The Negotiation

Nearly two hours later Harry was sent out to compete, the other champions had competed and Fleur was currently winning. Harry walked out into the stadium, the seats were all full of people. He noticed the judge's tower where the three school heads along with Barty Crouch senior and Ludo Bagman were sitting. Harry took a second to look at the area, it was made up of stone and rocks, obviously meaning to replicate the dragon's habitat.

Harry then took a second to look at the dragon, it was massive and covered in spikes, a very deadly species of dragon known as the Hungarian horntail. A species of dragon known for being wild and dangerous.

Harry calmly walked forwards, the dragon locked eyes with him and shot out a burst of fire that speeded towards Harry, Harry quickly dodged and hid behind some rocks. The dragon kept firing but eventually stopped

"Stop!" Harry shouted in parsletounge, causing the dragon to stop, Harry's face had a complete look of relief as he definitely did not know if the dragon would be able to understand parsletounge.

"A speaker?" The dragon asked.

"Indeed noble fire breather" Harry nodded, glad it seemed willing to talk. "I must say that you're flames are most impressive. I come here to ask you for one of your eggs."

"You will not take my eggs two legs!" The dragon hissed and raised it's wings threateningly.

"I do not intend to take your eggs," Harry said calmly even though he was far from that on the inside. "though I would like to take the fake egg they've placed in your nest."

"Fake egg?" The dragon asked as it lowered it's wings and inspected it's eggs, it began sniffing them, it's nose eventually reached the gold one and rested on it for several minutes "It's a fake!" It growled.

"I know" Harry said apologetically "I apologise but I will die if I do not retrieve the fake or at least attempt to, I do not wish to fight with you nor harm your eggs. May I please have the fake?"

"No! Fuck off! It's still mine!" The dragon roared before firing a blast of fire in Harry's direction.

"Well...I tried to be nice." Harry said before he raised his wand. "Accio Horntail model!" He yelled and the horntail model flew into his hand, he was going to just bring it with him but apparently they were only allowed their wands when they entered, luckily the rules didn't stop him from summoning things. Harry tossed the horntail in the air and aimed his wand at it. "Engorgio!" Harry shouted, putting a lot of power into his spell.

The model grew until it was nearly the same size as the horntail, the two horntails roared at each other while the audience clapped. Harry began casting spells, from his position behind the rocks, at the real horntail so he could assist the model.

He started by firing an arrow from his wand that managed to hit the original in the eye, causing it to shriek in pain. Harry did not support animal cruelty but he had tried to be nice and the thing was trying to kill him so he couldn't really care at this point.

The model sent a burst of fire at the horntail just as Harry followed up with blasting curse, Harry followed up with several other damaging spells as the model closed the distance and the two dragons engaged in combat.

Harry aided the model by firing more spells, however he made sure to always have a clear shot and always did his best to hit either the head or the wings. During their fight Harry had sent out a flock of birds at them to make things even more chaotic, after doing that Harry summoned several snakes and sent them to attack the horntail.

Harry decided that now was probably the best time to get to work, he snuck towards the dragons nest while the horntail was distracted and picked up the egg. On his way to the exist he made sure that the dragon was sufficiently distracted and it was, so he ran for it and luckily made it back to the tent uninjured. The adrenaline had appeared to have worn off and he was now experiencing exhaustion from his spells. Tired as all hell yes but uninjured and that for Harry was the important part.

"Mr Potter, are you hurt?" Madam Pomfrey the Hogwarts nurse said as she began casting diagnostic charms on him.

"Not even a single scratch, just tired from all the spells." Harry said before taking a breath and shrugging his shoulders.

"Yes, you are fine." She said before handing him a pepper up potion and walking off as he drank his potion. Harry couldn't help but think that she looked a little disappointed. He shook his head and decided that he did not want to think about whatever fetishes she had.

Harry looked at the other champions, Cedric had a burn on his right arm while the others looked unharmed apart from Fleur's skirt which was slightly burnt. They all looked at him.

"So...everyone have fun?" Harry asked, not quite sure what to say.

"Ve saw your task." Krum said with a small nod to Harry.

"Oui, it was...impressive." Fleur said, Harry wondered if it was his imagination that caused him to hear a purr in her voice when she said the last word.

"Thank you," Harry smiled at her, he remembered her treating him like he was an unworthy peasant child during the champion selection but now maybe the fight against the dragon changed her mind. "it means a lot." He smiled at her, and if she happened to change it enough to sleep with him then he wouldn't object, he was pretty sure that blowjobs don't count as losing your virginity and he couldn't think of anything better than losing it to a Veela.

"I got burnt." Cedric complained, the 'because you didn't tell me about the task' went unsaid.

"Yes well most people avoid the flames." Harry said dryly. "Besides I got stabbed through the arm in my second year just to prove to your house that I don't go around hunting muggleborns, you don't hear me complaining, man up." Harry said with a shake of his head, he was about to walk out when he came face to face with two people he did not want to see, Hermione and Ron.

"Harry!" Hermione screamed and ran towards him to hug him.

"Nope." Harry said as he side stepped and she nearly fell when she missed. "The hell are you doing Granger?"

"Harry we were worried about you! You could've died!"

"I could've died simply walking down a school hallway, matter of fact I could die at any time, maybe even in three seconds from now. Give it a sec...nope, still alive. But if you were so concerned about my death why didn't you support me before I came face to face with a fire breathing dragon?"

"Harry, we're sorry!"

"Really? Both of you?" Harry said as he looked from Hermione to Ron who had kept quiet so far.

"Harry," Ron shifted on his feet and fidgeted with his hands before he walked up to him. "I reckon you have to be barking mad to put your name in the goblet of fire, I think someone's trying to do you in."

"Caught on have you? Took you long enough. I mean it would've taken anyone with a brain all of about ten seconds but seeing as you don't have one I suppose it's fair that you take longer."

"Hey!" Ron complained. "I told you I was sorry."

"Hmm, no you didn't. I did not hear the words 'I'm sorry' come out of your mouth."

"Look it was a mistake, come on, mates?" He said with a hopeful look.

"Harry please, you need us." Hermione said. "We can be friends again."

"We could." Harry nodded, causing them to smile, though that smile vanished when he continued. "But I don't want to be friends again."

"What?!" The two blurted out at the same time.

"But Harry..." Ron started only for Harry to interrupt.

"I've got to be honest, I was sad at first but I realised that I don't need you two anymore." Harry smiled brightly. "I've had the time of my life once I got past all the unpleasantness of my situation, really I have. No idiotic redheaded garbage disposal eating more food than Africa while complaining about lack of food and anything else he can complain about in-between bites. No arrogant, bossy anti-social bookworm, who can't use a comb, trying to take control of my life and order me around. I breathed fresh air and I am not letting you two dead weights pull me back down."

"Harry James Potter! How dare you?!" Hermione shrieked.

"Oh I dare Granger," Harry smirked. "I bloody well dare. I spent the last few days not dumbing myself down, I've done that before so Ron doesn't get jealous and you don't get competitive, but now I've stopped and I was able to defeat a dragon on my own. My own research at my own pace without interruption and I defeat a dragon, can't imagine doing that with you two."

"But you need us!"

"Maybe I did at one point but that was back when I was happy to just be the boy-who-lived like everyone wanted, now...now I'm Harry Potter and I do not need your help. So if you'll excuse me, I've got better things to do than waste my time with you two idiots." Harry turned and walked away when Ron grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him around.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Ron demanded with an angry expression. "We said we're sorry! Who do you think you are?! You arrogant little..." Ron found himself cut off as Harry blasted him away which caused him to land on Hermione.

Harry looked up and saw that there was currently nobody else in the tent besides the champions but they didn't look likely to interfere. Harry looked up to see both of his ex-friends drawing their wands. Harry cast an expelliarmus that hit Hermione and took away her wand, he did this as she was obviously more dangerous with her wand than Ron. Ron fired a spell at Harry but Harry dodged it and hit Hermione with a body bind, when Hermione fell to the floor Ron looked towards her and Harry took advantage and hit him with three spells.

Harry's first spell was a disarming spell that shot Ron's wand out of his hand, his second was a body bind and Harry's third spell was one of Ron's favourites so Ron ended up spitting slugs.

Harry calmly walked towards the two, he saw that the champions weren't going to do anything. In fact he was positive that he saw lust in the eyes of the French champion, he remembered reading about how Veela were attracted to power but he didn't actually think that was true.

Harry grabbed Ron and placed him so he now had his face on Hermione Granger's chest.

"Harry! Stop this!" Hermione screamed as a slug popped out of Ron's mouth and landed on her.

"Hmm...nah, your so smart, you stop it." Harry smirked before walking out the tent.

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