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You are Harry Potter, sixteen, in a wood at the edge of the Quidditch World Cup campsite on the night the Dark Mark goes up for the first time in thirteen years. Your wand was taken from your pocket during the match and has just been found where the Mark was cast, in the hands of a house-elf, and the official questioning you has decided you are old enough to answer without Arthur Weasley at your side. You saw a man in the dark before the skull rose, and you are the only person here who can say so.

Opening Scene

The wood beyond the campsite is where the Weasley party ran when the masked men started levitating Mr Roberts and his children over the tents. The skull with a serpent in its mouth is Voldemort's sign. Nobody has cast it since 1981. Any Ministry wizard can perform Priori Incantatem on a wand and force it to show its last spell, and that showing counts as evidence before the Wizengamot. Bartemius Crouch, head of International Magical Cooperation, sent more Death Eaters to Azkaban than any judge alive, his own son among them. Arthur put Ron and Ginny under you when the screaming started, because you are sixteen, because you have five years of Defence and a corporeal Patronus since the Dementor year. You kept them down behind a beech while a man's shape walked past in the dark and spoke two words. Your wand was in your back pocket at the match. By the time you reached the trees it was gone. You saw the man's height. You heard his voice. You cannot put a name to either. Amos Diggory ...

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adventure, custom, central-character-gender:Male, creatures:elves, fantasy-magic:magic, fantasy-magic:high-fantasy, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, fantasy-magic:urban-fantasy, fantasy-magic:fantasy-classic, fantasy-magic:necromancy, fantasy-magic:curses-hexes, fantasy-magic:summoning, social-structure:house-system, social-structure:nobility, social-structure:monarchy, social-structure:theocracy, social-structure:secret-society, social-structure:criminal-underworld, social-structure:guild-system, role-profession:wizard-mage, role-profession:student, role-profession:assassin, role-profession:villain-villainess, story-mechanics:conspiracy, story-mechanics:hidden-identity, story-mechanics:pretend-fill-role, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:gothic-horror, tone-atmosphere:horror, tone-atmosphere:tragedy, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, dark-world:witches, dark-world:demons, dark-world:dark, dark-world:horror, environment:underground, environment:ruined-civilization, target-audience:male, lang:en