NOVEL WEB Chapter 19: CH.19
"I'm glad you think so Mr Potter," Barty replied, either ignoring or missing Harry's sarcasm. "these models represent four very real dragons. Each of which had been given a golden egg to protect, it is your job to collect the egg. This you must do as the eggs contain a clue which you will need for the next task. Any questions?"
"Can I keep this?" Harry asked as he gestured to the dragon in is hands.
"Um...yes." Barty nodded, a little surprised. "Any more?" Harry shook his head in the negative. Seeing that there was no more questions they were wished good luck before everyone left the champions tent apart from the champions and Ludo who pulled Harry to the side so he could talk with him in private.
"Are you alright Harry? Not nervous are you?" He asked.
"Not really." Harry shrugged.
"Oh that's good," Ludo smiled. "it's just that if you need any advice or anything..."
"I won't." Harry cut him off.
"Right then...well I'll be off." He said before walking out.
Harry just shook his head before he took a seat and closed his eyes, he continued working on his occlumency as he figured that that would help him in the task.
"Aren't you nervous?" A female voice said several moments later, he looked up to see Fleur Delacour talking to him.
"Don't see the point in being nervous." Harry shrugged.
"Hold on, you three don't look that surprised about the dragons." Cedric noted. "You three knew about the task?!"
"Pretty much yeah." Harry nodded.
"Well why didn't you tell me?!" Cedric demanded.
"I assumed you wouldn't believe me," Harry shrugged again. "I mean when I told you that I didn't enter the tournament you didn't believe me then so why would you have believed me about the dragons? Besides you should have had all the members of your house helping you prepare for the task instead of letting them go after me." Harry said calmly.
"But...but that's not fair..."
"If life was fair then I would have parents and the school wouldn't have turned on me twice when I literally didn't do anything. Your Hufflepuff mates have been throwing spells at me since the champion selection and if you're not going to show enough kindness to stop that then don't expect me to help you against a dragon."
"But that's different, the dragons could kill me..."
"And you think getting hexed all day has no effect on me? When I was thrown down a flight of stairs I nearly landed on my neck, the story of Harry Potter would have ended with me dead at the bottom of the stairs. You have a choice, forfeit the task or work something out. I don't care what you do but for Merlin's sake stop whining about it." Harry said before he closed his eyes and got back to his occlumency, ignoring the reactions from the other three.
Nearly two hours later Harry was sent out to compete, the other champions had competed and Fleur was currently winning. Harry walked out into the stadium, the seats were all full of people. He noticed the judge's tower where the three school heads along with Barty Crouch senior and Ludo Bagman were sitting. Harry took a second to look at the area, it was made up of stone and rocks, obviously meaning to replicate the dragon's habitat.
Harry then took a second to look at the dragon, it was massive and covered in spikes, a very deadly species of dragon known as the Hungarian horntail. A species of dragon known for being wild and dangerous.
Harry calmly walked forwards, the dragon locked eyes with him and shot out a burst of fire that speeded towards Harry, Harry quickly dodged and hid behind some rocks. The dragon kept firing but eventually stopped
"Stop!" Harry shouted in parsletounge, causing the dragon to stop, Harry's face had a complete look of relief as he definitely did not know if the dragon would be able to understand parsletounge.
"A speaker?" The dragon asked.
"Indeed noble fire breather" Harry nodded, glad it seemed willing to talk. "I must say that you're flames are most impressive. I come here to ask you for one of your eggs."
"You will not take my eggs two legs!" The dragon hissed and raised it's wings threateningly.
"I do not intend to take your eggs," Harry said calmly even though he was far from that on the inside. "though I would like to take the fake egg they've placed in your nest."
"Fake egg?" The dragon asked as it lowered it's wings and inspected it's eggs, it began sniffing them, it's nose eventually reached the gold one and rested on it for several minutes "It's a fake!" It growled.
"I know" Harry said apologetically "I apologise but I will die if I do not retrieve the fake or at least attempt to, I do not wish to fight with you nor harm your eggs. May I please have the fake?"
"No! Fuck off! It's still mine!" The dragon roared before firing a blast of fire in Harry's direction.
"Well...I tried to be nice." Harry said before he raised his wand. "Accio Horntail model!" He yelled and the horntail model flew into his hand, he was going to just bring it with him but apparently they were only allowed their wands when they entered, luckily the rules didn't stop him from summoning things. Harry tossed the horntail in the air and aimed his wand at it. "Engorgio!" Harry shouted, putting a lot of power into his spell.
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