Harry Potter : The Archmage Awakens

At 11 PM at night I pretended to go to the bed early and then inside the room pulled on my invisibility clock and after applying the silencing charm went to the common room downstairs.

Quite a few peoples were still here just talking and studying. Some people had somehow gotten the support Cedric and Malfoy's a failure badges and were experimenting on them attempting to change the text to something more creative or cheeky.

Dodging past everyone I went to the front of the portrait hole and after a few seconds Hermione opened the door from the other side as they had planned.

Slipping past her I whispered a "Thanks" to her and went into the castle.

The grounds were very dark. I walked down the lawn toward the lights shining in Hagrid's cabin.

The inside of the enormous Beauxbatons carriage was also lit up; I could hear Madame Maxime talking inside it as I knocked on Hagrid's front door.

"You there, Harry?" Hagrid whispered, opening the door and looking around.

"Yeah," I said to him, slipping inside the cabin and pulling the cloak down off my head. "What's up?"

"Got summat ter show yeh," said Hagrid. 

There was an air of enormous excitement about Hagrid. He was wearing a flower that resembled an oversized artichoke in his buttonhole.

It looked as though he had abandoned the use of axle grease, but he had certainly attempted to comb his hair — as I could see the comb's broken teeth tangled in it.

I stifled a chuckle and waved my wand, fixing his appearance with a quick charm. Hagrid blinked in surprise, then beamed. "Thanks, Harry.

Though I was sure she was only interested in getting to know about the first task and not about what Hagrid looked like. But I didn't tell him that as it wouldn't really matter to him.

"Come with me, keep quiet, an' keep yerself covered with that cloak," said Hagrid. "We won' take Fang, he won' like it. . . ."

With that Hagrid opened the door and strode off into the night outside the cabin. I followed him while again putting on my clock towards the Beauxbatons carriage where he knocked on the giant doors.

Madame Maxime opened it. She was wearing a silk shawl wrapped around her massive shoulders. She smiled when she saw Hagrid. "Ah, 'Agrid . . . it is time?"

"Bong-sewer," said Hagrid, beaming at her, and holding out a hand to help her down the golden steps. 

Madame Maxime closed the door behind her, Hagrid offered her his arm, and they set off around the edge of the paddock containing Madame Maxime's giant winged horses, I followed them closely from behind.

After a while she said playfully, "Wair is it you are taking me, 'Agrid?"

"Yeh'll enjoy this," said Hagrid gruffly, "worth seein', trust me.

On'y — don' go tellin' anyone I showed yeh, right? Yeh're not s'posed ter know."

"Of course not," said Madame Maxime, fluttering her long black eyelashes. 

I tuned them out as we neared a clearing.

After walking some more we went past a clearing after which they showed up in front of me.

Four fully grown, enormous, vicious-looking dragons were rearing onto their hind legs inside an enclosure fenced with thick planks of wood, roaring and snorting — torrents of fire were shooting into the dark sky from their open, fanged mouths, fifty feet above the ground on their outstretched necks.

There was a silvery-blue one with long, pointed horns, snapping and snarling at the wizards on

the ground.

 A smooth-scaled green one, which was writhing and stamping with all its might.

A red one with an odd fringe of fine gold spikes around its face, which was shooting mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air; and a gigantic black one, more lizard-like than the others, which was nearest to them. 

At least thirty wizards, seven or eight to each dragon, were attempting to control them, pulling on the chains connected to heavy leather straps around their necks and legs.

They looked majestic to me. Seeing them I thought of having a dragon pet of my own. Maybe I should take one of the dragons egg in the competition. A thought for later.

"Keep back there, Hagrid!" yelled a wizard near the fence, straining on the chain he was holding.

"They can shoot fire at a range of twenty feet, you know! I've seen this Horntail do forty!"

"Is'n' it beautiful?" said Hagrid softly.

"It's no good!" yelled another wizard. "Stunning Spells, on the count of three!"

I saw each of the dragon keepers pull out their wands.

"Stupefy!" they shouted in unison, and the Stunning Spells shot into the darkness like fiery rockets, bursting in showers of stars on the dragons' scaly hides.

Slowly the dragon fainted as even though their hide was magic resistant it was still no match for the combined power of more than 30 adult wizards.

I watched as Hagrid went to talk with Charlie though I didn't follow him. Now that I had a legitimate reason to know about the dragons my work here was done. Shooting a last glance at the Horntail I went back into the castle following the same path by which I had entered.

On my way back, I spotted Karkaroff sneaking toward the enclosure. With a quick Trip Jinx, I sent him sprawling into the mud and grinned under the cloak as he cursed loudly.

Satisfied, I slipped back into the castle, retracing my steps to Gryffindor Tower.

With that I was sure every champion expect Cedric would know about what to expect in the first task.

Even in canon, Cedric was the only champion unaware of the dragons. Since he was somewhat of a friend of mine here, I decided I'd tell him the next time I got the chance.

I slipped into the castle and carefully checking the Maradaurs map made my way into the common room after telling the sleepy fat lady the password I entered it reaching a few minutes before my meeting with Sirius.

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