Chapter Two

Unknown Family

The spinning ended just as quickly as it began, making both boys fall on their backs with huge thuds. The students cheers were heard the moment they saw who had the cup even louder when they saw that it was both of them.

Cedric stayed on his back, the wind knocked out of him. Harry was leaning over him chocking on small sobs. A shadow appeared behind Harry, even with the added light from the crowded field Cedric squinted trying to make out who it was with no luck until the shadow spoke.

"Harry-Harry its alright," Cedric heard Dumbledore's voice as he watched the shadow put his arm around the shoulder of the just made out form of Harry.

"No its not, he's back-he's back-Voldemort's back!" Harry sobbed, Cedric felt Harry grip his shoulder so hard Cedric had to bite his lip not to gasp in pain, "Cedric- he-he nearly-he nearly killed Cedric."

Cedric sat up coughing as he reached out feeling the ground beside him, looking for his wand, which he found on the ground right beside him. He looked up as he put his wand back in his pocket and saw the outline of Dumbledore turned toward him, he couldn't make out the look that he gave him but he could hear the concern in his voice when spoke, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Cedric lied as he pushed himself to his feet. He felt Harry still shaking beside him.

Dumbledore turned back to Harry, "Harry, it will be alright."

"You believe me?" Harry asked as he stood up completely.

Dumbledore just looked at him and said, "its alright," he repeated, "You two are safe now."

"Alright, we should get both of you to the hospital wing," Madam Pomfrey's voice nearly made Cedric and Harry jump, "Come along."

Getting passed the two houses, the groups of friends who were trying to get to the two champions proved rather difficult, but slowly they were able to start to make their way towards the castle. Cedric squinted hoping that it would help his sight, but nothing seemed to help. Harry who had finally stopped shaking looked at him for the first time, a question gleaming in his green eyes.

"Cedric- how are you still..." Harry couldn't bring himself to finish the sentence.

I don't know Harry-I don't know," Cedric said keeping his eyes squinted hoping that it help in someway.

Harry finally noticed what he was doing, "Are you alright Cedric?" He asked as they finally reached the castle doors.

"Yeah, my eyes are just blurry, its hard to make anything out," Cedric said as he nearly ran into a wall, he would have to if Harry hadn't pulled him in the other direction.

"Has it been like that since..." Harry began as they made their way through the mostly deserted castle.

"Yes," Cedric finished from him as they started up the stairs, Cedric tripping a few times as they did.

"What a minute, How blurry is blurry, your eyes I mean?" Harry asked as they walked through a door Cedric could only guess was the hospital wing.

"I can see outlines and if they're close enough sometimes I can make out a face," Cedric said as a bed hit the back of his legs and sat down, Harry did the same across from him. Cedric saw two outlines which he assumed must be his parents because they came straight over to him.

"Here," Harry said making Cedric look back towards him just as he felt a hand placed on his shoulder which he knew had to belong to his father, Harry was taking off his glasses, "Try these."

Cedric bit his lip, thinking that it couldn't be that easy, but he took the glasses from the younger boy's hands. The moment he put them on everything came extremely into focus. His parents were starring at him with worry. Just wait until they knew what happened. He looked to Harry who was looking run down but had a small smile playing at his lips, "Better?" he asked.

"Much," Cedric said as he went to take them off but Harry stopped him.

"Keep them, I have more," Harry said pulling out a pair that were in a pocket in his uniform.


It took about fifteen minutes for both Harry and Cedric to get bandaged up and in bed Mr. And Mrs. Diggory still in the room standing back out of the way. Madame Pomfrey had still looked at Cedric's eyes to see if there was anything she could do. She had resized the glasses to make them fit Cedric's face better. There was a chance that Cedric's eyes would get better, but the only thing that would do that was time.

Cedric looked over at Harry, the boy's arm was strung up in a sling, the cut on it was slowly healing. Suddenly a memory sparked in Cedric's mind, "Harry, back there in the grave yard-when you heard them yell-you-you pushed me. You tried to push me out of the way."

Harry nodded, "Yeah, I tried."

"You tried to what?" Dumbledore's voice made both boys jump.

"Hello Professor," Cedric said as his parents finally made their way back over to his bed.

Dumbledore nodded and pointed to the new glasses that now graced the seventeen year olds face, "I see you might have stretched the truth when you told me you were fine."

Cedric winced sheepishly as he touched the rims of his new glasses, "Maybe a little, I thought there were more important things going on at the moment."

Dumbledore smiled and turned to Harry, "Everything is taken care of for now Harry, no more need to worry."

Harry sighed and nodded, "Thank you professor."

"What was it that you were saying when I came in, that you tried to do something?" Dumbledore asked looking from one boy to the other.

Harry sighed again and went into the story, "When we were in that grave yard, when he-when he tried to kill Cedric, I-I pushed him, I tried to get him out of the way."

Both Harry and Cedric told them the whole story each telling what they had seen or in Cedric's case heard. Dumbledore looked very grim when they had finished. He looked up at Cedric's parents and motioned for them to follow him. "We will be back in a moment I need to have a quick talk with your parents Cedric." With that they walked out of the hospital wing.

Cedric and Harry were both quiet for a while, one not sure what to say to the other. Harry was hoping that his friends would come see him but it was late and he was sure that they would not be allowed in the hospital wing until the next morning.

"Harry-," the sound of Cedric's voice made Harry turn to face him. The new glasses looked good on him, in fact Harry thought they looked better on Cedric then they did on him.

"Yes," Harry said not sure what else to say.

"For what its worth...thank you, you saved my life," Cedric said with a small smile playing at his lips.

"I'm not sure I did anything," Harry admitted shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh but you did," the sound of Dumbledore's voice made both boys look to the doors of the wing, they were back, Cedric's parents both smiling from ear to ear.

"What did I do? All I was trying to do was keep Cedric from getting killed, I didn't push him fast enough, he still got hit with the curse," Harry said looking confused.

Cedric winced at the memory and rubbed his right shoulder where a scare that matched Harry's now lay.

"Harry, what were you thinking when you pushed Cedric out of the way?" Dumbledore asked.

Harry looked puzzled, what had he been thinking when he pushed Cedric out of the way? It had all happened so fast. Finally he looked up again and said, "I guess I just knew that Cedric didn't deserve to die that way, I was saying in my head that it should be me."

Dumbledore nodded, "That's what I thought, Harry when you tried to push Cedric out of the way, with that thought in your head, it transferred your mother and father's protective charm from you to him. That's what saved him."

Harry looked at Cedric who seemed to be catching on to something he wasn't because a smile was forming at the corners of his mouth. Harry turned back to Dumbledore, "What protective charm?"

"The charm that helped you get that scare," Dumbledore said, "When your parents knew they were in danger they created a protective charm to put on you, a charm that you and only you could pass on when needed."

Harry still looked confused, "So-that's why when he had me alone in the grave yard-he could touch me. Because I no longer had the charm."

"Yes," Dumbledore said with a smile which confused Harry even more, "When the charm passed to Cedric, Voldemort's curse couldn't touch him, that's why he now has a scare like yours."

Harry was still confused, "So-I had it all this time, and I could pass it on to anyone?"

"Well-that's the thing. You can only pass on family charms to well-family," Mr. Diggory said with a smile as he gently patted Cedric on the shoulder.

"Only family-but that doesn't make any sense, Cedric isn't my family," Harry said and then added, "I mean we're friends but-."

"Harry my boy-there is something you don't know," Dumbledore said slowly as came forward to stand between the boys beds.

"What do you mean something I don't know?" Harry asked, he was more confused then ever.

"Your father had a sister," Dumbledore began.

"My father, no you mean my mother, I know, I live with her," Harry said bitting his lip not sure where this was going.

"I'm not talking about her Harry, yes your mother had a sister who was a muggle, but I'm talking about your father's sister, the one you met when you were one and haven't seen since." Dumbledore said gazing around the room, he smiled at the expression on Harry's face.

"My dad, had a sister?" Harry's green eyes were wide in surprise.

Dumbledore nodded, "Yes, When you were one your father and mother went to visit them, it was August, two months before they were killed. You and your older cousin seemed to get along quit well. When your parents died, you were taken to your mothers family, we thought you would be safer there. Then when the time came for you to come to school, you were assigned hall watchers, students who knew your story but you didn't know they were watching you."

"You had a hall watcher from each house, I was your Hufflepuff watcher," Cedric said, it seemed he knew way more then Harry did. "For while he was in school Oliver Wood was your hall watcher and dorm watcher. I'm not sure about the other two houses." he turned back to Dumbledore.

"Okay so he was my hall watcher, how does that make him related to me?" Harry asked, he was a little annoyed that people had been watching him behind his back but he had to admit he felt a lot safer knowing that they had.

"Have you not been listening to the story Harry?" Dumbledore asked with a smile, "Your father's sister had a son, you were both close even though you only met each other one summer and your cousin goes to Hogwarts."

Harry was still confused, but then he suddenly understood, his mouth dropped open and he looked to Cedric, "Are you-?"

Cedric laughed and nodded his glasses sliding a little, "Yes Harry, your father's sister is my mother. I'm your cousin."