Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I've been on holiday. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Please tell me what you think.

Nobody really knew what the second task was about. The champions still hadn't told anyone what they had found out from their golden eggs. The only clue was that the stands, which were nearly full, were facing the lake. Harry was in one of the stands further to the left. He looked round to see where Ron and Hermione were. He hadn't properly talked to them in ages but he still secretly dreamed of their adventures round the castle. He saw a grumpy looking Ron next to Neville, in the stand next to them. He looked to see if Hermione was next to him. She wasn't. Harry had heard rumours about Hermione and Victor Krum getting close, so he looked to see if she was with Victor. She wasn't there either. Victor was stood with Fleur and Cedric, but none of them were talking. They were all staring at the lake.

Suddenly a voice boomed

"Well, all our champions are ready for the second task, which will start on my whistle." Everyone went silent and looked at Ludo Bagman as he continued "They have precisely one hour to recover what has been taken from them. On the count of three then. One... two... three!" the whistle echoed shrilly in the cold air. Like everyone else, Harry craned his neck to see what the other champions where doing.

Victor had his wand pointed at himself, and seemed to be muttering a spell. His features were slowly changing. First, his skin started getting tighter around his face. His nose was sinking back into it and his skin was starting to go slightly grey. Just as his mouth and eyes disappeared under skin, his hair started sinking back into in to his head. The skin appeared to be splitting in three different places at the back of his head. Harry realised that they were starting to turn into eyes and mouth. Harry blinked. When he opened his eyes, Victor was still there just his head had been replaced by a sharks head. Suddenly, Victor dived and disappeared under the surface of the water.

Harry looked to see what Fleur and Cedric were doing. Fleur looked like she was having trouble with whatever spell she was attempting, so Harry looked over to Cedric. He, like Fleur, had his wand pointed at himself. As he murmured, a silvery, sort of silky bubble started forming around his nose and mouth. As soon as it was complete, he dived in and vanished from sight. Fleur still seemed to be having trouble with what she was doing, but a silver bubble was also now starting to form around her face. Then she also dived in and disappeared in a clump of seaweed.

It was only now that Harry wondered what it was the champions had to find. If it was an object, it must be pretty important if they were diving around the bottom of the lake to get it. Maybe it would be a clue for the next task?

Harry was now starting to get bored, and he had the feeling that he wasn't the only one. It had now been 25minutes since the champions had gone. He was just about to ask if he could join Fred and George's game of Exploding Snap when a head burst out from the lake. It was Fleur. If only she would bring her hands out so everyone could see what she had brought back. It was only then that Harry realised that she had tears in her eyes. A loud voice declared

"Fleur Delacour has returned, with 35 minutes to spare. She has however not brought back what needed to be returned. I won't spoil the surprise for you." Whispering broke out as she swam back to the stands. Harry wondered what it was that she should have brought back. She seemed quite upset, as Madame Maxime handed her a blanket.

The next half an hour was uneventful. But the tension was rising in the stands as the champions only had 5 minutes left. People were starting to wonder if anything had happened to Cedric and Victor when Ludo Bagman announced

"The hour time limit has now expired." Everybody was now wondering, but one of the Weasley twins wondered out loud.

"What happens if they don't come up?" Bagman must have been thinking something along those lines as he answered "Then we will have to rescue them."

Then, just as he finished, a head popped up in the water, about 100 meters away from the stands.

"Cedric Diggory has returned 1 minute outside the time limit. He has brought back what needed to be found." It was more a question of who, rather than what, as a second head appeared next to Cedric's. It was Cho Chang. Suddenly, someone shouted

"Gabriel! Where is she?" it was Fleur, no doubt asking Cedric about whom she should have found

"She's fine but she's sti-"He got down for a few seconds as he was still supporting Cho "She's still down there." This news only seemed to worry Fleur more.

Then, two more heads appeared above the surface of the water. It was Victor and someone with bushy, brown hair. Very familiar bushy hair. Hermione. Harry knew that Hermione and Victor had been close, he just didn't know how. Oh well, at least she wasn't at the bottom of the lake anymore.

When all the champions had been wrapped up in blankets and their cuts had been healed, Ludo Bagman's voice boomed

"Ladies and Gentlemen. We have reached our decision." Instant silence "Merchief Murcus has told us exactly what happened at the bottom of the lake, and we have therefore decided to award marks out of 50 for each of the champions as follows...

Miss Fleur Delacour, though she demonstrated excellent use of the bubble-head charm, was attacked by Grindylows as she approached her goal, and failed to rescue her hostage. We award her 25 points." The stands applauded

"Mr Cedric Diggory, who also used the bubble-head charm, returned with his hostage 1 minute outside the time limit." The Hufflepuffs cheered and Cho smiled at Cedric "We award him 47 points." The Hufflepuffs roared. Harry joined in.

"Mr Victor Krum used an incomplete form of transfiguration, which was still effective, and was second to return with his hostage. We award him 40 points." The Durmstrang students and the Slytherins applauded.

Harry smiled. That still lest Cedric in 1st place.