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Chapter 4

Cedric walks out of class after the most memorable Divination he has ever had. Jimmy turned out to be a lot more interesting than weird and more importantly, just what Roger needs. He loves feeling like he's helped two people; it gives him a sort of "my-hands-feel-just-like-two-balloons" feeling.

"I don't think I can do this." Jimmy confesses, abruptly interfering Cedric's thoughts of being a good matchmaker.

"Already!" Cedric exclaims, shocked. "But you haven't even tried yet."

"I hate being set up. Emily, Ginny, my own family, everyone has tried to arrange me with some guy or the other, it just doesn't work that way for me." Jimmy complains.

"But you actually like Roger." Cedric points out.

"That just makes me ever more nervous." Jimmy justifies. "I think that a relationship is only possible if it forms on it's own. Not because of other external forces."

"Be honest here," Cedric convinces, "are you going to go up to Roger and talk to him so that a relationship forms on it's own?"

"Yea…no, I don't know." Jimmy gives up. "I just don't want it to be obvious."

"Don't worry, I will make it possible in such a way that Roger will start to like you." Cedric promises.

"That's impossible." Jimmy becomes irritable.

"I will make it possible." Cedric repeats. "Don't worry, it's not like one of those stupid makeover shows. I will just tell you how to act like the kind of girl Roger favors until you actually get him." Cedric isn't acting like himself.

"But isn't that deception?" Jimmy says, worried.

Cedric smiles, he completely forgot that Jimmy actually cares about stuff like that, since she actually likes him. He understands her point, but doubts there is any other way.

"It's the only way." Cedric concludes. "I'm going to run for a chat with Roger. We'll talk more about this in detention tonight."

"Eh!" She reacts.

"Snape gave someone a detention for dropping his potion, me for provoking him to drop his potion, and you for provoking me to provoke him to drop the potion." Cedric rambles, confusing himself and using his fingers to try to explain his explanation.

Jimmy, although extremely baffled, pushes the reason aside and asks, "Where?"

"He mentioned the other bloke cleaning up the trophy room, but we're helping Hagrid with something." He responds.

"That's good. I love that man." Jimmy sighs.

"Yeah, uh, me too." Cedric replies, making Jimmy laugh.

They exchange goodbyes and head for their common rooms.

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Roger Davies stares at himself in the mirror while Cedric talks about something extremely boring, like muggle boxes with moving pictures in them or something.

"Get out of my dorm, mate. You're not in my house." Roger tells Cedric, not taking his eyes off the mirror.

"I'm always here. I know the passwords better than you do." Cedric counters.

Cedric decides that he's wasted too much time in Roger's dorm and it may seem quite strange, so he starts to discover what he came to the dorm for.

"Hey, Rog, what do you think about that girl, Jimmy Towne?" Cedric asks completely innocently.

"The one who ran away from you?" Roger chides. Cedric rolls his eyes. "She's weird." Roger decides.

"Why?" Cedric wants to know.

"I don't know. She's always smiling to herself. The other day I saw her and her friend, the one Cho said she was a lesbian with, climbing on that statue of the one-eyed witch with the hump." Roger recalls, taming his hair.

Ah, the rumor. Cedric hated that rumor. The only reason he was hesitant to ask Cho out was because she started that vicious rumor. It was clearly untrue, especially because Jimmy went through a phase where she was obsessed with some muggle musician. She kept talking about how she wanted to marry him and do other things with him that should not be put in words. Cedric remembers this because Marcus Flint killed her about it because she is a pure blood and should not be infatuated with a muggle.

"What if she wasn't so weird?" Cedric inquires, a desperate tone in his voice. "What would you think of her then?"

"I can't picture her not being strange. But I guess she's okay looking. She never really seemed like the type to care about her appearance." Roger says while touching a spot on his face that he fears is a pimple.

"Is that a bad thing that she doesn't care about her appearance?" Cedric wonders out loud. He sometimes found himself annoyed with Cho because he had never seen her without makeup or obvious symptoms of intense preparation for their encounter.

"Well, yea. I mean, who wants someone who doesn't care about them enough to not bother to primp herself up." Roger validates.

Cedric wants to laugh. Roger doesn't care if a girl doesn't care about him, he just wants them to look really tart all the time. That's why Jimmy will be a good influence on him. But she'll have a lot of changing to do…

"Okay, so if she makes an effort to cover herself in cosmetics, starts acting a bit more likeable and becomes more social, would you like her?" Cedric asks, searching for a final answer.

"Well, unless she's secretly a man, I don't see why not." Roger responds nonchalantly.

Cedric knew Roger would not ask him why he was asking so many odd questions because he's in front of a mirror. Cedric is impressed with his cleverness. Now all he has to do is turn Jimmy into a girl Roger would like.

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"Uh-uh, no way." Jimmy informs Cedric as she scans the forest for flobberworms. Hagrid ran out and he needed them to hunt for some more. "I'm not changing my habits for a guy. In case you haven't noticed, I am a pureblood. I may not boast about it like the Slytherins, nor do I really care about the type of blood, but if there's anything I have, it's pride, and don't you say that's a bad thing."

"But it's not about being a pureblood." Cedric protests as he bumps into a tree.

"I know it's not, I was just giving you an example to why I have pride. I love muggles." She adds.

"Yes, I love muggles too but you're getting off the point again." He reminds her.

"That's because I don't like the point. It's a bad point. It's inhumane, mate! Think about it. You're asking someone to stop liking everything they already like and stop acting the way they do. I can't control the way I look to people, I'm just alive!" Jimmy cries throwing her arms in the air, with light humor in her voice.

Cedric underestimated how stubborn she could be. He needs to come up with something convincing, and fast.

"Listen," Jimmy interrupts him before he can open his mouth, "why do you care so much? It's just a stupid crush, and probably improbable."

"It's not just a stupid crush. No one works that hard for small pieces of information unless they really like a person a lot. Think about this: it is your last year at Hogwarts. There are so many things that you haven't done, are you really going to let Roger live completely oblivious to you? Completely unaware of everything you've done? You want to experience, right? This is an experience you've been anticipating, which makes it even better. Ten years from now, you'll regret it and think about all the things that could have happened." Cedric lets out, all in one breath. He wonders why he's so passionate about the subject.

Jimmy is impressed with Cedric's words. He's right; regrets are horrible things. If she changes herself for Roger, it will just be a phase, right? It's not like she'll permanently change. She'll just change on the surface and once she becomes more comfortable, she'll just unintentionally change back into herself. Plus, it will be fun.

"Fine," Jimmy concludes, "I guess it will be fun."

"Brill." Cedric laughs and nods, until he trips over a vine. Jimmy laughs at him as she watches him struggle. After she photographs the image in her head, she helps him up. For someone so burly, he really felt very light. "You didn't have to wait so long, you know." He tells her. "I will get my revenge."

"No you won't."

"Yes, I will."

"No, you won't"

"Yes, I will."

"Shut up, you crackerjack." Cedric hits her with a flobberworm.

At first, Jimmy is shocked. She'd never been hit with a flobberworm before. It wasn't a hit that hurt, but it was just gross. "I cannot believe you just hit me with a flobberworm," she confessed, "you're supposed to be a gentleman!"

"I told you should stop believing what everyone tells you." He argues, not feeling guilty about the flobberworm.

"I would hit you back with one if they weren't so bloody disgusting." Jimmy responds, scrunching her nose.

"You should learn how to appreciate nature more." Cedric says as though he's the Dalai Lama's right hand man.

"I appreciate nature, not flobberworms." Jimmy points out.

"Flobberworms are nature," Cedric insists, "just because they're ugly, doesn't mean they're not nature."

"Like Millicent Bullstrode?" Jimmy laughs.

Cedric's expression is disapproving. "She's really nice once you get to know her."

"Have you gotten to know her?" Jimmy challenges.

"No, but I'm sure she's a wonderful person." Cedric answers in a softer tone of voice.

Jimmy simply laughs. She's never had so much fun before with anyone who isn't Emily or her parents. Cedric always seemed like a bore to her, since he's supposed to be so perfect and everything. She felt really comfortable with him, like she could say whatever she wants, no matter how strange, and Cedric would just laugh and try to make sense of it. There was nothing reserved about their conversations. Ever since Jimmy started to like Roger, she felt that she always had to hide something and not talk because of the fear that someone would find out. Very rarely does she meet anyone she doesn't have any secrets with. Cedric and her only started talking today and she already felt like they'd been friends forever. Jimmy is surprised she hasn't come up with a crazy, untrue story to tell Cedric yet. She does that to a lot of people to try to get a laugh out of them, but none of that is necessary with Cedric.

"You and Roger would be perfect for each other, always picking on people you don't even know." Cedric shakes his head.

Right, Roger. Jimmy completely forgot about that plan. She would have to work hard to pretend to be somebody. It was as though someone dropped a stone in her heart. She hates being constricted to acting a certain way, but that's only temporary, she keeps reminding herself. Plus, she'd always have people like Cedric and Emily and her parents she could joke with after all the pretending was done.

"I know what you're thinking," says Cedric, looking at her and reading her mind, "You don't want to pretend to be someone else. Its a royal pain."

"Yea, it is." She replies, shocked once again of his ability.

"You don't have to pretend to be anybody. You just have to prepare yourself more for Roger. He's very picky." Cedric lies. Roger was the least picky bloke on the planet; he's with someone new everyday.

"But he's with someone new everyday." Jimmy remembers.

"But he's very picky about those people." Cedric tries to save himself. Jimmy hits him with a flobberworm and Cedric just laughs.

They are in the Forbidden Forest, a place Cedric feared even before he came to Hogwarts, but he was more amused than scared. Cedric doesn't know why he thinks Jimmy is so funny. She's just so clumsy and bursting with never-seen-before antics. People usually always expect something from him, but Jimmy doesn't even care that much about pressuring him about Roger. He's actually being more persuasive than she is. He's known her for barely a day and his original opinion of her has changed so much that he can't even believe it is the same person who smiles to herself when she gets stuck in that troublesome step.

"I think we have enough flobberworms. They're weapons, they really are. A hundred years from now I can see people using flobberworms instead of swords. If the Goblins had used this in their rebellion, they wouldn't have fought for so bloody long. I think next time Cho Chang walks by, I might hit her with a flobberworm." Jimmy stops dead after she realizes that Cedric's going out with her. "I'm just kidding," Jimmy tells Cedric's pained expression, "I know you're together."

"She's really a lot nicer than she seems. I know you must hate her because of those rumors (Jimmy cringes), but she's really changed." Cedric justifies. "You need to settle out your priorities with each other."

Jimmy just decides to change the topic from there. She would never sort out her priorities with her, not unless she got an apology first.

"Yer all dun'?" Hagrid asks the two students.

"Jah," Jimmy replies, hitting Hagrid with a flobberworm. Hagrid laughs as Cedric tells him about the new weapon of mass destruction.

"Yeh can try it with me skrewts." Hagrid suggests. The mention of those creatures send both students running back to the castle.