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Author's Note: Thanks to everyone's continued support! For simplicity sakes (since the Cup takes up a few chapters) I just had everyone arrive the same day (meaning, Seamus isn't already there). Sorry if it bugs anyone! Oh, and if there are any native Irish speakers, sorry for any grammatical mistakes. I'm not a native speaker (mores the pity).

Ch. 2: Wearing O' the Green

The next two weeks were spent in a flurry of activity waiting for the cup. Emma's father was extremely busy seeing to the needs and comforts of all the foreign dignitaries. Emma had practices more often than not, and in her free time, she and Ivan would hang out. He helped her with her Bulgarian, she showed him the sites of London and Ireland.

The day before the cup, Ivan's mysterious friend showed up. Of course he's friends with Victor Krum. Of all the people in Bulgaria, who would have thought Krum would show up on my doorstep? Emma thought. Everyone in the world would like to meet him, and now they are all going to think I am fostering the enemy, the competition, Emma laughed over the last thought.

"Thank you very much for allowing me to come," Viktor said in his thick Bulgarian accent and gave a bow. "I hope this doesn't give you any problems."

Emma shook her head. "Do not worry yourself. It is a pleasure to meet you! It is an honor to have you in our house."

Emma enjoyed Viktor's company. She could sense he was confident but not overly arrogant. Viktor was equally shocked that Emma could speak in Bulgarian.

"You speak our language well."

"Oh, I don't know about that! My vocabulary is still extremely small," Emma said.

"Perhaps, but your accent almost sounds like a native speaker," Krum said.

"Thank you."

"Emma has learned to adopt to different accents. Comes from being a political brat," Ivan said.

"So you have traveled a lot then?" Krum asked.

Emma nodded. "Almost everywhere, it seems."

"I have seen a lot as well from playing quidditch, but for me it was a conscious choice," Krum said.

Krum left that night since the team was suppose to be in bed by a certain time. Emma went to bed early as well, knowing that they would be leaving before dawn to get there.

The next day Emma and her father arrived at the campsite before dawn. Since it was a weekend long event, everyone would be arriving early to get as much fun and partying as possible.

Emma's father had the tent set up, and they hung their Irish memorabilia outside. There was no mistaking who they were supporting.

"Now Emma, please be careful. If there is an emergency, then get beyond the anti-apparition boundaries and apparate home," Riley said. "And whatever you do-don't provoke the Bulgarians too much, dear," he teased. "You know how riled up they can get."

Emma laughed. "Aye, after living with them I do." She gave her dad a kiss goodbye. "I'm off to rally the troops then," she said and waved as she ran off just as the sun was thinking about rising.

Emma had walked to the place where people were using portkey's to arrive. Brigit and another girl were rounding up and checking on the people apparating in.

She saw some people arrive– like Cillian and Devon– and was waiting for more.

Brigit came up to her and they compared who they had already seen arrive.

"Okay, so I will wait for Cedric, Ginny, and Seamus. Figures my line are the last to arrive," Emma said and rolled her eyes.

Brigit smiled. "Its nice to know at least one of you guys can arrive on time!" She teased.

"Don't worry, they will be here. Do you think Padraig (A/N: Gaelic form of "Patrick" and Seamus' big brother) will come with Seamus? I would love to see him again. Especially if he is going to dance with us! That would be grand."

Emma nodded. "I would love to meet the legendary Padraig. Well, I'll send them over when they arrive"

"Okay, see you soon-I hope," Brigit waved and walked off.

Emma turned around and was walking back when she saw a large group of redheads.

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Harry was walking with the Weasley's after they got to the portkey arrival check-in.

Just as Amos Diggory and Arthur were saying goodbye, Harry saw a flurry of blonde hair. He turned around just in time to see Emma rush up and jump into's Cedric's arms.

"You are finally here!" She said. "Brigit has been giving me a hard time that my line is the only one that hadn't arrived."

"We're last?" Cedric teased. "Surely someone is going to arrive after me."

"Well, Seamus still hasn't arrived yet," Emma said. Cedric set her back on the ground.

"Dia dhuit, a Amos. Dia dhuit, a Arthur," Emma said with a small curtsey

"Dia is Muir dhuit," Amos and Arthur responded. Harry had no idea what they were saying.

"You will hurry to the others, won't you, Cedric?" She teased. "Knowing you, you'll dawdle and then I'll be forced to come find you again instead of showing off my new shoes."

"Heaven forbid!" Cedric said with a grin. Harry was surprised; he didn't know Emma and Cedric knew each other, let alone they were close enough to joke around.

"You'll be there too, Ginny? Just because Seamus can't tell time doesn't mean you can't come now. I know you said you weren't sure if you felt comfortable enough," Emma said. "It will be fun, and you will be great," Emma said reassuringly.

"I'll be along later, perhaps," Harry heard Ginny say and she looked up to her father to see if he said it was okay.

Arthur nodded his approval. "Indeed, I should be happy to see how you are all doing these days, wouldn't you Amos? It seems like it has been so long since we were doing that ourselves. I believe Bill and Charlie would like to join in too."

"Of course! It would be an honor to have you-all of you- join! I look forward to seeing you later then." Harry noticed she gave Ginny another reassuring smile and gave Cedric a hug before she left. Cedric gave Emma a peck on top of her head and she whispered something in his ear before she left that made him laugh.

"What did she say?" Ron asked and Harry knew he had noticed the whole exchange as well.

"Just telling me what she would do to me if I didn't show up on time," Cedric said with a grin.

"I wouldn't laugh– she'll do it too." Ginny warned.

"I know," Cedric said. "You will come, right Ginny? Emma will keep pestering you until you do."

"I will later after we get settled in," she promised.

"Good, now I'm going to see when Seamus and Padraig are suppose to come to let Emma know. See you later, Gin. Bye Harry! Bye Mr. Weasley." Cedric said and with a wave he was gone in the crowd with his father.

"What was that all about?" Ron asked. "And since when did you know Cedric and he called you 'Gin'" Ron asked sounding incredulous.

"Honestly, Ron, don't you know anything?" Fred said which made Harry and Hermione blink. That was usually Hermione's line.

"Well, why don't you enlighten me?" Ron said.

"They are– well, I don't know if we should say," George said.

"True, George, just because we aren't part of the secret doesn't mean we can go about telling it, now can we?" Fred said.

"True Fred. Besides, Ron's face is turning a lovely shade of maroon right about now," George pointed out.

"Ginny, what is going on?" Ron asked.

"Nope, sorry Ron, not telling," Ginny said with a huge grin.

"But you're a part of whatever it is! How do I know if it is okay for you to do it?" Ron asked.

"Honestly Ron, you can be so dense sometimes. Everyone else knows, they could have stopped me any time," Ginny said and went after Fred and George.

"Hermione? Has Ginny said anything to you?" Harry asked.

Hermione shook her head. "No, she hasn't said anything to me about it. Maybe if we go with her later to see where she's going we'll figure it out," Hermione suggested.

"Yes! We'll follow her until she tells us what she's hiding!" Ron vented.

"Honestly Ronald. She was right. Whatever it is, it seems your whole family already knows about it, so if it was anything bad then they would have stopped her," Hermione said.

"But why don't I know about it?" Ron complained.

Harry just shrugged. "Don't know."

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Professor Epona-- Thanks! I think year 4 will be interesting :)

SongxOfxGlory-- Thanks! Their friendship does/will start to build now that he knows her a little better.

KRP-- I'll have Emma buy Sirius some shoes :) And yup, Krum is definetly someone you'll recognize :)

Amarthiel-- The "snog" chapter is definetly this year (Does happy dance)! That's all I can promise . . .

AnimeCrazy-- yes, I can also promise Sirius will make an appearance :)