November 21

Naruto was sitting down in the Great Hall eating dinner when a small cry drew everyone's attention. Looking up everyone saw a bird flying through a window and fly towards the staff table. Recognizing the bird, Naruto lifted his arm and had the bird land on it. Quickly cracking the bone of the steak he was enjoying, he fed the pieces to the bird which it ate gratefully.

Untying the note on it's leg, Naruto kept feeding the bird as he read it. Quickly though, his eyebrows rose in surprise. He let out a, "Huh," and put the note back into his pocket. Then he fed the rest of the bone to the bearded vulture and it flew away. Naruto then continued his meal. He ignored all of the curious stares he was receiving.

"Stunners on the count of three!" Each dragon keeper pulled out their wand and pointed it at the dragon.

"Stupe-" "Somnus"

From Harry's point of view he saw that each dragon keeper was about to launch a stunner at the dragon when suddenly the dragon was hit by a wave of some sort and it fell down to sleep. Each dragon keeper was surprised, but then the one near the fence who told Hagrid and Maxime not to get closer yelled, "Naruto! You piece of dragon dung, what are you doing here?!" The joy in the man's voice showed that it was a joke between friends.

"Charlie, you piece of flaming dragon shit, I'm working here for the year. You're lucky that I was already here when I got your letter." Seeing the dragon keeper come closer Harry was able to see it was actually Charlie Weasley. Looking behind himself, Harry saw Naruto walking in their direction. For a moment, Harry would have sworn that Naruto was looking straight at him, but he disregarded it and decided it would be best if he went back to the common room and made sure he wasn't late for that meeting with Sirius.

"Oh thank Merlin. I was afraid I was gonna have to do everything here with these rookies. At least I know that you're here to cover my back." Grasping and shaking each others hands, and Charlie led Naruto to Hagrid and Maxime.

"So, you guys were able to bring a Hungarian Horntail here? I'm guessing you used a sleeping draught?" Naruto was rewarded with a slap to the back for guessing correctly.

"You've got that right. Without you there we couldn't do it any other way."

Turning to look at Hagrid Charlie started whispering, "Hagrid, I didn't know you were going to be bringing her here. The champions aren't supposed to know about what's coming. She's bound to tell her student." Hagrid wasn't listening. He was too focused on the dragon eggs.

"I've already counted all of the dragon eggs Hagrid. If any of them go missing, I know who to go after." Hagrid just moaned in longing. Shaking his head Charlie led Naruto to the other dragons. He was gonna need all of the help he could get.

November 22

Naruto was currently in his room looking at a note that Dumbledore had sent him. Apparently, they were going to have a Ball on Christmas. Usually it was frowned upon for a professor to ask a student to the ball, however since he was still a teenager he could ask one of the students. While a nice gesture, Naruto couldn't think of anyone to ask. He'd probably just go alone.

Sighing, he was about to lay down on his bed when he heard the chime of his ward telling him he had visitors. He added it after the last visit from Hermione and Harry. He hadn't expected for the knight to just move without warning him about it. If he had just been a few seconds faster out of the shower he would have given them an eyeful.

Turning to the door, he wasn't surprised to see that it was Hermione and Harry again. Though he could tell that Harry was uncomfortable.

"Ms. Granger, Mr. Potter, how are you today? Oh and Ms. Granger, are you feeling better? I heard you had been hit with a hex." Hermione couldn't really understand the reason for the warmth that she felt in her body at that moment, but she didn't let that bother her.

"Professor, I'm fine. Madam Pomfrey was able to fix it, so no harm done. We're actually here for help." Raising an eyebrow, Naruto turned to look at Harry.

"I'm not entirely sure whether or not parseltounge is the mark of a dark wizard, but I do believe that it doesn't matter. If it can help me survive this tournament then I'm willing to use it." Harry's words, while not what Naruto wanted to hear, were enough to show that Harry was serious and wanted help.

"Very well then, I'll help you on one condition. You must try to win this tournament." The looks he got told him he needed to explain.

"Everyone expects you to lose this tournament. I want you to not only survive this tournament, but to win it. Will you do everything in your power to not only survive, but win?" Staring at Harry right in his eyes, Naruto saw from his peripheral vision that Hermione was about to say something, but Harry surprised her.

"I will. I'm sick and tired of being taken advantage of. I want to not only win. I want to absolutely destroy my competition." The resolve in his voice made Naruto smirk, but it made Hermione stare wide eyed at Harry.

Never in her life had she heard something like this from Harry. The only time something similar happened was the year before when they found out about Sirius, but even that paled when compared to this. It made her happy. Harry was finally being proactive about his life, even if it took an incredibly dangerous tournament to do so.

"Good, remember your resolve. You're the one in charge of your life. You choose how to live it." Naruto's smirk quickly turned into a beaming smile that made Hermione's heart race.

"Now, we don't have much time to prepare you, so I won't be able to teach you any super powerful spells to take down a dragon, so we're gonna have to get creative. Now, tell me what you know about runes and your parseltounge ability."

November 24

Naruto was on the ground with the rest of the dragon keepers, ready to jump in at a moments notice. Next to him was Charlie, who seemed nervous about everything. "Calm down, stop thinking about all of the ways this can go wrong and just focus on the here and now. By the way, if you're gonna bet on anyone bet on Harry. It's almost unfair the advantage he has."

Turning to look at him, Charlie decided to see if he could get an answer. "What advantage?" The smirk Naruto had on his face was enough to know that it was gonna be ridiculous. "Harry's a parselmouth."

That stopped Charlie cold.

"No."

"Yes."

"Can he-"

"Yup."

Leaning back against the wall, Charlie just allowed the information to sink in. "Well, that's completely unfair." With that they both laughed and felt sorry for Harry's competition.

Hermione was doing her best to stay calm, and amazingly enough she was. The entire two days they spent training Harry, had shown her that he was ready for this. Unless of course everything went horribly wrong... and she just killed her calm attitude.

'Oh god, this can go wrong in so many ways! He can be bludgeoned or eaten! Why did Dumbledore let him do this!' Hermione dragged her hands down her face as her calm demeanor shattered. Looking down at the pit, Hermione's face quickly paled as she saw the dragon keepers put the dragon in position.

Before she could make her mood worse, she saw a flash of red next to her. Looking towards her side, she saw Ron sitting down. Hermione was going to ignore him, but then she took in his appearance. Bags under his eyes, extremely pale, and even his hair seemed tired.

Before she could even stop herself, Hermione asked, "Ron, are you alright?" While they might be having an argument at the moment, she wasn't going to give up on three years of friendship easily.

"No Hermione, I'm not alright. I've been regretting everything I said to Harry the moment I said it, but I just couldn't stop myself. I've been trying to make myself go to Harry and apologize, but I don't know if he would accept my apology. After everything that happened during second year, how could I have abandoned him so easily? I know how Harry is, and I know he hates that he's famous that he survived while his parents died, but I just couldn't stop myself." As Ron kept speaking, Hermione's eyes kept getting wider and wider. Never before had she seen Ron be so vulnerable. He didn't even notice that he'd started crying a bit as he kept babbling. Overall, Hermione didn't really know how to react. So, she did something that she usually didn't do. She went with her gut.

Pulling him into a hug, Hermione let Ron cry into her shoulder. She could understand how he felt, as the year before she was the one who had been excluded from their group. It hurt so much, but she knew that she had done the right thing in telling McGonagall about the Firebolt. Now though, Ron knew he had made a mistake and the guilt compounded with the hurt of being excluded must have been terrible. Add in the stress he was probably under and it was a wonder he hadn't broken until now.

She felt Ron lift his head off her shoulder and she pulled back to see how he looked. Red puffy eyes, runny nose, and sniffles did not look good on anyone, especially a ginger. However, the smile he gave her was enough to keep her from commenting.

"Sorry about that. Don't know where the bloody hell that came from." Ron said as he wiped his eyes.

Before Hermione could say anything, a loud roar had her clutching her ears. Opening her eyes, she looked towards the pit and her blood ran cold. The Hungarian Horntail was the last dragon for the event. That meant it was Harry's turn.

Looking at the champion's entrance, she could see Harry walk through. She could tell that he was nervous if the tension in his shoulders was any indication. She could see him rub his arm where she knew the runic formula was at. If everything went according to plan, Harry would not only get the best score, he'd be leading the entire competition.

Harry was nervous. The Hungarian Horntail was bigger than he thought it would be. Rubbing his arm, he walked slowly in front of it so that it didn't take him as a threat.

Raising his arms slowly, he began to imagine a snake in his mind. Opening his mouth, he could feel tongue moving differently than what he was used to.

"Hello, great dragon. I mean no harm to you or your clutch. I just wish to retrieve that fake egg that was planted in your nest." As he spoke Harry didn't hear the cheering that he heard with the other champions. More than likely everyone was too shocked to hear him speaking parseltounge.

The Hungarian Horntail had reacted strangely, almost as if she had been startled. Looking at him, she began to make low growling noises. Naruto had explained to him that while dragons were intelligent, they didn't really have a language to speak with. Instead, they communicated with their growls and roars, which translated into intention. His parseltounge magic helped him understand what the dragon was trying to communicate and the same worked for the dragon. It knew that he didn't mean it any harm.

The growls he received let him know that she didn't trust him, but she was willing to hear him out. "That golden egg you have in your nest, it was planted by humans. They are making me retrieve it from you. I sincerely do not wish to do so, but I have no choice. I am asking you to let me take it and I will make sure that I don't bother you anymore."

He could tell that the dragon was considering his intention, but it was weary. Like any caring mother, it didn't want it's children hurt. Before he could say anything else, the dragon wrapped its tail around the golden egg and threw it at Harry. Running to catch the egg, Harry was glad that he was used to chasing round golden objects. Jumping and grabbing the egg, he was able to land safely with a stumble or two.

Looking back at the dragon, he could see that she wanted him to get as far away from her as possible. Turning to her, he said, "Thank you." He knew that she wouldn't understand the words, but she would understand his gratitude. Turning back to the entrance, he ran as fast as he possibly could.

"WHOOO!" Ron's cheer startled everyone in the crowd. When Harry began to speak parseltounge, everyone froze. Even Hermione, who had known about the plan had frozen. Throughout the whole thing no one said anything and nobody moved. It wasn't until Harry walked back into the champion's entrance that Ron cheered.

With Ron cheering, all of Hogwarts began to cheer as well. Harry had been the only champion to get his egg without getting hurt and he'd done so in under ten minutes. There was no way he wouldn't get a perfect score.

"A 41!? You did it in under five minutes! How the hell could you not get a perfect score?! Everyone else gave you tens, but that stupid biased Karkarof gave you a 1! I bet he's pissed that you did so much better than Krum and just to spite you he gave you the lowest possible score." Staring at Ron's outraged and exhausted face, Harry couldn't stop grinning like an idiot.

After he'd gone back into the tent, Ron and Hermione had run down to greet him. Harry was going to say something spiteful to Ron the moment he saw him, but his physical state made him pause. He'd never seen Ron look so worn down. Not even when Ginny had been kidnapped.

That small pause turned into silent shock the moment that Ron began to babble about how big of an ass he had made of himself and how he should know better than to believe that Harry would purposely put himself into the tournament. Ron would have continued to babble had Harry not done something he had never done before. He initiated a hug.

He hugged his brother and his brother just broke down on his shoulder. For them, they had repaired whatever bridge had been burned down stronger than before. Of course, they couldn't really do much celebrating that in the middle of the champions tent as Harry still needed to get his score.

Once the three of them had reached the enclosure where the dragons where they saw the judges and Harry received his score. Four tens and a single one that got much booing from the crowd, Harry found out that he was in the lead. This led to Ron's outburst.

"Ron it's fine. You saw how everyone booed him. They know that I deserved a perfect score and the fact that he went and gave me a one shows how unprofessional he's being. If he keeps acting this way, they may be forced to appoint a new judge." This had Ron freeze on their way back to the Gryffindor common room.

"Who are you and what have you done with Harry?" Ron asked as he stared at 'Harry' with narrowed eyes.

"Wha? The hells wrong with you?" Harry asked in a anger.

Hermione just looked at both of them with worried expressions. Were they going to fight all over again?

"The Harry I know would have taken this and shoved it into the deepest part of his psyche. He would not have been fine with it, and he most definitely would not have explained why he was fine with it.

In fact, ever since you initiated that hug you I had my doubts about you. Harry doesn't initiate hugs. He's awkward with expressing affection for another person because he's received so little of it himself when he was growing up and as a result he's stunted. You on the other hand just went and hugged me without any provocation. So I ask again, who are you?" Ron finished his explanation with raising his wand and pointing it at Harry.

Harry and Hermione were both too shocked from the revelation that Ron apparently understood human psychology. Nothing that they had ever seen from Ron before would even hint that he knew anything about this. It took them a moment, but as they recovered from their shock Hermione slowly and carefully pushed Ron's wand away from Harry so that he could explain.

"Ron, I'm still the same Harry you knew. I'm actually one of the few people who knows that you slept with a man for over three years." That got Hermione to stare at both Ron and Harry incredulously.

Ron seemed to accept that Harry was the same Harry that he knew as his shoulders relaxed. However, his ears had turned very red. "I thought we promised we wouldn't speak about that."

Harry's grin was all that Ron received as he turned back to walk towards the Gryffindor common room.

The party that was held in the Gryffindor common room was one to be written about in the history books. Mostly for one simple reason. McGonagall had partied with them. It had started off innocently enough, but somehow Fred or George had managed to spike her drink. She ended up getting slightly intoxicated.

This resulted in her getting into antics one would not usually see in their stoic head of house. No one knew who suggested the belching contest, but McGonagall won it when she began belching the Scotland national anthem.

Of course, once McGonagall began to sober up she immediately dragged Fred and George to detention. The resulting howler from their mother the morning after the party was heard by everyone. Fred and George took it in stride though and considered it their proudest moment.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione though had more pressing business to discuss. Harry informed both of them about what he and Sirius had found out about his incarceration. At the time, anyone who was considered a Death Eater would be thrown into Azkaban. No trial would be given. They were to be tried later on, but apparently somehow it never happened.

They did find one exception though. The trial of Barty Crouch Jr. However, it seemed that the trial was more for show than anything. Barty Crouch Jr. was to be sent to Azkaban no matter what.

As no trials were ever arranged for those who were wrongfully arrested, Sirius could ask for a trial to take place, but he would need conclusive proof that he was not responsible for Lily and James death in order to clear his name and for that, he needed Wormtail. Unfortunately, no one had any idea on where he could be.

There was some good news though. The glass mirrors that James had spoken about had been found and were being sent to Harry. However, it would take a while as they had to make sure the bird would not be tracked to Sirius' location.

"Hmm, what to teach next? Should I stun them with how the universe was created, the existence of the astral plane, or maybe something else? So many choices." Naruto spoke to himself as he stared at a scale model of the milky way galaxy.

And that's all folks!

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