Hey! And, for all of my readers and reviewers, I know that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are both co-ed, but it is just SO MUCH easier this way.

Chapter 3

The Choosing of the Champions

The entire crowd of students stood up and cheered. The Beauxbatons girls stood gracefully, and brought their hands together smoothly and calmly. The Durmstrangs stood up but only brought their hands together a few times before going back to scowling. The Hogwarts crowd was by far the most enthusiastic.

"God, what do they teach at these schools, how to look totally cold and evil?" whispered James to Sirius.

"Well, Beauxbatons sure teaches a good beauty school!" said Sirius.

"Is that all you're going to talk about the entire tournament?" asked Remus, sitting down with everyone else.

"Most likely,"

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Lily looked across the table and saw Amos Diggory talking to one of the Beauxbatons girls, who looked completely uninterested and, to Lily's absolute SHOCK was looking over at James Potter. Why would anyone want to even LOOK at James Potter?

Lily had always liked Amos Diggory. He was nice, cute, and smart, so why shouldn't she like him? At least it was better then liking Potter. Why was she thinking about liking Potter? That was sick. But before she could confuse herself anymore, Dumbledore got up to speak again, but this time, he was standing next to a magnificent gold casket.

"Students, I would like to introduce the judges for the Triwizard Tournament. They shall be, Madame Maxime, Igor Karkaroff, I, and, Bartemius Crouch. Also, I would like to introduce the chooser of the champions!" and he opened the casket, and pulled out a large wooden goblet, and set it down on the ivory table. "The Goblet of Fire! Each student who wishes to compete in the Triwizard Tournament will simply write their names on a piece of parchment, and place it into the goblet. And now, let the tournament BEGIN!" and the Goblet lit with magnificent blue flames.

"Now, the Hogwarts students will be sleeping in the train, and I believe that the Durmstrang students will be sleeping in their ship. You may put your names in the goblet as of tomorrow, and now, everyone should go and get a good night's sleep," said Dumbledore, waving them off.

"Uh, could someone please explain to me how we are going to sleep on the TRAIN?" said Hannah, as they walked out of the hall.

"I have no idea," said Kelsey.

As they stepped onto the train, the four girls stepped into the compartment they rode in. They were surprised to see that it was much larger, and had four, large, four- poster beds in it.

"Okay, I guess that's how," said Taylor, throwing herself onto the nearest bed. Lily slowly sat down on her bed and looked out the door. Amos Diggory and his Hufflepuff friends walked by, and he turned and smiled at Lily, who blushed. Then Potter walked by, and she immediately turned away.

It wasn't until they had all changed into their pajamas when Lily realized how tired she was, and she promptly fell asleep.

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James woke up the next morning at the same time as Sirius and Remus with a jolt of excitement.

"Come on! We have 2 go put our names in!"

"I know, give us at least 2 seconds!" said Sirius groggily.

The three boys wrote their names on parchment and walked into the castle.

"On three, ready?" said Remus, holding his parchment up to the goblet.

"One…"

"Two…"

"THREE!" and they all tossed their names into the fire, and walked out of the castle.

The next night, all of the schools took their places at the table, and anxiously waited for Dumbledore to speak. Finally he stood up and walked up to the goblet. The fire turned red and spit out a small piece of parchment.

"The champion for Beauxbatons is: Jacqueline Fleura!" and a beautiful brunette girl got up and marched proudly into the next room.

The fire turned red again, and spit another piece of parchment out. "The Durmstrang champion is: Grigor Krum!" and the surliest looking Durmstrang got up and crossed into the room as well.

The goblet ignited for the last time, and spit out the last piece of parchment. "And, the Hogwarts champion is: James Potter!"

NOT the best chapter, but R&R still!