Time ago, the Riddle family was found dead, the two parents and their son Tom, no wound visible. Nobody liked them. Gardener Frank was believed guilty, but couldn’t be convicted without cause of death. He stayed to take care of the place. Frank said he had seen a teenage boy that night, but nobody believed him.
Now in August, old Frank sees some lights and goes check and sees Voldemort and Wormtail, talking. Wormtail would like to do whatever they plan to do with a random wizard instead of Harry Potter. Nagini sees Frank and Voldemort kills him.
Harry sees it in a vision-dream. (long recap of who he is)
He writes to Sirius to talk about his scar hurting.
Molly writes to his house to ask the Dursley to let him go to them for the two weeks before school, so they can go to the quidditch world cup. Ron writes to him too, with his tiny owl. Harry is excited.
The Weasley arrive by floo and take him to the Burrow. Dudley’s tongue goes very long after he ate a toffee George let drop, knowing he was on a diet and would eat it.
There are Bill and Charlie too. Bill wears modern stuff, is tall and has long hair, an earring and is very cool, with dragonhide boots.
Their parents are angry at the twins for their Weasley’ wizard wheezes. The twins’s OWLs last year were not great, and they don’t want to work at the ministry but open a joke shop.
Percy works at the ministry under Mr Crouch. Ginny named the little owl Pigwidgeon.
The Weasley take a portkey with Amos and Cedric Diggory. Bill, Charlie and Percy will apparate later.
They use a tent, magically enlarged in the inside. One for the boys, one for the girls.
They meet Seamus with his mother and with his best friend Dean.
Oliver Wood, he signed to play professional. Ernie McMillan and Cho Chang.
It’s Ireland against Bulgaria
They talk bets with Ludo Bagman, Barty Crouch arrives and calls Percy Wetherby… (but he’s talking to Arthur…)
Ron is a big fan of Krum.
They finally go to their seats.
The Malfoys arrive later, all three, guests of Fudge, the minister. Lucius insults Arthur on being poor.
The Bulgarian show is Veelas dancing, affecting all the men present. Leprechauns giving money is the show for Ireland.
Harry loves the game and is in awe of Krum flying. After a while the game turns dirty, and then the Veelas and the Leprechauns start fighting - and the veelas don’t look so attractive anymore.
Krum got his nose broken but he caught the snitch anyway. It ends Bulgaria160-Ireland170 . Ireland wins.
The trio all admire Krum. The twins won the bet with Bagman, since Ireland won but Krum got the snitch.
They go in the tent to sleep, but are woken up when Death Eaters fly everywhere, cruelly playing with a muggle family. Arthur goes to help the ministry while the kids stick together. When Ron falls down Draco mocks him, perfectly calm, and calls Hermione a mudblood again, implying that being a muggle herself she should hide.
Hermione starts complaining about house-elves being treated like slaves, but Ron argues that that’s how they like it, how they live.
The first time Harry saw the veelas, he wanted to impress them too, but now while other men shout lies to appear important, he just laughs and pushes Ron away.
Harry imagines if Arthur were to catch Lucius, and Ron comments that it would wipe the smirk off of “Draco”’s face. Then someone mutters a spell and a huge skull appears in the sky. Harry doesn’t recognise it, but Hermione does and tells him it’s the dark mark.
The ministry attacks them with stupefy and they duck because he has no wand, but Arthur stops them. They think the trio conjured the mark. Crouch is the most suspicious.
Amos finds Crouch’s house-elf Winky stupefied on the ground.
There’s a wand in the elf’s hand, Harry’s wand, but the trio says it was a human’s voice they heard.
(control and regulation of magical creatures)
Amos checks the wand and yes, it was the wand that conjured the dark mark. Amos accuses the elf, but Arthur and Crouch don’t agree. Winky says she found the wand right there on the grass.
Winky cries and begs, but Crouch swears to deal with her himself and will punish her… but then it turns out he threatens her with clothes. Hermione is outraged at how the elf was treated.
The dark mark hadn’t been seen for thirteen years.
Rita Skeeter writes a nasty article in the Prophet. Molly was very scared. Harry tells Ron and Hermione about his scar hurting.
Molly already bought all their books for them while they were away. Also dress robes, and Ron’s are horrible because they’re second hand robes. Ron’s very upset about it.
Arthur is called to work when Mad-eye Moody says someone tried to break into his house at night. He was a good auror once, but too paranoid now.
They go to the station and board the train. They hear Malfoy talking about how his father wanted to send him to Durmstrang because mudbloods aren’t accepted there, and they study dark arts there, but his mom didn’t want him so far away. Then Malfoy comes to mock Ron about his robes and then talks about the great mystery Ron’s family won’t tell them about. Lucius told him all about it, but since they don’t know he mocks them and doesn’t say what it is.
Ron is furious.
Peeves drenches them all in water, then Colin informs Harry that his brother Dennis is starting school. (I know I should be kinder towards him but he’s really annoying).
There isn’t a new Dada teacher yet. The hat sings: Gryffindor the bravest, priced far beyond the rest, Ravenclaw the cleverest, would always be the best, Hufflepuff hard-workers most worthy of admission, and power hungry Slytherin, those of great ambition.
Harry once again wonders if the children sorted in Slytherin knew that that house had the most number of dark wizards of all. Dennis is a Gryffindor like his brother.
Ron is impatient because he’s hungry. The bloody baron, the Slytherin’s ghost, luckily stopped Peeves from attending the sorting.
Hermione learns now that there are house elves here in Hogwarts, lots of them, although they never leave the kitchen, and she asks if they get paid, get holidays and sick leaves and pensions… and so she stops eating.
Dumbledore informs them that there will be no Quidditch cup this year, because in October and throughout the year there will be something else. Moody arrives as the new Dada teacher.
Going on, Dumbledore announces the Triwizard Tournament, between Hogwarts, Beaubaton and Durmstrang, started as a friendly competition long ago… then they stopped it because of too many deaths… and he says they worked hard to guarantee there will be no deaths this year… and so only those of age, seventeen or more, will be allowed to enter their name. (So basically only seventh years, or can kids repeat a year in Hogswarts too?)
Neville says his grandma is always telling him how he should honour the family name…
Post arrives, Draco gets his usual sweets from home. Care of magical creatures is once again with Hagrid and the Slytherins. Draco criticises the lesson and choice of creature, and honestly everyone agrees but they don’t want to say it. Trelawney is once again foreseeing difficult times for Harry.
Draco reads aloud to everyone an article by Rita Skeeter about Mr Weasley, a bad article.
Harry reacts insulting him and his mother but before Malfoy can hex him, Moody arrives to defend Harry and transforms Draco into a white ferret, squeaking terrified. He makes it fly up and down, bouncing and squealing in pain, hitting the stone floor. McGonagall stops him, turning him back to human, then Moody takes him to Snape.
Ron enjoyed it very much. Hermione spends all her time in the library for a personal project.
The twins are excited after their first lesson with Moody.
Neville melts his cauldron again getting detention. Moody teaches them the unforgivable curses. He takes three large black spiders and uses imperius on one, and cruciatus on another, and the killing curse on the last one. Moody reminds them that only Harry ever survived it.
Some students thought of it as some kind of show, but Neville was sort of traumatised, and Harry and Hermione didn’t like it either. Moody comes to take him to his office, and gives him a book on herbology. Hermione comes to show them her badges of s.p.e.w., the society for the promotion of elfish welfare, that she just started.
Sirius writes that he’s coming back, and Harry is worried he’ll get caught and wishes he said nothing about his scar hurting.
Harry writes to Sirius that he’s alright and there’s no need to come. Moody tries the imperious curse on them to teach them how to react to it. Only Harry manages to stop it.
Every teacher gives them lots of work. Hermione goes on and on about elves, and George tells her that he met them and they are happy, but she doesn’t listen.
Beaubaton and Durmstrang delegations arrive, from the sky and the lake - pretty much like in the movie, Beaubatons has both boys and girls though.
(Madame Maxime seems bigger than Hagrid, and yet Dumbledore has to bend to kiss her? What?)
Ron is jealous that Durmstrang sat at the Slytherin table. A Beaubaton girl looks like a veela, many boys turn to look, but Harry looks at Cho instead. Crouch and Bagman join the teachers.
All the Durmstrang boys put their name in. Angelina just turned seventeen so she tries too.
Hagrid refuses S.p.e.w. as well, trying to make her see reason, and he says that Dobby was different.
The chosen names are Victor Krum, Fleur Delacour, the veela girl with silvery blond hair, and Cedric Diggory, to Ron’s disapproval and the Hufflepuff cheerfulness. Another name comes out, Harry Potter.
Everyone is astonished, Harry more than anyone. Bagman tells him that he has no choice but to do his best, he’s bound to see the tournament to its end. Moody suggests someone put Harry’s name under another school’s name to make sure he was chosen for sure (well, that explains how they could be sure, yes, although the goblet then didn’t know it was a TRIwizard tournament…)
All the Gryffindors cheer him when he goes back, not listening to his words that he didn’t put his name in. He thinks only Hermione and Ron will believe him, but Ron doesn’t believe him at all, and is jealous.
Luckily Hermione believes him. After her suggestion, he writes to Sirius about it. Hagrid believes him, to his relief, but the rest of the school students doesn’t. Harry feels very alone; Cedric seems much more the champion than he does, so handsome and all, just like Krum (…)
Students start to wear “support Cedric Diggory, the real Hogwarts champion” badges, and the message can change to “Potter stinks”. The Slytherins laugh a lot. Malfoy calls Hermione a Mudblood again and Harry loses it, and the two of them fight each other. He hits Goyle, Malfoy hits Hermione and her teeth grow making her look like a beaver. Snape sends Goyle to the hospital wing, but says “I see no difference” to her. Harry is taken out of Potions by the annoying Creevey because he has to go to the photoshoot, where he gets taken to a broom cupboard by Rita Skeeter - closed door, both in darkness. The horrible woman writes lots of rubbish and doesn’t listen to a word he says.
Sirius writes that they must speak face to face.
The article was awful, it was all about Harry and also a lot of rubbish, lies and inventions. Of course Malfoy mocks him a lot about it.
Without Ron, Harry spends a lot of time in the library with Hermione. Krum is there a lot too, and she finds it annoying because a lot of giggling girls follow him. Harry also goes to Hogsmead, under his invisibility cloak, with Hermione. Hagrid asks him to meet him at midnight under the cloak, and he sees the four dragons that are the first task. Charlie is there to care for the dragons.
He runs to the common room to talk to Sirius, and his face appears in the fire. He tells him everything, and Sirius tells him Karkaroff was a death-eater but was released because he made a deal. Then Harry has a word fight with Ron and goes to sleep.
Since Cedric will be the only one not knowing about the dragons, Harry plots to meet him alone and tells him that the first task will be dragons. Moody calls him and talks to him about facing the dragons, to concentrate on what he’s good at - flying - and a simple spell… so he runs to Hermione and she helps him with his Accio spell. After many tries he finally manages the spell.
When the task starts, he successfully summons his broom and is not scared anymore, and gets the egg as if it was a snitch. Ron congratulates him along with Hermione, and they are ok again now, friends. Three months before the next task.
The Gryffindors have a party to celebrate Harry’s win - he’s now in first place with Krum. When Harry and other Gryffindors help Hagrid with his Skrewts, Malfoy hides in his cabin with others. Hermione drags Harry and Ron to the kitchens to see that Dobby and Winky, freed by Crouch, are now working at Hogwarts. Dobby is happy to be free, but the others do not agree with him, and Winky can’t stop crying. Dobby likes the idea of being free and being paid, but refused the amount of money Dumbledore wanted to pay him, 10 galleons a week, and only accepted 1, because he likes work. Hermione hopes that seeing Dobby happy the other elves will start to think like him…
McGonagall informs them that there will be a Yule Ball, and that Harry will open the dance with all the champions. A 3rd year girl, then a 2nd year and even a taller 5th year ask him, but he says no, then he gathers up courage and finally asks Cho Chang, but she’s very sorry to tell him that Cedric already invited her. Ron asked Fleur in a bout of insanity, then Ginny tells them that Neville invited Hermione but she said she’s already going with someone else, but Ron doesn’t believe it. Ginny also refuses to go with Harry (when Ron tells her) because then Neville invited her, and she accepted because as a third year she can’t go without a date. When Hermione arrives, Ron goes ‘Neville is right, you’re a girl’, and tells her to go with them, but she insists she’s already been invited. She was already upset because he previously said he’d rather go with a pretty girl than a nice one. After that, Harry asks Parvati and she accepts, but Lavender is going with Seamus, so Harry asks her who could go with Ron and Parvati suggests her Ravenclaw sister Padma.
Ron keeps trying to find out who Hermione will go to the ball with, but she won’t tell. Malfoy can’t believe someone invited “that”, insulting as always, but she tricks him into believing Moody is there and he’s afraid, so they go away laughing. After her teeth were cursed by Malfoy to grow, she magicked them shorter. Ron notices they’re ‘the normal size’, and Hermione says Pomfrey shortened them, and Hermione let her go on a little bit more, to shorten them a bit more compare to how they were before.
Harry still isn’t working on his next clue, knowing there’s lots of time still.
At Christmas, Dobby shows up with a present for Harry, (socks he made himself), and Harry gives him a pair of old socks he had in his trunk. Harry wears the socks. The Dursley gave him something absurd I don’t remember, but as horrible as it may seem, I wonder why they send anything at all, that sounds so weird to me.
Ron did a sewing charm or something on his dress robe to make them look less like a dress, but he’s not very good. (Why didn’t mom do it? Come on…)
Ron and Parvati look very pretty, but Ron barely looks at Padma. He’s looking for Hermione.
Malfoy has Pansy hanging on his arm. Crabbe and Goyle have no partners. Krum was with a pretty girl in a blue dress. When the champions wait to go in, Harry finally recognises Hermione, but she looks different, in her dress and pretty hair and with no books. Even Malfoy finds nothing insulting to say. Harry sits beside Percy, who has been promoted as Crouch’s personal assistant.
Krum and Hermione eat and talk a lot.
Fleur spends her time criticising everything, but her date keeps staring at her and doesn’t listen to a single word.
The champions open the dances, then the others join. Ginny is with Neville. Moody with Sinistra. The Weird Sisters are playing, but Harry stops dancing as soon as he can, to Parvati’s disappointment. Ron isn’t dancing either, glaring at Hermione.
Parvati is asked by a boy from Beaubaton to dance and she doesn’t return. Hermione dances with Krum and stops when he goes to get drinks. Ron starts fighting with her, saying she’s “fraternising with the enemy”, forgetting he used to idolise Krum. He says Krum asked her only to find information on Harry, and keeps being nasty, until she storms off, clearly hurt.
Padma joins her sister, and the boy dancing with her summons quickly another boy for her.
Dumbledore is dancing with Sprout, Bagman with McGonagall, Maxine with Hagrid. Krum looks for Hermione.
Ron and Harry catch Hagrid talking to Maxime and calling her a half-giant like him, but she stomps away looking insulted.
They didn’t know Hagrid had a Giant mother. Hermione is dancing with Krum again. Ron says Giants aren’t nice. After the ball, Cedric stops Harry and tells him to take a bath with the egg.
When he reaches the common room, Hermione and Ron are fighting loudly and she yells that he should have asked her before someone else could and not as a last resort before she stomps away angrily.
Hermione admits she used a lot of Sleekeasy hair potion for the ball, but now it’s bushy again. She and Ron speak ignoring their fight, but are quite formal.
Harry keeps shaking and hitting the egg, he doesn’t want to follow Cedric’s suggestion because he’s jealous of him and Cho. Prof Grubbly Plank teaches Cares for magical creatures because Hagrid is indisposed… it’s Draco that explains what happens when he says he’ll be hiding because of a newspaper article that he promptly shows them: it reads that Dumbledore made the mistake of hiring a half-giant who terrorises the students (there’s a quote from Draco saying “they all” hate him but are too scared of him…), and it reveals that his mother was a giantess. Harry is furious (doesn’t take much, does it?). Draco enjoys taunting him every time there is a prof on the horizon so Harry can’t retaliate.
Hogsmead visit: Harry wants to go, and tells Hermione that he figured out the dragon’s egg clue to the next task, and she’s glad, “well done!” she says, and doesn’t ask him questions about it.
They go to have a butterbeer and see Bagman talking to some goblins. Bagman talks to him privately, tells him that Barty Crouch has been missing for many days, and then tries to offer him his help for the tournament. Harry doesn’t like it, it’s in the rules that they can’t be helped, and also he asks if he offered the same help to Cedric and the answer was no, so Harry refuses, he doesn’t want to cheat. Then Rita Skeeter enters, and Harry is furious with her for what she wrote, and Hermione is furious too, but drags the boys out before they give her stuff for more articles, and she drags them back to Hagrid’s cabin, having had enough of it all, and yelling for him to open the door. Dumbledore opens, he was there to comfort Hagrid, just like them, and they do it. Hagrid is full of praise for that great man that Dumbledore is, saying he gives people a second chance, and is open to anyone. Hagrid tells them of his human father, who died when he was in second year. Never be ashamed of who you are, or what you are, his dad always said (or something). Anyway, Hagrid tells him to win and show them all, so Harry lies again saying he figured out what to do, and it bothers him that he lied and Hagrid believed him and smiled all happy, so he decides to try Cedric’s hint.
Finally!!! Harry sneaks out at night with cloak and map to go to the prefects bathroom, and luckily there is Myrtle to suggests he listens to the egg under water, so he learns that he will have one hour to swim under the lake to retrieve something he cared about from there. He sees on the map that Crouch is alone in Snape’s office and wants to go check but is trapped in a broken step or something, and Filch almost catches him, then Snape wants him to help search his office and then Moody arrives and he can see him, but he helps him when they almost find the map and he takes it first. Moody borrows the map and suggests he might consider becoming an auror.
Ron thinks again that it might be Snape’s doing, that he put in the goblet Harry’s name.
Harry asks Ron and Hermione’s help to find something that will allow him to breathe an hour under water, but they find nothing. Hagrid is back to work, and continues the lesson on unicorns. Young ones are golden, and even Pansy likes them.
Ron and Hermione are called away by McGonagall and do not return. Harry is desperate now. Ten minutes before the task he’s still desperate. Dobby knows he has to retrieve his ‘weeasy’ from the lake, and Dobby gives him some slimy stuff, gillyweed, that will make him breathe under water. Harry takes it and runs, eats it in his mouth before going in the freezing lake. He fights off a grindylow and Myrtle points him in the right direction, so he finds Ron, Hermione, Cho and a little girl hostages of the mermaids. He frees Ron, then waits to see if the others are rescued. Cedric has a bubble around his head and frees Cho, Viktor Krum uses Harry’s rock to free Hermione, with his head that of a shark for an incomplete transfiguration on himself. Harry waits but no sign of Fleur, so he scares off the mermaids with his wand and frees the little girl too. He arrives last. Ron mocks him, saying Dumbledore wouldn’t let the hostages die, but Fleur apparently wasn’t so sure because she was crying her sister’s name, Gabrielle, and thanked him a lot for saving her sister. The judges award him bonus point for his strong moral fiber, so now he’s tied in first place, with Cedric I think. Ron has fun telling fantastical stories on his ‘abduction’, then a letter hints that Sirius is coming back to Hogswarts. Harry really wants to see him. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle are surrounded by Pansy and her Slytherin girls. They show Hermione a magazine with an article on Harry’s love life, about his ‘steady girlfriend’ Hermione toying him with Krum. Hermione doesn’t take it seriously, but is curious about how Skeeter could know that Krum had invited her to visit him in Bulgaria. Snape reads it out loud and then whispers angrily at him because convinced that he was the one who had broke into his office to steal supplies. Karkaroff does talk about his left arm to Snape right in class, after everyone has gone out, but Harry who hears.
In Hogsmead, they meet Sirius in dog form. He leads them to his hiding place where Buckbeak is, and asks for food first. Then they talk of what is happening, specially of Crouch’s mysterious disappearance, and tells them that his own son was caught on Voldemort’s side. He says the son went to Azkaban then died quickly. Sirius says Snape always liked the dark arts, although he was never accused of being a death eater. Ron still likes to accuse Snape of anything, while Hermione insists that Dumbledore trusts him. Ron hints that Percy is very ambitious and could even put his career before his family (… then he should be a Slytherin not a Gryffindor right?)
Winky is so sad she keeps drinking, much to Hermione’s exasperation.
Hermione receives nasty letters after the article on her toying with him. After learning that leprechaun’s gold vanishes, Ron gets all moody thinking of the one he gave Harry, thinking he had paid him off, all gloomy now hating the fact that he’s poor. Hermione is very stubborn now on learning how can Skeeter discover all secret things. Ron is quite bored and even annoyed but her efforts. Even Mrs Weasley reads Witch Weekly, and so she sent Hermione a ridiculously small easter egg. For the last task, the champions learn that they’ll have to pass a maze and the cup will be at its center. Krum wants to know from Harry what’s going on between him and Hermione (Harry thought he wanted to say something more important… at 14, these are not so important things to him, huh?) Crouch appears from the forest, all crazed. He’s delirious, asks to see Dumbledore when he doesn’t talk to the tree, so Harry leaves Krum there and runs to Dumbledore but is found by Snape instead who tries to dismiss it all, then Dumbledore arrives and they hurry to the forest and find Krum stunned on the ground, and no sign of Crouch. Moody arrives, says he’ll go looking, but then says he didn’t find him.
At divination, Harry has a ‘dream’, he sees Voldemort calling Wormtail on a mistake he made and crucio him, and this time he does what Sirius suggested when he told him of his scar hurting. His scar is hurting now, so he goes straight to Dumbledore’s office, guessing the password by blabbing names of sweets. Dumbledore is talking to Fudge and Moody, who notices his arrival.
The men go out for a little bit leaving Harry alone, and he finds a strange basin and look at it. He knows enough not to touch weird-looking magical objects, but he leans closer to watch and falls into the memory of Karkaroff’s trial, when he gave up names not wanting to return to Azkaban. He also mentioned Snape, but Dumbledore vouched for him again. He also saw the trial of Barty Crouch Jr, both conducted by Crouch Sr. He was accused of torturing with crucio both Longbottoms, Neville’s parents. Dumbledore appears to bring him out of the pensieve, and explains to him what it was, then Harry tells him about his dream/vision. Later he tells all to Ron and Hermione. They see from a window that Malfoy, with Crabbe and Goyle, seems to talk to his hand… then the next day the prophet has a front page story on Harry, unstable, fainting, his scar hurting… and Hermione starts to realise how could Skeeter know about it. Before dinner, the champions receive the visit of their families, and Harry has a surprise, Mrs Weasley came with Bill (who is noted by Fleur right away). After dinner, they go to the Quidditch pitch to start the third and last task, they must enter the big maze… basically at night, of course… now, where would a kid be safer than at school, right? Anyway, the kid enter one at a time (well, Harry at the same time as Cedric, they’re tied in first place) and move in the dark (with a Lumos, of course). Harry is surprised the path is clear, but Cedric is attacked by some monsters, and Fleur yelled and they didn’t see her, and then later Harry hears and sees Krum casting crucio on Cedric, so he helps and Krum goes away. Cedric is first to the cup but a giant spider attacks him and Harry helps and they fight it together (sort of; Cedric is three years older, doesn’t he know a better spell than stupefy? It didn’t work for Harry, try something else…) and they defeat the beast together (really Harry? expelliarmus on a spider, and the spider drops him??? how, why, what… never mind).
Harry is hurt (ankle and leg). Cedric stops, doesn’t want the cup, says it’s Harry’s, they argue about it, but neither will take it so Harry proposes to take it together, split the victory, they’re both Hogwarts after all, so they do it, and Cedric helps him walk. The cup turns out to be a portkey, and they find themselves in a graveyard, away from Hogswarts. Wormtail arrives with a bundle of robes, and Harry scars hurts terribly and he’s in agony. A voice says “kill the spare”, and an avada kedavra later, Cedric falls on the ground, dead. Harry is tied to a statue. Wormtail cuts his own hand, needing the flesh willingly given of a servant, and then takes some of Harry’s blood (he’s the chosen foe), and puts the bundle in a cauldron full of stuff, and despite Harry’s prayers it works, and Voldemort rises again. He uses Wormtail’s dark mark to summon his death eaters, and they arrive. Voldemort expresses his disappointment that they moved on without him, and crucios Avery. He talks to some of the others, noting how the Lestranges are missing because they were so faithful they preferred Azkaban to renounce him. Lucius is there, and also Crabbe and Goyle. Lucius asks, and Voldemort tells them how he came to his rebirth, how he waited thinking one of them would come to his aid, but they didn’t. He possessed Quirrel but was defeated, then Wormtail came to find him. He brought him Bertha of the Ministry, he tortured her for information and learned about the Triwizard tournament. He placed a loyal servant in Hogwarts to make sure Harry won the cup, so he could get his blood. Voldemort gives Wormtail a silver hand.Now he wants to prove to them that he is stronger than the boy who should have been his downfall by killing him. He tries an Imperio on him but Harry resists, and then he wants a duel (after a second ‘crucio’…) but despite the pain in the leg Harry dodges and fights back: an expelliarmus against an avadakedavra… and their wands link and slowly the ghosts of Cedric appears, then the muggle man he killed and then Bertha Jawkins, and then his mother and father… they all tell him to hold on, then his dad tells him to take the cup and go back while they’ll give him time, and Cedric asks him to take his body back to his parents, so Harry runs to him and then accios the cup and is back, and he doesn’t want to let go of Cedric but Bumbledore tells him to. Harry is still shocked and Moody takes him back to the castle and asks him in details what happened. Harry tells him there’s a death eater at Hogswarts, and Moody tells him he knows, and it’s not Karkaroff. He ran away when he felt the mark, (what will happen to him?). Moody reveals that it was him, all him: he put Harry’s name in, defended when it could have been hurt, helped him with all the tasks, every help he got started from him, and he cleared his path in the maze, stunned Fleur and imperiused Krum against Cedric, all to get him to Voldemort. He is also angry that the other death eaters were forgiven and accepted back, he thinks of himself as his only loyal servant. Harry is scared when Moody wants to kill him as a gift for the dark lord, but Dumbledore stuns him instead. He sends McGonagall to fetch Winky, and Snape to get veritaserum, then he questions him: he’s Barty Crouch Jr, his mother’s dying wish was to save him, so she took his place in Azkaban and he stayed home, imperiused by his father who also damaged Bertha’s brain with a strong memory charm when she found out. He broke free at the Quidditch cup (Winky had insisted to let him go see the cup, hidden under an invisibility cloak) but he broke free and he cast the mark in the sky.
He had also already told Harry he killed his father. He tells Dumbledore everything, then Dumbledore takes Harry to his office where Sirius is waiting for him, and Harry has to tell them everything that happened to him. Dumbledore explains that his wand and Voldemort’s share the same core, with feathers from the same phoenix, Fawkes in fact (who by the way cries on Harry’s leg so it’s instantly healed), these wands do not want to battle each other, and if forced they activate a Priori Incantate, so Dumbledore guesses that Harry saw Cedric and others.
Then Harry gets some Dreamless Sleep potion and sleeps in the hospital wings, with Sirius in dog form next to him. When he wakes up, he hears McGonagall and Fudge screaming, then Dumbledore arrives. Snape explains to him that Fudge insisted a Dementor escort him into the school to meet Crouch Jr, and that the dementor gave him the kiss. Now he can’t be questioned anymore. Fudge thinks he was only a lunatic, and doesn’t believe a word when they tell him of Voldemort’s return. Dumbledore insists, Harry even tells Fudge what he saw and that Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Nott (he said Nott, didn’t he?) were there, but Fudge doesn’t believe him.
He thinks his career will be over if he starts talking about Voldemort being back or even make peace with the giants like Dumbledore suggests. Fudge refuses to listen to him, the wants to keep the dementors in charge of Azkaban and keep his post as Minister.
Dumbledore sends Minerva, Bill and Sirius to alert as many people as possible (poor Harry, he wanted Sirius to stay with him), Sirius and Snape still hate each other, and can’t pretend even for Dumbledore that they don’t. Dumbledore then says Good luck to Snape, saying he knows what he’ll have to do.
Harry thinks of Cedric, of how it was Harry who told him to get the cup together, but Mrs Weasley tells him it wasn’t his fault, and hugs him tightly. Then they give him the rest of his potion and sleeps again. Fudge gave him the 1000 galleons for winning the tournament before going away.
In the next month Harry met the Diggorys who did not blame him, thanked him for bringing him back. They want him to keep the money he won.
He cared about nothing, all the kids believing he was crazy and staring. Mrs Weasley asked Dumbledore to send Harry to them for the summer, but no. Harry talks only to Ron, Hermione and Hagrid.
Harry can’t understand how Dumbledore might be so sure that Snape is on their side, a spy at great risk but on their side. At the end of year feast, Dumbledore toasted to Cedric’s memory, Cho cried, everyone was sad. Dumbledore told anyone that Lord Voldemort killed him although the ministry didn’t want him to. He also toasts to Harry and his bravery. Everyone did too, but the Slytherins didn’t.
Before going away, Fleur ran to say goodbye to Harry. Krum came to say goodbye to Hermione, then shook the boys hands too. Although a little jealous, Ron asked for his autograph, and he did it. The trio talk on the train; the Prophet mentioned nothing of Cedric or Voldemort. She tells them that Skeeter won’t write anything for a while, because Hermione found out her secret, how she could spy on everything that happened. Skeeter is an unregistered animagus, a beetle, and she is now in a jar in Hermione’s possession. Hermione caught her in the hospital wing. Malfoy knew, and talked to her in his hands all year through. Malfoy now hears her, entering their compartment. Malfoy reminds him on their encounter on the train in first year, saying he did pick the losing side. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle fell on the ground hexed by the trio and also the twins. The bad trio was pushed and kicked outside the compartment, then the twins are showered with questions. They tried to blackmail Ludo Bagman, because he paid them in Leprechaun money and then refused to pay them, even to give them the money they gambled, and they found out he was in trouble with the goblins, full of debts. He bet on Harry winning the tournament, but the goblins said he tied with Cedric so he lost anyway and escaped.
Too soon the train arrived. Harry gave his winnings to the twins, he insisted, for the joke shop. He insisted a lot, telling them to buy Ron different dress robes and keep the rest or he’ll hex them.
Uncle Vernon was there waiting for him. Mrs Weasley told him to keep in touch and come to them later in the summer. Hermione kissed him on the cheek, the twins thanked him. Harry went home with Vernon.
The end.
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