AN: Hi everyone :D This is my first fanfiction ever! Tell me what you think!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything! Harry Potter and all the characters belong to J.K. Rowling. Now On With The Story! :D
Story keys:
-Blah- Extract from the book
-Blah- Spells
-Blah- Normal speech
-Blah-Thoughts
-Blah- Parseltounge
Somewhere in between – By Mysteria Malfoy
"We'll take it at the same time. It's still a Hogwarts victory. We'll tie for it." Cedric stared at Harry. He unfolded his arms.
"You — you sure?"
"Yeah," said Harry. "Yeah . . . we've helped each other out, haven't we? We both got here. Let's just take it together." For a moment, Cedric looked as though he couldn't believe his ears; then his face split in a grin.
"You're on," he said. "Come here." He grabbed Harry's arm below the shoulder and helped Harry limp toward the plinth where the cup stood. When they had reached it, they both held a hand out over one of the cup's gleaming handles.
"On three, right?" Said Harry. "One – two – three – " He and Cedric both grasped a handle. Instantly, Harry felt a jerk somewhere behind his navel. His feet left the ground. He could not unclench the hand holding the Triwizard Cup; it was pulling him onward I a howl of wind and swirling color, Cedric at his side. (Harry Potter and the goblet of fire page 634-635)
Chapter one – What happened?
Harry landed hard on the ground, face first. He groaned quietly and slowly stood up while taking a look around, Cedric doing the same.
"Where are we?" asked Cedric after a while. "It looks like a graveyard, think it is a part of the task?"
"Yeah…it does…." agreed Harry. "But… don't you recon they should have told us if it was a second part?"
"You are probably right… Wait did you hear that?" whispered Cedric drawing his wand, Harry copying and slowly turning towards the sound. At the edge of the forest a figure was making its way towards them carrying a small bundle. As the figure drew closer they could hear his, because it was a man, wheezing breaths. Harry and Cedric locked their wands at the man and waited for him to make a move. Suddenly a high, cold, rasping voice spoke.
"Kill the spare!"
"Avada Kedavra"
As the green light of the killing curse speed towards Cedric and before Harry even thoguth about it, he had pointed his wand at Cedric.
"Petrificus Totalus" thought Harry as he jumped in front of the green light and his world went black. Cedric at the other hand was petrified; lying lifeless-looking and stiff as a board on the ground behind a tombstone with Harry lying sprawled on top of him. To the wheezing man, who turned out to be Peter Pettigrew, it looked like both of the Hogwarts champion died and he didn't bother giving the petrified boy another look as he roughly grabbed Harry Potters body, slit his arm and collected some of his blood before dumping the dead body on top of Cedric again.
"The ritual will work anyway, I just need to be quick about it and use Potters blood while it is still fresh…Yes, yes that will work!" thought Peter and started the ritual that would once again let Voldemort wreak havoc at the world.
-O-O-
From the point where Harry had petrified him, Cedric was terrified. He didn't know what had happened. First it was the cup which turned out to be a portkey and then the green light accompanied with the petrification curse Harry threw at him. Suddenly he was lying petrified on the ground; Harry sprawled on top of him and a wheezing man taking blood from Harry's dead body. The part that freaked him out the most was the dull green, lifeless eyes of Harry Potter gazing into his own.
"What is going on? Everything happened so fast… I can't move and H-Harry is dead! Dead because he took a curse which was meant for me…" though Cedric with sorrow. In the corner of his eye Cedric see something that was moving – something big was happening. "Okay, I have got to pay attention! That man just cut of his own hand?! Eww! That's Harrys blood you rat-faced-bastard! What is that? A snakeman? OMG! That is Voldemort! And deatheaters! Okay he is coming my way… don't breath and stare straight ahead! Please, PLEASE believe I'm dead!" Cedric stopped breathing but couldn't stop trembling as Lord Voldemort drew nearer – If he discovered that Cedric was still alive, he would very soon be seeing Harry again. "Please! This can not be the end for me! Harry sacrificed himself so that I could live, I have to repay that and make sure everyone knows what happened and who did it – if not for the safety of the world then for the memory of Harry Potter, an extraordinary boy who only wanted to live a normal life."
-O-O-
The creature that now was Voldemort looked at his followers and said, almost hissed, with a high, cold, rasping voice:
"My loyal followerssss, I am mosssst pleassssed that sssso many of you anssssswered my call tonight!" Voldemort then turned to the two dead boys on the ground.
"Ssssuch pity, ssssuch losssss…" He hissed softly in his high, cold, rasping voice. "Ssssee what happenssss to thosssse foolssss who opposssse ussss? No-one will sssstand in our way! Accio portkey!" The Triwizard Cup flew from the ground where it had landed and Voldemort directed it towards Harry and Cedric. When the cup touched the boys they vanished in a swirl of color and Voldemort once again turned to his deatheaters, never noticing the moving eyes or the trembling body of Cedric Diggory.
"Nothing will ssssstop ussss now! The Boy-Who-Lived issss dead!"
-O-O-
When Harry woke up everything was white, blinding white, and he was stark naked. He looked around wondering where he was and he found himself thinking it would be nice with some clothes and maybe an explanation of what had happened. Suddenly it was like a gust of wind blew away the white fog surrounding him and the next thing Harry knew he was standing in front of a small two story house. He looked around and discovered that he now was wearing clothes once again and it made him feel much better as he started walking towards the house. Light was coming from a window and Harry walked over and took a look inside. He gasped in shock because inside there was two people: one man and one woman. The man was clad in red robes with golden linings and had hazel brown eyes, black hair and glasses. He was reading a book in a black sofa and sitting next to him was a woman with the greenest eyes Harry had ever seen. She had deep read hair, a long slender figure and she was clad in similar looking robes as the man. At Harrys gasp she looked up and stared at him. Then she seemed to regain her senses as she jumped up and ran to the door, ripped it open and was hugging Harry before he knew what happened. The man was looking in the direction the woman disappeared to with a slightly confused expression.
"Harry, my Harry!" The woman said over and over again, crying and laughing alternately.
"Who…What… When… Who are you?" asked Harry perplexed. The woman cupped Harry's cheeks and looked into his eyes, tears still present in her own.
"I'm Lilly Potter, Harry. I am your mother and I have missed you so much, my son" Lilly said fondly. Harrys mind was in a blank state. That was his mother. Then the man had to be his father, but what was he, Harry, doing here? Then everything that happened in the graveyard came rushing back to Harry and he too started crying.
"M – Mum, am I dead?" he asked softly not really wanting to know the answer.
"No, Harry dear, you are not. This place is the in between. A place where people who has seen the light, so to speak, are transported before they are returned to the world of the living. Your father and I are here to explain a few things to you." Lily explained. "Let's go inside and continue this discussion together with your father, he would hate to miss your visit."
Inside they were met by a very enthusiastic James Potter (once he understood what was going on) and after getting tea Harrys parents began to tell him all about what happened. About what had happened after he was hit with the killing curse at the grave yard, which included an explanation of what a horcrux was and how it was possible for Harry to be one let alone survive the killing curse because of it! They also told him about the prophecy and was firm in their decision that he would, starting when he got back to Hogwarts, live his life as he wanted and not to try and please everyone around him. They convinced him to try pranking (James was especially adamant about that, much to Lilly's and Harry's amusement) and ordered him get away from the Dursley's and maybe try dating a girl or two. As their time together came to an end Harry hugged his parents one last time before he felt the fog surround him again and the next time he opened his eyes he was back in the graveyard but this time something was wrong. It was empty and he couldn't find his body.
"I do not think this was what my parents had in mind when they told me to start anew… What am I supposed to do now?"
AN: How is it so far? All types of comments are appreciated :D Thanks for reading and I hoped you liked it! I've made some minor changes by adding a few paragraphs and I hope you like it and that the spelling improved!
Until next time
OXOX
Mysteria Malfoy