Harry Potter: A Different Tale

"Why have you summoned me?" Snape said as he arrived in the hospital wing, he was greeted with the sight of Madam Pomfrey tearing Albus Dumbledore a new one with Minerva McGonagall waiting to be tagged in.

"Of all the stupidest things I've ever heard!" Pomfrey shouted before turning to Snape "I was hoping you could make some more balm as I've wasted the last on the headmaster"

"What happened?" Snape said as he finally took notice of Dumbledore's clothes, at first he thought he was wearing some horrible green robes but it was now clear that he wasn't "Dumbledore, why are you dressed as Peter Pan?"

"Peter Pan?" Dumbledore asked

"A fictional muggle character" Snape explained "while I'm asking questions, why are you in the hospital wing?"

"The old fool jumped from the top of his stair case with the hope of flying!" McGonagall exclaimed "He's claiming that he flew with the help of fairy dust!"

"Fairy…dust?" Snape repeated slowly, using all of his will power and occlumency training to stop the smile that was about to appear on his face

"Yes, Mr Potter told me that it was what he used to fly in the first task" Dumbledore replied "he told me to use fairy dust and happy thoughts"

"Dumbledore" Snape spoke, not even bothering to hide his amusement anymore "do you know anything about Peter Pan?"

"No…why?"

"Peter Pan was a boy who never wanted to grow up, coincidentally, he was also able to fly thanks to fairy dust and happy thoughts" Snape put extra effort into making the last few words as long as possible.

"T…that m…means?"

"He played you like a fiddle" McGonagall cut him off "I will punish him later"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Snape said

"Why not?"

"Because that is essentially admitting that the headmaster was tricked by a fourteen year old boy into thinking he could fly. What that is basically saying is we're a bunch of idiots, so to punish him is to embarrass us. It's quite a brilliant plan, very Slytherin. In fact, a hundred points to Slytherin" Snape turned and walked off, leaving three stunned people.

He had just got into his room when he burst out loud into uncontrollable, it was only ten minutes later when he would see the photo where he could actually see it happen and he burst into laughter once again.

Meanwhile, in Grimmauld Place the Potters and friends were alone, seeing as the Weasleys had returned home and thank god they had because they would've thought they were looking insane with the amount of laughter coming from them.

Sirius had laughed so hard that he had turned into a dog, James was on the floor and clutching his side, while Remus kept his hands clutched around his mouth. Lily was laughing harder than she had ever laughed, she slapped the table repeatedly with her one free hand as the other held onto the picture of Dumbledore falling on to his desk while dressed as Peter Pan.

What made it better was the fact that Harry had signed it 'The last idiot who thought it was a good idea to go against a Potter'.

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The weeks passed, Adrian had begun dating Rachel and the two were quite happy. Ron and Hermione had taken to ignoring him but he didn't care. He had a great girlfriend and a great brother.

Rose was slowly spending more time with Theodore Nott, even though she still spent the majority of her time with Harry. Though Harry made sure to remind her that he only needed her word for him to break a few of Theodore's bones.

Soon it was time for the second task, Harry had worked out the clue fairly easily and then told Adrian and the other champions how to do it. Harry and the other champions were at the lake, apparently they had to rescue hostages that were currently in the lake.

Harry's was Daphne, naturally, while Rachel was Adrian's. Cedric's was Cho, Victor's was one of his Drumstrang friends, while Fleur had her sister. All that was left now was to wait for the cue to start

"You guys ready?" Harry asked the champions

"You're sure your plan will work?" Adrian asked, they had come together early on to make a plan on how to rescue the hostages.

"Of course it will work" Harry scoffed "I'm the one who made the bloody plan."

"That's reassuring" Adrian said dryly as he looked out to the river

"And the champions are ready" Ludo Bagman said through the magically enhanced microphone, the mirrors were ready to follow the competitors and show the audience what would happen underwater "the task will start in three…two…one! Go!"

The champions all turned to Harry who quickly conjured a small boat, the other champions quickly got into the boat. Harry tossed them a rope which they attached to the boat, while Harry wrapped the other side of the rope around his body.

"What are they doing?" Ludo asked on the microphone

"Ready?" Harry asked the group

"Ready" They nodded

Harry took a deep breath, he ran and jumped into the air, then he flew. Harry flew up into the air then started flying horizontally, pulling the boat with him.

"Amazing!" Ludo clapped "Mr Potter is flying again and is pulling the boat with him!"

Harry stopped around the center of the lake and the boat stopped with him, he looked down at the lake, almost as if he was scanning for something.

"Right here!" Harry shouted so they could hear him properly

"Are you sure?!" Cedric shouted back

"Positive!" Harry nodded.

Cedric, Krum and Adrian cast bubblehead charms on each other. It had been decided that Fleur would stay in the boat as the merpeople may react badly to a Veela. The three champions dove in and a few minutes later came up with five hostages.

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