Dragons ♦️ Charlie Weasley Fanfiction

« Chapter Nine - The Guests »

"So Hogwarts has been choosen to host a legendary event. The Tri-Wizard tournament.
Now for those of you who do not know, the tri-wizard tournament brings together three schools for a series of magical contests. From each school a single contestant is selected to compete. Now let me be clear, if choosen you stand alone. And trust me when I say these contests are not for the faint hearted, but more of that later. For now please join me in welcoming the lovely ladies of the Beauxbatons Academy of magic and their headmistress Madam Maxime," Dumbledore explained and a rather large woman, very very tall began to walk down towards Dumbledore.

A group of girls dressed in pale blue danced elegantly and beautifully up the aisle, the boys couldn't keep their eyes off them, and the girls released butterflies into the air. They bowed and everyone applauded, albeit some of the girls were not too happy about them, especially the ones with boyfriends.

"And now our friends from the north, please greet the proud sons of Durmstrang and the high master Igor Karkaroff."

A series of older boys, very handsome older boys who were just my age might I add, walked up the aisle brandishing bo staffs, twirling them around and periodically stabbing them into the ground with a spark effect. It was oddly beautiful and elegant for someone violently stabbing something onto the floor.

"Blimey it's him, Viktor Krum!" Ron fangirled over his everlasting man crush on Victor Krum.

At the end of the boys routine they breathed fire, quite impressive but not as impressive as being able to look at Ron's face as he stared at Victor with out laughing.

"Albus!" Igor greeted with a smile, walking up heavily towards Dumbledore. He was tall and thin like much like Dumbledore, but with an unctuously cheerful demeanour, while his smile didn't reach his eyes, which were blue and remained cold and unmoving. This made him slightly unnerving. His weak chin was not completely covered by his goatee, which ended with a small curl. His teeth were yellow and he seemed to like to dress in sleek, silver furs

"Igor." Dumbledore greeted with a warm smile and they embraced, it looked like a manly embrace but what would I know, seen as I'm not a man.

It was later that night when Dumbledore asked for our attention again, I was already fed up with this Tri-Wizarding tournament, some will die, some will get hurt. They'll be lucky to make it out alive, wow, I'm starting to sound like Percy, NOT EVEN A COUPLE HOURS AND I'M ALREADY BEING INFECTED!!!

"Your attention please! I would like to say a few words. Eternal glory, that is what awaits the student who wins the tri-wizard tournament. But to do this that student must survive three tasks. Three extremely dangerous tasks," sounds quite fun to be honest.

"Wicked." Me, Fred and George said simultaneously.

"For this reason the ministry has seen fit to impose a new rule. To explain all this we have the head of the department of international magic cooperation Mister Bartimus Crouch," Dumbledore introduced but thunder roared overhead, rain began leaking through the roof and screams broke out. A strange man, stood in the doorway, he cast some sort of spell upwards and sealed the roof. Who in the bloody hell is this guy?

"Bloody hell, it's Mad-Eye Moody." And there's my answer, thanks Ron.

"Alastor Moody? The auror." Hermione asked, a confused look on her face as she glanced over once more to the stranger.

"He was a catcher. Half the cells in Azkaban are full thanks to him. He's supposed to be mad as a hatter though these days," Ron explained and I got a weird feeling about the new comer, something more sinister was going on around here. This man entered the room and began walking. His mechanical eye darted everywhere around the room, as if looking for something, or someone. It lingered on Harry for a minute until he limped, breathing heavily as he went towards our Head Master.

"My dear old friend, thanks for coming," Dumbledore spoke.

"That stupid roof." Mad-Eye cursed as he took a drink of something that definitely was not kid friendly.

"What's that he's drinking do you suppose?" Seamus asked.

"I don't know but I don't think it's Pumpkin Juice." Harry mumbled and I failed to stifle a laugh.

"After much deliberation the ministry has concluded that for their own safety no student under the age of seventeen shall be allowed to put forth their name for the tri-wizard tournament. This decision is final." Barty announced and the crowd became unsettled, people started booing but the maddest of all were the twins.

"That's rubbish! You don't know what
you're doing!" George exclaimed and Dumbledore soon set everyone straight.

"Silence!" He boomed as he cast a spell on the box that sat proudly as it began to meld away into a goblet containing a blue flame.

"The goblet of fire. Anyone wishing to submit themselves for the tournament merely write their name upon a piece of parchment and throw it in the flame before this hour on Thursday night. Do not do so lightly, if choosen there's no turning back. As from this moment the tri-wizard tournament has begun." Dumbledore has always had a thing for dramatic speeches.

As Dumbledore explained the Tri-Wizard Tournament, me, being me, started to rub it in the twins face that they couldn't enter and I could. I could have sworn I had read about it before but from what I recall they cancelled it because it was very dangerous and killed many young people who had their whole life to live.

"Well Maddie, are you going to enter?" The twins asked and I contemplated it for a moment. I do have a lot of work with being head girl but I'm obviously not going to get picked so it wouldn't really matter.

"I'm not quite sure to be honest," I answered and they nodded, understanding. They seemed quite relieved that I didn't say yes, they had probably read up on it to, or I had told them about it when I read about it and have forgot. Probably the latter, I doubt they would actually read willingly.

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It's 4 am and I am not tired one bit, probably because I slept the entire day. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter and a new one will be up soon ❤️❤️