this is a good story, i hope you update it soon

Great chapter. Really sets the stage for the players & for the tournament. Liked the exchange between the girls & Hermione's thoughts. Well written. Thankyou.

Please update soon! The suspense is killing me! Take care. :D

Awaiting more.

So next chapter Harry meets Tracey? Beats the heck outta Ron and cuts him out? Brings 'Moine back into the fold?

Okay, it looks like emotion is going to overwhelm Cedric's Hufflepuff nature and Krum is going to listen to the Snakes. With (mo)Ron poisoning the well in Gryffindor, it'll take Hermione, Fleur - if she'll stand up for him, and Daphne & Tracey to give Harry a fighting chance and they'll all likely be ostracized for it (here's hoping that's *all* they enounter). It looks to be another "interesting" year for Harry.

This is the very first time I've ever seen Harry use Dumbledore and his Penseive to convince anyone of the danger that Hogwarts poses to so many. True, Fleur's belief in Harry and his claims helped spark this, but I think it enforces it to a new level deep in her guts that her mind only imagined it understood.

The cliffie at the end was soooooo uncool! Neville backing Hermione in a dispute and obviously doing so to protect her would be totally new to Harry, and the prior incident will have t be revealed, thus ending a farce of a relationship that Ron has been pushing for so long. The situation now had better wake Harry up to the realities of his life as nothing has before, and the Dynamic Duo of Tracey and Daphne will be more of a boost than I believe most realize.

There's going to be a strain between Harry and Hermione until he can come to believe why she did it - his own position of being between Hermione and Ron in their arguments to date /should/ help with this IF Harry allows himself to remember that. But I sincerely believe that Harry walking in on the violence brewing between Ron and Hermione will be a major boost in that - it will make him realize in his own heart just how badly things really are in the "Golden Trio" and that they have been that way for a long time.

The statements about Ron obsessing about Hermione and his stalker tendencies ring true, but I'm betting there's some sort of Wizarding B.S. that both the Muggle raised are unaware of - and I'd bet it's deliberately done, too...

Ron's in a heap of trouble, isn't he?

Where are the twins in this? This is their little brother that's being such a douche. (Pardon my language.)

Hopefully they'll be ashamed of him and put him in his place. I just hope that when Molly and Arthur hear of this, and they will, that they take the proper steps.

Molly's not going to be a greedy shrew in this is she? That's kind of been done to death in other fics.

Not that Molly bashing is bad, but it really needs to be creative and grab a person's attention.

Her being after Harry's money, or obsessing over him as another son is repetitive.

Having her be mentally unstable due to all of the inbreeding would be a novelty. That would explain how it got passed to Ron and Percy.

I say Percy because there is no way someone is that controlled without being more than a little "off" mentally.

I'm glad that Fleur believes Harry. It gives him another ally, but cedric and Krum's antipathy and popularity are just going to make things so much harder. Harry can't get out of the tournement, but can't he at least publically vow on his magic or something that he didn't enter his own name...OR encourage anyone else to do so. Even if they all still think badly of him, because they WILL, at least they won't be able to keep calling him a liar!

I like the darker outlook you are going for with for Cedric and Victor. Something tells me that Cedric and Harry won't be having any nice 'It's a Hogwarts victory' nonsense if they tie in getting to the cup again. I was surprised by way you're handling Fleur though. Given the level of trust she shows him from the beginning, I can only assume she didn't call him a 'little boy' in this version since you didn't show the actual selection scene and it's aftermath. Looking forward to the next chapter and the fight that will ensue. I hope it's epic and Harry shows more backbone than he otherwise would since he knows he's got Hermione, Fleur, Daphne and most likely Neville and Tracey on his side.

I just read the story and I like the story and hope you will continue it.

By the way did Daphne dyed her hair ?

Chapter 1 Her lovely straight black hair chapter 2 she pushed her blond hair back

No, that is an error on my part, she should have straight black hair but when i did the 2nd chap I forgot how I described her. Glad you liked it more to come soon (razial)

Catching up on my updates. Sorry its been so long. But hopefully you will complete this story. It is going along well. Hopefully it will be updated.

Oh, yes, this is going to get very interesting as new friends arrive and old friends, if they actually were friends (yes, Ron, I'm talking about you), become enemies. Despite being a mixed-blood, Severus Snape is clearly showing pureblood attitudes here and I suspect that'll end up hurting him majorly in time.

Good story and I'm looking forward to more.

Great story so far, I have always enjoyed your other stories on fanfiction especially the ones featuring Xander. You are among the few who don't make him just like one of the girls as Buffy so eloquently stated it. Now on to the main theme, Tracy and Daphne are great characters to use and it would make sense that they would know more than Harry at this point in time due to the fact they are purebloods or maybe half blood in Tracy's case (seems to change with the story on that one) and they received extra lessons in spell casting and dueling before they came to Hogwarts and during the summer months since we all know that pure blood homes are warded for them to practice underage magic. Harry of course due to his upbringing never really applied himself to his fullest potential. On the plus side I have a little idea or tidbit for you for your next chapter, Harry is acting cocky and somewhat arrogant (which from I read so far seems to be a little true) when he goes to meet Daphne and Tracy in the classroom the next day for his training. Daphne would spot this right off the bat after Harry begins to question her in a condensing manner about some method of her teaching (hey don't laugh now he could be considering he did summon a Patronus at age 13 and that would make him a little smug at his defense skills at the very least). Anyway Daphne would challenge Harry to a duel to prove who is better at this point and time, Harry would in a matter of seconds realize he is over matched and be defeated overwhelmingly. At the very least it would two purposes for Daphne and Tracy, one it would knock Harry off his high horse and two make him more submissive to Daphne and Tracy. We all know those two have their own plans for Harry. I hope you can make them even more manipulative when dealing with Harry in other words to make him turn away from the ever wise and loving Headmaster. Here is another idea for you which I hope you incorporate into your story in some fashion, Daphne and Tracy during their training of Harry see he is still not completely under their control meaning he is being bullheaded,(nothing new there) so those two decide to take it up a notch, they raid the dark arts section or something of that nature looking for a certain spell ( not a love spell that's so cliche), when they find it they ambush Harry and perform the spell. The kicker here is the spell is a type of bonding or joining spell which ties them together through their magic. You could call it a soul bound of sorts basically Harry would have access to their magic and vice verse and they would be able to feel the emotions of the others and to always be able to find the others in the bond no matter where they are. Nobody could control the other person in the bond just experience sharing emotions and maybe thoughts if you want to go that far. Harry would be shocked and angry at first at them for doing this to him but Daphne would say "tough I don't care. We have come too far for you to continue to being pigheaded, reckless, and always running off without thinking into dangerous situations playing the hero, this ends now! We have an emotional investment in you Harry and I will damn well see it pay off!"(lol). Priceless! I have only seen one other story of this type on fanfiction where a girl was frustrated with Harry always finding himself in trouble (because face it trouble always finds Harry) and decided to take action to save Harry from himself. She did love and care for him even if it was unrequited on her part at first. Harry did learn to adjust and was touched and deeply moved that someone would go to such lengths looking out for his well being and help him survive his coming trials. I think this could be an excellent plot point for you to use if not then maybe in a future story. Well that's all for now. So until next review, take care.