New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Plans: For tonight the main plan was to go to Hogwarts and complete the second challenge in the Tri-School Tournament. There is still another challenge for the Lucidity Powers Trials Club, and I am deciding if I am going to take on the Tasks of the Year from the DV forums or not. Some of them sound like interesting situations, though nothing really sounds like a serious challenge. And there are the two Hogwarts schools I have been visiting, not just the one. I used my light/sound machine to successfully slip into a WILD.

I am in the dorm room at Hogwarts, and I immediately realize I am dreaming because I am at the beginning of a WILD. I see the others in my room are already heading downstairs to the common room. Andie says she was just going to check to see if I was still alive in there. I said yeah, and I'll be right down, so I get dressed really quickly and hurry down to the great hall where breakfast is being served. Draco is in a singularly bad mood, he says having to be partners with Potter is really annoying, great… Draco is bitching again. I tell him it is only one challenge, we can both get through one challenge. I have implied I don't like the situation that well, but I am really glad to be working with MoSh on this one. Draco says he will show Potter who the real wizard is. I tell him neither of them will look good if they fight amongst themselves… Draco doesn't respond to that, he gets up and leaves the great hall, leaving part of his breakfast still on his plate. I finish mine and then go over to say hi to MoSh before going to class. Harry and Hermione are both there, Hermione asks if I have seen Ron anywhere. I say no, I don't think Ron would want to be hanging around with me anyway. Harry tells Hermione she worries too much, Ron has no doubt run off somewhere to hide and sulk for a while. He'll be back soon.

Other than the fact Ron is consistently missing throughout the day, all of my classes go normally. Snape sees fit to announce that Ron's absence is merely an example of how unreliable the Gryffindor students really are, which makes a lot of people mad. Hermione asks McGonagall if she has seen any sign of Ron, McGonagall says she hasn't seen Ron since the previous day. Hermione seems more worried than ever, and while Harry says he is sure Ron is just being immature, he seems a bit worried, too. The classes are cut short for the day due to the challenge being in the afternoon, and we all meet outside at the Quiddich field. The exact challenge is revealed, there are dragons out there, the dragons are guarding their eggs. Of course the eggs they are guarding right now are fake, so no real eggs are at risk of being damaged, and there is also one golden egg amongst the other fake eggs. The goal of the task is to get in past the dragon and retrieve the golden egg. I meet up with MoSh and Hermione, since we are designated to be partners in this one. I see Draco and Harry a short distance away, it looks like they are already arguing about something… great… But they aren't my concern right now.

MoSh, Hermione, and I make our way through the short course to find the dragon is in a cave at the end of a narrow canyon. I notice that Hermione seems a bit distracted, apparently she is still concerned about Ron… MoSh suggests we get this done with quickly, he and I will distract the dragon, and she can just hurry in and grab the egg. Hermione says that is too dangerous, both MoSh and I dismissed that, saying we would be fine… Hermione just wants to get done and see if Ron is around anywhere, so she goes with the plan. I go to one side of the canyon, MoSh goes to the other side. We climb up the steep canyon walls and reach the top soon. I look back down towards the entrance of the cave and see the dragon standing there, looking around, vigilant for any possible intruders. I want to get his attention, so I summon up a broom to fly on, I don't want to announce too loudly that I'm from another world, and I fly down right in the dragon's face, the dragon responds by sending a blast of fire at me. I dodge out of the way of the fire and pull out away from the dragon. A blast of fire follows me from the cave as I fly up and past MoSh, who does something that sends the blast of fire right back at the dragon. That didn't actually hurt the dragon, but it definitely pissed it off, so the dragon comes out from the cave and heads up towards MoSh. I call down a bolt of lightning that hits the dragon, I know it won't actually hurt the dragon either… but it did piss it off some more. The dragon takes to flight and comes after me now, I fly into the sky with the dragon right behind me. I look back and see Hermione going into the cave, and she comes out with a golden egg. Ok, all done. We all go through a tunnel we used to get into the canyon, barely outrunning one more blast of fire as the dragon follows us to the tunnel and tries to toast us from behind.

There are a few more people disqualified from the tournament, though it looks like most everyone finished. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact one of the teams from one of the other schools didn't finish at all, Harry and Draco would have both been disqualified since they came in last place. Both of them are yelling at each other, blaming each other, calling each other idiots among other even less flattering names… to be honest, both of them looked about as mature as a little kid having a temper tantrum because they didn't get what they want. Hermione rolls her eyes when she sees them, she makes a comment about boys being immature. MoSh pretends to take offense at that, she says she present company excluded. She heads over to Harry and Draco, who are yelling at each other and even pointing wands at each other… I go over there, too, so I can get Draco to leave without actually getting into a magic fight with Harry… Hermione is doing the same thing with Harry… and we are successful in doing that. Although I end up getting quite an earful about how Harry tried using some hairbrained plan instead of listening to his plan, which would have definitely worked… I am figuring Hermione is getting the same story with Draco being in the role of moron…