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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

A/n: This story is actually on ff.net but I decided to put it here for random reasons. In case, you folks haven’t noticed from the beginning, this book is only following a canon from book 1-4 so any contradicting facts that you tell me, is dismissed cause this fic was written before the 5^th book. So yeah, have fun reading the rest. Lol!

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The moment fireworks were seen, the game had already begun. The Slytherins and Hufflepuffs had left for the castle grounds while the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors were still at their spot getting Hagrid’s signature since he was the Care and Magical Creatures teacher in Hogwarts. From there, both teams ran back to the castle and went on their own separate ways. The Ravenclaws made their way to the Astronomy Tower while the Gryffindor students made their way from the ground floor up to the towers.

The Gryffindors and the Slytherins started on the same floor but with different teachers. The Slytherins made their way to their own Head of House, Professor Snape, the Potions Master. The Gryffindors looked for the Defence against Dark Arts teachers who just happened to be Professor Lupin and Professor Black. Their class was also somewhere in the dungeons. Harry, Ron and Hermione led the team into the class while the other 4 members of the team took notice of the list.

“Hermione, can we have a look at the list?” Ash Turner asked.

As they walked, Hermione passed the paper to him, looking a bit reluctant. Ash took the list and took a good look at it. Sidney and Ginny made their opinions known after taking a quick glance at it.

“Every 4 teachers are on the same floor except for McGonagall, Sinistra, Trelawney, Pince and Dumbledore”, Sidney said.

“And some of the people on the list are not teachers. For example, Filch, Pince and Pomfrey are not teachers, they are staff members. There should be an instruction guide on the sheet. Where is it?” Ginny asked.

Ash turned the parchment and saw a little box on the top right corner with words on it. He read it out for the group to hear.

On the list teachers name you find

Some are easy and some are kind

Some are hidden if you’re blind

Keep your head up on the time.

Some are not teachers you see

Get their signature and there will be

Points deducted and divided by three

Be smart and get the right signatory.

“So, what does that mean?” Ron asked.

Hermione frowned.

“That means that if we get the wrong signature from the wrong person, we’ll have our points deducted and divided by three. There is only 3 people on the list who are not teachers and that is Filch, Pomfrey and Pince”, Anthony Copperfield answered.

Anthony took the quill off Hermione and crossed the names off. Then, he unrolled the parchment even more to see more instructions written down.

15 teachers stand out

All can be running about

Some hidden and some are gone

Some are in twos and others alone.

Be back before the 11/2 hours past

Be quick make haste and be fast

To secure as much points as you can

Points go to those in time they can stand.

The team members looked at each other as they made their way toe the Defence against Dark Arts class. Harry opened the door and entered the dark room. Each and every member of the team tugged on their wands from inside their robes. The class was empty. They looked around and gave their wands a bit of light to help them see well. All seven of them split up and searched the whole room.

“Guys, something is very eerie about this class and I don’t like it’, Ron said.

“Oh shut up, Ron. Everything is eerie to you”, Hermione snapped.

“Well then Miss Know-it-all, what is it that we’re looking for and where are the two damn teachers?” Ron snapped back.

Hermione was beginning to get really ticked off and Ron was being his cowardly self. The rest of the team chuckled and grinned while they continue searching for something which is out of the norm. Then, Harry picked up something rather out of place. Harry picked up a silver key from the teacher’s table. From what he had observed in all 6 years in the same class, there isn’t a key or a lock or some sort of a door in the class. He took a look around and immediately noticed a cupboard which also seemed rather out of place because it was between two racks of scrolls and it was sticking out.

“I think I’ve found something”, Harry said.

The other 6 came to him as he walked to the cupboard with the key. Harry opened the lock with the key and opened the cupboard. Suddenly, something pounced on him and started growling. Harry felt sharp claws on his shoulders.

“Expelliarmus!” Hermione shouted.

Harry felt weight lifted off him. Ron and Sidney helped him up. The group noticed that the thing that just attacked Harry was a wolf. The wolf got up on its paws and had his eyes on Harry, threatening to attack again. Ginny whispered something to Ash, Sidney and Anthony. Then, the four of them moved towards the wolf. The wolf began to be confused. It turned its attention to the odd one out of all four of them who happened to be Ginny. It got ready to pounce on her and gave her the predatory look. Then, it leaped towards her and pounced on her.

“Now!” Ginny shouted.

Ash and Sidney set a full body bind spell while Anthony placed his silver chain around the wolf’s neck. Slowly the wolf turned into a human who resembled Professor Lupin. The sound of someone clapping from behind them mad them turns their heads around. There stood Professor Black.

“Very well done, Miss Weasley”, Professor Black said.

Sidney helped her up and she dusted the dust off her robes. Ash took the full body bind charm off Professor Lupin and helped him up. Hermione gave the two teachers the list and the both of them signed it. After that, they thanked the professors and headed out to the Potion master’s room.

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The time was about one hour and twenty five minutes. The Slytherins and Ravenclaws were leading by 13 teachers each. Gryffindor was behind by one while Hufflepuff was by behind by 2. It was quite a close call between all houses. Strategy and wits were both seen in all four of the teams. Each and every one of the teams showed their utter most strengths and their lowest form of weaknesses.

For example, the Slytherins were slightly ahead because they all manage to pick out abnormal things in the classes easily without any problems whatsoever. In appearance, they do not have any sign of unity in the group but really, they actually have some sort of co-operation when figuring clues and problems faced.

The great intelligence of the Ravenclaws was the main strength of the team. Born with wits and the skill of critical thinking, all seven members of the team took lead in the game alongside with the Slytherins. Using their advanced intellect, they made their way to the rest of the teachers without any problems.

Catching up in 3^rd place by one teacher are the Gryffindors who have just got Professor McGonagall’s signature. They had a bit of a trouble looking for her because she had transfigured herself into a pocket watch and was placed in the middle of the table along with several other objects which were a pair of tweezers, a can opener, a hammer and a screwdriver. All of the objects were muggle items. Hermione and Harry figured it out because they knew that it was strange to have a pocket watch with hardware tools. However, after getting professor McGonagall’s signature, they need to get another one to keep up with the other two houses.

The Hufflepuffs had followed the list bluntly and had taken their time with the tasks as well. Being slightly disadvantaged on the first few rounds because they got the staff member’s signatures, their points were deducted and they had to start all over again but since they knew the task that was assigned to them, it took a quick 10 minutes to get the ones that they had already gotten through. Now, the Hufflepuffs were behind by just 2 more teachers and behind by 15 minutes. They knew that they would need to catch up and gain enough signatures to beat the other three teams.

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While the other houses are stressing in finding their teachers, the Slytherins were on their last teacher which happened to be Professor Wellington, the Muggle Studies teacher who also happened to be the head of the Hufflepuff house. The Slytherins went straight to her classroom to find that no one was there but a note on the whiteboard, guided them to where they needed to go. They went to the Hufflepuff dorms which were at the South Eastern wing tower. They made their way there and were greeted by a portrait of a young girl in a pretty white frilly dress.

“Password?” she asked, politely.

“We don’t have it. We are looking for Professor Wellington”, Pansy said.

The girls in the portrait eyed all seven on them.

“She is not here. You won’t find her anywhere near here. The Professor never comes in here”, the girl said.

“Well, do you have any idea where she might be?” Julia Goldstein asked, haughtily.

“I can’t tell, I’m not supposed to”, the girl said, shakily.

“Look Frills, you do not want us to slash you with our nails. So, I suggest you just give us her location before we shred you into pieces”, Sherynn Flint said, threatening the portrait with her sharp claw like nails.

The other two Slytherin girls took after her and raised their nails towards the portrait. The portrait looked like she wanted to cry.

“She is usually in a secret room which is down the hallway and 7 paces to the right. At the end of seven paces, you will see a hallway with 7 doors. She is behind one of the doors”, the portrait said,

The girl fell down on her knees and started crying.

“Now, that wasn’t so bad, was it?” Julia said.

The Slytherins walked down the hallways. Sherynn eyed the portrait and showed it her middle finger. Julia giggled at the gesture.

“Wimp”, Sherynn muttered.

The Slytherin students took heed of the girl’s instructions and ended up in a hallway of seven doors. In the middle of the room was a piece of paper. Blaise went to retrieve it and read it out loud for the rest of the team to hear.

“Only one person can open the door, make the right choice and you will find the right teacher”, Blaise read.

Each and every one of the Slytherin team members chose a door. At the count of three, they all opened the door and 7 Professor Wellington stood behind each door until it was closed. That got the sneaky Slytherins into a bit of a nasty for trying to cheat their way out. Then, Malfoy took lead and chose a door. He opened the door and Professor Wellington walked out with a smile on her face, glowing.

“Well done, Mr. Malfoy”, Professor Wellington complimented.

Draco gave an arrogant smirk and handed the list of names to her. She signed it and handed him a piece of paper. The Slytherins gathered around him as he read the message out loud.

“Finally, you have got all signatures. Now, run back to where you first started. The first team to arrive”, Draco said.

The team members looked at each other and then, turned around and started running to their starting point which was in the Forbidden Forest. The problem is that they do not know which part of the Forbidden Forest they were at just before. The game had just gotten a little bit more interesting.

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It was just about 5 more minutes to the end of the race. All four houses had gotten all their signatures and were all in the Forbidden Forest, trying to figure out their way back to their starting point where Hagrid will be. All four teams were frantically finding their way in the forest. The disadvantage that they had was that they weren’t allowed the oil lamps that they were give before and that means that they are vulnerable to anything that is in the forest. The main objective of the whole thing was for them to cooperate and trust their instincts.

The moment all four teams went into the forest, they lit up their wand to give them light around and about. The Slytherins and Gryffindors were head on with each other. Both of them had what it takes to just get to the centre point of the forest. The Slytherins casted a direction spell which showed them exactly where they needed to go while the Gryffindors got Anthony Copperfield who was also an Animagus to transfigure himself into his chosen creature which was a wolf, to sniff their way to the centre point. The Ravenclaws were having a hard time trying to cast the ‘pin point spell’ because they couldn’t figure out the whole spell. The Hufflepuffs were just running everywhere without any coordination.

The leading houses were the Gryffindors and the Slytherins. Both houses found their way to the centre point just in time. Slytherins were first and followed by the Gryffindors. Hagrid greeted both houses at the centre point. 2 minutes later, the Ravenclaw team arrived and 15 minutes after that, the Hufflepuffs arrived. The moment all four houses were present, Dumbledore and McGonagall appeared.

“You have all done very well and it was quite a close call but only one house can receive the 300 points. The house that will receive the points is Slytherin. Congratulations”, Professor Dumbledore said.

The scoreboard appeared and under the Slytherin’s name, 300 points were written down.

“For getting all the signatures, each house gets and 50 points”, Professor McGonagall said.

Instantly, 50 points appeared beneath the other house’s names. When all the points have been written, Professor Dumbledore dismissed all of the 4 teams. The Slytherins boasted their victory to the Gryffindors who were quite sour about it. The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs left, not even bothering to throw any insults back at the Slytherins.

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After the end of the First Task, the Gryffindors came back with an extremely sour mood towards each other. Everyone could feel the tension from the 3 main people who were extremely pissed. They were none other than the Dream Team. When all the team members got back to the common room, Ron and Hermione exploded.

“We were just that close to it! Anthony, you git! If only you could have transformed faster!” Ron shouted.

“And why were you three running so slowly?! W e would have gotten to the centre point and won if the three of you had run faster!” Hermione shouted.

Anthony, Sidney, Ash and Ginny sat down on the couches and turned a deaf ear towards the others. The four were getting slightly agitated but they refused to show it to the other two who only contributed a little bit to their tasks. Harry did not even bother stopping it. He sat down on the couch as well. Ron and Hermione continued their angst session pour out on the first task to the younger four. They continued to express their absolute displease to them.

“It is all you people’s fault that we’re tied with the other two teams at 50 blooming points!” Ron shouted.

“Doesn’t this game or the house points mean anything to you people?!” Hermione shouted.

Ginny stood up and walked briskly to the portrait door, leaving both Hermione and Ron looking like stunned mullets.

“Ginny! Where do you think you’re going? I’m not done yet!” Ron shouted.

Ginny gave a smug smile.

“To me, you are!” Ginny shouted back.

Ginny walked out of the common room and headed to her own room because after all, she was a prefect and prefects get their own rooms. She knew that she was rather disappointed that the team was just slightly behind but she can’t say that she didn’t have fun. All the tasks that the team had been placed to were just so fun. She smiled to herself and continued walking to her room. Her footsteps were small but quick. Her hand- me- down robes flapped on the sides while she walked because of the wind. She looked out towards the sky and gave it a quick appreciation by gazing at it before walking again.

Throughout the years, she had grown a lot. Her straight red Weasley hair fell on her shoulders matching her dark brown eyes which seem to be capable of capturing souls. Ginny no longer had any problems with friends; she was accepted and taken in by Colin Creevey, Sidney Eversfield and Kathleen Bates. Ginny also grew out of that silly child crush on Harry and had gone out with other guys just for the sake of going out and finding experiences despite Ron’s many overprotective gestures.

Ginny made it through classes with an astounding brilliance for all of her subjects. She was also nonetheless Professor Snape’s Gryffindor pet because he only seems to favor her in the house that he absolutely hated. Being assigned to be a Prefect was the best day of her life. For once, she knew that she didn’t need the Dream Team to curve her life. There were other things as well that kept her sane. Life overall kept her sane enough to live it. She had managed to get her life into shape and grasp her own charisma to bring out the best in life.

Finally, after a quick 5 minute walk, she got to her private portrait for her own room just to find someone standing in front of it, waiting for her. Ginny smiled at the unexpected stranger. His hair was of silverish blonde, nicely sleeked back and his eyes of piercing silverish grey made him look delicious enough to eat. His height of 6’2 was tall enough for her. A silver dragon chain hung on his neck, recognizing his nature and his name. He was the last person she would expect to see at the entrance of her room. It was as though as he could sense her presence, he turned around and looked at her before finally giving her his famous smirk to acknowledge her presence.

Malfoy………

~*~ to be continued ~*~