Task twoooooo! Who shall win and who shall be disqualified? Enjoy :D
Closer to Christmas time, students began to receive letters and packages from their families back home, and everyone, including myself, even though I had no family to receive gifts from, was in a joyous mood. Luna, Hermione, Harry, Ron, the Weasley twins, the Patil twins, and I sat at the dining table, laughing and reminiscing about past Christmas mornings, when I looked across the room and saw Snape watching me, as usual. He was acting strangely lately, not that he didn't before, but he almost always chose me for demonstrations in class, except when he felt like tormenting Ron. He watched me walk from class to class with my friends, he watched me read, he watched me eat, he basically watched my every move. I had forgotten about that little confrontation with the professor back in September. Hogwarts just got weirder and weirder as each day passed, and that incident was nowhere near the top of the list. But with the second task coming up, I had better things to worry about than Snape.
On the day of the second task, December 12th, all eight of the contestants were transported from Hogwarts to the North Sea where Azkaban prison was located. The goal of the task was to escape the prison using only our wands without being seen by the dementors that guarded it. No one said a word as the boat took us over to the prison. It was a nerve-wracking moment, especially when the prison came into view. Harry, Susan Bones, and I just stared at the floor of the boat as the violent wind blew through our hair. Even Malfoy looked nervous, but his head was turned, concealing his true feelings through a hardened face. The second boat which was a few feet away from ours carried the remaining four students from Beetlerot.
The boats docked, and we were escorted inside the prison by several dementors. It was freezing cold, dark, and damp. The Beetlerot students were led into a hall to the left, and we were taken down a hall to the right. The four of us were huddled together in fear; this prison was home to the most dangerous criminals in the wizarding world. We were individually locked inside cells with our wands, and then the dementors left and returned to their guarding positions. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The only sound I heard was water dripping from the ceiling and hitting the floor.
How am I possibly going to escape without being caught?
My first instinct, and probably everyone else's, was to use the unlocking charm. Even if the cell door was under the colloportus charm, it could be countered with the unlocking charm. "Alohomora!" I whispered, and the lock fell to the floor with a rather loud clanging sound. As I slowly made my way out of the cell, I heard Malfoy being a smart arse and trying to simply apparate from the prison itself. He obviously didn't realize that Azkaban had an anti-apparition jinx on it.
He grunted frustratedly. "Bombarda!" There was an explosion, and I came face to face with Malfoy when I left my cell. There was a giant hole in his cell door. "See you later, Mudblood." He laughed and ran off. I was so close to stopping him; he was without a doubt going to get caught.
Why shouldn't he though?
He deserved to lose more than any of us, and was threatening everyone else's chances of winning. I pointed my wand at Malfoy who was already at the end of the hallway, "Cantis!" I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from laughing when he broke out into song. I hid inside my opened cell, holding my breath as I watched Malfoy being dragged away by two dementors.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS, WOODCROFT." He sang, almost in an opera. When I stepped back out of my cell, I used the silencing charm to temporarily mute my footsteps as I ran frantically down the hallway. When I turned a corner, I bumped into something, but when I looked, nothing was there.
"Watch it!" It sounded like a boy from the American school. As he took off running, his feet became visible; he was using an invisibility cloak which was against the rules. I stopped in front of a cell to catch my breath, and to quickly ponder what to do next. Inside the cell was a woman sat on the floor. Her hands were shackled to the walls, and her head was hung over. She had wild, frizzy brunette hair, and she was wearing a striped prison uniform. Even though every move I made was silenced by the charm I used, the woman slowly lifted her head up and her dark eyes landed on me. She was strikingly skinny, and the bags under her eyes made it look like she hadn't slept in days, maybe even weeks, but when she saw me, her eyes lit up like she'd seen an angel.
"...Morgan…?" She whispered, her mouth open. She was obviously insane and delusional, so I continued on, my feet going as fast as they could. "MORGAN FEY RIDDLE." She cackled and screamed hysterically. "I'VE FOUND HER! I'VE FOUND HER!"
The first one to escape Azkaban was Harry. He had used the diminuendo charm to shrink and make his way out practically unseen. As for myself, I used the stunning spell to render the dementors in my way unconscious. Malfoy and Susan were eliminated from the tournament, as well as the boy I had caught cheating from Beetlerot, and one of his female team members. On the way back to Hogwarts, I told Harry about the woman I had seen, and how she called me 'Morgan'. We both agreed she must have mistaken me for someone else.
Although, not many people look like me...
Despite this, I had survived yet another dangerous situation, and I would be moving on to the third and final task in February.