Chapter 94 - The Third Task

Immortal or not, time waits for no one as it moves on unhurried, since before Harry knew it, the night of the third task had arrived. Standing before that was maze grown on the quidditch field, as the spectators lined the stands. A single thought ran through Harry's mind.

'Would it be wrong to just step on everything?'

Since his scene of popping out of the lake with the eel. A few students came to him wanting to learn on becoming an animagus. It was only after he said it would take dedication and a lot of time to learn, they gave a wry smile and said nevermind.

As for why he thought of this, he truthfully just wanted to get this over with quickly. It would lessen the chance by some miracle of the other champion reaching the trophy first. Which somehow has been turned into a portkey once more.

'It might be Peter doing.' Harry theorized.

While he watched the entrance where growls and various noises echo out. Dumbledore was once more running over the rules as well recapping. After nearly ten minutes of waiting for the speech to be over the final task has begun.

With a loud bang from the cannon, Harry took off into the maze. Sprinting through the habitats from various deadly creatures that want to harm him. He soon had a herd of random beasts chasing after him.

'Is it me or did they add more beasts this time around.' He thought as he ran.

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Up in the judges stands Dumbledore frowned at seeing Harry being chased by a magnitude of creatures. Turning to the others he couldn't help but asked a question barely containing his anger.

"Who was in charge of wards and charms for the maze." He asked.

By the crackling magic around him it was clearly he was furious even if his voice didn't hold it. After all this didn't affect the three schools but their magic community. Since not only had they put a champion in unnecessary danger but the audience. All because they lack or plan to help their champions.

"Someone must have tampered with them." Igor sneered. "It must be only for him, look at the other champions."

Looking down at the maze, they all saw the champions running through the maze. Most solved the beasts before moving on when they ran on. However it didn't stop Dumbledore's anger since most were chasing after Harry.

"I'm glad for your confidence in your skills. You can help the clean up crews then." Dumbledore ordered as he watched the Drumstrang Headmaster pale a bit.

After watching for a few more minutes and watching Cedric send a flare up. Somehow the teen managed to get surrounded by Harry's followers. Something that most judges found impressive and dumbfounding. After all he began firing spells at a few that weren't paying attention to him and alerting the others.

"Do you think the cup malfunctioned?" Headmistress Maxime asked.

"I think it's the nerves." Dumbledore commented lightly but had similar thoughts. From what Harry told him last time around Cedric actually did pretty good. However against two time travelers and a pro seeker, he appeared very lacking.

"Ah, someone already at the cup." Igor said before frowning at realizing who it was. He already gave Viktor a map to memories and the best route to take. 'How did the youngest member of the four reach it with such a large gap.'

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In the stands surrounded by the other bonded due to her stomach swelling a bit lately. Daphne looked down at the field slightly concerned. She knew that Harry would be fine, but seeing him outrunning a herd of creatures. It was slightly comical and worrying.

Turning to Tonks who was sitting next to her with her arms crossed. Despite her best effort over the last few months, she couldn't achieve her goal. It seemed at the beginning of the year her mother gave her a potion to prevent this for two years.

"I'm sure he will be fine." Daphne said mostly to herself.

"He is Harry. Nothing will kill him unless he allows it." Luna commented cheekily.

"Yeah, if he gets in trouble he would just step on it." Susan added Harry's new catchphrase. 'If it can't be solved easily, step on it.'

Rolling her eyes at the comment. Daphne could only shake her head as she was slightly worried for the future. She could totally see Harry stepping on a building in the future crushing everyone inside.

'This little one, please don't be like him.' Daphne said as she rubbed her stomach. "Ah, he's already at the cup."

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Running towards the wizarding cup. Harry was slightly surprised at finding it so fast. While he had a general idea where it was, he thought it would take a bit more time. Taking a few seconds to think about it, it sort of made sense since he nearly spirited through the whole maze.

Grabbing the handle he felt a familiar tugging feeling. With a small pop he vanished from the maze much to audience shock. A panic soon fell across as they realized this wasn't planned as the organizers were scurry about on how to fix this.

Landing on a soft ground filled with life instead of the dreadful graveyard. He looked around to find himself surrounded by a few hundred wizards and witches with black robes and skull masks.

"Well, hello there."

Standing at the front without a mask, he saw a middle aged man with greying black hair and blood red eyes. His skin was very pale almost dead as he talked in a venomous voice full of hatred .

"Harry Potter."

"Ah, you're...who?" Harry asked clearly knowing already, due to the amount of death eaters. Who else would death eaters follow besides the warlord known as Voldermort.

"I am Lord Voldermort."

Blinking as he looked at the man. It was very different from his snake-like appearance from last time around. He actually had a nose this time and hair. In fact he was above average in looks he judged.