For Sam. I hope you will like it.
Hermione/Cedric
Words: dance
TGS Scavenger Hunt.
Word count:632
Cedric had wanted to go to Hogwarts ever since he was a little kid. His friend had told him that they would meet at Hogwarts. And there he will find out her name. He liked her very much. She was always there when he needed her to be.
He had first met her when he was five and he had hurt his knee while chasing after the family cat. And there she was. And she had never left ever since.
Still, she had never told him her name either. She said that she couldn't. It was dangerous enough what she was doing, but she couldn't just give up. He didn't understand what she meant by that, but she had said that in time he will.
He hoped so. And he hoped that one day he will understand why she looked so pained each time she looked at him while she thought he wasn't paying attention. But he did. His mother had taught him to always be attentive to the other's emotions.
And now he was here. He was on his way to get sorted into his Hogwarts house. He hoped to get into Gryffindor, her house. She hadn't exactly told him,but he had figured it out. Once, on his birthday,she had come with a red and gold scarf. It had disappeared fast, but he had seen it.
"Diggory,Cedric" had called the lady with green robes. Professor McGonagall his friend had said. She looked like someone one wouldn't want to cross.
Cedric walked confidently towards the Hat. He would anything for his friend and he wanted to be brave for her. It was something that a Gryffindor did,right?
"You are correct, . It is indeed something that a Gryffindor would do,but it is also a thing that a Hufflepuff does. A great road awaits you ahead. You are going to make Helga proud, my dear boy. And you only can do this in…"
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Hufflepuff, he had been sorted into Hufflepuff. But he wasn't disappointed, he couldn't be when she wasn't.
And he had their meeting to look forward to. The real meeting, she had said. When she would be the one to meet him for the very first time.
Cedric had seen her near his bed, smiling, unseen by the rest of his dorm mates. Sometimes he wondered if she was just the result of his imagination, but she just couldn't be. She felt too real.
He had got the answer to his wish
three years later when he had spotted a mini Mia, the name he had given her in his mind, standing in line with the first years waiting to get sorted. Cedric couldn't believe that she actually was younger than him. He had always seen her as older...a teenager, not… younger.
But now that he was older he understood her words perfectly. She was a time traveller, and somehow he was an important person to her.
So with a smile on his face and hope in his heart that he will finally elucidate the mystery that surrounded his childhood friend he watched one Hermione Granger get sorted into Gryffindor.
Still it was hard to see her less and less as the years passed and the other she grew up.
The last time he had seen her was at the end of the summer. She had come in a stunning blue dress asking for a dance.
And they had danced under the moonlight all night,making him love her more than he already did.
She had kissed him goodbye, as if she knew about his growing feelings and had told him to be patient, because very soon he will understand and that she hoped that he will make the right choice.
And so did Cedric.