Harry met up with Hagrid that evening, he told him all about how he had to try and retrieve an from a dragon for the first task. Harry wasn't worried, he knew at least ten ways off the tip of his head but he was going to go for the most impressive. Harry had told Fleur and Krum all about fake Mad-eye and his plan to get him into the tournament, he had the heads of houses back him up. Fleur and Victor agreed to let him win, they were forced to compete by their school leaders anyway and they had heard what Harry was capable of doing.
They knew that despite his younger age, he was still probably the most dangerous competitor there. They had agreed to go about the first two tasks as normal but then let Harry win the third. Soon came the day of the first task, the champions had gathered in the tent when they were given their assigned dragon. Ron got the weakest and grinned at the fact, he looked gleeful when he saw Harry get the horntail.
"So Potter" Ron smiled "you like horntails so much, I wonder how much you'd like them after the task"
"Probably just as much" Harry shrugged "the dragon didn't ask to be here, it was forced and it's just trying to protect its eggs. I don't blame it in all honesty, I mean how would you like it if i placed you in front of a whole stadium of people while someone tries to steal what is essentially your family?"
"You're mental" Ron brushed past him as he went to try and make small talk with the other champions, who just ignored him. Soon the adults left and the champion waited to be called. Victor and Fleur looked nervous, and mentally went over their strategies. Harry was talking with Ginny once she arrived. Ron felt pretty confident, if his brother Charlie could handle dragons then so could he, he was going to enjoy winning this task and watching Potter fail. First Fleur was called; Harry and Krum wished her luck as she left. Then came Krum's turn, Harry wished him luck as well and he left.
"Alright Harry" Ginny spoke "which strategy are you going to go with?"
"Well I'm going to go with the second one we came up with, I figure that it would get me the most points and a bigger impact"
"Like it'd matter" Ron drawled "you won't beat me"
"Ron" Ginny sighed "do you even have a strategy?"
"Like I'd need one, it's just a dragon, Charlie deals with them all the time"
"I can tell" Harry spoke "you know how I can tell, the burn marks on his arm"
"Ron" Ginny interrupted before Ron could say anything else "you do realise that when Charlie deals with dragons it's with at least three other dragon handlers?"
"Yeah but that's just extra precautions, like you'd need more than one person for an over grown lizard. If Potter can handle that horntail then I can handle my dragon"
"You're comparing a dragon that was a baby and basically thought that Harry was his dad to a massive fully grown and extra protective mother dragon" Ginny spoke slowly, before Ron could answer he was sent out, they heard the announcements of his arrival.
"Ten" Harry began counting "nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one" A girlish scream was heard from the stadium.
"He lasted longer than I thought he would" Ginny commented "about five seconds longer, but still." She wrapped Harry in a hug and gave him a departing kiss "give them hell and a reason to be scared of you."
"I will" Harry kissed her back before she left to take her seat, she sat with Luna and Neville, and looked on in anticipation. Harry had told her to save a seat next to herself, she didn't know why but she did.
When he entered the stadium he saw, the dragon at the other end of the arena, the crowd was deafening. He saw the judges looking particularly interested. He started by covering himself in a spell to prevent himself from getting burnt, he stepped out and the dragon instantly shot a burst of flame at him. The crowd became silent, soon Harry emerged from the flames, completely in harmed.
The dragon prepared to fire again, Harry summoned a boulder, it flew to him. Mid-flight Harry transfigured it into a tall shield, he caught it and slammed it to the ground. The flames hit the shield, once the dragon had finished Harry tossed the shield aside and raised his wand. The crowd gulped as flames erupted from Harrys wand and produced a flame tornado that covered him and everything in a meter radius from him.
Harry became unseen as he was currently inside the massive flame tornado, the next thing the crowd saw was Harry running out of the flames followed by….Harry and…..another Harry. At least ten Harry's emerged from the tornado and began running around and jumping to distract the dragon, Ginny saw Harry's Firebolt fly towards the tornado as did the judges.
The broom entered the tornado, several seconds later Harry shot out whilst riding that broom and the tornado disappeared. Harry flew as high as he could, once he reached the peak he jumped off his broom and cast a charm on it to make it fall slower. He removed the top half of his clothes mid-air as he fell down, using transfiguration he gave himself a skin membrane connecting from his elbows to his hips, much like a gliding squirrel. He also transfigured a tail to help him steer.
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