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Viktor Krum smirked as his Conjunctivitis Curse hit the dragon head on. He rushed forward, the golden egg in his sights, the dragon thrashing, unaware of his advance, glory to Durmstrang was inevitabl-
Krum's thoughts of his victory making people respect his school for once were abruptly cut off as the dragon accidentally stomped on him. The shocked cries of the audience were cacaphonous. By the time the dragon tamers calmed the beast down and got it out of the arena, Viktor Krum was incredibly dead.
The majority of him was reduced to a large red puddle, small chunks of organs and muscle along with fragments of bone mixed with it. The only parts of him that remained unsquished were about half of his left leg and his wand arm, though the shoulder was completely gone. Safe to say it would not be an open casket funeral.
Hermione Granger went to the Yule Ball with Ron Weasley. They both had no idea how to dance. It was a horrible experience and they used the rather convenient distraction of Draco Malfoy tripping and cracking his head open as an excuse to leave after the first song.
Harry Potter was completely oblivious to this situation as he was busy doing some rather absurd dances with Luna Lovegood.
How the two met was rather abnormal, as about a week after the ball was announced, Harry found himself abruptly pulled into a broom closet and placed under a strangely powerful Imperio. The caster was none other than Luna, who made him ask her to take her to the Yule Ball, to which she said yes. She lifted the Imperius and, bafflingly, asked him if he wanted to go with her.
Harry was rather confused at the whole situation. Why didn't she just keep him under Imperius to say yes? Why didn't she just ask normally? Why the hell was her Imperio so strong? He didn't ask these questions, and instead just said yes since he didn't want to find another date. The strange girl jumped for joy and Imperiused him again, this time to give her the best snog of her life.
Harry passed out from lack of air and somehow woke up in the Hufflepuff dorms. He tried to ask about how he got there to Ernie Macmillan, who was staring rather like a bug, but as soon as he opened his mouth he appeared in The Three Broomsticks. He never got an answer as to how all that happened.
Before the dance, Luna Imperiused him yet again to do any dance she thought of before somehow Imperiusing herself to do the same thing. They were still dancing as everyone else left and after the music ended. Albus Dumbledore sighed as he found them still dancing when he entered the room at midnight. He stunned them and had a house elf send them off to bed.
His lack of sleep caught up to him and he fell asleep on the spot, falling over onto the hard floor and breaking his nose again.
In a certain pub, a certain bartender got the distinct feeling that he needed to get revenge on a floor.
Halfway through the Second Task, a figure with blonde hair and blue skin floated to the surface of the lake. As the audience slowly realized who the shape was, a Grindylow rose and started tearing and eating chunks from the corpse. Dumbledore was just about to blast the monster away as the Giant Squid rose up and devoured the Grindylow (along with the nearby body of Fleur Delacour) in a single gulp. Dumbledore banged his head on a wall and mentally cursed Cornelius Fudge for not listening to him when he insisted this tournament was a horrible idea. He physically cursed Ludo Bagman for not listening to him when he insisted these tasks were horrible ideas. It took St. Mungos a week to undo all the spells on Bagman, though they couldn't restore his lost testicles.
Karkaroff mockingly commented to Madame Maxine that his champion was better for having a bit of him left to bury and dying to a dragon rather than a bit of water.
It took about five Reverse Drowning potions to undo the dunk in the lake Maxine gave Karkaroff.
Harry emerged from the lake with both Ron and Gabrielle. Shockingly, they were both dead. Apparently a Grindylow had snuck up to their tied up bodies in the night and strangled them. Looking over revealed Cedric to be weeping over the corpse of Cho Chang.
Upon learning that all the hostages had been murdered, Dumbledore promptly stunned himself so he wouldn't kill Bagman and be imprisoned.
Nobody was looking forward to the Third Task.
The day of, the audience was nervous. Dumbledore announced the task with his head in his hands hoping to hell and back that none of the champions would die this time.
Someone had grabbed the cup, and the maze shrunk down in response. The audience groaned as they noticed that yet another champion had met a gruesome end.
Cedric Diggory was currently being mauled by an Acromantula. This was simply the end of a rather unfortunate series of events for him.
Cedric had come across a Sphinx within the maze. Unfortunately, he got her riddle wrong and the Sphinx attacked him, smiling sweetly as it clawed his face apart. It was interrupted when a Blast Ended Skrewt came barreling towards them. The Sphinx went running, but the damage was done. Cedric's face was now missing most of its skin. Half of his lower jaw had snapped off and the remaining bit of it held on by a few strands of muscle. His right eye had been utterly pulverized and he no longer had a nose. Cedric was sure he'd be able to recover from this. Maybe not his looks, but he wouldn't die from it.
Unfortunately the Skrewt blasted its blast end near Cedric. Cedric was horribly charred and most of his left arm, which he had used to shield himself, was reduced to ashes by the blast. The Skrewt wasn't done however, as it proceeded to start sucking Cedric's blood. Cedric tried to scream in agony, but since he was missing most of his jaw, chunks of his tongue, and his lips, all that came out was a low gurgling. The Skrewt eventually stopped and ran away as something else scared it off. Looking up, Cedric was horrified to see Lord Voldemort cackling madly. Cedric was too out of it from the blood loss to realize it was actually a boggart. He had never actually seen a photo of the man before, so the Dark Lord has noticably sharper teeth and claws.
Life seemed to really hate Cedric, as the fake Voldemort tore his legs off and started gnawing on them. The Boggart was busy with the meal and didn't even notice as an Acromantula snuck towards it and bit down hard on the neck. The Boggart was instantly killed and collapsed into an inky black puddle.
Cedric, thankfully, had passed out by now. He was not awake to see the horrible damage the spider was doing to him. The Acromantula had ripped off and devoured his wand arm whole, and had just removed his pelvis. It was around now when the cup was taken and the maze shrunk. The Acromantula had just injected its venom into Cedric's torso and started slurping up his liquefied organs when Albus Dumbledore burnt it to a crisp. Kicking away the spider remains, Dumbledore sank to his knees. The poor boy was about as dead as it was possible to be.
Peter Pettigrew was a moron. Instead of cutting Harry's arm to collect his blood, he instead chose to cut his chest. Unfortunately, he cut a bit too deep and slashed the boys heart. By the time Voldemort was revived, Harry Potter was very much dead. Voldemort summoned his followers and immediately used a Bone Exploding Curse on Wormtail's skull. Voldemort boasted and bragged about his victory over his arch nemesis, grabbing Harry's corpse so he could throw it onto the Triwizard Cup to let everyone know that their savior was dead.
Unfortunately, Voldemort tripped on a rock and smashed his soft, still slightly unformed head into the cup. Both his and Harry's bodies went with the portkey.
Lucius Malfoy facepalmed and tried to leave, but accidentally dropped a rather volatile potion he had on him, which exploded on contact with the ground and killed all the gathered Death Eaters.
Albus Dumbledore was the first to notice the returned Triwizard Cup, along with the very obviously dead bodies with it. He simply walked over to Bagman and held the man by his throat. A group of Goblins approached and his eyes twinkled as Bagman grew more terrified. He proceeded to kick the shit out of Bagman with the Goblins before allowing them to force him into labor.
Fudge approached Dumbledore, absolutely furious that he would treat a ministry official like that before abruptly stopping, having been turned into a dung beetle. A certain snowy owl promptly devoured him.
Barty Crouch Jr., seeing the corpse of his master on the Triwizard Cup along with Dumbledore unleashing his wrath, promptly decided to get the hell out of the country. Australia was probably far enough, right?
A few months later, Barty Crouch Jr. died after stepping on a stonefish.
Harry Potter awoke with a sharp pain in his head. He appeared to be in a strange white room, the walls labeled one to four. Suddenly, the wall labeled fourth fell on top of him. Looking up, he found that Luna had pushed the wall onto him, Ron standing behind her with Wormtail on a leash. Ron gestured at him to just go along with it. He was evidently just as confused.
Luna led them to a strange archway with a veil over it. She proceeded to grab them and drag them in, Wormtail kicking and screaming.
The veil seemed to deposit them at Hogwarts, though it looked off. Suddenly, a voice spoke from behind them...
"Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ne-"
Harry's scream of pure terror was said to have been heard around the world.