33 Harry's Return

"Oh, master is such a great wizard." Dobby said with awe once they were past the vines.

"Admire later Dobby." Harry said impatiently.

"Oh right, bad Dobby, um..." Dobby rushed forward and Harry once again took to following him.

"And now Mr Krum has entered the maze." Harry heard Ludo Bagman announce with his magically amplified voice but ignored him and kept following Dobby.

"Oh not that way." Dobby said, quickly turning away from one path that would have taken them to a dead end. After a couple more minutes Dobby stopped. "There be shape shiftey up when we turn right."

"Shape shiftey? You mean a boggart?" Harry asked, the boggart was the first thing he could think of that shape shifted.

"Yes, but it be faster than other paths." Dobby said, waiting for Harry to chose.

"Let's do it then." Harry said as he walked forwards, Harry turned right and a minute later he came face to face with a boggart in the shape of a dementor. It felt cold but nothing like the real ones. The boggart charged towards him "Riddikulus!" Harry said, the boggart's dementor cloak wrapped around it and it became so tight that the dementor eventually ended up being forced into the size of a small ball. Harry waved his wand and pushed it to one side before he and Dobby ran past it.

"Not that way!" Dobby cried when Harry nearly went straight ahead, fortunately Harry stopped.

"Why? What's that way?" Harry asked curiously.

"Mr Hagrid's big blasty skrewts." Dobby answered.

"What? Hold on, you mean his bloody Blast Ended Skrewts?" Harry asked, hoping that he had guessed wrong. That hope went out quickly when Dobby nodded his head.

"Follow Dobby." Dobby said and turned right.

"How much further?" Harry asked as he followed the elf.

"Not too far." Dobby replied.

"And now Mr Diggory has entered the maze." Ludo Bagman's magically amplified voice echoed. "that is all three champions!"

"What is it?" Harry asked Dobby when the elf stopped a minute or so later.

"If we go this way there be Sphinx," Dobby said as he pointed in one direction. "if we go over ways than it take longer."

"Do you know what I have to do to get a Sphinx?" Harry asked.

"Dobby heard one person say yous be having to answer riddle."

"Answer a riddle, that's it?" Harry asked.

"Yes, only one." Dobby nodded. Harry took a moment to think about it, he was no expert in riddles but he felt like he was fairly good at them and doing this could end up saving him a lot of time.

"Fine," Harry nodded. "let's go." Harry said as he walked forwards, a few seconds later he found himself face to face with a Sphinx.

"Greeting's champion." The Sphinx sad, smiling at him.

"Wow, you are impressive." Harry replied.

"Flattery will not get you anywhere, thought it is appreciated. The current path you walk is the one with the shortest distance to the cup, however you may only get past if I let you. If you wish to get past me you must first answer my riddle, should you answer correctly then I will gladly stand aside and grant you the ability to continue. If you fail to answer correctly then there will be consequences, your third option is to go back and find an alternate route."

"Let's hear the riddle first." Harry replied.

"I will only grant one of you access." The Sphinx said, glancing between Dobby and Harry.

"Master after this there is only one acromantula." Dobby replied.

"The elf will stay until I have decided on a response to your riddle." Harry told the Sphinx.

"Very well. Here is the riddle." The Sphinx coughed and cleared its throat before it told Harry the riddle.

First think of the person who lives in disguise,

Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.

Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,

The middle of middle and end of the end?

And finally give me the sound often heard,

During the search for a hard-to-find word.

Now string them together and answer me this,

Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

"Great." Harry rolled his eyes before he began thinking about the riddle. The clue in the first two lines refers to a spy, the next clue indicates the letter 'd', and the last clue means '-er'. String them together, and the answer is 'spyder' or 'spider'. Definitely something that Harry would not want to kiss. The final creature in the maze guarding the Triwizard Cup was an Acromantula, was that a coincidence? Harry didn't think so.

"Spider." Harry answered.

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"Correct." The Sphinx said as it lazily stood up and moved to the side so Harry could pass.

"One moment." Harry said before he confirmed what direction he should go in from Dobby.

"Just straight Master Harry." Dobby answered.

"Alright, go then. I'll see you later." Harry said as Dobby popped off. Harry walked forward and stopped just before he went past the Sphinx. "I would prefer it if you did not tell anyone about my friend helping me, can you keep it a secret please?"

"A man, seven feet in height and standing on one of the tallest building in the world, is holding a glass cup above his head. He lets it fall to the ground below without spilling a single drop of water. How could he manage to drop the glass from this height without spilling a drop of water?" The Sphinx asked.

"There is no water in the cup." Harry guessed after a moments thought.

"I will not be telling anyone about your elf friend." The Sphinx smiled at him.

"Thanks." Harry grinned before he followed the path up ahead until he found an acromantula. Upon seeing him it clicked its large pincers and began moving towards him, Harry smiled and raised his right sleeve, revealing a black tattoo of a snake wrapped around his arm. "Selena, scare but do not kill." Harry instructed, it would be hard explaining why the acromantula had simply died.

The snake came to life, Selena slithered and hissed at the acromantula. The acromantula quickly realised what was in front of him and tried to escape, only for the spells placed on him to keep him there. Harry calmly walked forward, the spider did it's best to stay as far away from him as he could.

Harry cast a couple of cutting spells at the giant spider followed by ropes that tied it's legs together which caused it to fall over, Harry did all this not to kill it as much as to give people proof that he had actually come across it.

"Mention this to anyone and we will find you." Harry told the giant spider, not really sure how intelligent this particular one was. Some spiders were just spiders but others like Aragog were intelligent. After a moment where the spider seemed to understand and showed that by nodding, Harry walked past, he had his left hand wrapped around Selena's head and had her face aimed towards the spider just in case it ended up with any funny ideas. Eventually Harry got to the end of the path. "Thank you sweetie." Harry hissed to Selena.

"You're welcome Daddy." Selena replied before she shifted and climbed down his shirt before she turned into a tattoo, this time she was on his back with her head stopping at his right shoulder and her tail stopping under his armpit.

As Harry walked forward he saw the pedestal with the Triwizard cup on it. Harry walked forward, he looked around to check if any of the other champions were here, thankfully they were not.

It made sense seeing as they likely did not have a house elf guiding them like Harry had plus Harry had the ten minute head start. With that being said it is still possible for them to catch up so he had better hurry.

Harry grinned and grabbed the cup, right before he was portkeyed away.

The crowd were going restless, it had been confirmed that the cup had been picked up yet nobody saw the champion that had picked it up as they had not arrived yet. The tournament officials were sweating, the portkey was supposed to bring the winning champion right in front of them, why didn't it work?

Dumbledore had sent Hagrid, Moody and his other teachers into the maze to bring out the other champions. Krum, Delacour and Diggory were all present which meant that it must have been Harry who picked up the cup. Yet Harry was not there, one question seemed to be on everybody's mind, where the hell was Harry Potter?

The question was answered when, after what felt like an incredibly long wait, Harry Potter landed in front of them. The funny thing is, he did not come alone.

As Dumbledore and the others, including Cornelius Fudge the Minister of Magic wo had been attending the event, they saw Harry mount the person he had come with and begin punching him repeatedly in the face with as much force as the boy can muster.

"Harry! Stop! What is going on?!" Dumbledore said but he like everyone else stopped when they got close and saw who Harry was punching.

"Oh, hey." Harry said in a casual voice but made no effort to stop punching.

"Who...who is that?!" Fudge gaped.

"Well Minister," Harry said as he stood up and swung his foot as hard as possible in-between his victim's legs. "I would like you to meet Peter Pettigrew." Harry said as he hit Pettigrew with a body bind and stomped on his groin. "Now, remember when I said Sirius Black was innocent, remember that? I do. We should probably talk about that now." Harry said as he casually re-stomped the groin.

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