Chapter 01

Harry Potter, .A.k.a. The Boy Who Lived was not a HAPPY person. As a matter of fact he was furious, pissed off and wanted to kill a lot of people. At the top of the list: Albus Dumbledore. Behind him, and very close, were: EVERYONE else at the School!

What was the reason of such feelings? Simple: his name had been picked by the Goblet of Fire and he WAS forced to participate in it, even if he HAD NO wishes of doing so.

After a long argument in the Headmaster's office, where the teenager and the old Wizard had finished pointing wands to each other, Albus 'I-Have-Too-Many-Names' Dumbledore had to call the only person who could persuade the student to fulfill the contract that someone had signed for him: Sirius Black, a.k.a. The Fugitive Mass Murderer and Harry's Godfather.

Unfortunately, for everyone involved, 2 things happened: the first was that the Gryffindor House decided that Harry Potter now was a Dark Wizard and kicked him out of the House and destroyed all his belongings and killed Hedwig. The second: Sirius Black opened his mouth.

The meeting between the teenager, his godfather, Remus Lupin, the Headmaster and his former Head of House had been tense to say the least. And everyone knew that it was a matter of time before the boy took his wand and started to fire hexes and curses against the 3 male adults.

"Harry…" Albus started to speak trying to calm the teenager.

"IT'S MR. POTTER! ONLY MY FRIENDS CALL ME HARRY!" The teen shouted angrily. Then he added as angry as before: "AND AS I HAVE NO FUCKING FRIENDS ANY DAMN LONGER, IT'S MR. POTTER FOR EVERYONE!"

"Language!" Minerva shouted with a lecturing tone.

"FUCK YOURSELF! YOU ARE NOT MY HEAD OF HOUSE ANY LONGER!" Harry shouted back.

"Let's calm down." Remus Lupin suggested to everyone. He had also been called and had stayed silent to prevent things getting out of hands.

"I'M FUCKING CALM!" Harry shouted to him. Then he took a few deep breaths to calm down and said, "Let's start over."

"Mr. Potter, the contract OBLIGES you to participate in the Tournament, even if you didn't enter your name." Albus tried to explain once again, for what seemed to be the tenth time in the last 2 days.

"I don't care! I WON'T do it!" The teen shouted once more, as stubborn as usual.

"You have no choice!" Sirius shouted to him.

"Sorry, but this time I've decided to use my self preservation instinct and decided that this is too fucking dangerous for my life and I prefer the safety of being away from the Tournament!" Harry told him seriously.

"Now you decide to use it?" Sirius commented dryly, before he shut his mouth as the teen had his wand pointed to his neck.

"I know another way to earn 1000 Galleons: handing your head to the Ministry, so you better do not tempt me!" Harry shouted his Godfather.

"Please, calm down." Minerva asked them once more.

"What was the reason of you confiscating the broom last year, Professor?" Harry asked Minerva, before he turned to Lupin and asked him: "What about the map?"

"That's not the point." Remus said as he realized what was coming next.

"It is the WHOLE fucking point!" Harry shouted him as he turned to the 3 professors and said: "Last year, ALL of you did EVERYTHING in the name of my safety, and now that I AGREE with that argument you tell me it's useless?"

"Mr. Potter, we agree that this situation is not safe for you, but unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it." Albus said, seeing that the teen now was using their own words against them. Also, he knew that he was right on that.

"I don't care!" Harry shouted again.

"Harry, listen, ok?" Sirius asked his Godson, seeing that they would go nowhere. Then he continued, picking his words very carefully: "We'll help you, you'll have us with you any time you need us." Everyone nodded.

"HOW CAN YOU HELP ME WHEN YOU ARE RUNNING FROM THE FUCKING MINISTRY?" Harry shouted his Godfather. Then he turned to Dumbledore and shouted him: "INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CONVINCE ME, WHY DON'T YOU FIND OUT WHO PUT MY NAME ON THE GOBLET?"

"I'm working on that situation." Albus assured him seriously. Then he continued: "We can find a way to help you to survive this with little risk. You have to trust in us."

"RIGHT NOW, I WOULD TRUST VOLDEMORT MORE THAN YOU!" Harry shouted before he added: "At least I know he wants me dead for some reason. I still can't understand your reasons to do this!"

"Harry, if you don't do it you'll be turned to a squib, do you understand that?" Sirius asked him seriously.

"I prefer to be a coward squib but alive than a brave wizard and dead!" Harry shot him back.

"You are overreacting!" Minerva said seriously.

"Why was the Tournament not played for more than a century?" The student asked her with a sneer. When she didn't answer, he said: "I rest my case."

The argument continued and the voices went on getting higher and higher, with threats from all the sides being said and no one changing their positions: as Harry didn't want to be part of the Tournament and the adults trying to force him to do so.

But then things got really bad when Sirius Black opened his mouth to say: "If you weren't interested in it, why did you put your name on it?"

The room went silent after that, while the Marauder realized what he had said and regretted immediately as his Godson turned to see him with pure anger in his eyes.

"Care to say that again?" Harry asked him with his wand pointed straight to his throat.

"I…" The fugitive started to say, while thinking in a way to fix it.

"I won't do it!" The teen shouted before turning to leave the Office.

"Sorry for this, Harry." Albus muttered before he added: "Stupefy." After that, he knew no more.

…

Unfortunately for Harry, then things got worse after being stunned that day. And his mood and his rebellion got worse too.

When he woke up at the Hospital wing the next day, the headmaster explained him that it had been decided that he had to be part of the Tournament and to make sure of that, they had put him a magical handcuff to prevent him of leaving the School grounds and Hogsmeade.

Also, he explained that unfortunately as Headmaster he could help not him as it would be seen as favoritism and the other School could protest that.

That was the moment when Albus Dumbledore had to leave the Infirmary as Harry got hold of his wand and started to throw several hexes and curses and made 3 holes in the walls, barely missing his target with each of his attacks.

When he left the hospital, he went to see Minerva with his wand in his right hand and interrupting her first year's class. His face made the students leave the classroom in a second before the Professor could dismiss them.

"Inform the Headmaster that I expect him to repay for all of the belongings your students destroyed. If he doesn't, you can expect payback!" The teen informed his former head of house, before he flicked his wand and destroyed all the chairs and desks in the room. Without another word he left, after he told her: "We are not done!"

But the things at the school were far from good as everyone insulted him, tried to attack him and left him isolated. But Harry found out that not all the students felt the same way: He had 3 supporters on his side: Fred and George Weasley and Hermione.

"We can't show it too openly, Harry…" Fred started to say when the 3 approached him to talk.

"…things at the Tower are really bad!" George added.

"But we are with you!" His best friend assured him seriously.

"Don't worry and thanks for this. I don't want you three to take any risks, clear?" The boy asked them and they nodded.

"What are you going to do now?" Hermione asked him seriously.

"I'll do what I should have done the night of my sorting: embrace my Slytherin side! And NO ONE will like that!" Harry said with a manic smile that scared the three of them more than any other thing they had ever seen. He bid his goodbyes and left to the place that he had been using as a secret lair since being kicked out of the Tower.

"I don't like that smile! It's even scarier than yours!" Hermione told the pranksters.

"I have to agree with that!" Both redheads said at the same time agreeing with her.

But no one knew what he had meant by those words till his next Potions Class with Snape where he showed that the Potions Master was an IDIOT with all the letters in a class that would be remembered forever at the School.

Harry was working alone, waiting till Snape started to taunt him, as he was sure that he would. He was away from everyone else.

"Come on, Snape, I know you want to do it. Come on." The teen muttered all the time.

And Severus Snape did it. He went to his cauldron and checked his work and as usual started to criticize it as usual, saying he was useless at Potions, and then he did what the teen was expecting him to do: he insulted his father.

"Well, at least he is remembered as something else than a sperm donor as yours. Everyone knows your mother was a bitch and that you are just like her. How did you get the mastery: giving a good lay to whomever administered the test?" Harry asked with a sneer. EVERYONE at the Classroom went silent after those words, as the Professor turned to see him with fury etched on his face.

"What did you say, Potter?" Snape asked in a whisper, barely controlling his rage.

"Oh, poor Snoopy, did I touch a sensitive matter?" Harry asked with a smile, as all the Muggle-born tried to shut their laughter.

"What did you say?" Snape asked even more furious than before after silencing the laughter with a glare.

"Come on, you are like those little dogs… what's their names, Hermione? I mean those little white ones that bark all the time and are always on their master's laps?" Harry asked his friend, who tried to hide her giggles.

"Yorkshires?" She asked with fake seriousness.

"Those ones! You are like them: hysterical, bark all the time but everyone knows you don't bite." Harry said with a smile.

"I bite more than you think, Potter!" Snape barked at him, which caused Harry to laugh hard,

"See: you bark just like one!" The teen laughed.

"I'm not a dog!" Snape shouted furiously.

"No, you are a bitch just like your old mommy! And you insult's everyone's parents because you are jealous of us! After all, your daddy had left before you were born and your mommy didn't even know which of her many clients was your father." Harry said with another smile.

"What is he doing?" Neville asked Hermione in a whisper as Snape got more and more furious at any moment.

"He just embraced his Slytherin side." She said with a smile as Snape threatened Harry to have him expelled if he didn't take his words back immediately.

"You really think that Dumbledore will have me expelled after all the troubles he went into to make sure I took part of the Tournament? Keep dreaming, Snoopy! No one believes that threat!" Harry said laughing. Then he turned serious and said: "Let's make a bet with something both of us can arrange: my end of year's exams!"

"What bet?" Severus asked with a sneer, knowing that he could beat the Potter brat with that: he would make sure that he never passed Potions.

"Simple: the winner stays at the School and the loser, leaves. If I fail, I lose the Tournament on purpose and leave Hogwarts at the end of the year. I'll give you my wand for you to snap it. If I pass them, you quit Hogwarts and never teach Potions again and I snap your wand." Harry said before he added: "But let's make it more interesting: let's bet money."

"How much?" Snape asked interested on the bet: he knew that the Potter family was very rich and could get a lot of money with this.

"It will be all the money in our family's vaults, plus, if you win, the carcass of the Basilisk that is in the Secret Chamber. Interested?" Harry asked as everyone else was silent. The thing now was quite serious and not another fight between them.

"Deal." Snape said with a sneer.

"Hermione, go and get McGonagall and Dumbledore. I want witnesses of this." He asked his friend, who nodded and left in a hurry.

"You don't trust me, Potter?" Snape asked with a sneer.

"I trust you as much as you trust me." Harry said seriously before he added: "To make sure of this, let's take an unbreakable vow."

"I, Severus Tobias Snape, swear on my magic and life that if Harry Potter passes the Potion's end of year exam this year, I'll quit teaching forever, leave Hogwarts, will give him all the money on my family Vaults and my wand for him to be snapped. So mote it be!" Snape swore his oath seriously, while both authorities arrived and entered at the moment he finished it.

"Mr. Potter, no!" Albus shouted realizing the teen's plan. But he ignored the shout and started his oath:

"I, Harry James Potter, swear on my magic and life that I fail my Potion's end of year exam this year, I'll lose the Tournament on purpose, will quit my education at Hogwarts, will give Severus Snape access to the Basilisk's carcass that is in the Secret Chamber, plus all the money in the Potter's vaults plus my wand for him to snap it. So mote it be!"

"You are dead!" Snape said with a wide sneer that disappeared as Harry started to laugh hysterically.

"I guess I forgot to tell you, but when I was picked as Champion, I passed all the end of year's exams automatically so I would have nothing to worry about except the last Task!" Harry said with a wide sneer and hysterical laughter.

Snape in that moment turned to see Albus and Minerva, who nodded confirming the teen's words that he had the exams passed already. All the Gryffindor side burst out in laughter realizing that Snape would be gone, while the Slytherin side turned pale as they lost their benefactor at the School.

"Congratulations, Snoopy, you just proved that a troll has more brains that you." Harry said before he left the Dungeons.

"You are dismissed. Please return to your Common Rooms." Minerva instructed all the students, before she and Albus turned to Severus, who realized what he had done and what he had lost.

"I like his Slytherin side." Neville commented to Hermione as everyone left, laughing and talking about what had just happened.

"I think this won't be the last time that he'll show it, Neville." She said with a smile as both went to the Common Room.

Before they arrived there, they found the twins plus Lee, Alicia and Angelina, who were leaving Moody's class. Hermione called them and the 5 stopped to wait them and started to walk to their next classes.

"Harry showed his Slytherin side." She informed the twins before she retold them what had happened at the Dungeons.

"Oh my God!" Alicia said laughing as hard as everyone else, when she said why Snape lost the bet.

"Oh, yeah! Go Harry!" Fred chanted as they saw the Seeker walking the Hall and went towards them.

"Thanks, thanks!" The teen said with a bow as all of them clapped him.

"Harry, I like your Slytherin side!" Alicia said, before she explained that neither she, nor Angelina or Katie thought that he had gone dark and that if they played along with everyone else, it was because they were worried about what would happen.

"Take it easy, Alicia. I don't want anyone to take any risk." Harry said before he saw Minerva going to them. Before she said a word, he told her: "All that money will be helpful to replace my things, as the Headmaster hasn't done it yet." He nodded to the other students, turned around and left.

"I have to go to Charms!" Hermione and Neville chorused before Minerva could say a word and left in a hurry.

"I have Divination!" Lee said and left too.

"We have Hagrid!" The other 4 said before left too.

"I'm starting to think that it would have been better if he left the Tournament." Minerva muttered before she went to her own classroom to teach classes.

….

The main topic of chat for the next few days at the whole school was Snape's leaving and the class where it happened. The Muggleborn students had explained who was Snoopy, something that made the whole story more hilarious than it already was.

Albus hired a witch named Marianne Lockheed as Snape's replacement in both positions. She was a pure blood, but wasn't a believer of the supremacy. She proved to be a better professor than Snape as she explained everyone what did each ingredient and the reason behind them working together on a potion. She also showed from the beginning that her House had no preference over others and had no trouble giving detention and docking points from her students.

Malfoy was the first to learn this after insulting Harry by earning two weeks of detention and losing 50 points. Marianne dismissed him and informed Harry that she would like to talk to him for a few minutes if he had time.

"You are the first who asked if I have the time instead of demanding me to meet, so I can spare a few minutes." The teen said with a smile to her, that the Professor returned before both went to her Office.

"I'll try to make this quick, so we both know in what grounds our next meeting in my classes will be." She started to say, and continued: "I have nothing against you, have no reason to hold a grudge so as long as you don't cause trouble at my classroom, we'll get along."

"And as long as you give me no reason to hate or dislike you, we will be ok." Harry said with a nod before he explained her: "I had an old fight with Snape. It was a matter of time before something like this happened or we killed each other. The fact that I had the exams passed, just gave me a reason to set him up with something he would never decline."

"Is it possible to get the Basilisk's carcass?" She asked seriously before she explained: "Ingredients from one are the most impossible to find. And a complete carcass, with its poison, bones and skin, would worth at least a few millions of Galleons. If you want, I can make a few inquiries around."

"It won't harm anyone to do so, but I keep the last word about who it is sold or not." The teen said thinking for a moment before he explained: "Not everyone would use the poison for good uses, if you know what I mean."

"Completely understandable." Lockheed nodded understanding what he meant.

"We'll see each other in your next class then." Harry said standing from his chair at the same time she did. Then he added: "I would prefer if you don't call too much attention about the carcass. I'm the only one who can grant access to the Chamber, and when I'm pissed off, I'm not very helpful."

"I'm a mistress of the discretion, Mr. Potter. I used to work for Muggle Secret Services and they make it a science and an art." The woman said with a secretive smile.

"Then we'll get along perfectly." Harry nodded and left with a smile, before she started to use the fireplace to make inquiries about the sale of a Basilisk's carcass.

In the other classes, Harry only attended those that could help him on the Tournament: Defense, Transfigurations and Charms. The others were useless for what he needed.

Minerva had received several comments about this decision and asked him about it. As McGonagall explained, even if he wasn't part of her House any longer, she felt the need to worry about him and watch him over.

"If you feel that you don't want me to, just tell me and I'll ask someone else to do it." Minerva said seriously.

"And considering my luck, it would be the Headmaster, so we leave it like this at least for now." Harry said seriously, giving her a nod. Then he explained why he stopped taking the other subjects: "Professor, all my exams are passed. This year I have to worry about this damn tournament. I decided that if I have to be ready for it, I need to learn the more I can and those are the only ones that could teach me something valuable. There's no other reason behind it." Then he continued and explained each subject:

"I don't think that Goblins and their wars will teach me anything that I could use at any task. Trelawney would probably find more horrible ways for me to die. Astronomy would useful if any of the Tasks would be done in the space or had anything to do with that. I doubt that Hagrid would teach any of the creatures we could face on his subject."

"Herbology?" Minerva asked, knowing that she couldn't rebut his arguments.

"I'm not sure if I'll rejoin it or not, but if I do, it will happen when things have calmed down and I don't have Professor Sprout and her House trying to kill me for stealing Cedric's glory." The teen said with an ironic smile.

"I'll inform the other Professors of the decision." Minerva said with a nod.

"Tell the Headmaster I'm still waiting for him to replace my things and also that I would like to know how the dog is supposed to help me as he hasn't answered any letter that I sent him. Or can't he help me either to prevent the other schools of accusing him of favoritism?" Harry asked, quoting Dumbledore's words.

Harry had tried to send Sirius three letters since the fiasco at the headmaster's office but each of them had returned unopened and the teen didn't know what to think of that: either the Marauder had been caught, he was ordered to not write him or didn't want to!

"I'll pass that message too." Minerva said with a sigh.

"You can't help me either, can you? A tip would be thanked." Harry practically begged her.

"I shouldn't do this and I'll deny having said this forever, clear?" Minerva asked his seriously, feeling that he could get a bit of help at least.

"Clear!" Harry assured her very seriously too.

"Two words: four elements." Minerva said.

"There are only three tasks." Harry said confused.

"I'm sure you'll figure it out on your own or with help. But that's the only thing I'll say." Minerva explained him seriously.

"It's better than nothing I guess." The teen said with a sigh, before he nodded to her and left her office trying to figure out her clue.

….

A few days later, and still clueless about the meaning of McGonagall's words, Harry was in Potions working on poisons and their antidotes, when Marianne announced that they would try them one of each in class.

"The venom will be…" She said checking the roll and announced: "Mr. Weasley's and Ms. Brown's. The antidote will be Mr. Potter's and Mr. Longbottom's." Then she thought for a moment taking a look at the students, till her eyes fell on Malfoy, then she said: "And they'll be tested on Mr. Malfoy."

"I'm going to love this." Harry whispered to Neville, who was his companion for the class, who snickered as Malfoy was paler than usual and started to protest her decision.

"Well, you can object to do so, and you would be on your right, but in that case, I'll dock 200 points from Slytherin. It's your choice." The Potions Mistress said as she went to check the work of the students she had announced. She made a few comments to Lavender, who did what she said and the woman went to see Harry's. She said after a few seconds: "Ten points to Gryffindor for your perfect work."

"Thanks, Professor." Both teens said with a smile, before someone knocked the door and she invited the knocked in.

"Excuse me, Professor Lockheed, but I was asked to take Harry Potter to the Great Hall for something related to the Tournament." Colin Creevey informed Marianne, who looked at Harry.

"Forget it. It's not everyday that you can see Malfoy poisoned and I won't miss the chance to do so." Harry stated very seriously and crossing his arms on his chest.

"Inform the Headmaster that Mr. Potter is unavailable and will be there as soon as this class is over." Marianne told Collin, who was about to protest, but thought it better and left to deliver the message.

"The more I see it, the more I love your Slytherin side, Harry." Hermione whispered to him, as she and Dean, were very close to the pair.

The other Muggleborn student hid a snicker and gave him a thumb up that Harry returned with a nod. Dean was another of the students who hid his support to him for fear of any retaliation from the others. He had learned that there were several of those in the 4 Houses, and he had given to them the same advice that his friends had received: don't take any risk and keep a low profile for now.

"Care to explain me why you are not in Slytherin?" Neville asked him in a whisper.

"I convinced the Hat to sort me in Gryffindor. It's something that I already regret." Harry said with a sigh, as there was another knock and this time, it was Minerva who entered.

"Professor, my antidote is about to be tested on Malfoy who will drink a potion brewed by Weasley and Brown. Sorry if it interferes with the Tournament, but I have NO intention of missing it." Harry explained her before she said a word.

"How long will this take?" The Scottish Professor asked her Colleague.

"We'll do it in 10 minutes unless Mr. Malfoy refuses and loses 200 points of his House." Marianne explained before she asked the blond: "Which is your decision Mr. Malfoy?"

"THERE'S NO WAY I DRINK SOMETHING DONE BY THAT SQUIB AND THAT BLOOD TRAITOR!" Malfoy shrieked angrily.

"MR. MALFOY, YOU'LL LOSE ANOTHER 200 POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN AND TWO MONTHS OF DETENTION!" Minerva shouted him as furious as ever. She turned to Marianne, who nodded to her but said nothing. McGonagall turned then to Harry, who tried to hide a sneer.

"May I leave, Professor?" The teen asked Lockheed with a smile.

"I don't want to stop you from fulfilling your Champions' duties, Mr. Potter." Marianne said with a smile. He nodded to her and left the classroom with his former Head of House.

…..

"I'm sorry for ruining your fun, Mr. Potter." Crouch said sarcastically when the teen entered in the Hall and found the Ministry Officials, plus Olivander, a woman he didn't recognized and the other Champions waiting for him.

"Perhaps you have nothing to do, Mr. Crouch, but I'm a student and I have to go to School." Harry shot him back before he went to sit with Cedric and Fleur.

"Where were you?" Cedric asked him curiously as Crouch explained what was the wand weighing and Fleur went first.

"I was in Potions. Lockheed decided to test a poison and its antidote on Malfoy and I didn't want to miss it. After all, it was my antidote the one to be tested." Harry explained, and the other boy had to cough to hide his laughter that he stopped as Crouch shot him a disapproving look. Then the younger boy pointed to the woman and asked who she was.

"Rita Skeeter, the Prophet's reporter." Cedric explained, with a look of dislike towards her.

"Do you want to get rid of her and her interviews?" Harry asked him with a twisted smile.

"Yes!" Cedric nodded and asked him how he would do it.

"Play along with me." Harry nodded before Cedric was called to weigh his wand after Krum's turn.

Then Harry went and Olivander checked his wand. Fortunately he didn't mention the relationship that it had with Voldemort's and in a few moments the ceremony was done and Crouch announced that the Champions had to speak with the media.

"Sorry, but that's impossible for me to do." Harry stated seriously, causing that everyone looked at him confused. Then he explained: "For any interviews, pictures and autograph sessions, you need to talk to my manager: the Giant Squid. As my lawyer explained me, if he doesn't agree with that, I have every right to refuse any requests as they are not part of the Tournament's task and are extra activities."

"Who's your lawyer?" Minerva asked curiously, while everyone else looked scandalized and protested.

"Peeves. Any complaints about this, you talk to them." Harry said with a sneer before he informed the other Champions: "Peeves has informed me that his services are ready for any of you interested in hiring them. And he also said that the Giant Squid is ready to do the same services for a nominal sum of food for the Squid and pranks products for our Poltergeist."

"I'm in!" Cedric shouted before anyone else could say a word.

"I would like to hire them too." Viktor said suddenly after thinking for a few moments. Fleur took a look at the Officials and the reporter and decided that she didn't want to be left alone to deal with them.

"The Squid doesn't talk!" Crouch shouted angrily.

"It's not my problem! Peeves talked to him, and he didn't tell me how!" Harry said before he nodded to the other Champions and left the Hall.

"I'm starting to like him." Fleur told Cedric as the 3 left the Hall, claiming that they needed to have the Squid's approval for them to do anything.

"Me too! I love the new Harry Potter!" The Hufflepuff said before each went on their own ways, still hearing the heated argument that happened at the Hall.

….

The Saturday's night before the first task, found Harry wandering around the School grounds thinking in Minerva's clue, but still at a loss.

Then he crashed with someone and both fell to the floor. Harry got up and started to apologize to the other person and before he knew it, he had 6 wands pointed to him at the same time.

"STUN HIM!" A voice shouted to the others who were ready to do so, but Harry was faster and kicked 2 in their kneecaps making them fall shouting in pain.

With an empty space in front of him, he started to run from there, while stunners started to fly in his direction. He covered himself in his cloak, his only possession that had survived his former housemate's destruction, and hid behind a tree as his followers started to look for him.

"You 2 go on that side! You and I go on that!" The leader's voice ordered to his companions and they separated.

When one of the pairs got near him, Harry stunned both before they knew what had hit them. He threw sparks into the air, knowing that the other 2 would come to him.

Both did as he expected, and the teen stunned their leader first and turned around to face the last, only to find himself pointing his wand to Charlie Weasley, who was doing the same to him.

"SHIT!" Both shouted at the same time before both lowered their wands.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Both asked at the same time, as more people reached for them and pointed their wands to the teen.

"Relax, he's a friend!" Charlie shouted them, as his other companions were awoken. Then he introduced each other: "Harry, these are my workmates. Everyone, this is Harry Potter."

"I remember you. You were here 3 years ago when we sent away a dragon from the astronomy tower, right?" Harry asked the leader of the group, who as everyone else saw his forehead looking for his scar.

"I'm Jack, and I was there." The man said with a nod, shaking his hand and apologizing for their attack.

"Oh shit!" Harry muttered realizing something. Then he asked Charlie: "You are here for the first task, right?"

"It's supposed to be a secret, but yes we are." Jack nodded as he and Charlie remained there and everyone else went back to their jobs.

"That's what it meant with the four elements. Why didn't I realize it before?" The teen muttered slapping his head.

"Care to explain?" Charlie asked confused.

"I'm part of the Tournament; someone put my name on the Goblet and was picked as fourth Champion." Harry explained them, before he continued: "Someone gave me a tip of the tasks: it was the 4 Elements but didn't realize the meaning till now. Dragons represent air and fire."

"That explains why they wanted a fourth Dragon, Jack." Charlie told his boss, who nodded.

"What are we supposed to do, fight it?" Harry asked about to have a panic attack just with that idea.

"He already knows and he's 14. He's the one with fewer chances, Jack." Charlie told his boss before he added seriously: "You still owe me a favor for that Norwegian Dragon."

"This is off the record, ok? We are not supposed to talk to you or the other Champions." Jack told Harry and giving a nod to his friend: it was his payment for that favor.

"I never saw you, I never attacked you and we never talked, don't worry." Harry assured him seriously.

"You have to retrieve an egg from a nest. The Dragons we brought are all female with eggs under their watch. A female Dragon is very dangerous, but when they are watching their eggs that puts them at their worst." Jack told him before he informed Charlie before he went back to his other workmates: "We are even now."

"Make sure that this works, ok?" Charlie asked Harry seriously before both shook hands and the teen left.

On his way back to his place, he saw Hagrid with Madam Maxime going to see the Dragons and also saw Karkaroff going to. Obviously they didn't care about favoritism for their students as much as Dumbledore!

When he reached to his place, he called Dobby and sent him to bring Hermione and the twins there immediately.

"Make sure no one is around them! If they are not alone, return here." The teen commanded the elf, who nodded and dissaparated.

A few moments later, Hermione arrived with Dobby and took a look at the place while the elf went to get the twins. It seemed to be like a common Room, with five doors on one wall. There were a few paintings and two libraries that went from the floor to the roof that was at least four meters high. In each library there was a mobile stair that could be used to go to the higher shelves. At the center of the room there were several coaches and sofas and Harry lay on one of them, running his hand over his hair and looking pretty desperate.

The twins arrived a moment later and saw the room too, while Hermione sat on a sofa near Harry. The two redheads did the same and asked what the matter was.

"Your beloved brother Charlie is in the grounds. Guess the reason for his presence." Harry told the twins, who first looked shocked with the news and their eyes went wide as they understood why he was there.

"Exactly! The first task is a bloody female fucking Dragon, watching over her damn eggs, one of which the Champions have to retrieve." The teen informed the trio, who looked as panicked as he did.

"That's what the tip meant: the four elements in three tasks: fire and air on the first, while water and earth for the second and the third." Hermione said, as she remembered what her friend had told him.

"Right now, I'm more worried about surviving this one! I'll worry about the other two next week!" Harry told her seriously. Then he told them: "I need ideas!"

"Conjunctivitis charm!" Both twins exclaimed at the same time before Fred said:

"The Dragon's weakest point is the eyes!"

"Charlie told us!" George added.

"That idea is good, but won't work." Harry said shaking his head before he explained: "A Gryffindor would do that. Now we need to think in what a Slytherin would."

"You could get him drunk!" Fred said laughing, before his brother and Hermione told him to shut up and stop saying stupid things.

"Let's save that idea for later, but I like it." Harry said with a twisted smile.

"You could get him distracted with a little animal, like a dog." Hermione said seriously.

"No, it's too risky. If the Dragon ignores it, it would the same. I need something to keep him distracted as long as possible and to make sure she forgets me." Harry said. Then he started to smile and told them: "I have an idea!"

"I don't like that smile!" The three said at the same time.

"Oh you'll love it." Harry said with a wide smile, before he added: "But first I have to fix another situation."

"Which one?" The twins asked confused.

"I have to see what Dumbledore offers to make sure, that not only I show up in the task, but also to seriously compete in it and more importantly that I don't commit suicide in front of the school!"

"You can't be serious about the suicide!" Hermione shouted him furious with that idea.

"You, the twins and I know that I won't commit suicide, Hermione. But does Dumbledore know it?" The teen asked with a devious smile.

"This will be fun!" The twins crackled as they realized that Dumbledore couldn't be sure of that and Harry had the winning hand on it.

"Oh, yeah, it will!" Harry nodded with a smile.

….

That Sunday after breakfast, Harry approached Dumbledore and gave him a parchment without saying what it was. The headmaster opened it and read the first line and went pale. It said: 'Last will of Harry James Potter'.

"Mr. Potter!" Albus called the teen before he was out of reach. The student stopped and Dumbledore walked to him and asked what the meaning of the parchment was.

"It's what it says, Professor. I'm not ready for the task and as I'm not sure if I'll make it out alive, someone needs to have my will." Harry told him seriously.

"This is not a joke, Mr. Potter." Albus said seriously.

"I'm not joking, Headmaster. I am not as prepared for this as the other Champions. I lack their knowledge and skills to face something like this. And I never got any help to be ready. As you said, any help from you of the teachers could be seen as favoritism and that goes against the rules." Harry stated seriously.

Albus now realized how deep in shit he was, as the teen was using his own words against him. He had to find a way to get out of it and he had to do it now!

"Besides, now it's too late for any help. The task is in two days and what can be learned in that time. You had a lot of time to approach me and teach me, but you didn't. The so-called help I was promised from the Dog, disappeared too, so…" The teen added with a shrug of the shoulders

"What would you want to compete? I don't believe that you are not ready, and neither do you, Harry." Albus stated as serious as the teen.

"The matter, Professor, is what you have to offer me. If you don't convince me, I could go and commit suicide in front of the school. And YOU, Professor, will be the responsible of that, as YOU made me participate in it against my will." The teen said hitting his chest with a finger.

Albus sighed and asked the teen to give him his right arm. Once he did it, the Headmaster tapped the cuff and it fell to the floor. Harry pointed his wand to it and destroyed it with a sneer.

"That assures you that I will compete, now convince me of surviving." The teen challenged the aged wizard.

"No more events out of the three tasks, meaning interviews, photo sessions or anything like that." Albus offered seriously.

"It's not enough as Peeves and the Squid manage everything on my name and no one has contacted either of them." Harry answered him with a smile.

"Make sure that you have contact with the dog every day in a safe way without having to worry about being caught." Albus offered, while he thought what else he could offer if that one went wrong.

"We have a deal, but only for this task. You better start thinking of the other two. And you better not think about breaking them or I'll be angry and you've seen what I can do when angry, haven't you?" The teen asked with a smile before he left.

Albus sighed as he took the parchment to read it all and under the first line, he only read: 'Ha ha, I tricked you just as you tricked me!"

"This is not going to end well." Dumbledore muttered to himself as he burnt the paper and went to his office to call Sirius.

…..

After leaving Dumbledore, Harry went to the library to find some: any member of the Hufflepuff House would be enough to serve his purpose. He found Susan Bones doing schoolwork and sat next to her.

"I have a message for Cedric and need it delivered. Can you do it?" He asked her in a whisper, while faking that he read a book.

"What kind of message and why would I do it?" Susan asked arching an eyebrow.

"Because, Susan, it would help him in the first task. How would you feel knowing that you could have helped him and something happened to him if you decided to ignore me?" The ex-Gryffindor asked seriously.

"What's the message?" The redhead asked seriously. At least, if she gave it and it was wrong she could blame him. But if it was right, Cedric could do better at the Task and no one would know about the chat.

"Ask him to find out who Saint George is. If he figures it out, he'll know what the task is. Although, what the saint did is not what we have to do." The Seeker said before he left the table, at the same moment Hannah, Justin and Ernie went there.

"What did he want?" Ernie asked Susan, who looked troubled and confused with what he had told her.

"I need to find Cedric!" She said as she remembered who Saint George was and why he was known also in the Magical World. Leaving some very confused friends behind, she rushed out of the library and went straight to the common room where she found the champion talking to some friends. She sat next to him and whispered: "I need to talk to you in private. It's urgent!"

"Can you give us a minute?" Cedric asked his friends, who nodded and left them alone. He turned to her and asked what the matter was.

"Harry Potter just gave me a message for you and he said that it would help with the task." Susan informed him very seriously.

"What is it?" The Champion asked seriously. He doubted that Harry would pass a fake a message and that he only tried to help him, even if he didn't know the reason.

"Saint George." Susan said seriously.

"You mean…" Cedric said realizing what it meant.

"He said that what he did wasn't what you were supposed to do on the Task, but didn't tell me anything else. Hannah, Justin and Ernie came into the library before I could ask him something else." Susan explained him with a sad sigh for failing at it, even if it wasn't her fault.

"Do you think he lied?" Cedric asked her, assuring that she did well and everything was ok.

"Would you lie with something like that?" She asked him arching an eyebrow. Then she added: "I doubt he lied. Perhaps he wanted to help you and that's why he passed the message. I can't think of any other reason."

"I can't think of another either." Cedric nodded and asked her to not mention the chat to anyone else.

…..

While Susan and Cedric talked, Harry went to find Flitwick and asked him to talk in private about an urgent matter. The tiny Professor dismissed the student that was talking with him and turned to the seeker.

"I need to know if something I plan is possible and if you know the charm to do it." Harry asked before he gave the Head of Ravenclaw a general idea of his plan, not revealing what he was planning to do with that information.

"It can be done. Although the charm that you look for is more advanced that a Fourth year, I have no doubts that you'll manage to dominate it." Filius said as he looked for a book on his shelves and handed it to the student, showing which charm he needed. Then he added: "Is this related to the Tournament?"

"You'll find out next Tuesday." Harry said with a secretive smile, before thanking the Professor and left promising to return him the book in a few days.

"I wonder what he plans to do." Lillian, an old lady of the middle ages, said from her paining.

"We'll know in a few days, Lillian." Flitwick said with a smile, before he corrected some schoolwork.

After seeing Flitwick, Harry ran to McGonagall's Office and asked her a few minutes of her time. At that moment Marianne was also there having tea and offered to leave them alone, but Harry waved it off saying that it was a few moments.

"How do you turn an inanimate object into a large animal?" Harry asked Minerva, who arched an eyebrow at his question till she realized what he talked about: The first task.

"How big would it be?" Lockheed asked curious and confused at the same time.

"We talk about an animal of the size of full grown Dragon!" The teen exclaimed and both Professor choked on their tea and started to cough.

"Are you serious?" Marianne asked having recovered herself, as Minerva started to look for a book on her private shelves.

"As a heart attack!" Harry answered her, before McGonagall gave him a book open in the page he needed. "Thanks!" The teen said before he left the Office.

"Marianne, learn lesson number one with Mr. Potter and his ideas: don't ask!" Minerva told her Colleague before she opened her mouth to say a word.

…..

No one saw Harry on Monday, not even the twins or Hermione. When asked about his whereabouts, no one could offer an answer.

On that Tuesday at breakfast, the mood at the hall was high as it was the day of the first task and everyone talked cheerfully about it. Some people also wondered where Harry was as he hadn't shown up yet.

"He's probably getting ready for his death!" Ron sneered, and several other Gryffindors laughed, although not all of them did it with a full heart.

"Calm down, Hermione! You can kill him after the task when Harry is alive!" Neville whispered her, restraining her from killing the redhead. On the other side, Fred did the same, or tried to as the brunette proved to be hard to be controlled.

"I would love to know who made those pins!" Katie muttered seeing the pins that a lot of people were wearing. They started to appear yesterday and they said: 'Support CEDRIC DIGGORY, Hogwarts' Real Champion.' It also changed to say 'HARRY POTTER STINKS'.

"If I would have to bet, it comes from Ravenclaw." Hermione said calming down enough to not kill anyone.

At that moment Harry entered the Hall and went towards the Hufflepuff table and whispered something to Cedric, who nodded and shook his hand. Then he went to Ravenclaw and did the same to Fleur who smiled back and shook his hand too. Then he went to talk to Viktor, who nodded and shook hands with him.

"Sorry." Harry told Minerva before he caught a toast from the High Table and left the Hall in silence.

"That's what I call someone with style: enter somewhere, disrupt everyone and leave without speaking a word aloud." Marianne told Minerva laughing hard as everyone around the Champions asked what he had said.

"He just wished us good luck." Cedric explained his housemates with a smile before Sprout went to inform him that he had to go to the pitch as the task would start soon. All of his housemates cheered him as he left the hall and went to his destination.

When he arrived to the pitch he went to the tent where he was supposed to wait for the other champions and Ministry officials, in time to see Harry hexing Rita Skeeter who was running from the teen, and found herself being pointed at with the other champion's wand.

"How nice to see you, Cedric!" Harry said when he saw the other Champion and catching Rita by the arm and taking her back inside the tent. Before he entered, he asked Cedric: "Make sure that no ones bother us for 5 minutes, ok?"

"I'll do my best!" Cedric laughed as he heard some noises of things crashing and the reporter trying to escape from there.

Rita had been her usual herself and had been writing made-up stories about the four champions, especially of Harry who was the first to stand against the interviews and photo sessions. As Dumbledore and everyone else had done nothing about it, the teen decided to fix the situation himself!

When the others started to arrive, they heard the noises and tried to enter but Cedric stopped them. When asked the reason, he said with a smile:

"Harry is giving a personal interview with Rita Skeeter and they are working out their differences."

In that moment, Rita flew out of the tent about 20 meters and crashed against a tree. She stood dizzily and everyone saw that her clothes were torn and had blood everywhere.

"Next time, I'm worse!" The teen shouted her leaving the tent and cleaning his robes. He turned to the other teens and said: "Problem solved. She won't bother again."

"Was it wise?" Fleur asked curious.

"I don't know, but it was fun!" Harry laughed before Bagman arrived and gave the speech of the task and explained what they had to do with the egg.

None of them looked too surprised with the news and they proceeded to decide the order that they would follow: Cedric was first. Fleur was second, Krum would the third and Harry was the last. His dragon was the worst of the four: the Hungarian Horntail.

As he heard the noises from the stands when each of the other Champions faced the Task, Harry went over and over through his plans. He had a main one and at least eight other backup plans if something went wrong the first. And he was sure that it would!

After Krum was done, Harry was called and he went to face the Dragon…

…

Once on the pitch, he looked around and saw the Dragon and her nest. The beast kept a look at him as daring the teen to go to her eggs.

"I will kill someone when this is done!" The teen muttered before he started.

He pointed his wand to a rock and changed it to miniature Dragon before casting several charms on it. Once he was done, he enlarged the second beast till it matched the Horntail's size.

The real Dragon soon forgot the teen and faced the second beast, considering it a bigger and more important threat to her children! Both Dragons started to move in circles, giving Harry enough space to run towards the eggs and to catch the one he was supposed to fetch from the nest.

A few meters before he reached his destination, his plan went to the hell and he had to improvise and really quickly! The reason: someone from the stands threw a curse at the chains which made sure the Horntail didn't leave the pitch and she was freed from them. It was when she saw Harry running to the nest and started to attack him.

As everyone noticed and figured out, the charms that Harry used in his Dragon were to match the real one's and soon both beasts attacked him as he tried to find somewhere safe and to rethink his strategy.

"Accio Firebolt!" He shouted summoning the broom he had bought that weekend to replace his old one. He needed to take fight to somewhere else and the sky would be perfect. One moment later, the broom arrived and he mounted it before kicking the grass and starting to rocket into the air.

The Horntail spread her wings and followed him, while Charlie and his workmates reduced the second beast, before he joined the duo. Everyone looked up to see rays of fire being thrown by both of them, but neither could be seen.

Suddenly, the broom fell to the ground, but Harry wasn't on it. A moment later the Dragon started to dive towards the Pitch with the teen clutched to her back and fighting to not fall from there to a certain death. The beast tried to get rid of him but was failing; that made her angrier than before.

A meter before the beast landed, Harry jumped off her back and rolled as he landed and the beast did it too. Both fighters looked at each other, like measuring the threat of the other!

"This is not a good idea!" Harry muttered before he opened his mouth and threw fire from it to the Dragon, who looked surprised by that, but recovered and answered in the same way.

Then the teen raised his wand and erected a wall of fire between them and everyone else, preventing everyone from seeing what happened inside of it and stopping anyone of entering there.

While the crowd wondered what was going on, the judges started to discuss the idea of stopping the task as it had gone out of control and the teen's life was in real danger now. Even the foreign headmasters had to agree that this was bad. In the meantime, Charlie and the rest of the dragon handlers wondered what to do and got ready to put off the fire and save Harry if they got the order to do so.

Then, suddenly, the wall disappeared and Harry walked out mounted on the dragon's back, with the nest on his hand. The beast now was peaceful and not angry anymore.

"Where do you want me to take her?" The teen asked Charlie and his boss with a smile.

"Follow me." The redhead instructed him, before him, his boss and some of his workmates led them to the giant cage that was used to transport the Dragons. Jack hurried to open the door and Harry whispered something to the beast that walked inside without a problem.

"Watch yourself and your kids." The teen told the dragon, who gave him a nod, before she lay down with the eggs between her legs. Then he turned to the handlers, who looked at him with wide eyes and asked: "Is there a doctor among you? I don't feel too well." Then he collapsed to the floor and Charlie and Jack rushed to his side, before the redhead ordered one his workmates to get Madam Pomfrey immediately!

"I would love to know what happened between them inside that wall!" Jack muttered to Charlie as both started to check the boy, looking for injuries and tried to treat any of them.

"I'm more interested in how was the chain was broken! They are supposed to hold five blasting hexes together!" Charlie said before he found the main cause of the teen's bleeding: a big injury on his left shoulder and started to treat it, at the same time that Pomfrey arrived and knelt next to them, ready to do her job.

"Get me a few blood replenishing potions from the tent, Charlie!" Poppy ordered the former student, who nodded and ran towards there at full speed while his boss remained next to the nurse and the teen.

On his way to there, Minerva ran to him and he made him a signal towards the tent, never stopping his run. His former head of house nodded and rushed to reach to him at the moment he entered there.

"I need a backpack!" Charlie shouted to the deputy headmistress while looking for the potions in the supply shelves. Besides the one she requested, the redhead added one or two more just in case.

"How is he?" Minerva asked, while the old student put the vials on the bag.

"He has a big injury in his left shoulder and he's probably exhausted. I know nothing else!" He explained before he took the bag and left the tent on a new run, but being stopped by a crowd who started to ask him questions. He took his wand and whispered a patronus charm, knowing that his dragon would spread the people and leave him space. Once he had a free path, he ran again!

Once he arrived to the place where Pomfrey treated Harry, he casted several privacy panels to stop any curious from seeing what was going on behind them. Before he went inside, he ordered his workmates to make sure that no one went through them, no matter who it was!

"I brought a few other Potions too just in case!" Charlie explained the nurse giving her the bag. Poppy checked it and nodded in thanks for his idea: All of them could be useful too!

"I think I better go to check the chains." Jack told Charlie seeing that he wasn't needed there.

"Ask Flitwick to check them, Jack. We need someone from outside to do that." Charlie commented to his boss, who nodded in agreement as people could claim that they were covering up for one of their own if nothing wrong was found on them.

"How is he?" Minerva asked as she entered at the same moment Jack left and avoided to be stopped by the handlers. Charlie made them a signal to let her in, and they returned to their spot outside.

"He has several minor injuries and is magically and physically exhausted." Poppy said after she finished healing his injuries. Then she added in a mutter: "That added to the fact that it's a miracle that he's alive."

"Let's take him to the tent." Minerva suggested and the Nurse nodded and the three started their way there.

…

After they took Harry to the tent, Minerva left Poppy and Charlie to take care of him and went to the pitch to announce the news. She also had to receive his scores.

Once outside, she saw the Weasley twins and Hermione that were having an argument with Charlie's workmates to let them in, but these refused saying that their orders were to let anyone in.

"Let them in!" The second oldest Weasley shouted from inside, recognizing his siblings' voices, as the argument got more heated. The two guys, who had the size of a troll and muscles like one, nodded to them and moved to permit them to enter the tent.

None of the three teens paid attention to their head of house and rushed inside and Minerva went to the pitch. Once there, she asked for the microphone from Ludo Bagman saying that she had an announcement.

"Please, everyone, Professor McGonagall has something to say." Bagman announced before giving her the micro.

"Mr. Potter is ok. He received some minor injuries on his shoulder and is physically exhausted, but he doesn't have any more injuries than those. At this moment, Madam Pomfrey is taking care of him." She said seriously. She could hear a lot of sighs of relief from the seats near her. Then she turned to Ludo and informed him: "As his former head of house, I'll acknowledge his scores, as he can't be here."

"That's acceptable, Professor." The former Quidditch player nodded before he asked the Judges to announce their scores.

Madam Maxime went first. It took her only one moment to decide her note: 10. He had been the best of the 4 by far and had no doubt that he would be the champion to beat in the other tasks!

Dumbledore went second and his note was the same: 10. He could find no failures on the teen's part and his plans and the changes he had to do were due to outside intervention, one that he would have to investigate and soon!

Crouch was the third: 10.

Bagman was the fourth and like the others, his note was a 10.

Minerva had to take a double look at Karkaroff's, just to make sure she saw right! Everyone at the Pitch had to do it too! It was insane! Soon all the people who had celebrated the four first scores, started to boo him and rather loudly. Even the other judges looked at him as if he had lost his mind!

His note: 4.

"I don't have to give explanations of my note!" Igor shouted everyone furious.

"Mr. Potter's final score is 44 and is in the first place." Bagman announced everyone, ignoring Karkaroff, as Dumbledore started to have an argument with him that was soon joined by Maxime.

…..

"HE GAVE HIM A 4?" Charlie shouted when Minerva informed them of the teen's scores.

"Ok, I would like someone to give me the proper definition of what Dumbledore and Karkaroff understand for showing favoritism on their School's Champions!" Hermione muttered rather angrily.

At that moment, Jack entered with Flitwick and both carried the dragon's chains and showed it to everyone: the links on it were severed.

"Tell me it's not what I think, Jack!" Charlie told his boss, who nodded in answer.

"It's obvious that someone forgot to add the extra charms to these chains." The man explained him seriously, before he explained everyone: "The chains used to get hold of the dragons have several rounds of charms: extra strength to avoid that the animal breaks it; several guards to hold different kind of hexes and a few others. On this one, those charms were missing."

"Was it an accident or in purpose?" Minerva asked seriously.

"I would like to say that it was an accident, Professor, but I won't know it till I speak with my people." Jack explained before he asked Charlie: "Which dragon did you and Alex handle?"

"The Chinese. Matt and Jean did it with the Irish. I don't know which ones were handled by the two Nicks or by the twins." Charlie said before he asked: "Could this be related to…?"

"Only you and I handled dragons of those ones." Jack said shaking his head, knowing that he meant about the incident between his people and Harry at Saturday's night.

"Just out of curiosity…" Fred started to ask his brother and his boss.

"… What will you do with Harry's Dragon?" George finished the question.

"Do we have another cage?" The redhead asked his boss with a smile, who laughed as he understood his friend's plan: take it to the reserve with them.

"It would take me one or two days to get hold of one." Jack said thinking for a minute before he asked both Professors: "is there any chance to keep it here till we can move it?"

"Hagrid will love the idea!" Filius laughed along the teens, as his Colleague nodded with a smile of his own.

"Ok, I need to talk to some of my employees to find out who screwed with the chains." Jack announced before he told Charlie: "I want you to stay here till we get the chance to move the dragon, clear?"

"I owe you one, Jacko!" The redhead said with a smile.

"You'll pay me someday!" The man laughed before he nodded to the other and left too. Although in Harry's presence, they had said that they were even, both knew that they could never be so, as both of them owed each other so many favors that the count had been lost a long time ago!

At that moment Dumbledore entered, accompanied by Remus and Snuffles, who was disguised as a big white dog, instead of a black grim. Hermione walked angrily towards the dog and kicked his leg hard and then punched Remus on his nose!

"GET OUT!" The brunette girl shouted both angrier than anyone had ever seen her.

"Hermione…" Remus started to say but the teen cut him off.

"You three" She said pointing to the two Marauders and the Headmaster and continued: "FORCED Harry to participate and then left him alone! Don't come now to be with him after you realized what you did! Because I'll have no problem of hexing the three of you! And you can be damn sure that I will! AM I CLEAR?" To add emphasis to her words, she pointed her wand to a table and blew it to pieces!

"Yes, very clear!" Everyone said at the same time, and getting away from the girl, scared of what might happen next!

"THEN GET OUT!" She shouted and the Headmaster and the other two men left in a rush.

"It seems, brother of mine…" Fred told his twin.

"… That someone else…" George said before both finished at the same time.

"… Has embraced her Slytherin side!"

"And you have seen nothing yet!" Hermione told them with a maniac smile similar to her best friend's.

"I've been a bad influence on that girl, haven't I?" Someone asked, making everyone turn to the bed to see Harry opening his eyes.

"Harry!" Hermione shouted hugging him, while Charlie ran to call Poppy.

"Don't shout!" The teen asked his friend with a wince, before he asked her to give him his glasses.

"You are already awake?" Madam Pomfrey asked shocked when she reached to the group and saw his patient putting on his glasses.

"Of course! Did you really think that I would sleep for a week?" Harry asked with sarcasm, sitting up on the bed with Hermione's assistance.

"Not a week, but surely 12 hours at least!" The nurse exclaimed running several tests on him, and stating after she finished: "He's just exhausted and will need rest for one or two days."

"Thanks, Poppy." Minerva said with a nod, before the nurse got the hint and left them alone, saying that she would be back to take him to the infirmary in a while.

"Harry, what happened inside the wall?" Charlie asked him seriously, wanting to know the answer to the question that everyone made themselves. As all answer, the teen burst out in laughter, thing that confused everyone.

"Nothing happened! It was a show!" Harry explained, calming down for a moment. Then he asked as everyone looked at him confused: "What's a dragon?"

"An animal!" Everyone said, except Hermione who started to understand it.

"It's a reptile." The girl said before she elaborated: "Just as the snakes are."

"You mean that…?" Flitwick started to ask as he started to understand it, as the twins and Minerva did it too.

"I'm lost here!" Charlie said confused.

"I can speak Parseltongue, Charlie." Harry informed the redhead, before he explained: "The show of fire you saw when we were in the sky, happened while I tried to see if I could speak to her. Once I convinced her that I meant no threat to her or her eggs, we pulled the show everyone saw on the grounds. Inside the wall, she told me about dragons' care and their life." Then he told Charlie: "Get me something to write, and I'll give you all the information. It seems that some of your beliefs are wrong."

"Give me a second!" Charlie said before he used his Patronus to deliver a message to Jack, who arrived a few moments later, wondering what had happened. Then the redhead told him: "Sit down, because we are about to get a lesson on the dragon's care with first hand information." Then he retold the man what the teen had said about the events of the task.

"Get me a pen and paper!" Jack shouted the 2 guys that stood outside, before he sat down next to the teen.

"We'll be back later." Minerva said, motioning Filius to leave them alone. The tiny Professor nodded and left the tent, while Harry shared the information.

….

After two hours of talk, both Charlie and his boss left the tent discussing what they had just learned from Harry. It was a radical change in everything they knew!

"We have to go back to the tower, before our things are destroyed too." Hermione suddenly told the twins as she realized that now they could be seen as traitors for helping Harry.

"That is a very good idea!" Both redheads exclaimed at the same time, before they said goodbye to Harry and left running to return to the tower.

When it was time to move Harry to the infirmary, the teen talked with the nurse and told him it was a bad idea.

"Madam Pomfrey, as you said I'm magically exhausted and someone tried to kill me today. If they try it again while I'm at the hospital, I'll be defenseless." He told her in a serious tone of voice.

"What do you suggest?" Poppy asked, knowing that he had an excellent argument and couldn't fight it.

"I move to my place. It's hidden and I'm the only one who knows how to enter. Everyone else gets inside through a house elf that answers ONLY to me. If I need you, he'll get you immediately." Harry explained to her.

The nurse thought for a moment and knew she couldn't win that fight. They had announced that he was under her care, and whoever freed the Dragon, could try to kill him again that night while he was weak and couldn't fight back.

"I don't like the idea, but I have to agree." She nodded and the teen smiled to her. Then she added: "I want to check you as soon as you are awake tomorrow. You won't attend classes for the rest of the week. I'll inform the Professors."

"I always thought you looked like a dragon when angry." The teen said with a smile.

"And now?" The nurse asked arching an eyebrow.

"I prefer a Dragon!" He said laughing before he called Dobby and left the tent while Poppy smiled and went to see the other Champions.