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| House Point Totals | |
|---|---|
| Slytherin | 5149 |
| Gryffindor | 3923 |
| Hufflepuff | 2883 |
| Ravenclaw | 2765 |
Plot summary by BanaBatGirl
The term, also known as the Most Recent Triwizard Tournament, began with a bang as visitors from two very different schools became guests at Hogwarts' traditional opening feast. Moments after Headmaster Tate announced that any student whose birthday fell before June 30, 2056 could place their name into the Goblet of Fire, a loud banging sound rang out in the Great Hall.
The banging was the cane of Headmaster Zitnik of the Durmstrang Institute. Zitnik loudly made his way into the castle, followed by his four students, all of whom performed impressive acrobatic stunts as they entered the Great Hall. Zitnik presented two males and two females for selection by the Goblet of Fire; as it turned out, Vladimir Petrov, Danika Malik, Nikolai Ognian, and Aleksandra Miroslav were all selected to represent their school.
Then came the representatives of Beauxbatons Academy, led by their Headmistress Maximillienne Enzo. Monique Bernard, Brielle Lambert, Jermaine Rousseau, and Noel Laurent all strutted their way into the Great Hall and took their seat amongst the ordinary Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, Slytherins, and Ravenclaws, all of whom were staring, needless to say. The four students from Beauxbatons would also later be selected by the Goblet of Fire to compete in the Triwizard Tournament... but who would be representing Hogwarts?
After many a student entered his or her name, and after a few underage kids were rejected, the Hogwarts champions were selected at last. Slytherin Raiden Kururugi, Ravenclaw Miles Vorkosigan, Hufflepuff Duncan Fletcher, and Gryffindor Cameron Caddock were selected to represent their House and their school. A wand weighing ceremony and press conference followed, both of which helped introduce the champions to the wizarding public and to their peers.
The weighing of the wand ceremony was supervised by International Wandmaker Freja Svealand and was covered by representatives from the Quill and the Daily Prophet.
The first task of the Triwizard Tournament took place in the fall of the term and also took each champion's wands. The champions had to go into a series of tunnels, with each champion getting his or her own tunnel challenge. The dark tunnels had several branches splitting off them, although all had a firebush in it. Some champions had to face an overly friendly vine to get to their wand, while others had to break a barrier with the aid of a baby mandrake's screams. At the end of the task, and after every champion successfully stole his or her wand back from some evil bowtruckles in a floating tree, most received a very fancy, decorated mirror with the Roman Numeral III inscribed above it. Additionally, by the end of Task One, the list of champions moving on was cut in half from twelve to six. Moving on to the second challenge were: Raiden Kururugi with 146 points; Noel Laurent with 146 points; Aleksandra Miroslav with 144 points; Duncan Fletcher with 142 points; Nikolai Ognian with 139 points; and Monique Bernard with 139 points.
The second task of the Triwizard Tournament took the six champions out to the Quidditch Pitch, although they were certainly not playing quidditch during the task. The pitch was actually turned into a maze for this task, a maze that seemed to come out of the tales of Alice in Wonderland. First, champions had to figure out a riddle that accompanied a table full of potions. One of the potions would make them shrink to a size small enough to continue through the maze; one would make them fly; one would make them grow; and two would cause them pain. If the champions selected the correct potion, then they moved on to the potion-brewing stage of the competition.
The potion stage involved champions solving a series of riddles that told them which ingredients to add and in which order. The champions' answers to these riddles either helped or hurt the outcome of their potion. One champion, Duncan Fletcher, apparently washed something important out of his cauldron before he brewed his growth potion. When he drank what he had brewed, he returned to only toddler size instead of his appropriate six-foot tall frame. Fortunately, the school healer was on hand to fix him up nicely.
Champions who survived the second task found a bag filled with several little runes at the end of their maze. And once again, after this task was tallied, the playing field was cut in half; only Raiden Kururugi with 291 points, Noel Laurent with 287 points, and Duncan Fletcher with 285 points were able to move on to the third and final task of the competition.
The final task of the Triwizard Tournament proved to be the most testing for the two Hogwarts and one Durmstrang champion. The champions entered a circular maze, working together for the first time in the entire competition to defeat the obstacles within. All three had worked out the clues provided by their mirror and runes, and all three knew what they would be facing in the maze and had thus armed theirselves with each item.
The first obstacle to hurl their way was actually... fairly easy. The champions worked their way through the maze and to a circular clearing containing only a clabbert, some bowtruckles, and an ordinary weasel. The weasel appeared agitated and kept circling the boys' ankles until Fletcher immobilized it. Raiden pocketed the stiff thing and after getting away from the clabbert, all three passed by a fallen tree that had temporarily been blocking their path.
They made their way to some brackish water containing stepping stones and, naturally, dugbogs just beneath the surface. The boys just manage to escape the ankle-biting dugbog, only to find that their path was now blocked by a kappa. Fortunately, Fletcher thought fast and tricked the kappa into bowing, which cleared their way and allowed them to enter another clearing.
This clearing seemed pretty harmless as they heard a crup yapping. The crup was chasing a rooster around, and was pretty friendly to the champions who greeted it. Soon, though, the Beauxbatons champion and the Hufflepuff Hogwartian locked eyes on the rooster. Fletcher says he called 'dibs' on the rooster, but Laurent insists that he summoned the bird well before the Glitterpuff ever picked it up. A brief verbal spat ensued and Fletcher ended up with Laurent's wand, while the Frenchman was left holding nothing but a rooster. Despite Kuruguri's pleas to 'just get along,' neither boy caved until it came time to move into the third clearing.
It was at that point that both champions agreed to let Raiden take care of the wand. Fletcher tossed it to him and was able to summon back his rooster, while Noel somewhat grumpily took back his wand. The spat behind them, all three boys started talking strategy while they walked through a tall, narrow, and twisting hedgerow. Just beyond the end of the row, the boys could make out the shadow of a the impending beast they were to defeat. All three took out their mirrors and tightened their grip on their animal assistants.
Fletcher was the first into the clearing, followed swiftly by Noel and Raiden. The latter two enlarged their mirrors and used sticking charms to apply them to their clothing. Fletcher had a different strategy; he made his as large as a shield and did some swift wandwork to give it a handle. He revitalized his rooster at the same time Raiden reanimated his weasel, and both boys set their creatures loose. Unfortunately, neither worked according to plan; the weasel sought protection and curled up around Raiden's ankle, while the rooster mistook Fletcher's shoelace for a worm. Noel, meanwhile, busied himself with simply staying alive and away from the cockatrice blocking the exit.
A cockatrice was indeed the animal the boys had suspected, and now knew, they would have to defeat. With giant wings, the body of a rooster, and the tail of the serpent, the cockatrice was no easy sight on the eyes - especially not when one recalled that it could petrify its prey with a single glare. Each boy wanted the cockatrice to look into their reflective mirror shields, but they also wanted to stay well away from the bird at the same time.
Fletcher had the idea to try to lure his rooster closer to the cockatrice by laying a trail of three worms for it to follow. When that didn't have results beyond the first worm, the Hufflepuff decided to duplicate the rooster. With five or six roosters and both Raiden and Noel casting giant light charms, surely the rooster would crow at any moment.
But it didn't. It took a fake rooster call from the valiant Hufflepuff to get the real roosters crowing. Raiden and Noel then cast amplifying charms on the extra roosters so their echoing ca-caw would be enough to kill off the cockatrice. As it turned out, the three champions' combined efforts were successful, and the monster keeled over just as soon as the last crow sounded.
Ready to celebrate their victory, but still uncertain that the giant cockatrice was really dead, the three champions quickly worked together to bind and blind the half-bird up. When they were satisfied that it wasn't coming back from the dead, no matter what, all three stepped onto a spiral staircase just outside the maze. They were taken up to the stands and were finally allowed to celebrate the winner.
Headmaster Tate gave a speech a the end of the first casualty-free Triwizard Tournament in YEARS. "I'm proud to announce that this year's Triwizard Champion, with a total of 382 points, is Duncan Fletcher," announced Tate. "The final scores were closely contested, with Raiden Kururugi receiving 373 points and Noel Laurent receiving 366 points. Please join me in a round of applause for all our champions."
Fletcher of course soaked up the attention, and even wore his crown and a chain-link King outfit to the post-tournament costume ball. It was a lovely evening to be had by all, and despite all the excitement surrounding the tournament, the OWL and NEWT exams were NOT cancelled for the term.
All in all, the term was one of Hogwarts' best moments, successfully pulling off a TWT without ANY deaths!! No student deaths, anyway, and it was a fun time for both staff and students. Congrats again to current Triwizard Tournament Champion Duncan Fletcher, and to all who participated and rooted on their favorite champion from the stands! We never know when another event like this one is going to roll around again...
TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT STATISTICS
DURMSTRANG:
Headmaster: Jozef Ladislav Zitnik
Boys: Vladimir Petrov & Nikolai Ognian
Girls: Danika Malik & Aleksandra Miroslav
BEAUXBATONS:
Headmistress: Maximillienne Enzo
Boys: Jermaine Rousseau & Noel Laurent
Girls: Monique Bernard, Brielle Lambert
HOGWARTS:
Headmaster: Gaelen Tate
Raiden Kururugi (Ameh) - Slytherin
Cameron Caddock (Lexers) - Gryffindor
Miles Vorkosigan (Cinn-O-Bun) - Ravenclaw
Duncan Fletcher (BanaBatGirl) - Hufflepuff
The First Task Champions:
Raiden Kururugi with 146 points
Noel Laurent with 146 points
Aleksandra Miroslav with 144 points
Duncan Fletcher with 142 points
Nikolai Ognian with 139 points
Monique Bernard with 139 points.
The Second Task Champions:
Raiden Kururugi with 291 points
Noel Laurent with 287 points
Duncan Fletcher with 285 points.
Final Task And TriWizard Champion:
Duncan Fletcher with 382 points