Chapter 1: The Day of...

Harry Potter woke up from his light sleep restless once more, the day of the third task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament was finally upon him. He had been preparing for this task since the beginning of the year when he had learned of this tournament. While everyone else thought he was nervous, he was in fact excited about what was to come. Harry had spent the better part of the past year and a half planning for what was about to occur, he could barely wait. After getting up, stretching and getting dressed, he walked down to the common room and silently moved behind the red headed figure sitting on the couch looking into the fire.

Ginny Weasley let out a small squeak as the unknown figure crept up behind her and wrapped his arms around her neck, that is, until he leaned over and kissed her gently on the forehead. Ginny and Harry had secretly been seeing each other in the early morning like this for their entire year. After he had saved her from the Chamber of Secrets the previous year, something clicked between them and he had entrusted her with his plan for the future, which he carefully changed to accommodate her as well.

She let out a small sigh and turned her head to kiss him softly on the lips before whispering, "Today is the day love...after all this planning the day have finally come."

He smiled and walked around the couch to sit next to her, gently wrapping an arm around her before replying, "Yes, today.. or rather tonight marks the start of our future and the start of the new world. I would love to see the look on Dumbledore's face when he realizes that I have been playing him for the past year. I will miss Ron and Hermione though.. maybe we will be able to persuade them to join us."

She rested her head on his shoulder and whispered, "So.. have you decided who you are going to take with you?"

"I believe I have.. for a while I considered Krum, but Cedric is more intelligent and could be a nuisance to our cause in the future."

"I agree love.."

Harry looked towards the window and realized that daylight was quickly approaching, he kissed her cheek lightly and then said, "Only one more day of acting love.. after tonight we will be able to be ourselves."

--HPBS--

Harry entered the Great Hall looking nervous as he sat down for breakfast in his usual seat near Ron and Hermione. Hermione started to tell him to eat but he quickly tuned her out running over the plan for tonight once more in his head. Before he knew it breakfast was over and he was walking out the doors heading towards the lake with his two friends walking silently with him. Once they reached the lake they walked slowly along the edge and began to talk.

"I think I am ready for tonight" said Harry

Hermione smiled and replied, "We have tried to help you learn everything that we thought could be useful.. if you aren't prepared now, you will never be."

"I agree mate, if you can take on a Hungarian Horntail.. this task should be easy for you" added Ron.

"If anything happens though.."

"For the LAST time.. nothing is going to happen to you Harry" interjected Hermione before he could continue.

Ron rolled his eyes and then a low growl could be heard coming from his stomach, "I'm hungry.."

Harry and Hermione looked incredulously and Hermione replied, "You're always hungry Ronald" the three of them looked at each other and then started laughing as they continued to walk around the lake and talk about many things before heading back to the castle once they saw that it was almost dusk.

--HPBS--

Harry sat at the entrance to the maze as the crowd around him cheered. He looked at Alaster who gave a slight nod before discreetly pointing his wand at Cedric and muttered 'Imperio.' Cedric's eyes glossed over for a moment and then returned to normal. Harry began talking to Alastor and put on his 'nervous yet determined boy' facade for hopefully the last time.

Dumbledore looked down at the four competitors and let out a sigh, in truth he was worried about Harry, the weapon he planned to use to defeating Tom Riddle. However, once he saw the determined look on the boy's face, some of his worry melted away and he cleared his throat before pointing his wand to his throat and saying 'Sonorus.'

-A/N: Alright, this is my very first fanfic and I have a lot of ideas, this story will hopefully go on for quite a few chapters. I have not written anything in a few years as my grammar obviously shows however I am working on it, hopefully you will take that into account should you wish to review. This chapter was meant just to set the story line. I promise that the next chapter will be longer and you will get to one of the reasons as to why I decided to give this an M rating.

Until next time,

SnipeDragon

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