I Solemnly Swear

Tri-Wizard Scandal

Later that day after everything had calmed down I felt much better. I was sitting in the Goblet room with the trio and a lot of other students who were putting their names into the goblet, currently I just sat next to Hermione with my head on her shoulder as she read. I watched as people put their names into the goblet, especially Cedric Diggory who totally ignored Ron's high-five afterward "honestly, the whole thing is barbaric.. There's no point in it"  Hermione nodded in agreement.

"Eternal glory, be brilliant wouldn't it? In three years from now we'll be old enough to be choosen." I rolled my eyes "you won't enter.." Ron turned to me "oh yeah? And why is that?" I smirked "you're a bloody coward.. And I bet they'll have some nice big spiders just for you!" Harry and Hermione laughed while Ron just froze and paled at the word spider. "Yeah well rather you than me." Harry spoke and I giggled. Suddenly the Weasley twins came in cheering "Thank you thank you, well lads we've done it." George shouted, they held out a bottle of god knows what in it "Cooked it up just this morning" I shook my head "It's not going to work.." I sang "oh yeah? And why's that, Crystaline?" I stood up "You see this? This is an age line. Dumbledore drew it himself." I pointed to the age line "so?" They challenged "So a genius like Dumbledore couldn't possibly be fooled by something pathetically dimwitted such as an age potion." Hermione said , answering for me. I smiled at her and sat back down beside her "That's why it's so brilliant. Ready Fred?" He nodded "Ready George!" They jump into the age line.. Nothing happens. For a moment I'm even impressed until they placed their names in.. It took a second but they were sent blasted backward. When they stood up they had grey beards "you said!" Fred yelled "you said!" George said at the same time, they began fighting and rolling all over the floor until the door opened and everyone backed away.. "It's Viktor Krum" I whispered to Hermione, she looked up from her book to see him putting his name in the goblet and he was looking at her! Oh my! She was looking back! I smell love! I lightly elbowed her arm which made her look back Into her book. I'll be asking about this later.

*time skip, YOLO*

We all sat in the goblet room as Dumbledore and the other head masters were beginning the ceremony "Sit down please. And now the moment you've all been waiting for, the champions selection!" He stepped to the blue flaming goblet and pulled a name "The Durmstrang champion is ... Viktor Krum!" Wow.. Didn't see that coming, not. I applauded along with everyone else "The champion from Beauxbatons... Fleur Delacour" I clapped, at least they're happy. "The Hogwarts champion... Cedric Diggory!" I cheered for Cedric, of course I'll cheer for him! He's representing hogwarts! I didn't know him since he was older than me and a Hufflepuff but good luck to him! "Excellent! we now have our three champions!
But in the end only one will go down in history. Only one will hoist this chalice of champions, this vessel of victory the tri-wizard cup!" I clapped wildly with the other students, though I find it barbaric.. It's still a pretty big deal! The goblet began glowing a red color before spitting out another piece of parchment "Harry Potter. Harry Potter?" Dumbledore speaks confused "HARRY POTTER!" He yells.. No way did he put his name in there! I don't believe it, and from Harry's facial expression he's in shock as well.. "He's a cheat! He's not even seventeen yet!" Someone shouted.. There's no way Harry did this! Geez!

After the announcement was over I began walking outside with Mildred "so, what do you think?" I sighed "about?" She gave me a look "about Harry and the whole scandal" I shrugged "I think it just that.. A scandal" she nodded understandingly, it was nice to know that even though Mildred didn't particularly like Harry, she respects me enough to be a git and accuse him of things. We were sitting on the Quidditch stadium "Mildred, can I ask you a weird question?" She put her homework she was working on down "sure" I looked off into the field "if Harry Potter wasn't here, do you think all of this weird stuff would still happen?" I could feel her looking at the side of my head "not here.. As in dead?" She questioned worriedly "No! God no! I just mean.. Not at Hogwarts" she nodded understanding a bit more "well.. Most everything that goes on around here is because of him. .so I'd say yes, I don't believe any of this would go on if Harry wasn't here.. But then again it could just to someone else, who knows" I nodded "thanks Mil" she smiled and wrapped me in a side hug "no problem Mel" I laughed at how our nicknames sounded alike. "Let's get to our room, it's getting cold out here" I nodded and followed.

While walking back I happened to notice Draco with Pansy playing around and Draco was actually smiling and laughing at her.. That's rather heart breaking.. But before I could wallow in my sorrow Hermione, Ron and Ginny "hey guys" they all looked a bit ticked off "you guys okay?" Hermione turned to glare at Ron "No! Harry and Ron aren't currently speaking to each other.. It's ridiculous! They're using me as an owl!" I patted her back "wait.. Why aren't Ron and Harry talking?" She turned to look at me with an exasperated expression "because Ron thinks Harry put his name in the goblet without telling him" Ron stood in the back with an angry look "well.. That's stupid. He obviously didn't do that on purpose I mean, he could possibly die.. I think he's had enough near death experiences to willingly volunteer for it" something in Ron's head clicked but his stubborn look took back over. I shrugged it off as they left.