bud. So he stood and went to the front. Standing there beside the headmaster Harry took out his wand. "I, Harry James Potter, as heir to the Potter and Black families do swear upon my life and magic that I neither entered my name into this tournament nor asked anyone else to do so. So mote it be." His wand flashed and then Harry cast a lumos showing that he still had magic. The press that were covering this event were eating this up. "Oh and whoever did enter my name, congrats you have just taken Voldemort's place on my shit list." with that rare profanity Harry joined the other champions in the antechamber.

Harry didn't really listen to anything said in the meeting it was mostly Snape's vile dribbling and Moody's insane rambling. Instead he occupied his time thinking of the many books in the Black library and Potter vault that could be used to find and pay back whoever got him into this situation. Thought Harry got his smile back thinking about how Aunt Petunia was going to rip Dumbledore, and the Minisry to shreds over this. You would think after the vote of no confidence held against Fudge after the fiasco with Sirius that they would learn. Harry knew that justice was a slow process, but he was beginning to wonder if the wizarding world knew the concept at all.

Ever since Sirius' trial Harry had been reading law books, which came surprisingly easy to him. The laws were all archaic, unfair and wrought with loopholes and mumbo jumbo that really meant nothing. Harry was hoping to get Sirius to begin making changes that Harry could continue once he graduated. Since one of the few laws that made any sense stated that a wizard had to pass 2 NEWTS to take their seat on the Wizengott.

Harry snapped back to the present when they were dismissed. All of his friends in Gryffindor showed their support and belief in him when he returned to the dorm. The twins were ecstatic about the development. They were planning on putting steep odds against Harry but knowing their friend they would have to get all the bets before the first task. They were sure after knowing him and his antics for the past 3 years any good odds wouldn't last when the crowds saw what he could really do.

The group met in the chamber the next day to discuss what was going to happen. Hermione and Angelina were fretting, while the twins were scheming with Dean and Seamus. The ravens, Terry, Luna and Padma, were working on ways to get out of it and everyone else was just watching the show. They all decided that since there was no way to know what the tasks would include that they should be ready for everything. They worked up a schedule to train in all the classes Harry was taking, so he wouldn't fall behind in classes while he was training, and time to research other areas not taught in school, or things the older teens would have learned that Harry hadn't yet.

Training for Harry and his friends was brutal but they were all seeing results of not only being more fit due to extra activity but at their marks improving. Sirius was also sending them information and new topics to study as he found helpful spells in the Black Library. Dudley was sending ideas and strategies. There were several series of letters shared between Dudley and Hermione, Susan and Padma arguing the finer points of one strategy over another for the various scenarios the 4 came up with. Hedwig had even turned over several of those deliveries to other owls there was so much back and forth. Harry planned to get the 4 magic mirrors so they could argue face to face and not through letter any more.

As the task grew closer Harry was only a tiny bit worried that he still didn't know what the task was going to be. But with all the extra training and all the help and support he had Harry felt confident he was ready for just about anything.

Well that was till the twins, who were rather freaked out, told him that Charlie was at the castle on official business. Harry gulped. That could only mean one thing. Dragons were part of the first task.

After meeting the beast master this summer Harry was sure the man would NEVER have anything to do with harming a dragon so dragon slaying was out. They narrowed it down to stealing from the dragon or getting past the dragon. Either task would be both hard and dangerous. It took a few days to work out some plans to deal with a dragon. By the day of the task though they had 2 pretty good plans with several partial plans in the wings if needed. The plans were to use transfiguration to distract the dragon and use a gas charm to summon knock out gas and hope it worked. There were also the options to try and blind the dragon, or to summon his broom to out fly it.

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On the day of the task Sirius nearly broke his ribs hugging him so tight. Then Remus tried to finish the job. Harry then had his arms full of a frightened and tearful aunt. Uncle Vernon had decided not to come but Dudley was their placing a few final bets on Harry.

When the champions had chosen their dragon and Viktor had gone to face his Harry nearly laughed when he could have swore he heard Aunt Petunia trying to verbally fillet the administrators.

When Harry was left alone waiting for his dragon to be prepared he went back to thinking on Professor Moody. The man was a bit touched and the way he spoke of the dark arts was creepy and very disturbing. IT was as if he was talking about a lover. Harry was sure there was some clue he was over looking but what it was he couldn't work out.

He was also thinking about 'his' girls. Harry had done quite a bit of soul searching during the summer and was weighing the pros and cons of asking out each of his female friends. They all had their good traits and their bad, but Harry was worried that dating might ruin their friendships.

Harry was jerked out of his thoughts by his name being called by the announcer. He stood and exited the tent. Before him stood a simply massive dragon. Harry took a deep breath. "Now or never I guess. Let's see if my plan works."

Harry stepped forward till the horntail's focus was on him. He stopped and gave a bow. In a clear voice that showed none of his fear he spoke. "Hello my lady. I am Harry. The people who brought you here have placed a false egg in your nest and have tasked me to retrieve it. I do not wish to harm you or violate your nest but if I do not at least make an attempt I will lose my magic." Harry told the beast hoping that like Sophia, Ariel's dragon friend this creature understood him.

The dragon looked at him long and hard. Harry knew from Raguel's memories that dragons lived for hundreds of years so like angels they had little concept of time as mortals thought of it. He also knew rushing a dragon would only anger them. Finally after a long moment the beast brought it's head down and looked Harry in the eyes.

Like with all other animals he understood even though there were no real words as a human would think of them. She would allow him to enter the nest and retrieve the false egg, but he had to do so unarmed and if he so much as touched one of her real eggs she would roast him.

Harry nodded and removed his wand holster laying it on a near by rock. He moved forward and the Horntail left her nest but watched him carefully. Harry was glad that the 3 real eggs were not very close to one another as he entered the nest. It was a simple task of removing the much smaller golden egg and leaving with out disturbing anything.

"Thank you my lady. I apologize for any stress or inconvenience caused by the fools who forced us both into this situation." Harry told her with another bow once he had put back on his wand.

The horntail looked at him again. Harry got a wide smile and whooped. "YES!" He cried. "I would love that more than anything. Thank you! Thank you so much!" Harry ran forward toward her. The crowed watched in amazement as The horntail lay down and allowed Harry to climb into her neck. HE then said something no one could catch before she moved over to the stands. "Dursley party of one!" Harry called looking at Dudley. He then spotted the twins and asked if they could join as well. Getting a nod from the dragon he waved the twins over tossing his egg to Hermione. Both boys whooped and climbed on along with his cousin. "HOLD ON TIGHT!" Harry shouted when the dragon opened her wings. With one powerful beat they were in the air.

All 4 shouting their happiness. The horntail took them on a fast flight doing a few tricks to hear the children on her back laugh. She was before everything a mother so was sure to take care of the young ones that she was carrying. She offered the ride as appreciation for his diplomatic handling of the situation. Once she had been in flight for a while and noticed the children were getting cold she landed with grace and lay down so the boys could climb off. She then turned her head to them.

"Stand still and don't panic." Harry said as the dragon looked at them. She opened her jaws and let out a stream of hot air to warm them. The crowd was a bit shocked when there was fire in her mouth but she did the 4 boys no harm. "Thank you ever so much my lady. That was fantastic." Harry told her with a bow.

The other 3 also thanked her and bowed. She nodded in return and walked over to her nest blowing fire on the eggs before taking a seat. The twins and Dudley nearly smothered him in hugs. "Only you Harry!" They said in tandem. Harry just laughed.

While Harry received minimal points for both taking the longest and not using any magic he was very proud. His performance earned he loads of respect and Sirius thought it was the best prank EVER.

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An: So this year will be cut in half as well. Mostly because I don't know who Harry should take to the ball. I think I'll have Viktor still take Hermione. And Neville with Luna or Susan, And Dean taking Ginny because that pair is kinda cute.

I'm leaning toward Harry being bi and taking Fred or both Fred and George. If he is with both twins than Angelina would take Terry. But I'm open to suggestions and Harry would be Bi not fully gay since he does appreciate female assets.

Also narrowed it down to the SN crew showing up some time in season 4 either:

A) at the end of Rapture. When the boys show up at Bobby's

B) When the Levee Breaks after Cas and Dean talk about Dean accepting

C) Heaven and Hell. Right after Anna tells her plan to find her grace.

Let me hear your opinions.