Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 305 Jealousy Causes Ron to Separate His Plasmophores

"Um... Tyella..." Harry glanced at Tyella guiltily as they walked toward the Gryffindor common room. "So...we've become rivals?"

"..." Tiera didn't know what to say.

What makes you think you could become my rival?
Oh right, it was me who was pretending to be innocent and playing the victim.

“Hmm,” Tierra said.

“But we’re still good friends, aren’t we?” Harry asked again.

“Of course,” Tierra said.

Then suddenly a great idea came to mind.

“Harry,” Tyella called out.

"What's wrong, Tyella?" Harry asked.

“The Triwizard Tournament is an extremely dangerous competition,” Tierra said. “Every year, warriors have died or been injured.”

“I know, Tyella,” Harry said.

“So instead of going it alone, we should join forces,” Tierra said.

"Join forces?" Harry asked. "How?"

“We can train together and practice our spells together. If we run into each other during a match, we can face the danger together,” Tierra said.

“That’s great!” Harry said, letting out a sigh of relief.

After learning that he had been chosen as a champion in the Triwizard Tournament, Harry's biggest worry, besides his own safety, was the potential breakdown of his friendship with Tyrell.

“However, we need to make a deal,” Tierra said with a smile.

“What agreement?” Harry asked.

"Whoever between us ultimately deserves the final victory in the Triwizard Tournament," Tiera said. "The winner will receive the trophy and eternal honor, while the other will take the prize of one thousand Galleons."

“No problem!” Harry said. “It’s only right!”

Tiera smiled with satisfaction.

As they spoke, they walked up to the portrait of the fat lady—

“Nonsense,” Harry said the command.

"Please come in, you two little warriors," the fat lady said with a smile, then she turned forward to let Harry and Tyella into the common room.

When the portrait was opened, the sudden burst of noise nearly knocked Harry backward.

Then, Harry and Tyrell were dragged into the common room by about a dozen hands, facing the entire Gryffindor student body.

They were all screaming, cheering, and whistling.

“You should sign us up too!” Fred yelled. He looked half annoyed and half excited.

“Exactly! You’re so unfair!” George yelled.

“I was just an experiment,” Tiera said with a shrug. “I wasn’t entirely sure either. If I told you before it was successful, it would be so embarrassing if it failed.”

“That’s true,” George said.

“So Harry, how did you do that?” Fred asked again. “I didn’t,” Harry said, “I don’t know how—”

At that moment, Angelina rushed in front of him like a whirlwind, "Oh, even if it can't be me, at least you're a member of Gryffindor—"

"We've prepared some food, Harry, come and have some—"

"I'm not hungry, I ate enough at the banquet—"

But no one wanted to hear him say he wasn't hungry, no one wanted to hear him say he hadn't put his name in the goblet; it seemed that no one except Tierra noticed he wasn't in the mood to celebrate at all—

Harry had intended to ask Tierra to come back to the dormitory with him, but Tierra seemed completely absorbed in the party, singing and dancing along with the Weasley twins while saying something.

Harry couldn't escape. Every time he tried to sneak up the stairs to his dormitory, the crowd would gather around him, forcing him to drink another butterbeer or shoving cookies and peanuts into his hands… Everyone wanted to know how he had managed it, how he had fooled Dumbledore's age line and gotten his name into the goblet—

“I don’t know…” Harry said over and over again, “I don’t know what’s going on.”

But no one paid any attention, as if he hadn't said anything at all.

"I'm tired!" After about half an hour, he finally couldn't take it anymore and shouted, "No, seriously—I want to go to bed—"

He desperately wanted to see Ron and Hermione, hoping to regain his senses, but neither of them seemed to be in the common room. Harry insisted he needed to sleep, nearly knocking over the Creevey brothers who were trying to stop him at the bottom of the stairs.

Finally, Harry managed to shake off the crowd and hurried upstairs to his dormitory.

To Harry's great relief, he found Ron lying fully clothed on the bed, alone in the dormitory. Ron looked up as Harry slammed the door shut.

"Where have you been?" said Harry.

“Oh, hello,” Ron said.

Ron smiled, but it was a very awkward and forced smile. Ron lay motionless on the bed, watching Harry struggle to untie the flag.

“Well…” Ron said sarcastically, “congratulations.”

"What do you mean, congratulations?" Harry stared at Ron, whose smile was clearly a little off.

It looks like he's making a funny face.

“Ron! You think I put my name in that goblet too, just like them?” Harry laughed, exasperated. He explained, panting. “I made it very clear in the Great Hall that I didn’t do that! Someone must have put my name in!”

"Why would they do that?" Ron asked, raising an eyebrow.

“I don’t know,” Harry said, finding the following words sensational, like acting, “to kill me…”

Ron's eyebrows were raised so high they seemed to disappear into his hair.

“It’s okay, you know you can tell me the truth,” Ron said. “If you don’t want others to know, that’s fine, but I don’t understand why you lied. You didn’t get into any trouble because of it, did you? Look at Tierra, she just admitted it openly. You should do the same. We’re good friends.”

“I didn’t put my name in that damn Goblet of Fire!” Harry started to get annoyed. “Why don’t you believe me except for Tyella?”

"Hmph... Tiera..." Ron scoffed, "I'm telling you, you definitely told Tiera how you got your name in, right? Maybe he even helped you vote it, after all, you and Tiera are much closer than I am, aren't you?"

“Ron!?” Harry looked at Ron in confusion and said, “How could you say that?”

“Heh…” Ron chuckled, “Do you think I’m stupid? You and Tiera are like an old married couple, and what am I? I’m your lackey and second-rate friend?”

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