45. The First Task

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It had now been a few days since Fred and I rekindled our relationship and I've never felt happier, he walked me to all of my lessons and even waited for me to finish them. I spoke to Cedric who wasn't all that bothered as he had a crush on a fifth year Ravenclaw, Cho, so in a way we were each other's rebounds. Today I decided to write to my father, well, Micheal.

I'm sitting here on deciding how to write the letter to him and start to write.

Dear father (Micheal),

Over the last few months, I have had these nightmares more like memories to say, at first I didn't really understand them and as time has gone on these nightmares have started to make sense. I have even had everything confirmed with actual evidence so there is no need to lie to me.

I know you and Katherine, the people I believed to be my parents aren't actually at all. See I know I'm actually your niece as Katherine's sister Elizabeth is actually my mother and I know my father is Sirius Black. I've known for a little while now and with some help, this got confirmed.

I'm guessing you never wanted me to find out or ever thought I would, I suppose this is why in some aspects the pair of you never wanted me to become close to the Weasleys as it made it easier for me to find out. This makes sense of why I'm in Gryffindor now because from what I know both of my parents are blood-traitors and that's why you both tried everything in your power to stop me becoming one as well.

I legally want to change my name back to my fathers surname but I'll need your help with that until I turn eighteen.

I also wanted to say that I know who killed my mother and you know too but that is something I don't think I'll be able to discuss with another person,

With love, Y/n Elizabeth Lily Black.

I look over the later and fold it into an envelope. Ever since discovering about who my biological parents actually are I done as much digging as I could, with the help of Molly, which led to me finding out about my middle names being Elizabeth Lily. And the reason I had my own vault is because with my biological mother being dead and my father being in Askaban everything went to me including the money from Sirius' mother as it was left to him.

"Done?" Fred walks over to me and I nod my head.

"Yeah, all done, I suppose this makes a big change in a lot of things now." I say with a small smile.

"Yeah I suppose it does, Black." Fred says with a grin.

"God it's going to be weird with having Black as my sir name but it is my original surname I just  need Micheal to help me get some papers signed and I should be good to go." I say with a massive smile on my face.

"You look so happy and I love it." Fred tells me engulfing me into a tight hug.

"Harry said I could borrow Hedwig to deliver the letter, he also said Sirius wrote back to him and that he was very surprised that Harry knew me for the last couple of years, Harry also told him about us being on the quidditch team together and from what Harry told me Sirius couldn't be more happy for us three to be a little family." I say with an even bigger smile on my face.

"I'm so happy for you y/n, let's get that letter delivered." Fred says pulling me up with one hand.

We deliver the letter and a few days had passed and it was now breakfast and I get two letters one who I could clearly tell was Michaels hand writing and another.

I open the one from Micheal first.

Dearest Y/n,

I'm sorry you found out this way but I would be more than happy to help you get this sorted out for you, I'll sort the papers out at the Ministry and send them off for you to then sign and then it will all be done for you. I hope this makes you happy in life and I still love you like your my own daughter.

Yours sincerely, Micheal Avery

I put the letter down which was a bittersweet one, I didn't think I could convince him this easily but I'm glad I could and I like the fact he doesn't care that much.

"What are you smiling at?" Alicia asks me.

"He said he'll do it..." I say still looking at the piece of parchment.

"Seriously?" Fred asks me.

"Yes!" I say with excitement on my face, I'm glad to be cutting off the Avery name.

"You have another letter here," Alicia hands me it.

"Yeah, thank you." I say taking the letter from her hand tearing open the envelope and read over it.

My dearest y/n,

After all these years not knowing what ever happened to you - you have been under my nose this whole time, Harry speaks highly of you and says you two have been somewhat friends since he began at Hogwarts.

I suppose I owe you some sort of explanation about everything although you seem to have everything figured out. I loved your mother dearly and I hate to tell you this but when she was murdered we found at a week before that you were going to be a big sister and we couldn't wait... well then everything happened.

From what I've heard from Harry and Molly you look exactly like your mum but have my personality and her intelligence. I would like to tell you I am very proud of you from all the stories I've heard about you. I'm sorry I could never be the proper father I should have been but from now on I will be, you, Harry and I can be a little family together and we will be happy.

I hope to hear back from you soon,

Love Dad.

I feel a tear roll down my face onto the piece of parchment I was just reading.

"It's a letter from..." I start choking up before I could finish.

"Your dad?" Fred asks and nod my head with tears falling down my face and he pulls me into his shoulder.

After thirteen years I could finally be with my real family.

I sit through the rest of breakfast not muttering a word to anyone, I didn't really know how to feel, I had so many different emotions running through me right now. Is this what it was like to have a loving family?

A few weeks had now passed and in two days time the first task will be taking place and we all couldn't be more excited whereas Harry and Cedric where somewhat nervous. In most classes Cedric was still my partner for things.

Fred and I are on a walk of the school grounds on one of the free periods we share together taking.

"Fred, is that Charlie?" I ask him interrupting his story he was telling me, he looks in the direction I was looking in.

"Yeah it is. CHARLIE!" Fred shouts and the young man looks in our direction, as we walk towards him.

"Told you I would be seeing you soon." Charlie says bringing me into a hug, "I also heard about you two, although I can see that that's al been fixed up." We pull away from the hug and I stand with Fred.

"Yeah... so I'm guessing the reason you're here is for the first task, which must involve dragons." I say to him.

"Yes, well done, try not to tell Harry though," Charlie tells the pair of us.

"We won't," Fred tells his brother as I start to shiver so he brings me into his side.

"See when mum told me what had happened with you two, I knew you wouldn't be mad at each other for long" Charlie says with a grin on his face.

"Yeah well apparently everyone saw it and placed bets on our relationship again." Fred laughs lightly.

"Any cool dragons?" I ask Charlie.

"Cool and dangerous." Charlie replies, looking at his clothes I could clearly see that those dragons were indeed dangerous.

"Wicked!" Fred said loudly.

"Anyway I best be back off to the dragons, I'll most likely see you two again in two days time for the first task." Charlie says to us both, giving a small wave as he walked off into the forbidden forest.

"Well I wasn't expecting that." I say grabbing Fred's hand as we carry on walking.

"Neither was I, nice to see him though rarely get to see him anymore with him in Romania." Fred says.

"Yeah, although I cannot wait till the first task, they said that these tasks aren't as dangerous as before which makes me question how dangerous it used to be." I say with a slight worried look on my face.

"They'll be fine, they have all these people like Charlie here so if anything could possibly go wrong they will be able to deal with it," he tells me reassuringly.

"I suppose that is true, I suppose I should make my way to Ancient Runes now, walk with me?" I ask him as we walk closer to the castle.

"Of course I will, then George, Lee and I are going to work on some joke shop sweets again and George and I need to find away to talk to Bagman." He tells me, what I didn't realise until Fred and I sorted stuff out is that they sent a letter to Bagman about the fake money and he hadn't replied, which made them both angry.

"Of course you do." I say to him entering the castle and he walks me to Ancient Runes.

"See you later beautiful," he tells me as I walk into the classroom, sitting in my usual seat.

"You two are sometimes overbearing at least Melody and I can keep it at a minimum." Jack tells me and I roll my eyes slightly at him.

"Whatever." I say getting my equipment for the lesson out of my bag.

I sit through the lesson with my friends, taking notes on my note book. We finish the lesson and I walk outside to be greeted by Fred.

"Hey, beautiful, good lesson?" He asks me taking my hand.

"I suppose so, yes, where we off to now?" I ask him.

"The library" Melody interrupts from behind. "We should get all work done before the first task starts."

"Sounds good, Fred you coming?" I ask the red head next to me.

"Yeah sure." Fred tells me and the five of us walk to the library.

We sit in the library working well Melody, Jack, Alicia and I and Fred sat there doing, well, I'm not sure. Then I could feel Fred's eyes on me.

"Fred, it's very rude to stare you know," I tell him as I carry on writing on piece of parchment.

"Well you are very pretty." He tells me.

"Godric, you too are so clingy." Melody says, "you could keep it to a minimum, like Jack and I."

"But that's boring," Fred tells her.

"Not everyone likes seeing it, well I don't think anyone does." Jack tells us.

"Anyway I'm finished, will the three of you be good if I go?" I ask them and they nod as I put my stuff away.

"Come you, let's find something to entertain you." I say getting up.

"Finally, as much as I love watching you study, it's boring for me even if I do get to look at your beautiful face." He tells me and I laugh at him lightly.

"Well we will find George and Lee and that will give you some entertainment," I say to him as we walk out the library. "Did you tell them that we saw Charlie?"

"Yeah and they are now even more excited for the first task," Fred tells me as we walk towards the Gryffindor common room.

"Ahh, all three of you act like children, sometimes I feel like I am a mum to all three of you." I tell him.

"My childish characteristics are one of the things you love about me." Fred says to me as we reach the Gryffindor portrait hole.

"Password?"

"Bladderdash." Fred says and we walk into the common room.

We look around the common room and there is no sight of Lee and George.

"Where have they gone?" I ask Fred.

"I have no clue." He tells me.

We sit around around the fire waiting for our friends and they all return return to the common room and we spend the night talking away then got to bed.

It was now the day of the first task and our lessons finished at midday, so we could get down to see the first task. The atmosphere surrounding the school was one of excitement we were sitting in the Great Hall eating lunch when Harry walked in. When Professor McGonagall hurried over to Harry.

"Potter, the champions have to come down into the grounds now... you have to get ready for your first task."

"Okay," Harry replied to her, he looked so nervous bless him.

"Good luck, Harry!" I shout to him and he gives me a small smile in return.

We watched as Harry and Professor McGonagall walked out of the Great Hall.

"The poor sod looks so worried." I say to them all eating my lunch.

"He will be fine," Melody tells me.

"Are you sure about that?" I ask her, we told them about the task. "It's going to be dangerous."

"Obviously." George tells me, "we should make our way down to take the bets." He looks at Fred.

"Do you want to come with us?" He asks me.

"Sure, see you all later." I tell them, "could you save us some seats please?" I ask them.

"Sure." Jack says and we walk out of the Great Hall.

We walk down towards the grounds where the first task would be taking place; Fred and George both had boxes to take money from people for the bets.

"These people better hurry up it's freezing." I tell the two boys.

"Ahh look here people come, now stop complaining." George tells me.

People start walking closer towards us and the twins start shouting to get people attention.

"Bets! Place your bets here!"

"Who do you think will win, place your bets here!"

People walk over to us all and placing bets on who they think will win.

"5 Galleons for Krum," a Durmstrang student says to George handing him the money.

"I'll stick 2 Galleons on Potter." I saw another Gryffindor say placing the bet.

They carried on taking bets from many students and I stood there watching them, they were in their element, they always had so much energy, I honestly had no clue how.

"Right I think that's the last of the people, I think we should go and watch the action," I tell the pair and they close the boxes.

"Yeah, let's go." Fred says as we enter the arena, looking through the crowds to see if we could find our friends and I see hands waving us over.

"This way," George said leading us towards our group of friends.

We sit in the seats they saved for us and we look into the arena to see a dragon on chains with Charlie standing to the side with some of his work colleagues.

"Look there's Charlie." I say to the twins.

"Oh yeah, look how big that dragon is," Fred says with his eyes wide open and excitement over his face, the same with George and Lee.

"God you are all such children." I say looking over at the judges panel.

"Welcome, to the first task," the familiar voice of Ludo Bagman roared. "Each of our champions has been given a different dragon each and will have to retrieve one of these golden eggs each." He says holding one of them up, looking in the arena you could already see one with the dragon with other eggs, which must be the dragons eggs.

"Our first champion is Cedric Diggory!" Bagman roars to the crowd and everyone starts cheering.

Cedric walked out of the tent into the arena, he looked scared and I wasn't surprised either.

When he finally managed to get the egg he had a burn on the side of his face, which looked extremely painful. He done it in about fifteen minutes which was good and then the judges marked him on his performance.

Fleur was next, the only girl in the Tournament, she was even more nervous then Cedric however she done it quicker then Cedric. Although her skirt did catch fire after she sent the dragon to sleep. The judges then showed their scores for Fleur.

Next was Krum he was okay but squashed half of the real dragon eggs, which lead to him having marks taken off as they aren't meant to damage them.

Finally, it was Harry's turn and we were all cheering for him as he walks into the arena.

"Come on Harry!" I shout.

He stands there then raised his wand and shouted, "Accio Firebolt."

He waited for a couple of seconds and his Firebolt come zooming into the arena and he puts one leg over and jumps onto it. And the crowd cheers.

He reached down for the egg then swerved up just in time before getting caught by the fire from the dragons mouth but the dragons tail hit his shoulder.

"Oh my Godric, Harry!" I shout standing up before Fred pulls me back down to my sit.

"He will be okay, y/n." He tells me taking my hand reassuringly.

Harry then flew up out of the dragons reach and crap, the chain broke and she was chasing after him, the dragon then destroys the canopy that was over the teachers.

"Well done dragon." Fred roared, making a good few people laugh as Harry goes off into the distance and I panic.

"Where is he?" I sit waiting nervously before he races in on his Firebolt and grabs the golden egg and we all cheer.

"Look at that! Will you look at that! Our youngest champion is quickest to get his egg! Well this is going to shorten the odds on Mr Porter!" Bagman yelled.

Charlie along with the rest of the dragon-keepers then got control of the dragon whilst Harry was carted off to get his injury sorted.

"I can't believe he done it, looks like Hermione and Ron are off to see him. I hope they become friends again honestly tiring see them not talk to each other all the time." I tell the group.

"That's how we all felt," Lee replies back.

A couple of minutes later after waiting in anticipation Harry walks out from a different tent with Hermione and Ron as the scores were announced. Madame Maxime gave him an eight, Crouch gave him a nine, Dumbledore followed with another nine, Bagman with a ten and finally Karkaroff gave him a four... seriously a four.

We all cheered for him and Charlie went to talk to him quickly before disappearing off, then the champions did the same.

"You know what this calls for?" I say to my friends.

"A party!" The all shout and most of the Gryffindors cheer with agreement.

"Right we need to go and set up then!" I say jumping up with my friends behind and we rush off.

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A/n: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, sorry it took a while to get out today, but here it is, should have another chapter out in a couple or so hours :)

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