39. The Triwizard Tournament

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He got off of the Hogwarts Express and in British tradition it was raining, so everyone was running to the carriages. Fred lifted his robes over the two us us to try and keep us dry, although it wasn't very successful.

We get into a carriage and we are all soaked down to the bone.

"I'm freezing," Melody says to all of us.

"Come here." Jack brings her into a hug in an attempt to warm her up.

Fred pulls me into his side to do the same.

We arrive at Hogwarts in front of the great oak doors, we hurried up the stairs trying not to slip up them. We arrived safely into the hall which was lit up with torches. When I saw a a water balloon fall from the ceiling and I jump back just in time.

"Agh!" Angelina shrikes, as the water ballon landed straight in front of her covering her in cold water.

I look up to see Peeves, clearly the one behind the water balloons.

We make it into the Great Hall shivering as I sit next to Fred.

"I hope this sorting ceremony goes quickly, I want to eat then have a hot shower." I say shivering.

"Same, surely we can't sit here for ages this cold." Melody says, Jack then whispers something in Melody's ear and she goes a slight shade of red and a smile appears on her face.

"Godric, you too are more clingy than usual," Fred says to the pair who clearly notices what I did.

"Just as much as you and y/n." Jack says smirking.

"Hang on, did youse?" I question them both giving them a look.

"Who done what?" George asks cutting off his conversation with Lee.

"Ask them." Fred tells him and Lee and George are now looking at the pair.

"Well stuff finally happened over-" Jack starts saying.

"Stuff?" Lee asks puzzled before coming to the realisation. "Oh, Oh! So what-"

Before Lee could finish the doors of the Great Hall opened and Professor McGonagall was walking into the Hall with first years in tow behind her.

"Aww bless them, there soaked." Melody says, as the tiny first years walked through the hall shivering.

Professor McGonagall then placed a stool in front of the first years and the sorting hat on top of it. For a moment there was silence and everyone stared at the thing before it started singing:

"A thousand years or more ago,
When I was newly sewn,
There lived four wizard of renown,
Whose names are still well known:
Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor,
Fair Ravenclaw, from glen,
Sweet Hufflepuff, from valley broad,
Shrewd Slytherin, from fen.
They shared a wish, a hope, a dream,
They hatched a daring plan
To educate young sorcerers
Thus Hogwarts School began.
Now each of these four founders
Formed their own house, for each
Did value different virtues
In one they had to teach.
By Gryffindor, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
Would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin
Loved those of great ambition.
While still alive the did divide
Their favourites from the throng,
Yet how to pick the worthy ones
When they were dead and gone,
'Twas Gryffindor who found the way,
He whipped me off his head
The founders put some brains in me
So I could choose instead!
Now slip me snug about your ear,
I've never yet been wrong,
I'll have a look inside your mind
And tell where you belong!"

The hat finished singing the song and the Great Hall filled with applause. Professor McGonagall was no unrolling a large scroll of parchment.

"When I call out your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool." She said to the first years. "When the hat announces your house, you will sit at the appropriate table."

"So not one of us got the letter about quidditch captain?" I say to my friend group.

"Nope." Angelina says.

"It's got to be to do with something that's meant to happen this year." I whisper as the sorting ceremony continues.

"Probably," Alicia says.

"Surely we all can't be aloud to sit in here dripping wet like this." Melody complains, as most people in the hall are shivering.

"Yeah, I just want to eat and have a nice hot shower." I say as I rest my head into my hands.

"You know, maybe I can join you." Fred whispers into my ear, I can feel my cheeks start to burn bright red.

"Seriously?" I say shaking his head off of my shoulders turning around to face him.

"I know you would love to." He says giving me a wink. Even though he has grown his hair out, he still looks very handsome.

"I swear to Godric if I have to put up with your flirting for one more minute, I will throw myself off of the Astronomy tower." George says with disgust on his face.

"It is kind of disgusting to watch." Lee says agreeing with him.

"You didn't need to spend all summer with the pair of them constantly flirting, it was dreadful." George says and I roll my eyes at him.

"Jealous much, maybe you should tell-" I start saying before George cuts me off.

"I'm not jealous and I'm not going to tell her, how many times do I have tot tell you this?" He asks me raising his voice slightly catching the attention of other students

"Till you can convince us." Fred says joining me into getting George to confess his feelings to Angelina.

"Well consider yourself a convinced." George says.

"What are you four jabbering on about now?" Angelina asks.

"Well I was telling George that he should-" I start saying with a massive smile on my face.

"Read more" he cuts me off, which was a nice save.

"Yeah, you should." Angelina says going back to her conversation with Alicia.

"Nice save." I say with a smirk on my face.

"I know." George says.

The sorting ceremony had now finished and Dumbledore came to the front of the hall and told us all to "tuck in."

The once empty dishes were now piled high with food and we all helped our self's to massive portions and piled our own plates with all the different foods we were all eating when. Clang. I look down the table and Hermione had knocked over a goblet.

"There are house elves here?" She said in horror, "here at Hogwarts?"

"Certainly," Nearly Headless Nick said looking surprised at her. "The largest number in any dwelling in Britain, I believe, over a hundred,"

I turn away from the conversation Hermione was having with Nearly Headless Nick.

"She's on about the house elf's again." I say as I eat my dinner.

"Really?" Fred and George say in unison.

"Yeah, didn't know there was any at Hogwarts clearly." I say to them.

"It's like the quidditch World Cup over again." Fred said, as he stuffed himself with more food.

"Tell me about it, I understand them being mistreated, I've seen it with my own eyes." I say remembering how my parents used to treat our house elf.

"I sometimes forget that you grew up in that setting." George says as he finishes his plate of food.

"Sometime I do then other times I think of how boring and dull my childhood was with balls." I say with a scrunched up look on my face.

"Yeah weird how you aren't like them." Lee chimes in.

"Yeah, look at the rest of my family," I say as I finish my plate of food, leaving enough room for pudding.

The plates get cleaned and desserts now appear on all of the table. I add a few different desserts onto my plate as Fred and George pile desserts on each of their plates.

"You would think you two never got fed." I say spooning some dessert into my mouth.

"Why?" George asks.

"You've just had a whole plate full to the brim of food and now the same with desserts." I say gesturing to the mountain of food on both boys plates.

They both shrug their shoulders and carry on eating the desserts. Once we all finished eating any crumbs that were left on the plates disappeared and left them sparkling clean. Dumbledore got to his feet to start to give out some notices.

"So! Now that we've all been fed an watered, I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices. Mr Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the castle this year has been extended to include Screaming Yo-Yos, Fanged Frisbees and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. The full list of comprises some four hundred and thirty seven items, if anybody would like to check." Professor Dumbledore told us all.

Continuing his speech, "As ever I would like to remind you all that the Forest in the grounds is out-of bounds to students, as is the village of Hogsmead to all below third year. It is also my painful duty to inform you that the inter house Quidditch Cup will not take place this year."

"What?" The whole quidditch team say in unison. I turn to see Harry also as confused as the rest of us.

"This is due to an event that will be starting in October and continuing throughout the school year, taking up much of the teachers time and energy - but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely. I have great pleasure in announcing that this year at Hogwarts-" before Dumbledore could finish, there was a loud rumble of thunder and the doors of the Great Hall banged open.

"Is that?" I start asking.

"Mad-Eye Moody?" Fred finishes off for me.

"I think so." George said.

He started walking up the hall with a clank in every other step he took towards the teachers table. He sat down in the empty space that was at the table.

"May I introduce our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Moody." Dumbledore announced.

We all applauded him like we've done with any new teachers that have joined the school.

Dumbledore then cleared his throat, "As I was saying, we are to have the honour of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event which has not been held for over a century. It is my great pleasure that the Tiwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year."

"YOU'RE JOKING!" Fred shouted right in my ear.

"Do you want to be any louder?" I ask him, as everyone in the hall laughs at him.

"Sorry, love." He quickly replies.

"I am not joking, Mr Weasley, though now to mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag and a leprechaun who all go into a bar-" Dumbledore started rambling on.

Professor McGonagll cleared her throat from behind him.

"Er maybe is this is not the time. Where was I? Ah yes, the Triwizard Tournament... well, some of you will not know what this Tournament involves, so I hope those who do know will forgive me for giving a short explanation, and allow their attention to wonder freely." Dumbledore tells us all.

"The Triwizard Tournament..." Dumbledore started telling us about the Tournament as Fred started talking to our group.

"I'm going to enter." He said.

"No you are not Fred Weasley!" I whisper yell at him.

"Who are you to stop me?" He asks in a cocky tone.

"Your girlfriend, also your mother would be very angry, people die, that's why they stopped the games because the death toll was to high." I tell him.

"Yeah but, it would be a cool way to die." He says with a smirk on his face.

"Fine do it then." I say turning away from him.

"Well done you idiot." Melody hissed at him.

"What?" He replies back confused.

"You just said to your girlfriend that you would like to have a cool death." Angelina tells him.

"Yeah what's wrong with that?" George asks.

"I swear you boys never think!" Melody whisper yells.

Dumbledore started speaking again his voice a little louder than before to get everyone's attention.

"Eager though I know all of you will be to bring the Twiwizard Cup to Hogwarts, the Heads of the participating schools along with the Ministry of Magic, have agreed to impose an age restriction on contenders this year. Only students who are of age - that is seventeen years or older will be allowed to put forward their names for consideration." Dumbledore told us all.

"That's rubbish!" The twins shout, Fred shouting directly in my ear.

"Seriously again." I say. "I'm going to have no hearing left in this ear after this."

Dumbledore raised his voice more over the students who were clearly annoyed, "This is a measure we feel is necessary, given the Tournament tasks will still be difficult and dangerous, whatever precautions we take, and it highly unlikely that students below sixth year will be able to cope with them. I therefore beg you not to waste your time submitting yourself if you are under seventeen."

"Still going to do it." Fred said with joy in his voice.

Dumbledore then said something about the other schools arriving in October then said we should all go to bed.

"They can't do that! We're seventeen in April, why can't we have a shot?" George said, grumpily.

"They're not stopping me entering." Fred said as we started walking to the common room.

"Yeah I reckon a couple of drops of ageing potion will do the trick, hey y/n do you think-" George starts asking.

"Nope." I say as I walk faster to the common room.

"Why?" Fred asks.

"Because I'm not helping you both with getting yourself's killed." I say as I walk up to the portrait hole.

"Bladerdash." I say to the portrait and it then opens.

I walk straight up to my room without speaking to anyone and get in the shower when there is a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" I ask.

"It's me." I hear a muffled voice say.

"Who's me?" I ask confused.

"Your boyfriend, Fred." Fred said from the other side of the door.

"Look I'm about to get in the shower, I'll talk to you tomorrow." I say as I turn on the shower.

"Can we talk?" Fred asks me.

"Did you not just hear me? I said tomorrow." I reply getting out of my clothes as the shower warms up.

I hear him say something under his breath and the door unlock and I grab a towel and wrap it around me.

"Seriously Fred!" I shout as he shuts the door behind him.

"What?"

"I'm literally about to get into the shower." I say gesturing to the towel that was now covering me.

"I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, I love you lots and I'll see you in the morning." He says quickly kissing my forehead and dashing out of the room and I get in the shower.

I have the shower and get into bed and the other girls were already asleep or so I thought.

"You okay?" Melody whispers.

"Yeah I'm just annoyed with Fred and George." I whisper. "Did no one try and stop him from coming in the bathroom?" I ask her.

"We tried but he was adamant he needed to talk to you." Melody whispers back.

"I swear boys never think with their brains" I tell Melody as I get snuggled up in bed.

"No they don't, anyway we should go to bed goodnight y/n."

"Goodnight, Melody." I tell her.

I slowly fall asleep waiting for what the next day holds.

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A/n: hope you enjoy this chapter and this is now the longest one as I don't think it could of been split in two.

Hope you are all having a lovely day,
I should have at least two more chapters out today!

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