Broken But Beautiful~Dramione

Chapter eight

"And now we will have the new Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Andrea Miles, to explain the rules of the Triwizard Tournament for this year." Humfrey finished, and flawlessly leaped over the table, twisting in the air so he came down directly into his chair. He had shown off the trophy for the winner, which looked almost identical to the one that Harry had won. The goblet of fire had also been revealed on the elevated platform.

"Thank you. This year we have made a few changes to what's going to happen. First can I please ask our returning contestants to step over here?" Andrea started.

Hermione froze, and other students stood up to get a better view of them. Krum walked out first and had cheered for himself along with the other students. He tried making eye contact with Hermione, but she avoided his gaze. Fleur followed after him and elegantly curtsied, leaving Harry to go in last. He looked absolutely dumbfounded as to why he was up there. Harry had in fact planned for a nice and laid back year, but that clearly wasn't turning out too well.

"There will be three contestants as always, one from each school. Each student will be mentored by their previous school's contestant. All ages are welcome to enter this year, not just adults. That includes the returning eighth years to redo their last year at Hogwarts."

Excited murmuring began from the younger students, but those who witnessed the past tournament looked around wearily. The image of Cedric's lifeless body was still burned into many memories.

"The only thing you have to do is write your first and last name along with the name of your school on a piece of parchment, and drop it into the goblet. You can only enter yourself once, and please don't take this lightly. This event can be very dangerous so please only enter if you know many spells and have quick thinking. As tonight is Wednesday, the goblet will choose on Saturday, giving you three days to make up your mind and choose whether or not to enter. As of now, the tournament has begun." Andrea finished and walked back to her seat with an air of finality.

"Prefects please take your houses to the dormitories. Durmstrang please follow Mr. Malfoy and Beauxbatons follow Ms. Granger, they will lead you to where you'll be staying." Humfrey instructed. The benches scraped back and the students began to move.

"Remind us of where they're staying again? Also where's the Gryffindor and Slytherin common room so we can go there later?" Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"Right right. Take them both the places I marked on this piece of parchment. Red mark for a Durmstrang, blue for Beauxbatons. Meet us in the trophy room once you've seen them there." Humfrey handed the two the map.

"How are we supposed to know where this is? It looks like a treasure map." Hermione frowned as the piece of parchment didn't contain any labels.

"I know." Humfrey hummed to himself merrily. He skipped happily down to the trophy room, and followed the other people sitting at the front staff table and returning contestants.

"What about our common rooms?" Hermione called.

"Oh yeah. You both are sharing one. I must've forgotten to mention that in the letter. I'll tell you where that is when you get back." Humfrey called before turning his back on them to engage in a conversation with Chris.

"That was a joke right?" Hermione scoffed to herself. "No head boy and head girl have ever shared a dorm in the past."

Draco just stared at the paper as though it would magically show clear directions if he looked at it long enough.

"You take this and figure it out. I'll figure out mine." Hermione duplicated the copy and  walking down to meet the school awaiting her.

"How do I read this?" He scowled, but she didn't care to listen.