It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts school, Dumbledore has been driven out of the castle and Dolores Umbridge has gone mad with power. Fed up with these pesky kids she decides to distract them with a little deathmatch. Four students from each house are picked by the Goblet of Fire. Sixteen will enter the Forbidden Forest, only one can come out.

The students have two weeks to prepare before the competition begins. During this time they will be trained by their mentor (their Head of House) and can make alliances with other contestants.

Gryffindor Tributes

Harry Potter
Ron Weasley
Hermione Granger
Cormac McClaggen

Slytherin Tributes

Draco Malfoy
Pansy Parkinson
Millicent Bulstrode
Blaise Zabini

Ravenclaw Tributes

Cho Chang
Luna Lovegood
Padma Patil
Marcus Belby

Hufflepuff Tributes

Zacharias Smith
Susan Bones
Ernie Macmillan
Hannah Abbott

Who wins?

Rules:

Contestants may take only their wand with them into the forest.

You must consider not just the contestants' abilities but also their mentalities.

The Forbidden Forest is still full of creatures.

 

Why are there almost no 6th or 7th year students, you said 4 from each house, not year, i can however see those younger than 4th year being stopped from entering

Seeing as they probably wont go too deep into the forest they wont encounter aromantacula, and i cant think of any other creature this year that would be dangerous to all of them, thestrals would ignore them and only Luna and harry can see them,dragons are 4th year, quirrel/voldemort creature is 1st year, aromantacula are in a cave, deep in the forest, and dementors and werewolves are gone at the end of 3rd year

Well, obviously the hufflepuffs are out leaving the slytherins, gryffindors and ravenclaws
The ravenclaws have Luna who probably knows the forest the best (excluding the trio), cho who knows 6 year magic and has passed her owls,Padma Patil and Marcus Belby probably just know more advanced 5th year magic or are ahead of most of the non ravenclaws
The ravenclaws would spend most of their time re-searching the forest, its creatures,ect

The slytherins have Draco who probably knows a little dark magic,but was taught more by snape, he is also mildly talented.
Pansy Parkinson, millicent bulstrode and blaise zabini who i cant remember much of in canon, i assume they are average and also have been taught by snape

The gryffindors have Harry a talented parseltongue who is the best at defence in his year and know the forbidden forest well as well as working great under pressure,he would probably be contacted and given advice by sirius,remus,mad-eye moody and have his transfiguration improved by McGonagall Hermione who is knowledgeable but struggles under pressure, she is also decent at researching, not great or the best but alright,Ron who could tell them how some of their magically raised opponents would think(and vice versa)
Cormac i dont remember much of except that he tried to date hermione

No house would team up with gryffindor because they believe harry is an insane liar except for maybe luna, Hufflepuff would also be the first house to go out, slytherin the second, it would be a close second to ravenclaw but most of the ravenclaws have been going to harrys DA so even if the slytherins are somewhat better, 6 months of training beats 2 weeks of intense training

so either ravenclaw or gryffindor but given harrys abilities to survive,his stubborn determination and being work well under pressure as well as the fact that he would do almost anything for his friends and family
Fuck, just at the end of my post and remembered gawmp or gwap or grawp or whatever hagrids half-giant brother is called, when thinking about the half-giant i also remembered the centaurs and now how voldemorts feelings, mostly anger and hatred affected harry

 

Harry, Ron & Hermione are probably the strongest core team here, but the problem I see is with getting an actual winner. They're going to most likely ally with a good half, if not more, of the contestants.

I just don't see canon Harry & Hermione ever being able to kill one of their classmates when there's always the stunning spell available. I could see Ron offing one of the Slytherins when push comes to shove, but that's all.

The Slytherin tributes might be more willing to use some deadlier spells, but they'd be too outnumbered to pull through.

The main problem here is that these people essentially grew up together. Sure, there are rivalries, and not all of them might've even said as much as hello to others, but they'd still be people they've seen in their classes for 5 years now. That's a lot different than being put against complete unknowns. I just don't see them starting to off each other right off the bat.

There also isn't the overhanging threat that their families will be killed for refusing to participate.

There's also too many participants who we have barely any information to gleam off. Out of the list I'd say only Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Pansy, Cho and Luna have enough personality for us to form hypotheticals of what they'd do.

 

Uh...

What does that have to do with anything?

Also, it's not teams, it's free for all. Only one person will be coming out and given Harry's Chronic Hero Syndrome it won't be him.

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I think a suicidal charge trying to kill Umbridge is more likely.

 

Because we know nothing about those characters so it would be pointless speculating about them. The only older characters we know are the Weasley Twins, and that would just lead to a massive imbalance in Gryffindor's favour.

The idea of using the Goblet of Fire was to bind them to compete magically.

 

Ron's magic car comes to save him and runs everyone else over.

Though in all honesty, Harry is the best in his year at DADA, and he has been in the most life threatening situations out of anyone. The only issue is he won't kill anyone. I suppose he could take their wand and let the forest do the rest of the work. Either that or he summons his broom and invisibility cloak and just leaves to track down the people who started the tournament in an attempt to save everyone.

Edit:

Why would it bind them? As far as I know, the only thing that bound Harry to compete in GOF were the rules of the tournament.

 

I think most people would remember Inquisitorial Squad, so mostly everyone would team up against Slytherins. After killing them, survivors would break up into teams.

First team - Harry, Ron, Hermione
Second - Zacharias Smith, Susan Bones, Ernie Macmillan, Hannah Abbott

That's assuming all of them would survive the fight against Slytherins. Luna probably wouldn't. She is absolutely useless. She would probably end up chasing nonexistent creatures and end up dead because of it. So Ravenclaws would either try to join two already existing teams, or die.

After another annihilation, Harry's experiences prevailed. He survived, along with Hermione and Cho. Cho would try to romance Harry, but would stab him in the back and kill Hermione (who is not very good in DADA). Then, Acromantulas would come and kill the rest.

 

I LOL'ed. Poor Taure got quite a bit of flak for putting his protagonist in the supposedly useless house in Alexandra Potter.

As for this scenario, I cannot see anyone but the Slytherins going for lethal force. Although, Harry and Ron would probably get enraged enough to kill if Hermione gets offed early on. Even then, neither of them know any lethal spells at this age.

Considering we know nothing about most of the competitors, it is impossible to choose a winner. The trio work well together though, so if it comes to surviving, they are the most likely bet.

This is indeed the most likely scenario.

I'm sure most participants would rather become squibs than kill each other. Also, this magically bind thing is ambiguous in canon.

This would be nice. I'm sure Harry wouldn't mind getting the Dursleys offed.

 

Sorry, forgot to clarify,Harry would win, either because of the prophecy which states him or Voldemort or because of his determination to survive, if the slytherins take out a few of his friends, he thinks their dead and harry is being influenced by voldemorts anger and hate and he was probably taught a deadly spell or two

 

It would've been pretty random. I can totally see Hermione losing her shit. Luna too.

Pansy Parkinson might do well if she stays under the radar. She'd probably lose in a fair fight, but she's one of the few characters I think would be able to kill in cold blood.

Considering Harry won't even kill Death Eaters when they're actively killing him and his mates, I'm going to assume he'll perish rather quickly.

 

Harry did try to kill Snape though. So if either Ron or Hermione are killed.........

Um.... She did survive twenty Death Eaters in canon..... I cannot imagine why she wouldn't survive four teenage Slytherins.

Also, please replace Cormac with Ginny. At least we know something about her from canon.

 

Harry would obviously win due to some stroke of luck. This kid pisses felix felicis for breakfast.

 

As it stands Malfoy wouldn't be in it during fifth (as if good ol' Lucius would stand for it). Neither would most of the professors and such. Unless we're shooting realism out the window, a more likely time for this would be in the final year, though that would mean Harry and company probably wouldn't be in it. I can see the professors and such being sponsors for their favorite candidates (Malfoy would still probably not be in it, but some of the more bloodthirsty Slytherins would volunteer as tribute). Neville would probably be badass.

However if this is just a random, let's-suspend-disbelief type of thing, I think team Slytherin takes it. Unless they let go of their moral scruples, Team Harry is not bloodthirsty enough, Cormac would probably jump ship, as would probably one or two from Hufflepuff. I can see Cho and Luna probably linking up with Team Harry, but the Slytherins would have the edge.

 

Zach Smith wins, ofc. Because Hufflepuff. And Slytherins are pansies, everyone knows that. Claws will keep trying to figure things out instead of killing. Harry is the best Gryffs have to offer, but there isn't a single murderous bone in his body. Zach is mean, you know he has that killer instinct going on.

And who is Cormac McClaggen?

 

He's a character from HBP, Gryffindor 7th year.

This should summarise his character: video.

And a hilarious fanfic.

 

No, that's McLaggen. You know, the guy who always lags behind everyone else in mental development.

 

This is a simple answer.

Draco professes his love for Harry on national Wizard Radio. He sides with Slytherin until he can betray them. And then, when the two of them are left, they turn their wands on themselves until Umbridge has to step in and stop it.

The whole problem however, is when they're called back for the second games and Draco's claimed to Mpreg Harry.

 

I mean... clearly Hermione would win after Grawp arrives to save his lay love Hermy and then squashes the rest of them under his magically resistant heel.

Either that or they disarm and restrain the Slytherins and then start a Swiss Family Robinson tree house commune. After all, the contract is that only one person can leave the forest alive. So literally everyone immediately finds the loophole about not leaving.

 

Easy answer, Luna wins this. Good luck trying to get her when she is riding invisible horses who can fly with mach 2. Sure, Harry and maybe one or two others may be able to see them but they would lack the knowledge and the nerve to ride them.

That is, of course, not counting various other magical beasts that could be found in the forest. Expelliarmus is going to be useless when a Crumple-Horned Snorkack bursts from the trees and starts ripping the other students apart. Good luck trying to go against a beastmaster in a forest full with magical beasts.

That is if Luna was in the mood for killing, which she isn't. But if she is compelled via Goblet, why not. It's not like that is the sole inconsistency in this scenario.

Some others may put on a good showing but my bet is on Luna winning this with a stampede of magical beasts while leading the charge on a thestral.

 

Neville would win and he's not even a tribute.

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.