Chapter 8- the uneventful third year and tournament of 4th
With the summer before third for Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville, yielding the information of the escape by Peter Pettigrew and his susuequental recapture by the Aurors in Wales, only for the Auror transport detail to die at the hands of Dumbledore, as a result of the latters plan to get Pettigrew to Voldemort and have him to revive Voldemort at the end of Harrys 4th year, where which Wormtail had disappeared to perform the task and find Voldemorts Homunculus form. So all in all, the school year of: 1993-94, was quite and boring for once, making Harry and his friends very happy.
(A/N Harry had already known of the Patronus Charm before hand, but because Dumbledore hadn't been breathing in Fudge's ear, Hogwarts was going to be guarded by Aurors, however: Pettigrew was found in Wales, during the month of June and then vanished.)
So skipping ahead to the summer of 1994, where we find Harry, waking up to the furnace interior of his friend: Ronald Weasley, bedroom and why you may ask, is simply: the Mortal Kombat tournament was set for this year and Steven and Jade had to travel to the tournament grounds, 2 days earlier to familiarize themselves with the training and battle field, well that and the Weasleys had invited Harry to the Quidditch world cup and Harry then decided to buy tickets for his defenders of earth realm friends, so once Harry had fully awaken from his slumber, he stepped over the top of James Briggs, whom was in a sleeping bag on the floor just before the arch of the bedroom door and headed out of the room, with his toiletries and a change of clothes. 10 minutes after having a quick shower, Harry exited the bathroom, wearing a causal set of: Lin Kuei robes, which consisted of; loose fitting Martial Arts pants, martial arts vest, silver sash belt and lightweight leather combat boots, he had also team the vest with a hooded long sleeved shirt and wore it under the vest, and then met Molly and Arthur downstairs, were he found a banquet of breakfast foods waiting on the serving table and he notice that Molly was still slaving away at the stove.
Once Harry had breakfast, he went outside the house, with the intension of doing some hardcore training, both Lin Kuei and magical, though the latter was while not been using a wand, but another type of foci: a Phoenixian gold ring (gold that was refined in a smeltery heated by phoenix fire) with a rare frost sapphire gemstone, been used as the magic regulator. Then returned to the house as the rest of the house began to wake up and started the day, which included that of which
Arthur had to go the work, with Percy following behind him and Bill and Charlie leaving just to get away from their mothers obsessive need to pester them on length of hair/choice of job and all around reckless.
A week after Harry arrived at the Burrow, Hermione had shown up and said she was invited by Ron to go to the world cup, with them and then stay the rest of the holidays before heading the Hogwarts. While Hermione had been at the Burrow, she had gotten herself into a conversation with Bill about his job, believing it was something that she'd be interested in, while also seeing the fascination with working for a Dragon Preserve, but not thinking it was a good career choice for her and she also sent time catching up on the events she missed with her friends, when Harry had informed her that Mortal Kombat had begun, she could see the fear within the eyes of the Junior defenders and tried the comfort them with Molly, Harry however was quite calm and comforting to them as well.
(A/N how could Harry not be calm? I mean they've survived the ones before now and they've never stopped getting stronger)
In the days after the arrival of Hermione and the Quidditch cup around the corner, Harry and his friends were enjoying the freedom of the summer, well most were you see: Ron had not even started his Holiday homework again and he was been annoyed by: Hermione about not finishing his work and only tried to challenger Harry chess matches, while the rest of his family (even the twins) and friends had completed the work, on the first week of the holidays. Still before long it came the day they were to head to the stadium grounds for Irelands match against Bulgaria, so with as an early night as the inhabitants of the Burrow could manage, which was to say, 'not well,' as Ron simply refused to go to bed early and insisted he remain awake until 10:00pm, while also forcing the remainder of the Burrow awake, with constant whining, moaning and groaning, but that was before Molly whom had enough shoved a sleep potion down his throat and put him to bed at 8:30pm.
The next morning, found a large amount of beings waking up to the smells of cooking, but here's the thing: Molly was still in bed waking up herself, well to answer that question, Molly had left her room and made her way to her kitchen. Once in her kitchen, Molly found: Jason and Harry in there, with Harry working over the stove, before noticing that Harry had moved to load up a serving plate with fat juicy sausages and return the frying pan to the heat, now placing bacon in the pan and started cooking, after emptying the pan again Molly had then asked, "What are you two doing up? And why are you cooking the breakfast? Harry," both Jason and Harry turned to her and Harry replied, "We could barely sleep, once you gave Ron his potion, because once he hit the pillow, he snored so loud that it kept us up and finally we gave up and headed down 10 minutes ago! And as for breakfast, I'm the only one out of us that has any skill with cooking!" the rest of the house however had, by now forgotten the urge to stay in bed, well those of who aren't Ronald Billus Weasley and had headed for the kitchen, even those whom were Apparating.
After the large breakfast - where Molly had taken over and continued where Harry left off, while he and his defender friend's, help set the tables and then were sent to wake Ron up, as he was still asleep, they were ready to head for the camping grounds, though Ron was whining about not getting enough sleep and the twins were laughing at what it took to move Ron from his bed: Jason had used his bionic arms to whiplash the bed and made him jump off the bed, landing face first into the floor. So after walking for a good kilometer, the group met up with a colleague of Arthurs: Amos Diggery and his son Cedric, where they then began the introductions and then headed for the portkey location.
Time Skip to the match:
The stadium, was a flurry of excited chaos, as the pre-game show started with each teams respective mascots, performing an alluring dance of seduction that made all the men in the audience save a few, go goggle eyed at them, while the ones that hadn't: either had their fingers in their ears (like Arthur and Amos) or Harry whom was apparently immune to the effects, as well as those like Lucius Malfoy, whom was getting beaten up by his wife (when he started going goo-goo eyed), before the comedic Lepricorns, tossing their gold in the crowd and allowing the money grabbers to pocket their money, where it would disappear and go unnoticed.
The game itself was awesome, as each team flew out of the their teams entry points, to their roll call and the celebrated referee, walked out on the field and gave the rules they were to follow, before letting the balls loose and starting, though Harry was barely watching the game, as he himself was tracking the snitch, that had being hover above the Ireland goal post, before it jumped to a millimeter of the ground and then Harry, checked the chaser formations and how the beaters were handling the strategy. When the game came to a close, the ref got slapped by: someone, when he was pumping his muscles for the Veela's in the crowd, as the Bulgarian seeker: Viktor Krum caught the snitch but lost the game, due to Ireland having more points.
Hours after the game, found Harry, his girlfriend Ginny and his other female friends into the main room of the tent, books propped up for easy view and reading, point of view, they were reading ahead in their classes for the coming school year: Ancient Runes for Harry, Hermione and Ginny, though Ginny was using a third year text book of the fourths that Harry and Hermione were reading, while Joanne and Kira were reading their information technology textbooks, as they were working towards getting a job in computing, when the sounds of explosions sounded threw out the campsite outside, "Sounds like the Irish got their pride on!" commented Fred, from the room he and George were exiting from, while a scowling sleepy Ron jolted awake, pissed his sleep was interrupted and Arthur whom returned from investigating it, ran in and said, "Quick Harry, make a portal to the Burrow and send the kids threw," to Harry, where Harry then opened a portal, sending the Weasley kids threw to the Burrow with Joanne, but Kira, James and Piper, had shot out the front of the tent and joined the fray, prompting Harry, Arthur, Bill, Charlie and Percy to run out the tent and fight as well.
The battle was fierce, outside as Harry and the Defenders of Earthrealm children used their talents to drive the invading forces of the Death Eaters, along side the Aurors and Hit Wizards, as well as the Ministry personal, though the Death Eaters themselves weren't expecting much resistance and believed the children powerless, but their arrogants quickly turned to fear, as Harry and James had let loose their main strongest attacks, with Harry firing off multiple waves of ice, the leaving them into an Ice sculpture or with James, whom had thrusting shockwaves threw earth and generating earthquakes, Piper of went into the thick of it and began round housing her targets, sending them into blissful unconsciousness and Kira, well Kira had gone all out by: changing into her Animality: a Japanese Tiger species (A/N pick what ever species you wish that is mundane) and simply became a one girl wrecking crew, as she totally demolishes her targets to an overkill portion.
At the end of the battle, with the area completely covered with Death Eater ice sculptures (Harry), groaning masses of severely injured (Piper and James) or the impossible to be alive, while appearing to be bleeding alive (Kira), was when they each heard a dark voice call, "Morsmorde," conjuring a large human skull with a snakes tongue, in the air. The appearance of the Dark Mark, which caused a large amount of panic and fear, as the Death Eaters started to try and get away, but were unable to due to the ropes they were tied in. Hours after the appearance of the Dark Mark, brought Minster Fudge and his Bulgarian counterpart to them, as the former was now vividly pissed off, why well in his mind there are no more Death Eaters and these people were just kids, that thought it was funny to instill panic into the population and was about the order their immediate release, when he notice the Harry in a relaxed battle ready pose: one hand on his sheathed swords, and an expression that said, 'You'll be losing your head, if you free them without an interrogation first,' and with that Fudge went quite, as the Aurors began unthawing the heads of the Death Eaters, with heating charms, while the Hit Wizards prepared the veritaserum, once the masks were removed. After the head of the 1st Death Eaters was thawed, one of the hit wizard placed three drops on his tongue and asked, "You name?" "Lucius Malfoy!" was his response, and then ever unbelieving Fudge demanded, "Who are you? Lucius Malfoy is no Death Eater, nor would he joke about such things," but he got, "Lucius Malfoy!" in a monotone voice, as his hood and mask were removed showing the visage of Lucius Malfoy, but before Fudge could go further, the hit wizard then asked, "Why were you terrorizing the muggle populous here?" and got the answer, "Commemorating the soon revival of milord and master Voldemort?" which sparked a comment of, "Were you really under the effects of the Imperious curse?" in questioning form by a wizard who had believed he was, but that got rejected with, "No my faith and loyalty always went to my master!" and caused Fudge to turn pale and ask, "B-b-but you swore to me that you were innocent?" "I convinced you of that, so I would go to Azkaban and I you could then use you to changer laws to benefit Purebloods and allow, for the right to be always innocent when anything happens!" had been answer, making Fudge earn himself glares and then the remaining questions were asked, as Harry and his friends were sent back to the Burrow.
Time skip to September 1st:
In the weeks leading to September, Harry had gotten a lot of news, some good like: All the pardoned Death Eaters were given a real trial and were sent to Azkaban, while Lucius himself was sentences to the dementor kiss for bribing political figures, escaping justice and misrepresenting justice or the removal of Fudge his minster title, but some were also bad: Dumbledore had been found lurking around and had convince a the jury of the Wizengamot, that he was innocent of all charge and had them ex-sponged from his record, which got him his Headmaster position returned to him, and this news made Harry furious and untrusting of the justice system, though there was nothing he could do but wait for him to screw up.
Now to the morning of September 1st, as Harry and Molly were up early that morning, waiting for the rest of Hogwarts students to awaken, while Molly was preparing breakfast with Harry helping, while Harry himself made the lunches for the train ride. Soon the smells of breakfast bought the family downstairs and they began to dig in heartily, exchanging a bit of conversation before: Ron was booted back up stairs to pack his things, while the twins return to their room to put the finishing touches to their trunks: their prank making gear. After Harry went up stairs to Ron's room and found him simply tossing what he could just find into his trunk, began to help him finish, before saying, "while on the train, clean it up a bit so you could find what you'll need and don't forget your course books," the last part was in full knowledge of the fact that he had yet to pack them.
After having got the untidily packed trunk downstairs and in the cars trunk, the whole montage found their way to 3 barrier of Platform 9 and 10, before Fred and George took off running at it, vanishing behind the brickwork, as Ron and Molly followed with Hermione, Bill and Charlie come behind them, before Harry and Ginny sped up and headed threw the doorway as well. Once threw to platform nine and three quarters, Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron found a compartment at the end of the train, while the twins found their friend: Lee Jordan and a compartment in the middle of the train, stored their luggage and sat down, Ginny was leaning on Harry shoulder, looking close to nodding off, with Hermione and Ron sitting so far apart that they should be in two separate compartments, where Ron immediately fell asleep and Hermione had a good book she had been reading open.
Miles down the track, Ginny had now falling asleep, while Harry – after asking Hermione to retrieve it, had being reading his book on Japanese Rune translations, before the sight of Hogwarts had come into View, prompting the girls (Hermione had awaken Ginny) to head for the bathroom to change, while Harry dealt with Ron and changed himself, before waiting for Ron to. Finally after Ron had changed, Hermione and Ginny had returned to the compartment, to continue the journey, where 3 hours later found the train at Hogsmeade station and that is where they headed for the castle school of Hogwarts.
Now in the Great Hall, with Harry and his Friends whom were now enjoying their meal, while being observed by the silver haired old man, who is barely holding in an expression of anticipation and glee, as Harry was consuming food (and drink) that was laced with so many powerful controlling potions, that it would make even Voldemort loyal to him. But what Dumbledore had not known, was that Harry prefer his pumpkin juice, at the tempature of just before freezing (this is caused by the frost aura he generates) which destroys the potions effect when drunk, while no food based potion effects him, due to the Lin Kuei chi core.
After dinner was finished, Dumbledore returned to the podium, confident and a little worried: when saw that Harry had no visible reactions to the potions, as he again address the school, bringing the attention of Severus' return as Potions teacher, as well as McGonagalls return to the transfig. Prof. and the appointment of Mad-Eye Moody, whom was taking Remus' place well he was on sabbatical, before reaching the meat of the announcements with the re-introduction of Triwizard Tournament, while he was thinking, 'The potions? Why aren't the potions working?' before noticing the large amount of condensation on the glassware Harry had been using, realizing that he'd had forgot to factor in the brats ice ability, while returning to his silent scheming.
At the end of the announcements, Dumbledore sent the students to bed and retired to his office, where he sat down and began work on his next project: an enslavement potion powerful enough to survive near freezing temptures and while also figuring out a delivery system. Meanwhile in Gryffindor tower, Harry was getting ready for bed with Ron already in bed, before joining him in the land of nod.
Speeding threw the time until when the schools arrive:
In the weeks leading to the arrival of the school delegations, Harry and his friends found their lessons to be more taxing than usual, with Snape's return and his subsequent annoyance, who had been forced to teacher at Hogwarts and was looking forward to a: more quieter lifestyle and freedom from his tether with Dumbledore, or Dumbledore himself, continuously requesting to see Harry, for the reason of concern regarding his safety, while not realizing that Harry James Potter-Zhang, had been safe for fourteen years and no Evil Wizards/Witches, had found and killed him, though however Snape had decided to treat all students fairly and not been a biased git. On the day of Bueaxbatons and Durnstrum, Hogwarts activities, went to a stand still as the Headmaster cancelled that day of classes, to greet the students.
(A/N the international schools, entrance are the same as the book, with a little of the movie thrown in)
Once the schools were in the Great Hall, Dumbledore began the introductions to the tournament explained the rules of that were used and the age limit, that has been applied (17-19), while then showing off the impartial selector: the Goblet of Fire and had drew an age line around the circumference and a foot away from the goblet, before explaining that those wishing to enter, only had one night.
After the announcement, the students were dismissed and they headed to do their own things, all the while: Harry ignoring another attempted by Dumbledore to have talk in Dumbledores office, as Harry exited with his friends for the library or house common-room, to work on the finishing touches on their homework or challenger their housemates to a chess bout. In the school library, Harry was going over the many book he had on hand, to help him with the Ancient Runes work he was doing and was quickly able put the finishing touches on his work, as he found it easy the study the ancient magic and was quite advanced for the study, though he had a higher understanding of the Japanese Ancient Runes over other, hell he had been so adept at the skill: that he imbued his blades with; durability, sharpness and magical foci runes, which allowed him to use the swords as wands and weirdly however was the fact that: all spells –sans the water charm, he had tried were enchanted with the ice element and had been several time stronger.
The next night, and all the schools were assembled in the Great Hall, with the teachers and ministry staff, waited as the Goblet finished making it decisions. Several hours after the hall had been filled, Dumbledore made he way to the center of the room where the goblet sat and prepared for the selection process, and he had not needed to wait very long as it spat the name: Viktor Krum, allowing the burly seeker of Bulgaria, to move to the awards hall, while the goblet then chose a new name: Fleur Delacour, making the beautiful veela move to join Viktor and then finally Cedric name shot out of the cup and he had also move the awards hall. With the now names chosen, Dumbledore then began to close the announcement, before the Goblet flared to life once again and spat a fourth name from its contents, the appearance the fourth parchment, caused all the schools students to glare at the headmaster and why should they not, all the champions had been selected and the fire should had burned out, so they were pissed that the Goblet selected a fourth name, that however was when their pissed expressions turned sour, as Dumbledore called the name: Harry Potter.
Skip to after the whole Harry not having any choice:
As we now find Dumbledore, in his office cursing himself, as the most current batch of enslavement potions failed and was now looking over a list of ingredients that can be used to strengthen said potions if replaced by or added with the standard ingredient, while also congratulating himself on getting Harry in the tournament, though Harry had said, 'If I must compete, then I'm competing as a member of the Lin Kuei academy,' which in turn satiated Igor and Maxine, as they were not seeing any fairness in having the host school compete with 2 competitors. While Dumbledore had been doing his own thing, Harry and his friends – minus Ron, were now in the going over their assignments and Ron whom got into a row with Harry, on the fact that for some reason he believed Harry actually had placed his name in the Goblet, though no-one new why he had started doing this and only chalked it up to jealousy.
The next few days, however bought a whole meaning to the word chaos, while there were a lot of Hogwarts students that were on Harry's side of the fence in believing Harry had not place his name in for selection, there also was students whom just outright refused to believe, though they were those whose family lost everything when Voldemort was defeated and therefore couldn't believe Harry was honest. Then back with the Headmaster, as he works threw another stock worth of ingredients to brew his potions for Harry, for the coming dinner, while unknown the him Harry had built up an immunity to the potions and it will eventually fail, before we head to Harry in the common room, as he was able to get a chance to speak with Steven, Jade, Remus and Sirius, via a crystal ball like object used in the Outworld realms and he had informed them of the tournament, before getting a score check on their own tournament, finding that earth was winning and then called it a night.
Time skip to the first challenge:
On the day of the challenger, which the competitors discovered it was: Dragon and having to retrieve an item from their nest, and that is where Harry was, waiting for his turn, confident that his strategy would work and he would advance to the next round. So with: Cedric, Viktor and Fleur finished with their part, Harry was now signaled to emerge from the competitor's tent and begin, immediate as he exit the tent, the dragon a Hungarian Horntail performed a tail whip, lashing out at Harry, before firing off a stream of flames, that struck against a 50ft sheet of lime green ice, as Harry raised his hands in a Mexican wave style and then Harry shot behind a rock, when his defenses were crumbled by the dragons tail, before as he was behind the rock, he performed an icy teleport technique, when he dissolved into a cloud of green mist and reappeared by the base of the nest, before plucking the golden egg from its spot, calling for the end of the test.
At the and of the test, Harry was escorted to the medical tent and Madam Pomfrey immediately began her scans, while Harry not injured just stood and allowed her to finish, knowing that she would not take his word for it. While Harry was been looked over by the medics, Dumbledore had returned to his office, in fear and worry, as none of his attempts to control Harry were working and now seeing him defeat a dragon in less than 4 minutes, made him more concerned over how his plans were shaping up and to top that, Dumbledore had yet to manipulate the schools wards back to his control, he was doing that in the hopes that it would help with his plans for Harry. Back with Harry, after he'd just opened his egg and unleashed a violent screeching noise, before he began to fight the need to not close and winning as he successfully closed the egg, even though it felt as if his ears were bleeding, before he began to think, 'Maybe, it has to place in a different environment!' as he finally was coherent enough to remember he'd heard screeching similar to that before and then said, "Could someone please conjure a large bucket," while began to cast: anti-freezing charms over his body and when the bucket the size of a kids play pool appeared, moved his wand to the pool and called, "Aguamenti," as he filled the bucket with water, dunking his head under the water, while submerging the egg and opening it once again, to hear the poem.
After the poem, the whole Gryffindor tower of one thing: the Black Lake, the champion would have to retrieve something they lost from the sea floor of the lake and that was bad, as Harry had always projected an aura of flash freezing tempture and even thinking of him in water would be bad, however the only reason he is able to have shower or take a bath, was because Harry would use a water hot enough that the water would not freeze. While in Outworld, where Mortal Kombat was in full swing and Steven was about to enter the ring, to take on the multi-limbed behemoth known as Goro, so once in the ring, both Steven and Goro took their battle stances, before the bell rung threw the area and started the match, as the match went like this: as Steven kept his distance from his opponent, by throwing dagger of pure white ice at Goro's torso, wounding him and causing him to stagger back, before getting enraged in to charging at Sub Zero, making tremors as he stomped his feet, but was then sent flying into the wall behind Steven, as he ducked under Goro's grappling arms and sent tripped him over with a dragon tail kick, then with the impact with the wall, caused Goro to be knocked unconscious and Steven had won the final match of the day.
Back in earth realm, Harry was now heading for his head of House office, because of the concerns he had over having to jumping in the lake for an extended period. Arriving at the door of Minerva's office, Harry knocked and waited, "Come in," came a voice from inside, as Harry opened the door, Professor McGonagall saw who it was and asked, "Mr. Potter, what can I do for you?" "Well Professor, I've just figured out the clue in the egg and it has me concerned for my safety," answered Harry, as a confused look graced her face, as she says, "Harry, there many safe guards in place to stop you and whom you rescue, where could your safety be a concern?" her came from Harry transfiguring a paperweight into a full goblet of water and then he stuck his finger in, causing the liquid to flash freeze into ice and then he said, "Because of my training in Lin Kuei, I continuously emit an aura of frost, that freezes anything on contact and if were to jump in the lake, it would entomb me is ice and I'll suffocate."
After Harry had said his peace, he waited for a response and what got was, "Very well Mr. Potter, I'll see what I can do for you," and then got dismissed, with information on how the Yule ball would be a dance and how as a champion, Harry was to open the dance first. When Harry had left the office, Minerva head for the meeting room designated for the Triwizard Tournament and met with the officials: Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch Sr. to explain Harry's situation to them and see if there was a work around, while Harry himself headed for the library to research ways of limitless waterbreathing.
To be continued:
