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Chapter 13: Mad-Eye Moody

"Are they mad?" Hermione hissed from her seat next to Harry at the Gryffindor table, "Reintroducing the Triwizard Tournament at a time like this? I checked Hogwarts: A History after what Professor Dumbledore told us, and it said that almost everyone that's entered had suffered from at least some sort of injury, and I'm not going to even mention how many people have been killed."

Harry resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Hermione; she hadn't stopped nagging him and Ron since she had met them in the Common Room that morning, but Hermione wasn't the only one talking about the Triwizard Tournament. All around him, Harry could hear the harried and excited whispers of his classmates. The school had done nothing but talk since Dumbledore's announcement at the feast the night before.

"Who cares about how many people died, Hermione? Obviously they just weren't up to the cut," Ron said, snagging a platter of bacon triumphantly, "Just imagine winning that thing, eh? Eternal glory and a thousand galleons is definitely enough for me to stick my neck out. Right, Harry?"

Harry nodded, "Yeah. Besides, Hermione, you heard Dumbledore, they've raised the defences to make sure nobody gets hurt this time 'round."

Hermione sent them both a scathing look, "It's good to know both of you hold your lives at such a high value to something like 'eternal glory'," she said clipped, "And just because they've made extra precautions doesn't mean the tournament isn't any less dangerous. A single slip-up in a challenge and the Hogwarts Express could be taking home one less student at the end of the year."

"Aw, stop being so negative, 'Mione. I bet you're just mad you can't enter to show off all your fancy wand-work."

Harry hurriedly intervened when Hermione opened her mouth to retort, "What do you think Dumbledore meant when he said that Hogwarts was going to be 'enjoying even richer company this year'? I mean, we already know that Beauxbatons and Durmstrangs are competing. Who else could there be?"

"Dunno. Maybe there's a secret judge or something." Ron said.

"Honestly, don't you two ever read?" Hermione huffed, "The Daily Prophet can be quite informative when it isn't publishing those horrible gossip spreads Rita Skeeter writes," At both Harry and Ron's blank expressions, the Gryffindor girl sighed, "If either of you had been paying attention, you would both know that Dumbledore has been traveling back and forth from America throughout the summer to form an alliance with one of their schools."

Harry snapped to attention, pulling himself from his porridge, "Wait, one of their schools? There's more?"

"Course, mate, America's huge. There's no way they'd be able to fit so many untrained wizards in one place without getting noticed," Ron said distractedly, eyeing off a stack of French toast sitting by Neville further down the table.

"Where? The only one I know of is Salem. I saw them at the Quidditch Cup."

"That's the Salem Witches' Institute. They're a barmy lot, those ones. Comes with the history I guess," Ron shrugged, "They've also got one down south, New Orleans, or something. Teach some weird form of voodoo magic. Dad told me there's another one, too – a place called 'Ill-noise'?" he shook his head, "I forget."

"Illinois," Hermione corrected, adding, "There's also one in Canada, although they're more likely to have closer roots to Beauxbatons than Hogwarts."

"Who do you think it is then?"

"As long as it's not Salem, I don't really care," Ron said, leaning over Parvati's breakfast to grab a slice of Neville's toast, ignoring the way the girl glared at him.

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Hello! As you can see, this is a new Harry Potter/Danny Phantom crossover. As this is primarily based around the Harry Potter universe, I have decidedly made some changes to the Phantom one for it to smoothly match. So for all the Phantom purists out there, I say: just roll with it.

This story will be strongly following the happenings of the book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and is written as if the Danny Phantom series has been neatly integrated into the book, and will thus appear in excerpts of 2000 words or less. Man of the chapters have direct texts taken from the book, and while I tried to change as much as I possibly could - I found it rather difficult to write out a scene on how a character would react when Rowling had already written out how that character would act, so I apologise in advance and claim no rights over those sections.

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