Chapter Three

"Thomas, Anne" Called McGonagall, in her ever confident and tight voice.

The small, eleven year old girl, heardly short for her age, but who didn't seem to be growing much more than that, stood from the crowd, and walked to the sorting hat. Her brown curls, were shinning from the light of the floating candles around her, shwing a various number of browns, nothing too diffrent from the main colour, but with the light they seemed to golden a bit. The hat fell on her head softly and she bit her lips waiting for his judgement.

Ah... I see... well, you'd make a fine Hufflepuff...I see a treak of courage and loyalty in you, but it is your mind that over rules it all. A very bright mind, I could add. If it were not for it, I'd out you in Hufflepuff, for compassion is not something you lack, child... but never the less, it is your main traids I must consider... having the mind, spirit and wit of a

RAVENCLAW! It yelled through the room, and the girl smiled with relief. She was not exactly sure was she found heerself to be reliefed after all, she wasn't exactly expected to be in any particular house, but the thought of her brother being in another house did give her some pleasure.

She was soon joined by her new friend, Meredith and they together started what would be a very nice year at Hogwarts.

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The first time cedric and Anne talked, must have been in their second year. Anne was late to class, and was forced to sit in he Hufflepuff zone, since the seats beside her friends had already been taken. She sat by a boy she usually saw surrounded by friends, who were now sitting a few seats behind him, grinning at him.

She sat down, and unpacked her things with a growing disconfort. She didn't really know any of the Hufflepuff boys, and she only knew a few girls from her year and the first year, so she had no ideia what to say to him. She knew his name was Diggory and they were obviously on the same year but other than that, she was clueless. But he, unlike her, felt no shame on talking to her.

"Hello, I'm Cedric Diggory, and since we're sitting together guess we'll have to work together in this class" He talked with a calm yet cheerful voice, with a hint of... what was it? Anne couldn't quite place it, but she felt both annoyed and amused by it.

"Nicely observed, Diggory" She muttured and opened her book. She didn't mean it in a mean way, but she couldn't really help herself.

"Ah... and what's your name?" Cedric was a bit taken by her answer but he had to work with the girl so her name at the very least.

"Thomas, Anne Thomas" She finally broke out a smile and started writing down the problem they were supposed to be solving.

Cedric smiled at her smile. She had a nice smile he htought. He then kicked himself. Girls were boring! All they did was talk about fashion and stupid things like flowers and stuff. But non the less, she had a nice smile...

From there, their relationship was pretty much that, and was kept only inside the classroom in ocassional group work together. It wasn't until the fourth year that things began to change for them...

End of Chapter

Yeah, it's short but I didn't want to start it all here. I still need to think how I'l going to do it. Anyway, sudden memory failure, was Cedric in his fifth year during the Tri Wizard Tournament?? He was right?

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