Chapter 24

We are now on our way to the hogwarts im already seating at the usual seats but the boys are not with us so its just me, chloe and pansy.

"Where are the boys anyways?" Chloe asked.

"Probably bullying some first years" says pansy while reading the daily prophet.

I chuckled. "Typical them" i said.

"Hogwarts will be joining the triwizard tournament" says pansy.

"I know" i said looking outside.

They both looked at me.

"How?! The news just came out earlier" they both said.

"Oh uhm" I fixing my self. "My grandma told me yesterday she said she already knew" I said and laughed nervously.

"Ohh lucky" pansy said.

Once the train stopped we look outside we're already went out we looked around no boys around and we three already went inside the castle and we went straight to the slytherin table sitting a little bit to the back then the boys showed up and started to eat.

"Where did you guys go?!" Says pansy.

"Chill lady we just did a talk with potter" blaise said and laughed with draco.

"You are so obsessed with potter" i said rolling my eyes at draco.

"Don't be jealous lia" he said then drink water.

"Excuse me?" I said then looked at Dumbledore when he started speaking.

When the puddings too had been demolished, and the last crumbs had faded off the plates, leaving them sparkling clean, Albus Dumbledore got to his feet again. The buzz of chatter filling the Hall ceased almost at once, so that only the howling wind and pounding rain could be heard.

"So!" said Dumbledore, smiling around at them all. "Now that we are all fed and watered, I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices.

"Mr. Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the castle has this year been extended to include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees, and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty-seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr. Filch's office, if anybody would like to check it."

The corners of Dumbledore's mouth twitched. He continued, "As ever, I would like to remind you all that the forest on the grounds is out-of-bounds to students, as is the village of Hogsmeade to all below third year.

"It is also my painful duty to inform you that the Inter-House Quidditch Cup will not take place this year."

"What?" Blaise gasped. He looked around at Draco, crabbe and Goyle, his fellow members of the Quidditch team. They were mouthing soundlessly at Dumbledore, apparently too appalled to speak. Dumbhedore went on, "This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up much of the teachers' time and energy - but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely. I have great pleasure in announcing that this year at Hogwarts -"

But at that moment, there was a deafening rumble of thunder and the doors of the Great Hall banged open.

A man stood in the doorway, leaning upon a long staff, shrouded in a black traveling cloak. Every head in the Great Hall swiveled toward the stranger, suddenly brightly illuminated by a fork of lightning that flashed across the ceiling. He lowered his hood, shook out a long mane of grizzled, dark gray hair, then began to walk up toward the teachers' table.

A dull clunk echoed through the Hall on his every other step. He reached the end of the top table, turned right, and limped heavily toward Dumbledore. Another flash of lightning crossed the ceiling. Everyone gasped.

The lightning had thrown the man's face into sharp relief, and it was a face unlike any I had ever seen.It looked as though it had been carved out of weathered wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea of what human faces are supposed to look like, and was none too skilled with a chisel. Every inch of skin seemed to be scarred. The mouth looked like a diagonal gash, and a large chunk of the nose was missing. But it was the man's eyes that made him frightening.

One of them was small, dark, and beady. The other was large, round as a coin, and a vivid, electric blue. The blue eye was moving ceaselessly, without blinking, and was rolling up, down, and from side to side, quite independently of the normal eye - and then it rolled right over, pointing into the back of the man's head, so that all they could see was whiteness.

The stranger reached Dumbledore. He stretched out a hand that was as badly scarred as his face, and Dumbhedore shook it, muttering words We couldn't hear. He seemed to be making some inquiry of the stranger, who shook his head unsmilingly and replied in an undertone. Dumbledore nodded and gestured the man to the empty seat on his right-hand side.

The stranger sat down, shook his mane of dark gray hair out of his face, pulled a plate of sausages toward him, raised it to what was left of his nose, and sniffed it. He then took a small knife out of his pocket, speared a sausage on the end of it, and began to eat. His normal eye was fixed upon the sausages, but the blue eye was still darting restlessly around in its socket, taking in the Hall and the students.

May I introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" said Dumbledore brightly into the silence. "Professor Moody."

It was usual for new staff members to be greeted with applause, but none of the staff or students chapped except Dumbledore and Hagrid, who both put their hands together and applauded, but the sound echoed dismally into the silence, and they stopped fairly quickly. Everyone else seemed too transfixed by Moody's bizarre appearance to do more than stare at harry.

Dumbledore cleared his throat.

"As I was saying," he said, smiling at the sea of students before him, all of whom were still gazing transfixed at Mad-Eye Moody, "we are to have the honor of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event that has not been held for over a century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year."

"You're JOKING!" said Fred Weasley loudly.

The tension that had filled the Hall ever since Moody's arrival suddenly broke. Nearly everyone laughed, and Dumbledore chuckled appreciatively.

"I am not joking, Mr. Weasley," he said, "though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar."

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly.

"Er - but maybe this is not the time...no..." said Dumbledore, "where was I? Ah yes, the Triwizard Tournament...well, some of you will not know what this tournament involves, so I hope those who do know will forgive me for giving a short explanation, and allow their attention to wander freely.

"The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. A champion was selected to represent each school, and the three champions competed in three magical tasks. The schools took it in turns to host the tournament once every five years, and it was generally agreed to be a most excellent way of establishing ties between young witches and wizards of different nationalities - until, that is, the death toll mounted so high that the tournament was discontinued. There have been several attempts over the centuries to reinstate the tournament," Dumbledore continued, "none of which has been very successful. However, our own departments of International Magical Cooperation and Magical Games and Sports have decided the time is ripe for another attempt. We have worked hard over the summer to ensure that this time, no champion will find himself or herself in mortal danger.

"The heads of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving with their short-listed contenders in October, and the selection of the three champions will take place at Halloween. An impartial judge will decide which students are most worthy to compete for the Triwizard Cup, the glory of their school, and a thousand Galleons personal prize money."

"Eager though I know all of you will be to bring the Triwizard Cup to Hogwarts," he said, "the heads of the participating schools, along with the Ministry of Magic, have agreed to impose an age restriction on contenders this year. Only students who are of age - that is to say, seventeen years or older - will be allowed to put forward their names for consideration. This -" Dumbledore raised his voice slightly, for several people had made noises of outrage at these words, and the Weasley twins were suddenly looking furious - "is a measure we feel is necessary, given that the tournament tasks will still be difficult and dangerous, whatever precautions we take, and it is highly unlikely that students below sixth and seventh year will be able to cope with them. I will personally be ensuring that no underage student hoodwinks our impartial judge into making them Hogwarts champion." His light blue eyes twinkled as they flickered over Fred's and George's mutinous faces. "I therefore beg you not to waste your time submitting yourself if you are under seventeen.

"The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving in October and remaining with us for the greater part of this year. I know that you will all extend every courtesy to our foreign guests while they are with us, and will give your whole-hearted support to the Hogwarts champion when he or she is selected. And now, it is late, and I know how important it is to you all to be alert and rested as you enter your lessons tomorrow morning. Bedtime! Chop chop!"

Dumbledore sat down again and turned to talk to Mad-Eye Moody. There was a great scraping and banging as all the students got to their feet and swarmed toward the double doors into the entrance hall. We we're now walking at the dungeons down to our common room once we got to the common room chloe and pansy sits at the sofa i sat beside them.

"Professor moody's eye is scary" chloe says playing with her hair.

"Scary?! It's gross" says pansy making gag face.

"Not gonna lie it's really gross" i said reading a book.

"Lets go have a sleep over at lyn's room" says chloe.

"Im in" says pansy.

"Lets go change in to our pajamas see you guys at my room" i said and we all went to my room, once i got im i saw draco laying at my bed reading a book.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Sleeping with you" he said.

"Sorry to break into you but the girls and i are having a sleep over" i said and laugh.

"That's unfair" he said.

"Just sleep with me tomorrow then" i said.

"Fine" he said getting up get walks to me making me walk backwards and my back hits the wall he looked at me in the eyes then to my lips and back to my eyes again "Good night lia" he said and kiss my forehead then backs a little and left the room. What in merlins beard is that?! I made my way to my closet and get my pajamas and went to tye bathroom and washed my face and change into my pajamas and went out of the bathroom. Minutes later pansy and chloe burst into my room making me jump.

"You two are gonna be the death of me" i said.

"Chill what's wrong?" Says pansy.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"You seem bothered" says chloe.

"Sit I'll explain" i said they sits faster than I thought. "Draco is in my room earlier-" i got cut off.

"OMG YOU TWO KISSED?!" Pansy asked.

"No well i dont know" i laughed.

"What do you mean you dont know?" Says chloe.

"He looked at me then to my lips then my eyes again and then he ended up kissing me on my forehead and then he said good night" i said.

"Well then he wanted to really kiss you but then he ended up getting shy or it might ruin his reputation here in hogwarts" pansy explained.

"Make sense" i said laying my back on my bed.

"Plus we all know draco, he's hard headed" chloe says and we all laughed, after many girls talk we fall asleep at 12 midnight. I woke up at 6 am i wake the girls up so we can eat breakfast early they went out of my room and went to their room still looking sleepy. I went to my bathroom and change into my  unifrom  and went to the living room i waited for chloe and pansy when they went to the living room professor snape got in he saw most of the girls are awake so he knocks on every boys room.

"Girls are already awake and you boys are not. I AM SO DISAPPOINTED GET UP." Shouted by snape. They boy's door suddenly opened all. "IF I DONT SEE YOU ALL BOYS AT THE GREATHALL AT TEN MINUTES. YOU WILL RECEIVE DETENTION FOR 2 months-" he continued to give them lecture. The boys gave me a glare to make professor snape. But i looked at them just looking at me. Oh yea he's my godfather.

"Professor i guess they got it lets go to the greathall" i said and professor snape looked at me then to the boys too. "10 minutes starts now"he said in a cold voice and the boys sprinted inside their room. The girls and i went to the greathall and started eating breakfast minutes later we saw the boys walking up to us and eats breakfast with us after eating we talked about how snape shouted at the boys pansy can't stop laughing so as chloe we saw our owls dropped some gift and letter at us my grandma gave me a earrings that have snake around the emerald stone and a letter while draco got sweets from home i took a two chocolate from him and headed to class.