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The great hall was filled with the sound of students chatting amongst themselves, the squeals of girls reuniting with friends, guy's high fiving and shouting to each other across tables. The Gryffindor table was filled with smiles, and I was so happy to see everyone after a long summer, a lot of people had changed. The Patil twins who had rightfully earned the title of school gossips, both blossomed, Neville Longbottom was taller than ever, but his features were defined, I looked down the table to see Ron, and smiled at the sight of the gangly and awkward teenager, but was happy to see that his posture was improved, not by much, but enough for me to notice.

I wondered if I looked any different, I knew I had grown half an inch, and I had started wearing lip gloss and mascara, but I suppose since I saw myself every day I wouldn't really notice if id changed. Although I'm quite certain I looked the same as I always had, although hopefully I appeared more mature and womanly.

Looking around I saw many more people I knew, and like always, I felt myself tear up a bit. This place was my second home, and I'd really missed it. I was so sentimental today, mental note: check the calendar, make sure I packed 'feminine supplies'. And painkillers. And Ellie, my stuffed owl.

The great hall was filled with noise, when the booming voice of Dumbledore came from out of no where, announcing the entrance of the first years. As usual, they walked in behind professor McGonagall, wide eyed with awe, keeping their distance from the tables, as though we were foreign creatures ready to devour them. Although, if this was the Slytherin table I wouldn't blame them for being fearful.

I cast a nervous glance over to said table, seeing smirks of recognition, boredom, and some very eager young ladies casting hopeful looks to the self-proclaimed 'Slytherin prince' Alexander Diotrephes. A title rarely disputed, his sandly blonde hair that brushed the tops of his hears, olive skin, and brown eyes matched a remarkably athletic body, which all combined to create the perfect image of a greek Adonis.

His family had been involved in the wizarding world since the very beginning, and rumor had it, his ancestors had been crucial in Salazar Slytherins becoming a great wizard, and were key pieces in he who must not be named first uprising. He saw one of the girls eyeing him, and winked, her face turned white and she nearly swooned. I swallowed the urge to roll my eyes, and looked back onto the sorting, to see it already almost over.

There were hardly any first years this year, something to consider. My mother had been very diligent in making me aware of signs and warnings. She was very superstitious

Once the sorting was over, I turned to grab some rather delectable looking chicken off of the golden platter in front of me and enjoying the rich fragrance of herbs and oils, when Dumbledore called out to the students again. I turned in annoyance to the teachers table, surprised, and saw that twinkle in his eye again.

In all honesty though, I was so hungry that I eventually tuned out a little to nibble on my chicken leg discreetly, hoping nobody was looking.

'Oh dear merlin, this has got to be the best chicken I've ever had.' I thought as I finally was able to eat something.

My temporary ecstasy was ended, when I heard a collective murmur in the hall, and looked up, seeing Fred and George exchanging looks of eagerness.

"What did he say?" I asked, wondering what could have them so excited. Was the ban on joke products lifted?

"Did you honestly ignore Dumbledore over chicken?" Angelina asked incredulously as I wiped my mouth on my sleeve and smiled sheepishly at her.

"I was really hungry, I forgot breakfast and the thought of candy on the train was nauseating, I was really really really hungry." I whined.

"You really are something, Grace." She said with a smile, as Dumbledore began to continue his speech.

"He announced that we are hosting the tri-wizard tournament this year." Fred whispered into my ear, sending familiar shivers down my spine.

Tri-wizard tournament? Why would they start that again, wasn't there always some sort of fatality or mauling or something of that sort? This was just asking for serious trouble, and I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

My thinking was interrupted when everyone started yelling and booing.

"That's rubbish!" Fred cried angrily, pounding his fist on the table and successfully making me drop my chicken leg.

I elbowed him in the stomach in retaliation.

"What the bloody hell was that for?" he groaned, rubbing his stomach, which I was sure proudly displayed a six pack from years of vigorous training with Oliver and the rest of the Quidditch team.

"You made me drop my chicken you git." I pouted. "Why are you all upset anyways?" I asked, raising an eyebrow at George who was arguing with another sixth year, quite enthusiastically I may add.

"You can only enter the tournament if you're 17, which is total rubbish if you ask me." He said, almost yelling.

I rolled my eyes, yeah he was smarter than most of the people at this school, but he almost cried the first time he saw the Giant Squid in our first year.

"Enough!" Dumbledore yelled, causing all the arguing to cease, and attention to turn to him. It was moments like these that reminded me why this school was the safest place in the world. This time, I was actually going to pay attention to what Dumbledore said, and I'm quite glad I did because I learned that two schools were to be staying here for the duration of the tournament. And if we were hosting two other magic schools, then that meant we would most likely be hosting Durmstrang, which was rumored to have some of the fittest guys in the world within its ranks. Although now I have to admit to myself I've spent too much time goofing off in the library with the Patil's.

Sadly of course, the schools would be arriving later in the year, but Dumbledore had one last trick up his sleeve, as usual. There was to be a judge or sorts, who could not be tricked that we were to submit our names to if we wished to join the tournament.

Once his speech was over, everyone turned to the food excitedly, digging in like hungry animals. Except of course, two angry ginger headed twins.

"What makes being 17 so special? I can out do half the seventh year class in defense against the dark arts, we should be able to join." George spat, as he stabbed his baked potato with a fork.

"Come on Georgey, don't let that get you down. Your brother has an idea." Fred replied, finally calm and collected unlike his twin. Sadly this calm was more scary than reassuring.

"Fred, please tell me you're not planning on entering this for real, they banned this for a reason." I tried to explain, feeling my chest tighten with worry.

"That's only because people weren't prepared, I'm prepared." He said with a confident grin on his face.

"You say that now, but let's see how confident you two would look if faced with something like a three headed dog!" I challenged, jumping in my seat when Ron and Harry choked on their pumpkin juice.

"You guys alright over there?" I asked, eyeing them with worry.

"Yeah, fine, were fine. Aren't we fine Harry?" Ron asked, eyes wide and ears red as he looked at harry with an odd sort of desperation.

"Totally, right as rain." Harry added, looking down at his plate and refusing to meet my eyes.

"Right." I said slowly, turning back to the twins, who were whispering to each other excitedly.

"Just let them have their fun, you heard what Dumbledore said, the judge guy can't be fooled. They will have to settle with watching from the stands like the rest of us. Katie said, sighing as she watched to the troublemakers plot beside us.

"I just don't even understand why you would want to do something so reckless, there hasn't been a tournament in forever, why are we starting again?" I asked, attacking my own baked potato with worry. What if I knew one of the people selected and they got hurt? What if anyone got hurt?

"It's eternal greatness, you're remembered in history as one of the greatest wizards or witches in existence!" Lee chimed, excitement on his face.

"Oh? Can you tell me the names of any of the winners?" I challenged.

"The last winner was a guy from Durmstrang, don't know his name though." Lee said, losing confidence as he finished his statement.

"That's what I thought, you'll be famous until the next tournament, or at least for a few years." I stated.

"You sound just like my mom." Katie said with a laugh, everyone around us nodding in agreement.

I felt my cheeks flush with embarrassment, I was just trying to look out for everyone, I didn't mean to sound like some worry-wart mother figure. Honestly, that's the last thing that I wanted to do.

"But that's why we all love you." Said a familiar voice on my left as I felt an arm land on my shoulders.

I felt my face redden more as Fred gave me this lopsided hug, and leave his arm there while he ate. Katie gave me a look with a raised eyebrow, and I knew I'd most likely finally been caught.

"If you love me as much as you claim, you won't enter the tournament." I said cheekily looking up at Fred with a hopeful smile, even though I knew there really was no stopping him or George once they had an idea in their heads.

"While there is no measurement of my love fair lady, how can I prove myself worthy if I don't win the tournament?" he answered dramatically, putting his free hand over his heart.

"You're such an idiot." I murmured, registering how close his face was to mine, and knowing full well there was no changing his mind at this point.

"But I'm your idiot." He finished with a wink, as he pulled his arm back from my shoulders and began to finish his dinner.

"Well, if any of you need me I'm about to fall over, and I'll be in bed." I announced, standing up from the table as everyone waved.

I left the great hall as quickly as I could, and stopped at the first non moving staircase I could find and sat down with my elbows on my knees and chin in my hands. What was I going to do about my crush on Fred this year? Clearly people were starting to notice, and most likely it was going to get back to him, but what if he didn't feel that same?

"My my, what's a Gryffendor doing away from the pack? That's not something you see quite often" husky a voice said from in front of me.

There in all his beautiful glory was Alexander.

"What do you want Diotrephes?" I asked, warily pulling my hand back to my pocket where my wand sat, ready for action.

"You and I both know you're rubbish at dueling, so let's just relax and keep our wands in our pockets, okay?" he suggested, smirking as I groaned in frustration.

"I repeat, what do you want? Can't you see that I was busy?" I questioned testily, regretting my fifth year with every fiber of my being.

"Busy sitting on a staircase by yourself? Well if you must know I was going to the dungeons and saw you here, figured you could use some cheering up." He answered simply, walking over and leaning over me, smirk growing as I felt my chest tighten and I reached back for my wand.

"What's going on here?"

I breathed with relief as some Hufflepuffs rounded the corner.

"Nothing, just a chat between friends." Diotrephes answered, leaning back and walking away, waving a hand in the air dismissively.

One of the hufflepuffs walked over and I vaguely recognized him as Cedric Diggory, a seventh year and fit one at that.

"Are you alright?" he asked, holding out his hand to help me up.

"I'm ok, thank you for being at the right place at the perfect time." I said, accepting his hand and smiling, hoping I'd get feeling back in my legs sometime soon.

"It's no problem, you should probably head to your common room, never know when a snake will come out of hiding." He said with a small smile as he went back to his group and they walked off towards their common room.

Nice guy, I thought. He was right, I really shouldn't be lurking around alone, so I headed to the portrait of the fat lady, mumbled the password and ran to the girls' dormitory as fast as I could and threw myself onto the bed with my things near it.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!" I screamed into my pillow, as memories of last year came back to me.

Hey guys sorry this took so long! Hope you liked it, may be changing the rating because of the bit of swearing going on, but nothing heavier than that should be happening so no worries! Please review, and again, I no longer have my copy of the fourth book so if anyone would like to help me out timeline wise that would be great! Love you all!