This is a Cedric/OC story, but this is just the beginning when the OC's parents met. Don't worry, it gets good, as long as R&R. :]
It was year five of Hogwarts and Katie Alice was still getting lost. She barely slipped into her Transfiguration class, hoping McGonagall wouldn't notice, but then she heard the familiar WOOSH! sound as the tabby cat jumped off the desk and transformed into Minerva McGonagall.
"Miss Alice, I was hoping you'd be on time the first day of lessons," she said bitterly.
"Sorry," Katie said apologetically, smiling a guilty smile.
"Miss Alice, please, have a seat next to Mr. Lewis here," McGonagall said, pointing to a fellow Hufflepuff Katie barely knew. She sat down on the bench.
"I'm Braiden," he said.
"Don't care," she snapped, and he laughed.
"Miss Alice, huh? You're Katie Alice, right?"
"So what if I am," she snapped. Braiden laughed again.
"Miss Alice, Mr. Lewis, if you find your conversation so interesting you may step outside," McGonagall said.
"Sorry, Professor," Katie muttered, and returned to the board.
"You play Quidditch?" he asked.
"I thought about it," she whispered.
"You should try out, I'm captain of the team," he said proudly.
She paused. "Fascinating."
"Ya know, one day you're gonna marry me," Braiden said, winking.
"Really? The day I marry you is the day Dumbledore flies."
"I've told you a million times, Mum. Her name's Maddie. Not Madeline, not Madison, not Madden, Maddie. I know it's uncommon but I think it's cute."
Katie Alice, now legally Mrs. Braiden Lewis, was in the hospital just three hours after giving birth to a healthy baby girl she and her husband had named 'Maddie Steffani'. Her mother, being judgmental as usual, did not approve. Katie was a witch, born into a Muggle family; her husband was a pure-blood wizard. Joan, Katie's mother, did not approve of any decisions Katie made, and it proved to be true with her reaction to her granddaughter's name.
"Good God, you've named my granddaughter after a cult!" shrieked Katie's mother.
"Mum, honestly," Katie said, sighing. "It's our choice what she's named and she's named Maddie Steffani Lewis. Her middle name is pronounced Stephanie," she added when her mother looked at the birth certificate in shock. "And it's our choice, Bray's and mine. Neither of us have very common names for our time, either, Mum."
"Katie, sweetheart, when that madman came and told us you were a witch, I let it go," she said, "and when you told me you had a boyfriend that was a wizard I accepted that. And when you were married and pregnant at nineteen I was thrilled, overjoyed even. But why name your daughter the most uncommon, despicable name you possibly could?"
Katie burned with rage. It was her daughter and she named her Maddie Steffani Lewis, which she thought was the most beautiful name in the books. "So I suppose you hate the name Maddie and you hate the name Stephanie being spelled the way it is," she said. "I suppose you wish her name was Maddie Katie Braiden Lewis like Talia. I suppose you want to take care of her instead of me." Talia was Katie's cousin. She had two middle names, being her mother and father's first names, respectively.
However, Joan took no notice of what Katie had said—or, rather, she acted as if she took no notice. Instead, she clutched her heart as the baby opened her eyes, revealing almond shaped green eyes. "Good God, Katie! This child…this baby…she is a mutant! She has green eyes! And they're shaped like almonds!"
"So what if her eyes are rare," Katie said uninterestedly. "They're beautiful."
"She looks like Braiden," Joan said sighing, "other than the eyes. I don't know where she got the eyes."
"Mum, will you please stop obsessing over eyes," Katie said. "And so what if she looks like Braiden? What's wrong with looking like her father?"
"Well, she just looks a little…masculine," Joan said as though it were a curse.
"She's barely three hours old, Mum!" Katie said, clearly angry. "And I'd appreciate it if we'd settle the matter here. She's only three hours old, Mum, and she's my daughter. Who really cares if she has eyes shaped like toast, for example? I'm not saying that's possible…" Katie added, seeing her mother's worried look, "…but she'd still be your granddaughter, and you'd be the only person who cares. Or what if her eyes were lavender? Would you really care? Or what if she looked like a house-elf? Still nobody would care, would they?" In her rambling, it hadn't occurred to Katie that her Mum didn't have the slightest clue what a 'house-elf' was, being a Muggle. Katie was a witch that had just finished Wizarding School two years prior and both of her parents had been Muggles, or someone with no magical ability. Her husband was Braiden Lewis, a pureblood wizard, making their daughter what was called a 'half-blood'.
Joan blinked. "Katie Alice, you are—"
"Mum, I'm married. My name is now Katie Lewis."
"You will always be Katie Pamela Alice to me. That is your birthname and I refuse to call you anything else. Now, Katie Alice, you are really thick. I have half a mind to leave you and your daughter and your husband and just leave you indefinitely. You…I don't even know you anymore."
"Because I wanted to name my daughter Maddie Steffani? Well pardon me for wanting something different! If you must know Maddie means 'young, unmarried woman' or 'maiden', and Steffani is 'crown, garland'. To me that means royalty. I expect great things from her and if you can't accept that because I wanted to be original in the naming process then fine. I'm no longer a part of your family than. Oh, and you're one to talk. When I was born, was Katie a common name? No, it was not!"
Joan was shocked into silence and left. Braiden made his entrance once again. "Hi, sweetheart," he said to his wife, kissing her. "I take it things did not go well with your mother?"
"Of course not," Katie said. "She hates Maddie's name. She hates the name Maddie Steffani. She hates her eyes. She hates that she looks like you. And, most importantly, she hates me. I still remember the day the gamekeeper came to tell us I was a witch. My mother grimaced because I was 'abnormal'. Because I was different. And when I became Prefect, she didn't care. Really. Even though I was Muggle-born—and I told her this—she didn't care. She also didn't care when we were both Head Boy and Girl." She stopped, sighing. "I expect big things from her, Bray."
"I'm sorry," he said, talking about Joan Alice. "But she's our child, she realizes that, right?"
"She wants everything picture perfect," said Katie sighing. "Bray, you don't think naming her Maddie Steffani was a mistake, do you?"
"No," Braiden said, shocked. "Not at all. Why do you ask?"
"Well my mother certainly seems to think so," she said with a second sigh. "Perhaps I made a mistake when I shut her out of our lives," she said sadly.
"Nonsense, Kates," Braiden said. "If she can't accept her granddaughter the way she is she has no right to be an authority figure to her or be in her life. Goodness, it's almost like the Nargles got her, isn't it?" At first Katie thought Braiden was talking about their daughter, but then she realized he was still going on about Joan.
"You're not still going on about the existence of Nargles, are you?"
"I'm not the only one who believes, Katie, even Xenophilius Lovegood agrees they're real."
"Well Xenophilius Lovegood is a little bit…batty, Bray." She paused. "I bet she's going to be a great young witch someday," she added.
"Of course," said Braiden. "Because she's related to me."
She punched Braiden in the arm.
Was that chapter okay? I hope it was. Hopefully I didn't bore you to death. Lol. Please review, k thanks. :]