Chapter 19

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Harry could hear the dragon's wings behind him. He heard the crowd screaming his name and telling him to watch out. He looked up just in time to see the dragon floating above him with steam coming from her nose. Then he saw her take a deep breath and then he saw a massive fireball hurling towards him. Harry's first though was to protect the egg. He pulled it close and curled into a ball scraping his arm on a nearby rock in the process. He just kept repeating shield over and over again. The minute that Charlie and the other dragon trainers saw the ball of fire they rushed over to where the dragon was. They drew their wands and cast Aguamenti. They were able to put out the fire and drive the dragon back. Charlie ran over to Harry and saw him in a ball with a shield around him. Harry looked up and saw Charlie so he stood up causing the shield to vanish. He looked at Charlie and saw his jaw drop. Then Charlie said,

"Are you okay? We though you were a goner." Harry smiled and walked out from behind the boulder. He held up the egg and the entire stadium cheered and chanted his name. Harry just stood there taking everything in. Then he heard Arthur say,

"Harry has completed the challenge congrats to all four Champions who all completed the challenge. The second challenge will take place two weeks from today." Harry held up his egg and looked at it. That is when he noticed blood dripping off his left elbow. He lowered the egg and looked at his left arm and noticed a cut on his upper arm. Charlie noticed this too and took Harry gently by the right arm and led him off the field and towards the castle. Severus noticed this and caught up with them.

"Madame Pomfrey is in a tent on the other side of the stadium." Charlie left Harry with Severus and went home to tell Molly about the event. Severus walked with Harry to the tent where Madame Pomfrey was patching up Cedric. Poppy led Harry to an empty bed and looked at the cut. She cleaned it up and got it to stop bleeding. She bandaged it up and gave Harry a pain potion. She then sent the pair on their way. As they walked back to the castle Harry said,

"Good job on getting your egg any ideas on what to do with it."

"Thanks you too, nope none whatsoever. If I figured it out I will let you know." They parted ways and upon arriving back in the common room Harry found everyone waiting to congratulate him. Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny, Fred and George all ran over to him. Harry smiled and held up the egg. Ron then said,

"So glad that you are okay. Open the egg and let's find out what's inside." Hermione hugged Harry and gave him a kiss on the cheek and said,

"I was so worried about you. I am proud of you though." Then she turned to Ron and said, "Give him a chance to breathe." Harry kissed her back and said,

"Okay people here I go!" He twisted the egg and it began to open. As it opened a high pitched screaming come out. Harry let go of the egg and covered his ears. Ron caught the egg and closed it. Harry stood there for a few seconds. Once the ringing in his ears stopped, he lowered his hands and took the egg back from Ron and said,

"Thanks Ron! I am very tired and I am going to head to bed." With that Harry took the egg and went to bed. A week later Harry and his crew were walking down the hall when he saw Cedric and Cho walking together. As Cedric passed Harry he slipped a note into his hand. Harry read the note upon arriving back in his room later that night. The note read: 'Go to the Perfect's bathroom on the 5th floor, take your egg and take a bath.' Harry listened to make sure that his roommates were sound asleep before grabbing the egg and slipping out of the tower. He arrived in the bathroom and turned on the water. One the tub was full he climbed in. He grabbed the egg from the side of the tub and tired again to open it and it still shrieked. Then after closing it a friendly familiar voice said,

"Try putting it under that water." Harry turned to see Moaning Myrtle staring at him. She giggled at the sign of Harry in his swim trunks. Harry put the egg under the water and it began to glow and opened up. He took a deep breath and went under the water. He then heard a beautiful voice singing, ' Come seek our voices sound, we can not sing above the ground, and while you're searching ponder this; We've taken what you'll sorely miss, an hour long you'll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour, the prospect's black, too late it's gone, it won't come back.' The egg closed and Harry sat up gasping for breath. He removed the egg from the water and went back to his room. He lay awake all night trying to figure out what they voice meant. The phrase 'we've taken what you'll sorely miss' rang in his head over and over again the rest to the week. No matter how much he thought about it he couldn't figure it out. Hermione helped Harry when they weren't doing schoolwork try to figure it out. The night before the second task the duo was in the library late trying to figure it out. Professor McGonagall showed up and asked to speak with Hermione in her office. Hermione gave Harry a kiss and then followed Minerva to her office while Harry kept looking until he eventually fell asleep. Upon arriving she discovered Professor Flitwick with Cho Chang, Madame Maxime with a girl who looked like a younger version of Fleur, and Igor Karkaroff was there with a younger version of Viktor. Hermione discovered that the girl was Gabriella, Fleur's younger sister and the boy was Alekzander, Viktor's younger brother. Professor McGonagall explained what was going on and then with the help of the other three professors placed the students into an enchanted sleep and then handed them over to the Merpeople at dawn. Harry slept until Neville frantically woke him up telling him he only had ten minutes till the second task began. The two ran down to the lake and on the way Neville handed something green to Harry. He looked down and saw that it was Gillyweed. Harry arrived at the dock just in time and Arthur began the countdown. Harry gave a quick glance for Hermione but didn't see her. The four Champions dove into the water. Harry put the Gillyweed into his mouth right before diving in. When Harry went under he suddenly had gills like a fish and could breath under water. Harry began to swim around and headed to the deep depths. He was lost until Myrtle showed him the way to go. He swam that way barely escaping the Grindlylows grasp. Harry came to a clearing and that is when he saw what looked like four people tied up. He got closer and noticed one looked like Hermione, and then everything began to dawn on him, something dear turned out to be four people. Harry looked around and saw Fleur, who was using a bubblehead, being dragged away by Grindlylows as she tried to get to her sister. Cedric, also using bubblehead swan very quickly over to Cho and got her loose and the two of them vanished. Then Harry saw Viktor who looked like a partial shark swim over to his brother and vanish. Harry looked in the direction that Fleur was and saw one of the Grindlylows pop her bubblehead and they let go. She swam as fast as she could to the surface leaving her sister behind. Harry then remembered what the song said about only having an hour or it will be lost forever to heart and went straight towards Gabriella. Then he came face to face with several large Merpeople who didn't like what he was doing and they tried to stop him. Harry pulled out his wand and threatened the Merpeople until they backed off. He then untied Gabriella and held her with one hand while untying Hermione with the other. Then he swam with both of them to the surface. Once he reached the surface he pushed both girls to the outstretched arms of the professor before allowing himself to be helped out. He was given a towel and a hug from Hermione and a kiss from Fleur. The Judges finished tallying up the scores and adding them to the first round scored and then handed the paper to Arthur. Arthur then announced the scores, Tied for first with 85 points were Cedric and Harry, in second place with 80 Viktor, and Fleur in third with 25 points. Harry was shocked that he was tied for first and with Cedric of all people. The school year was nearing the end and with only two months left Harry was focused on his schoolwork and not on the final task of the tournament. Then he got an owl at lunch one day telling him to come to the Quidditch pitch. It was signed Arthur Weasley. Harry finished eating and headed down to the Quidditch pitch. He noticed that Viktor, Fleur, and Cedric all left around the same time he did. They all walked to the pitch in silence. Upon arriving they could see hedges about knee-high growing. Cedric and Harry both expressed concern. Arthur assured them that once the third task was complete that the Quidditch Pitch would be back to normal. Arthur then said,

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