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BRITAIN- 17-year-old Cedric Diggory was excited. He had been chosen as Hogwarts Champion, braved the three tasks, and was tied for first place in the Triwizard Tournament. He was inches away from 1,000 galleons and incredible fame. But this brave, unselfish boy instead decided to settle for a tie with none other than Harry Potter. Both boys grabbed the trophy that would give them endless fame and fortune, on the count of 3. For Harry Potter, a count to danger. For Cedric...a count to doom.
The Triwizard Tournament is a competition where three magical schools, Durmstrang, Hogwarts, and Beauxbatons each have a representative or champion chosen for them by the legendary Goblet of Fire. Then the three champions compete in three tasks, getting points from impartial judges along the way. The first wizard to reach the Triwizard trophy, which is the object of the third task, wins 1,000 galleons. But for some strange and unknown reason, there were FOUR champions this year. Two for Hogwarts...Cedric Diggory and Harry Potter. But, as they say in the muggle world, the show must go on.
The four wizards competed in tasks such as stealing a golden egg from a dragon, rescuing a friend from a watery grave, and braving a dangerous maze that lead to the trophy which won it all. What Potter and Diggory discovered, was that things are never what they seem. The trophy everyone in the three schools was longing to get, turned out to be a portkey that lead to the deadliest person who ever lived.
Lord Voldemort.
Barty Crouch had cursed the trophy. He has confessed that he was a death eater and his father's murderer. To get out of Azkaban, his mother visited him and they both drank Polyjuice Potions to look like each other. He had again used the Polyjuice potion to take form of Alastor "Mad-eye" Moody, the retired Auror, who taught Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Prophet, he revealed his plans to help Potter through the Triwizard tournament so Potter could reach the Portkey and be delivered to Voldemort. It has been rumored that Crouch has had the dementor's kiss.
Though his plan was successful, Harry wasn't the only one going along for the ride. Poor Cedric was grabbed along too. In an interview, Harry told us that they had been taken to a muggle graveyard. As soon as they got there, Voldemort ordered immediately that there was to be a death…the death of Cedric. Harry watched, horrified, as the worst curse in the world, a curse with no defense or protection was put upon Cedric. Now Harry stood alone. He tells us what happened next was that the thought to be dead Peter Pettigrew began a spell so powerful it could bring the dead to life. Indeed, our sources tell us that very night Voldemort reclaimed his body and that he has returned. Petrified and hurt (he had a broken leg) as he was, brave Harry Potter would never leave a friend unavenged. He challenged Voldemort to a duel right then and there, millions of Death Eaters surrounding him. They dueled long into the night, until finally Harry unveiled his secret weapon. He locked the wands together with a powerful bondage spell and threw Voldemort to the ground by releasing the wands at the last second. Dodging Death Eaters, he grabbed Diggory's body and the portkey, and was on his way back.
Fudge has apparently denied the request to do something about Voldemort's uprising, and some have questioned his sanity over the matter. It has even been rumored Sirius Black has been found, and has "visited" Harry. Many wizards and witches refuse to believe that Voldemort is back, but Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts, has told us what he thinks on the matter.
" I fully trust Harry, and believe that now is when the wizarding world needs to link with each other the most. If Harry is right, then we are in for some dark times. We must remember: United we stand, divided we fall."
So, if you have any doubts whether Voldemort is back or not, remember a boy who is strong and kind, who was brave in the face of danger, and was generous in the face of fortune. Remember Cedric.
Harry Potter - The Triwizard Tournament:
An Ugly scar, souvenir of a tragic past, disfigures the otherwise charming
face of Harry Potter, whose eyes have seen more than most full grown wizards. I
am very honored to interview Mr. Potter.
Tears fill those startlingly green
eyes as our conversation turns to the parents he can barely remember. "I suppose
I get my strength from my parents. I know that they'd be very proud of me if
they could see me no.... Yes, sometimes at night I still cry about them, I'm not
ashamed to admit it.... I know nothing will hurt me during the tournement,
because they're watching over me...."
I soon see the pained look on his face
and he leaves the interview. Some friends are wandering by and enlighten me with
some information. Harry has at last found love a Hogwarts. His close friend,
Colin Creevey, says that Harry is rarely seen out of the company of one Hermione
Granger, a stunningly pretty Muggle-born girl who, like Harry, is one of the top
students in the school. On a happier not, I end this article about the brave,
Harry Potter.
DUMBLEDORE's GIANT MISTAKE:
Albus Dumbledorr, eccentric Headaster of Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has never been afraid to make controversial staff
appointments, writes Rita Skeeter, Special correspondent. In September of
this year, he hired Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, the notoriously jinx-harry
ex-Auror, to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, a decision that caused many
raised eyebrows at the Ministry of Magic, given Moody's well-known habit of
attacking anybody who who makes a sudden move in his presence. Mad-Eye Moody,
however, looks responsible and kindly when set beside the part-human Dumbledore
employs to teach Care of Magical Creatures.
Rubeus
Hagrid, who admits to being expelled from Hogwarts in his third year, has
enjoyed the position of gamekeeper at the school ever since, a job secured for
hime by Dumbledore. Last year, however, Hagrid used his mysterious influence
over the headmaster to secure the additional post of Care of Magical Creatures
teacher, over the heads of many better-qualified candidates.
An alarmingly large and ferocious-looking man, Hagrid has
been using his newfound authority to terrify the students in his care with a
succession of horrific creatures. While Dumbledore turns a blind eye, Hagrid has
maimed several pupils during a series of lessons that many admit to being "very
frightening."
"I was attacked by a hippogriff , and my
friend Vincent Crabbe got a bad bite off a flobberworm," says Draco malfoy, a
fourth-year student. "We all hate Hagrid, but we're just too scared to say
anything.
Hagrid has no intention of ceasing his campaign
of intimidation, however. In conversation with a Daily Prophet reporter last
month, he admitted breeding creatures he has dubbed "Blast-Ended Skrewts,"
highly dangerouscrosses between manticores and fire-crabs.The creation of new
breeds of maical creature is, of course, an activity usually closely observed by
the Department for the Regulation of Magical Creatures. Hagrid, however,
considers himself to be above such petty restrictions.
"I
was just having some fun," he says, before hastily changing the subject.
As if this were not enough, the Daily Prophet has now
unearthed evidencethat Hagrid is not - as he always pretended - a pure-blood
wizard. He is not, in fact, even pure human. His mother, we can exclusively
reveal, is none other than the giantess Fridwulfa, whose whereabout are
currently unknown.
Bloodthirsty and brutal, the giants
brought themselves to the point of extinction by warringamongst themselves
during the last century. the handful that remained joined the ranks of
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and were responsible for some of the worst mass Muggle
killings of his reign of terror.
While many of the giants
who served He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named were killed by the Aurors working against
the Dark Side, Fridwulfa was not amongst them. It is possible she escaped to one
of the giant communities still existing in foreign mountain ranges. If his
antics during Care of Maigical Creatures lessons are any guide, however,
Fridwulfa's son appears to have inherited her brutal nature.
In a bizarre twist, Hagrid is reputed to have developed a
clso friendship with the boy who brought around You-Know-Who's fall from power -
thereby driving Hagrid's own mother,like the rest of You-Know-Who's supporter,
into hiding. Perhaps Harry Potter is unaware of the unpleasant truth about his
large friend - but Albus Dumbledore surely has a duty to ensure that Harry
Potter, along with his fellow students, is warned about the dangers of
associating with part-giants.
HARRY POTTER"S SECRET HEARTACHE:
A boy like no other, prehaps - yet a boy suffering all the
usual pangs of adolescence, writes Rita Skeeter. Deprived of love since
the tragic demise of his parents, fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had
found solace in his steady girlfriend at Hogwarts, Muggle-born Hermione Granger.
Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow
in a life already littered with personal loss.
Miss
Granger, a plain but ambitious girl, seems to have a taste for famous wizards
that Harry alone cannot satisfy. Since the arrival at Hogwarts of Viktor Krum,
Bulgarian Seeker and hero of the last World Quidditch Cup, Miss Granger has been
toying with both boys' affections. Krum, who is openly smitten with the devious
Miss Granger, has invited her to visit him in Bulgaria over the summer holidays,
and insists that he has "never felt this way about another girl."
However, it might not be Miss Granger's doubtful natural
charms that have captured these unfortunate boys' interest.
"She's really ugly," says Pansy Parkinson, a pretty and
vivacious fourth-year student. "but she'd be well up to making a Love Potion,
she's quite brainy. I think that's how she's doing it."
Love Potions are, of course, baned at Hogwarts, and no doubt Albus Dumbledore
will want to investigate these claims. In the meantime, Harry Potter's
well-wishers must hope that, next time, he bestows his heart on a worthier
candidate.
