Harry Potter: A Different Tale

Harry and Adrian were sat in Dumbledore's office, opposite Dumbledore, Snape and McGonagall. They were all waiting on the arrival of Lily Potter, McGonagall and Snape were about the only two adults in the room that had any idea of the impending doom that was coming towards Dumbledore.

"Dumbledore!" Lily Potter screamed as she entered the headmaster's office, she was followed by her husband, Sirius and Remus. McGonagall and Snape wisely backed off, once she entered she saw her sons. Her anger quickly died down and she ran to both of them and pulled them into a big hug. "OH! My boy's! Are you two okay?!"

"We're fine mum" Adrian said once she let go

"Debatable" Harry replied "Dumbledore says we have to compete in that bloody tournament even though we never put our names in"

"Dumbledore!" Lily turned to the headmaster, her anger had returned tenfold "What is this nonsense about my children having to compete in this bloody tournament?!"

"Now Lily, please calm down" Dumbledore said

"Calm?!" Lily shouted, the adults took a step back, Adrian felt someone tap him on his shoulder. He found Harry offering him a bag of popcorn, he had no idea where Harry got it from but he wasn't about to question it. He took the popcorn and the two watched. "My children are being forced into a tournament that was cancelled because too many people died and you want me to be calm?!"

"I'm afraid that the matter is out of my hands" Dumbledore said apologetically "the boys names have come out and institute a legally binding contract, they must compete"

"But they're not of age!" Lily argued "Harry may be emancipated but I can pretty much guarantee that he'll not compete and Adrian is under our custody now, they are not to be competing."

"Lily, the goblet of fire is an ancient magical artifact" Dumbledore spoke, hoping to make her see sense "we cannot simply tell it that the participants don't have permission from their parents to enter"

"So what are you saying?!" Lily demanded "That my sons have to compete in this tournament?!"

"Yeah Dumbledore! Is that what you're saying?!" Harry added, enjoying the show a bit too much

"Unfortunately, yes" Dumbledore nodded

"Hey mum, why don't you ask him why a death eater was pretending to be Moody?" Harry asked

"Why was a death eater pretending to be Moody?!" Lily shouted

"Also, why didn't you work it out?" Harry asked "Someone as paranoid as Moody probably had some way or form of squeezing out imposters"

"He did" James nodded "he gave us each a question to ask him when we saw him"

"And did you ask the question?" Harry said to Dumbledore

"Sadly I did not" Dumbledore replied "but I…"

"Oh, and there was your pathetic defences on the goblet"

"Pathetic?" Dumbledore repeated

"Yeah, an age line and that was it. I could think of tons of ways to get pass that"

"Like what?" McGonagall asked

"Paper airplanes, attaching a note to a long stick and dropping it in, throwing it from outside of the age line, getting another student to do it on my behalf, getting another teacher to do it on my behalf, getting a house elf to do it on my behalf, summoning the goblet to outside of the age line, getting rid of the age line, grappling down from the ceiling, getting a time turner and going back in time and putting my name in before you drew the age line, getting a badger and covering it honey then..."

"Mr Potter" Snape interrupted "you've made your point" Dumbledore looked a bit embarrassed by Harry's words, while also being a bit curious about where he was going with the badger.

"Yeah, and that point is the headmaster is an idiot" Lily growled "tell me Dumbledore, what are you planning to do now?"

"I'm sorry to say that your sons will have to compete" Dumbledore said "however, I do offer my sincerest apologies. I understand your anger towards me, but there is nothing I can do"

"James, Sirius" Lily said in a slow and deadly voice "would you please take Harry and Adrian out of this office?" Both men gulped and quickly moved to grab the boys

"But I want to watch!" Harry objected as James began dragging him out "I want to watch! Let me watch it please! You can skip Christmas this year but just let me watch this!" The other adults had the sense to leave as well.

Lily left the office five minutes later, all the furniture in it was smashed, the paintings were cowering in fear. A bookshelf or two was on fire, Dumbledore's desk was in splinters. Dumbledore himself was sitting on his chair with his beard burnt and the top of his hat on fire.

"Damn" He said out loud "that woman is vicious"

He still didn't know how this all happened, yes he wanted Adrian in the tournament for multiple reasons. The first would be to check his strength and see how strong the boy is, ever since Dumbledore had learned that Adrian had restarted his training with his brother he was overjoyed as it meant that Adrian was improving. It would also let Dumbledore know what exactly Harry was teaching his brother and Dumbledore could shut it down if it wasn't appropriate.

It would also be a great challenge for Adrian to overcome, to learn to rise up and past the hate of his fellow students to become the hero that the wizarding world needed. Also, if Adrian was struggling then he could come to the great Albus Dumbledore for help.

Harry Potter being put in the tournament totally caught him off guard, fortunately he put a backup piece of parchment in the goblet. It was a simple plan, if the death eater didn't manage to put Adrian's name in the goblet than he himself would do it. But if he did then Dumbledore was close enough to stop the second piece from coming out.

He didn't like the idea of Harry Potter being in the tournament, while it did have benefits such as learning more about the boy's true strength, it would take attention away from Adrian. He also knew that it was because of Harry that Adrian made that magical oath and now most of the school would likely be sympathetic to him as they saw that he was being forced to compete.

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