Strategies and Secrets Unveiled

Eventually the day of the third task had come, Harry stood outside the maze along with his fellow champions. The stadium was packed full with cheering students who were all excited for the third task to begin. Most of them were now rooting for Harry seeing as he actually was winning and showing up the other champions.

Harry was also glad to have received another letter from Sirius. Sirius Black, Harry's godfather had made it a point to send letters to Harry whenever he could.

And seeing as Sirius was a framed mass murder who escaped from the worst prison in Britain and was actively being chased by the British law enforcement, both magical and muggle, that meant there were not a lot of opportunities for Sirius to send letters.

So far Sirius had sent him about ten in total throughout the year, it might not seem a lot but when you consider his circumstances it was hard enough to just send one and not get caught so Harry appreciated the man's effort.

Harry was as relaxed as can be, seeing as he was pretty sure that something or the other would happen in this tournament. It helped that he had released a lot of his tension snogging Ginny Wesley two days ago and sleeping with Fleur last night.

The additional one in the morning for good luck would probably help as well, the fact that the other Beuaxbaton girl came back and treated Harry with his second ever threesome probably helped even more. Harry could not help but wonder if Sirius would be angry or proud of that fact.

From what he knew of the man he would lead towards the latter.

"You all got it? Good." One tournament official said as he finished explaining the tracking charms on the maze hedges, the hedges were charmed to simply let the officials know where the most magical activity was so they would have a general idea of where the champions were during the task so they could keep track of them during the event. The official walked off, not before nodding to Bagman, who took that as his sign to begin.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Ludo bagman called, his magically amplified voice echoed all around. "I want to welcome each and every one of you to the third and final Triwizard tournament!" Ludo paused to allow the crowd to cheer. "Yes, yes we are all excited. I am also excited!" Ludo grinned. "Alright the task will start with the leading champion enter first, the next will enter ten minutes before the others.

The runner up will begin five minutes after the first, the third champion will begin five minutes after the second and the fourth champion will begin five minutes after the third. Everyone got that? Good. Now first to enter the tournament will be none other than the leading champion, the boy-who-lived, Harry Potter!" The crowd gave a near deafening cheer for Harry, many clapped and shouted their support.

"It must feel nice to have so many cheering for you." Fleur commented.

"Might have been nice once upon a time," Harry shrugged. "now it's just reminds me about the fact that most of the people that are cheering were also gladly bullying me at the start of the year."

"I understand, what use is praise if it can just as easily turn into hatred?" Fleur replied.

"Yes, though some are true supporters." Harry said as he waved at Ginny and the chasers.

"He will be followed by our second champion, the lovely Miss Delacour!" Bagman announced.

"You've got your own fans." Harry commented. Fleur's fans mostly consisted of her fellow French Beuaxbaton students and pretty much every male and lesbian in the audience.

"Much like you, not worth acknowledging." Fleur responded.

"And then after that we have the Bulgarian quidditch star, Victor Krum!" Ludo Bagman, the massive quidditch fan that he is, cheered out Victor's name. The crowd cheered once again, this time for the Bulgarian who also looked like he did not care much for it, though Harry supposed that he was probably use to it and the Bulgarian had played in stadiums with crowds much larger than this. "And last but certainly not least, we have none other than the star Hufflepuff himself, Cedric Diggory!" Cedric, unlike the others, waved and smiled at the crowd when they cheered. "Okay, now the first champion is ready," Ludo looked to Harry for a second before he continued. "and he will enter the maze in five, four, three, two, one! Begin!"

Harry rushed into the maze, he had his wand in his hand and was far more confident about his chances of winning than he would have been a long time ago. Harry, knew that thanks to his ten minute lead he would have a much better chance of winning than the others and he intended to capitalize on it.

A couple of minutes in Harry stopped, he took a look back and checked to see if there was any sign of any person, Harry had been thinking of his strategy ever since Bagman had revealed the maze to the champions.

Harry waved his wand several times, performing scanning spells on the hedges. Apart from spells to prevent them from being damaged there was also wards above the hedges that would have prevented Harry from simply climbing over, if he was being honest then Harry had pretty much based his first plan on going over hedges.

But if that was not going to work then Harry would have to fall onto plan B and go through the maze like the organisers intended, however Harry was going to be sure to have done it his way.

"Dobby." Harry called and Dobby popped alongside him.

"Yes master?" Dobby said as he popped in front of Harry. Harry was tempted to simply have Dobby pop him to the end but he knew that with the charms on the hedges the officials would find it a bit suspicious if Harry suddenly ended up at the centre of the maze.

"Did you do as I instructed?" Harry asked.

"Oh yes Master Harry." Dobby nodded, very happy with himself, he pulled out a hand drawn map. However since it was Dobby's hand that drew it Harry could barely understand it.

"Lead the way Dobby, fast as possible please." Harry said, he had had Dobby make a map of the maze. As far as Harry knew there was no rule against sending your house elves days in advance to make maps and Harry had actually checked. It was a rather easy process, Harry had simply made himself invisible along with Dobby and his broom.

Then Harry simply flew over the maze while Dobby took several pictures using the camera, from there Dobby made a map for Harry to follow. Earlier today Dobby had also sneaked around for him as the organisers placed the creatures and obstacles around the maze. Thankfully the judges were not responsible for doing so because Harry suspected that Dumbledore might possibly be able to discover Dobby.

"Oh right away Master Harry." Dobby said, he ran as fast as his little legs could carry with Harry following after him.

"And now Miss Delacour has entered the maze." Harry heard Ludo Bagman announce with his magically amplified voice.

A few minutes and minor obstacle later Dobby stopped and Harry stopped behind him.

"What is it?" Harry asked, wand ready in his hand.

"There be vines Master Harry." Dobby pointed forwards to where there was multiple vines on the floor. "They be trying to grab you and tie you up."

"Really? Harry asked, Dobby nodded. "Well in that case follow me." Harry walked forwards and shot a burst of flames out from his wand, since he knew the hedges were protected he did not have to worry about them being burnt down. The vines were burnt and scattered away, a few other vines tried coming out and attacking Harry but they too backed away when met with Harry's flames.

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