Lost Love
By: ChoCedric
A few days after the terrible events of the third task, Cho is in the girls' bathroom, sobbing her heart out when the door opens and Hermione Granger walks in. She hears Cho crying, walks over to her, and puts her arms around her in a gentle hug. "Cho, I'm so, so sorry," she says soothingly, rubbing gentle circles on her back.
Cho knows the girl's being nice, but a vicious part of her wants to fling her away. For Hermione Granger still has her best friend, Harry; he came out of the maze alive when Cho's boyfriend, Cedric, came out dead. How could this be, when Cedric was older, more experienced, knew the dangers of being in the tournament? Her shoulders begin to shake harder, but now they are shaking with rage. At that moment she would give anything to trade Cedric's life for Harry's, no matter how selfish and mean it sounds.
At the funeral, she is so sick of all the sympathetic looks being thrown her way. She knows she's being awful again, but nobody understands how she feels. Everyone pretends to, but no one can grasp the loneliness she's experiencing with the loss of the love of her life. Why did this have to happen? Why is she watching her boyfriend's beautiful body being lowered into the earth? A heartrending scream leaves her lips as dirt is tossed on top of the coffin.
Later, at the reception, she counts how many empty comments leave the mouths of Cedric's friends and family. There are nine Cedric would want you to be strongs, five he's in a better place nows, three you must have been special for Cedric to have loved you as much as he dids, ten I'm so sorry for your losses, and six he'll live inside you forevers. As the reception ends and everyone leaves, the only question that reverberates through her mind is, Why? Why must people say these words that mean nothing, do nothing to soothe her grief?
And that night, she dreams of Cedric, his empty body being ogled at by the many students and teachers of Hogwarts. And she knows that for the rest of her miserable life, she'll always wonder why this had to happen, why she had to love him, why he had to die, and why the world has to be so bitter and cruel. Why?
Burial of Love
The act of placing dirt on top of one's coffin signifies a final goodbye to them. As Cho Chang, sobbing all the while, watches as many people place dirt on top of Cedric's, it signifies the permanent loss of love in her life. Cedric belonged to her, and he was her everything.
She hears soft sobs coming from the people at the burial, but hers aren't soft; they're howls of grief and agony. Her heart is being wrenched in two, totally disfigured. She knows she'll never love anyone again, never open her heart to let another person in. She shared her life, her dreams, her goals, her achievements, her secrets with Cedric, and she'll confide in no one else but him.
As more dirt is tossed on top of the coffin in which her heart lies, more bitter tears stream down her face, for this, this horrible procedure, is the burial of love.