Harry Potter and Voldemort's Champion.

Chapter 1. The dream has faded.

14/11/17.

I don't own the Harry Potter verse. Just playing.

Summary: The true power of the Master Illusionist is to trick you to focus on what he has not done and to control the chaos he creates. Harry and Hermione work out the headmaster's trick of the Age-Line and that changes everything. Ronald has another bad experience due to his greed, fears and jealousies. HHr NLLL MOF Dumbledore + 2 Secret Dark Lords (SS & NM). Character deaths.

Full Summary: Harry hoped for a better summer for his Hermione and himself after his third year of Hogwarts. He had discovered a missing Godfather and he almost was free of the Durzkaban and have a family of his own. Then the rat escaped, Mooney tried to eat him and his best friend Hermione, while the Dementors tried to eat all their souls. Then the Minister wouldn't believe that Sirius Black was innocent, and all Dumbledore did was shake his head sadly.

Now they had the Triwizard Tournament and the manipulative old headmaster's Age-Line to contend with. Plus a dark lord who wanted to enter Harry's name so he could be his champion for the dark side. Who will help Harry and Hermione to get their happy ever after?

Ronald has another bad experience due to his greed plus the effect Voldemort has on his fears and jealousies.

HHr NLLL MOF Dumbledore. Secret Dark Lord Severus and Dark Lady Narcissa.

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Start-of-Term Banquet, Great Hall of Hogwarts, September first 1994.

We find our hero and heroine enjoying the start-of-term banquet in Great Hall, on September first, 1994, at the start of their fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The illustrious headmaster stands to make his beginning of the year announcements. So Harry focused his attention on the biggest disappointment of his life. Albus Dumbledore.

Harry had hoped for a better summer after the challenges of his third year at Hogwarts. Where he had discovered he had a long lost Godfather, and then for a moment, he was almost free of the Durzkaban and to have a family of his own. But then the rat escaped, Mooney went all postal and tried to eat him and his best friend Hermione, and then the Dementors tried to eat all their souls. Following which the Minister wouldn't believe him at Sirius Black was actually innocent, and was not the rat who betrayed his parents. Sadly, all the great man Dumbledore did was to uselessly shake his head as if he was powerless to save Sirius. But with the help of his brilliant girlfriend Hermione, they had managed to turn back time to save two innocent victims of a corrupt Ministry of Magic and an impotent headmaster, and finished it off with a very romantic moon light flight on the back of a Hippogriff with the girl of his dreams.

Harry had a lot of time to think trapped again at Durzkaban, surviving quite well on the food Hermione and others had sent him after hearing that his cousin was on a diet. That was until his cousin discovered his hidden stash and ate it all including the cakes and chocolates that Mrs. Weasley and Ginny had sent. Strangely, Harry thought Dudley had gone a bit loopy after that, but that may have been the diet his mother had put him on. Although Dudley did mumble the words 'oh finny' and sighed a lot like a love smitten teenager. When Harry mentioned to Hermione of Dudley's strange behaviour, she told Harry the story of how Mrs. Weasley got the attention of Mr. Weasley with a little love potion, and suggested that Ginny was trying to get Dudley's attention. While Harry thought that they were suited for each other.

Harry was a little disappointed with the Weasleys that summer as they knew what happened in Durzkaban and did nothing to stop it. While his girlfriend, Hermione, came and rescued him a week before his birthday and gave him the best summer ever. Hermione took him shopping for new clothes and even took him to Gringotts to see his account manager, Goldenclaw. Harry was most happy about having his eyesight fixed so he didn't need to wear those horrible glasses anymore.

Sadly then, Harry had those horrible nightmares of Voldemort, Wormtail and another insane Death Eater, full of murder, abuse, and torture while making plans for his certain death again. He wondered why Dumbledore had done nothing to capture Voldemort after his escape during the Philosopher's Stone Fiasco. Particularly after Harry had exterminated Wraithmort junior in the Chamber of Secrets Debacle, and saved the magical world from dealing with an ancient Basilisk and two immortal Voldemorts.

Harry had a great time at the World Cup with Hermione, except for the hate party the former ex-Death Eaters threw afterwards and the fact that the Weasleys were disappointed with Harry's new look and clothes. Molly said he should be proud to look like his father and he shouldn't have wasted all that money on new clothes he would grow out of far too quickly, and never get to wear.

But it was Mrs Weasley's ignorance of the non magical world had almost gotten Harry beaten to a pulp, Godfather or not. His uncle still had not forgiven him for exposing his ear drums to Ronald bigmouth Weasley's atrocious telephone manners from the previous summer, and now Mrs. Weasley's absurd attempt to mail a letter muggle style. Even the postman couldn't stop himself from laughing at the ridiculous number of stamps placed on the envelope.

Harry had replied to Ronald's owl delivered letter, to say that he was with Hermione. This apparently upset Ronald that Harry was not doing what he wanted, and he didn't bother to pass on the message to his father.

Harry was so glad that Hermione had rescued him before Mr Weasley attempted to collect him at Durzkaban by having the Dursley's old bricked-in defunct genuine Rumford designed fireplace connected to the Floo Transportation system. The twins told him all about the mess, what they did to his cousin, and the legendary argument their father had with his uncle. Harry just hoped he would never have to go back to Durzkaban again as his uncle was sure to kill him.

The only ray of hope was that Hermione had accepted his proposal to be his girlfriend, which for some reason really upset Ronald, Ginny and Mrs. Weasley.

So here we find our hero and heroine waiting at the end of the start-of-term banquet for the headmaster to make his announcements.

Harry was concerned after Draco, on his biannual visit to sneer at him on the Hogwarts Express, had an astronomical large smirk at the knowledge that his father had told him of something big happening at Hogwarts this year.

Something big that had been kept a secret from Harry, again, and he knew anything big would involve him.

So Harry focused his attention on the biggest disappointment of his life. Albus Dumbledore.

The same Albus Dumbledore who had saved a guilty Death Eater from Azkaban while he left an innocent Sirius Black there to rot, which caused an innocent Harry to suffer a worse fate in Durzkaban. While under the big crooked nose of the headmaster, the Pure-Blood bigots had continued their agenda as if his mother's sacrifice had meant nothing. His brilliant girlfriend was still treated like mud.

The headmaster's announcement stunned Harry. A Triwizard Tournament. Hermione quickly informed him of all the information she had read about the previous Triwizard Tournaments in her favourite book; Hogwarts, A History, particularly focusing on the death toll of champions, and spectators. It was obvious to Harry what his certain death event would be this year.

But it was the last bit of the headmaster's announcement that really caught Harry's attention. The headmaster said he would place an Age-Line around the Goblet of Fire. An Age-Line that Harry knew his name would have to cross to be placed in the Goblet of Fire, and then Harry had a very Slytherin thought.

Harry turned to Hermione and he saw the fear in her beautiful honey eyes.

"Promise me that you will not enter this Triwizard Tournament, Harry."

"I promise, and you know I don't want anything to do with the Triwizard Tournament rubbish or eternal glory, but you also know that my name will come out of that Goblet, Hermione." Harry sadly said as Hermione nodded in agreement at the truth of his words. "But I am more interested in the Age-Line that the headmaster will place around the Goblet and what it can do?"

Hermione smiled a little, without their other redhead friend getting all enraged and jumping to conclusions, Harry was now thinking before leaping into another certain death situation.

"I am thinking of asking Professor Flitwick to examine the headmaster's Age-Line, to find out how it works and what it can do."

"That is brilliant, Harry." Hermione gushed rewarding Harry with a kiss. Much to the disappointment of two jealous redheads. "I can ask Professor Septima Vector, the Arithmancy teacher, to help. She may even make it a class assignment for extra credit."

Harry smiled, he knew that the Arithmancy teacher was known to give her students large amounts of homework, and they had a lot to do before Halloween.

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