The First Task

605 20 40
                                        

Please send comments to make my day

Aishi got up on Sunday morning and dressed quickly and she hurried off to find others along with Harry. Soon after breakfast, she told them all about the dragons, and about everything Sirius had said, while they took another long walk around the lake. Alarmed as they were by Sirius's warnings about Karkaroff, Hermione still thought that the dragons were the more pressing problem.

"Let's just try and keep you alive until Tuesday evening," she said desperately, "and then we can worry about Karkaroff. They walked three times around the lake, trying all the way to think of a simple spell that would subdue a dragon. Nothing whatsoever occurred to them, so they retired to the library instead. Here, Aishi pulled down every book she could find on dragons, and all of them set to work searching through the large pile. " 'Talon-clipping by charms . . . treating scale-rot . . .' This is no good, this is for nutters like Hagrid who want to keep them healthy. . . ." Draco said  " 'Dragons are extremely difficult to slay, owing to the ancient magic that imbues their thick hides, which none but the most powerful spells can penetrate . . ." Theo said  "Let's try some simple spellbooks, then," said Harry, throwing aside Men Who Love Dragons Too Much. 

"Well, there are Switching Spells . . . but what's the point of Switching it? Unless you swapped its fangs for wine-gums or something that would make it less dangerous. . . . The trouble is, as that book said, not much is going to get through a dragon's hide. . . . I'd say Transfigure it, but something that big, you haven't got a hope, I doubt even Professor McGonagall . . . unless you're supposed to put the spell on yourself? Maybe to give yourself extra powers? But they're not simple spells, I mean, we haven't done any of those in class, I only know about them because I've been doing O.W.L. practice papers. . . ." "Hermione," Blaise said, through gritted teeth, "will you shut up for a bit, please? I'm trying to concentrate."But all that happened, when Hermione fell silent, was that Aishi's brain filled with a sort of blank buzzing, which didn't seem to allow room for concentration. She stared hopelessly down the index of Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed. Instant scalping . . . but dragons had no hair . . . pepper breath . . . that would probably increase a dragon's firepower . . . horn tongue . . . just what he needed, to give it an extra weapon . . . 

"Oh no, he's back again, why can't he read on his stupid ship?" said Hermione irritably as Viktor Krum slouched in, cast a surly look over at the pair of them, and settled himself in a distant corner with a pile of books. "Come on, guys, we'll go back to the hangout room . . . his fan club'll be here in a moment, twittering away. . . .""You guys go ahead I will be right back," Aishi said as they went ahead. She went to Krum " Hi big bear" "Hello Aiss-hi...wat 'ou doing?" "The first task...its dragons....we have to get past dragons," She said "And why 'ou telling me this ?" "well it felt unfair being the only one who knows....everyone should know what they are up against for a fair game"  Krum chuckled and patted her head. He doesn't have the heart to tell her he knows already " Tha'nk Aiss-hi" "No problem bye big bear!" She left and as she left the library, a gang of girls tiptoed past them, one of them wearing a Bulgaria scarf tied around her waist.

On the way to the hangout room, she spots Fleur speaking to her classmates. Fleur noticed her and waved smiling as she came to her " Bonjour Petite Papillion " "Bonjour...fleur I must speak with you quickly" Aishi said " O' cour'e...excuse moi" She and Aishi went to a corner " Fleur the first task is dragons...we have to get past a dragon" "i see...but w'y 're 'ou tell 'e thiz?" " I felt it would be unfair if I knew only...it would be fairer if we all knew what we are facing" Suddenly Fleur hugs her hard "Oh, doux petit papillon, tu es si pur pour ce monde !" She said "Fleur I can't breathe" The next day, Aishi saw Cedric Diggory leaving the Hufflepuff table after breakfast and quickly ran after him

Cedric still didn't know about the dragons . . . the only champion who didn't "Guys, I'll see you in the greenhouses," Aishi said leaving the Hall. "Go on, I'll catch you up." "Aishi, you'll be late, the bell's about to ring —" "I'll catch you up, okay?" By the time Aishi reached the bottom of the marble staircase, Cedric was at the top. He was with a load of sixth-year friends."Cedric bhai! wait" She called and Cedric stopped and looked at her "What's up little Badger?" "Cedric," said Aishi, "the first task is dragons.""What?" said Cedric. "Dragons," said Aishi, speaking quickly while whispering. "They've got four, one for each of us, and we've got to get past them." Cedric stared at him. Aishi saw some of the panic she'd been feeling since Saturday night flickering in Cedric's gray eyes. 

Harry Potter's Coolest AuntWhere stories live. Discover now