Oh please, save me from all soldiers. Why did anything ever happen in the past, so that know I have to sit here and listen to Binns going on and on about it? “I’m leaving,” I whispered to Lorraine. “What?” “I’m leaving. I’m going outside. If I stay in this class one more second, I’ll die.”

I thought he would go back to her, but he turned to me and said almost impatiently, “Jules, I will not have you sit here sulking. Now come on, you get a chance to dance with the best looking guy in school, if I were you, I’d now blow it.”
“Why, you arrogant, selfish-”
But Ced was already dragging me onto the dance floor.

“So, Jules”, he said. “I barely know you. Tell me something about yourself.” “Why would you want to know something about me?” The second I said it, I clamped my mouth shut. That had sounded way too snappy. He didn’t seem to mind though. “Oh well, I guess I’m just …” he turned his head to look at me. “ … interested.”

“Cedric Diggory, now you will listen to me. I don’t know what is wrong with you. I don’t understand why you won’t talk with me or go flying with me or anything at all anymore. I have done nothing wrong, you have no reason to be like this. You have no right to ignore me. What happened to best friends all of a sudden? This can’t still be about me and Roger, can it? Answer me!”

After the overwhelming, extremely unexpected, world-changing, completely surprising, exceedingly scary, mysterious, incredible, unbelievable and decidedly weird discovery that I had feelings for my best friend – feelings that weren’t just friendly – I didn’t know what to say to Ced, and he, perhaps sensing my discomfort, didn’t seem to know what to say to me.