Thanks for continuing to join me on this journey, I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am. Much love RSD xoxoxoxo.


When I woke up in the morning I felt tired even though that I had used my sleeping draught however I put this down to being up late into the night with Cedric. My mind wandered to last night when we were spending time together. My face quickly spread into a grin at this and I quickly stretched in bed. I quickly got out bed and got my clothes before tip toeing into the bathroom as I noticed that I had woken up earlier than Lavender and Padma and I wanted to not have another awkward encounter with Lavender. I quickly got ready and dressed and left the bathroom; when I got back into the room Lavender and Padma was awake. I smiled at both of them before returning my things, locking them away, picking up my book I was reading last night and left the room without another word.

When I walked into the common room there wasn't that many people in so I decided to sit down by the fire and read my book. I was just getting into reading about elf rights and how a elf started off with being with a family when I hear a familiar cough.

"Yes?" I said still not looking over my book.

"You coming down for breakfast today?" I heard Ron say. I glanced up to see that the common room was really busy now and I laughed to myself at the fact that I had absorbed myself so much in my book that I didn't even notice.

"Yes, sorry I got a bit carried away" I said smiling as I closed the book.

"Don't you always" he said.

"Ronald!" I answered back.

"Come on Hermione, I'm kidding. I know nothing can come between you and your house elves at the moment" he laughed.

"Very funny Ron" I remarked. "Let's go to breakfast".

Me, Harry and Ron walked to the Great Hall talking about our first lesson with Professor Moody. We were all excited as other students who have already had his lessons loved their lessons and couldn't wait to go back - strangley.

"What do you think he is going to teach us?" I asked when walking down the last staircase.

"I don't know but I bet it is good. Fred and George were raving about how he was amazing and that he had seen it all" he replied.

"He is a bit batty though" Ron added shortly after.

As we entered the Great Hall I noticed people were looking in my general direction. I acted like I didn't care - which I didn't and sat down next to Ginny.

"Are you ok?" I asked when I saw her face.

"Yes" she quickly answered back.

"You sure, it doesn't look that way" Harry said as he dropped onto the bench next to Ron in front of me and Ginny.

"You haven't seen this morning's paper yet have you?" she asked to which we all shook our heads. To this she sighed and dropped a copy of this morning's Daily Prophet in front of us. We both looked down and we faces dropped into shock when we saw the headline.


Harry Potter's Second Secret Heartache by Rita Skeeta

When the year started it looked as if everything was going well for Harry Potter; he had finally got the girl that he has always wanted and he thought he was finally was going to have a quiet year. That was until he found about the Triwizard tournament and hoodwinked the twiwizard cup to become one of four of the champions.

After an exclusive interview with Harry Potter last week Harry confided that he feels as if his parents and girlfriend will be really proud of him.

"I suppose I get my strength from my parents - I know what they would be proud of me if they could see me now. Yes,sometimes at night I do cry about them and I am not afraid to admit it. I just only wish they were with me now so I could show them the person that I have grown up to be. I guess I'm glad that I have such an amazing girlfriend who is always there for me and who sits with me in the common room late into the night with me to help me deal with this".

After asking Harry what did he think of his chances in the tournament he laughed this off and shrugged.

"I hope to win, who doesn't! But I know I will be ok and that nothing will hurt me as my parents will be watching over me".

When questioned about him and his mystery girlfriend Harry's face lit up.

"I don't really want to talk to much about my love life at the moment as we want to keep it private but I can say that I like the way thing are going" he said as he started to blush red with embarrassment.

However it doesn't take a genius to work out who this secret girl is. A close friend to Harry Potter, Colin Creevy, stated that Harry is rarely seen without the company of one Hermione Granger, a pretty muggle-born girl, who like Harry is one of the top students their year. It has also been noticed that the pair has only became close when Harry entered the Twiwizard tournament.

This was until a couple of days ago however a further source can now reveal that Harry Potter has is now dealing with his second secret heartache!

Miss Granger, a very plain but clearly ambitious girl, is now seen to be developing an acquired taste for famous wizards. It would now seem that she has now set her sights somewhere else! Her latest prey is no other than the Bulgarian Bonbon Victor Krum. There has been no further word yet on how Harry Potter is taking this latest blow in his life. We can all only hope that she broke it off gently to help heal his broken heart.

Will Miss Granger fall into the Bonbon's arms or will she drift onto the next man as quick as she has deserted her last? One source, who wishes to remain anonymous, can reveal that Hermione sits in the library for hours on end with the Bonbon endlessly flirting with him. Only time will tell if this is a blossoming romance. So watch this space folks!


As I could read alot quicker than Ron and Harry I watched their reactions as they finished reading the article. All three of us looked at each other for a couple of seconds in shock before Ginny broke the silence.

"Are you guys ok?" she asked concerned.

"Yes why wouldn't we be?" Harry said still keeping his face straight.

"Yeah it's only rubbish no one in the right mind would believe that" I said throwing the paper to one side.

"Yeah everyone knows you and Harry were best friends before the tournament so surely they should see the rest of the article is a lie" Ron said quietly.

I quickly turned my glance to Cedric who had been watching me reading the article quickly smiled at me before turning his glance away. I knew that Cedric wouldn't like this but he would know that none of it was true - especially after yesterday and last nights antics.

I turned my glance away and noticed Victor was looking at me, I offered him a smile which caused the girls next to him to throw me a dirty look.

"Just ignore them" I heard Ginny say and this caused me to look back at her.

"Harry are you ok?" I asked looking back at Harry as I piled some toast on my plate.

"Yeah of course I am, but you could have at least told me you were planning on breaking up with me" he said sarcastically.

"Oh yeah I knew there was something I was meaning to tell you" I said back sarcastically. We both then started laughing that made a couple of students around us turn to see what we were laughing at.

"I just don't know how I'm going to cope Hermione I really don't I thought we had a good thing going on" he said laughing.

"All those late night talks in the common rooms were the highlight of my day" he added sarcastically.

"Oh I'm sure you'll learn to deal with it, as you won't see much of me as I have only started talking to you when your name came out of the cup" I said sarcastically.

"Oh my broken heart" he joked.

"Really people will believe anything won't they?" I asked laughing.

"By the looks of it yes and by the looks that are getting thrown in your direction at the moment I would guess today is going to be an eventful day" Ron interjected.

"People can think what they want" I remarked.

"I know they can but I bet you will have a kick off with someone today about it" he said meekly.

"More than likely" I said and I started to eat my breakfast.

"What classes do you have today?" asked Ginny, who was obviously trying to move the conversation on.

"Double Dark Arts, Break, Charms, Lunch, Divination then Potions" Ron sighed before adding "but Hermione will probably have Ancient Ruins instead of Divination due to her wobblier last year".

"Ronald it was not a wobblier, I just don't think the subject has much to it, it's very woolly and it's mainly guesswork. I think you only keep up with the subject because it's a lesson where you don't do much work" I stated.

"I'm making a predication" Ron said trying to mimic Professor Trelawney voice and moving his hands in front of him before adding "that Hermione is most likely going to have a wobblier today as well". This caused him, Ron and Ginny to burst out laughing. I resisted the urge to laugh turned away before turning back round before saying.

"Very mature Ronald" I added as I turned back around trying to hide the smirk that wss trying to spread across my face.

"You laughed as well" he laughed.

"Yes I guess I did" I said sarcastically.

"Well we will have to see if your right Ron Trelawney" Harry laughed shoving Ron.

"Most likely" he said laughing.

"I might prove you wrong" I said laughing.

"Well we will just have to see" he said jokingly.

I quickly cast my glance in Cedric's direction and saw that he was in deep conversation with someone sat next to him so I didn't think that this article affected him that much - thankfully.

"I guess we best get go get our things, we will want a good seat for Mad Eye's lesson" Ron said as he finished his breakfast.

"Oh my god!" Ginny exclaimed.

"What?" I asked her concerned. Her face was full of shock for a couple of seconds before it suddenly dropped into laughter.

"I thought I would never see the day that my brother would ask to go to class before Hermione Granger" Ginny said starting to laugh.

"Ha ha!" I said sarcastically before starting to laugh.

"Oh behave the lot of you" Ron said as Harry started to smirk.

"Hermione I'd be careful if I was you. Ron might be challenging you for your reputation" Harry said as we started to get up.

"Well if that's the case he can do his own work with his own from now on" I said laughing as we started to walk out of the Great Hall.

"Behave" Ron sighed as he followed behind us.


As we got to Professor Moody's classroom there was already a couple of students starting to queue. We quickly hurried into three seats at the front of the classroom and took our our books and waited. The class sat unusually quiet; we heard Professor Moody before we saw him. We knew when we was close to entering the classroom as we heard the distinctive clunking footsteps. As he entered the classroom he threw a glance around the room that made him look strange and frightening as ever.

"You can put those books away!" he stated as he made his way to the front of the classroom "as you won't be needing them".

We quick put our books back into our bags, as we done this I shared a glance with Ron and he looked very excited. Moody began to call out names on the register and quickly went through it. Everyone in the class kept sharing confused and excited glances with each other as no one knew what to expect.

"Right let's get things started as I have already said I have received a letter for your last professor and he stated that you all have a good understand on how to tackle Boggarts, Red Caps, Hinkypunks, Grinylows, Kappas and Werewolves, is that right?"

There was a small murmur from the class in acceptance of this.

"However your previous professor's have let you get behind on curses, you are very behind. Very behind!" he said as he quickly went to the blackboard. He quickly dragged the chalk across the board to form a word that I thought was meant to resemble the word "Curses".

"I only have one year to teach you as much as I can, we have already done a recap of things that you have already looked at" he said as he turned around and glared around the room.

"One year?" I heard Ron say to which everyone started turning around to look at him. Moody's magic eye spun around and fixated on Ron. Ron started to pull a worried face as if he thought he was about to get wrong. He started to squeeze his wand tighter and started to bite his lip. After a moment of sitting in silence Moody started to smile and this made his face look more twisted and contorted. I saw Ron start to relax a little bit as he saw that Moody was now smiling at him.

"Your one of Arthur Weasley's son aren't you?" Moody asked to which Ron nodded in response.

"Your father was good enough to help me out of a bit of bother a few days ago. I'm grateful to him for that" he said slowly.

"Yes I am only staying one year as a special favour to Dumbledore and then I'm going back to my retirement" he explained. Moody gave a harsh laugh and then clapped his hands together before moving in front of his desk.

"So as I was saying - curses. They come in many forms and strengths, and due to the teaching guidelines with the Ministry of Magic I'm meant to show you have to use counter spells and leave it at that. Also you are not meant to learn about illegal Dark curses at a fourth year level as your not meant to be old enough to deal with them. However me and Professor Dumbledore believes you have a lot more nerve than that and we both think you are all made of sterner stuff and can deal with it. I think the sooner you all know what you are up against the better. I don't know how the Ministry expects you to be able to defend yourselves against something that you've never studied or seen" he explained quickly getting more agitated as he was speaking.

"So do any of you know any of the illegal curses that are punishable by wizarding law" he asked after a couple of seconds of glancing around the class. Several hands rose tentatively in the air, mine included. Moody's eye span back round the Ron and moved his hand to signal for him to continue.

"Erm my dad told me about the Imperuis curse" Ron answered quietly.

"IMPERUIS!" Moody shouted giving us all a shock. He quickly walked towards the board and wrote it down.

"Your dad will know all about that one, it has given the ministry a lot of trouble that one" he said turning back around to the class. He moved a couple of steps to the left and opened a jaw and took a large black spider out from it. As I was sitting in the middle of Harry and Ron I felt Ron go rigid - I forgot how much Ron was scared of spiders.

Moody pointed his wand at the spider and muttered "Imperio". The spider started to swing backwards and forwards under Moody's control. It then started to go rigid and then started to back flip and started to cartwheel. I saw Moody jerk his wand and then the spider started to rise higher in the air and started to fly around the classroom. This caused the classroom to fill with screams as the spider came next to students and Moody began to laugh his deep husky laugh until he suddenly stopped the spider in the middle of the room.

"Years ago there were many wizards and witches that were made to act using the Imperuis curse. It was the ministry's job to find out who was forced to act and who was acting from their own free will". Moody explained watching our reactions.

"Some people were able to fight the curse and I'm going to teach you how, but it takes real strength and will test your character. CONSTANT VIGILANCE! he said shouting at the end of the sentence that made us jump again. Moody moved the spider closer to him and let it get onto his desk but made it stay in one place.

"Does anyone else know another illegal curse?" he asked into silence. Several hands flew up again and this time Moody's eye span towards Neville.

"Yes" Moody prompted.

"There's, the, erm, the, Cruciatus curse" Neville stuttered. This caused Moody to look very intently at Neville.

"Your called Longbottom aren't you" he asked, to which Neville nodded. Moody nodded and walked back to the board and wrote the word "Cruciatus" under "Imperuis".

"The Cruciatus curse" Moody stated before flicking his wand at the spider before flicking his wand.

"Crucio" he growled.

At once the spiders legs bent in upon itself and started to twitch and roll over. No sound came from the spider but I bet that if the spider could in fact speak it would fill the room with screaming. Moody kept his wand fixed towards the spider and the spider started to writhe and rock more. I looked around the room and saw people's face's of disgust and panic. When my gaze fell towards Neville I noticed a more terrible sight. Neville's hand was now clenched upon the desk in front of him, his knuckles were white and his face was contorted into a painful state.

"Stop it! I shouted which made everyone turn around to look at me. I saw out of the corner of my eye that Moody looked at me and saw that I was now looking at Neville and his gaze followed mine. Moody flicked his wand and the spider's legs now relax but it still gave a couple of more twitches.

"You don't need blunt instruments like knives to torture someone when you can perform the Cruciatus curse. It had it's times of being a popular curse as well" he advised.

"Does anyone know any more?" Moody asked glancing around the room again. No one's hands went up this time as we all knew what was going to happen to the spider. I slowly sighed and rose my hand to which made Moody look in my direction.

"Yes?" Moody said.

"Avada Kedavra" I muttered.

"Ah, the last and the worse one" he answered with a slight smile twisting onto his face. I wanted to look away from the spider I had read about avada kedavra and knew what was going to happen.

"The killing curse" he quickly added. Moody pointed his want towards the spider.

"Avada Kedavra!" he growled. There was a flash of green light and then a rushing sound. The spider rolled onto it's back completely unmarked. Moody then swiped his arm across the desk and knocked the spider on the floor.

"Neither not nice nor pleasant. There's no counter curse for it so there's no blocking it. There is only one person that it is recorded to ever survive it and he's sitting in front of me now" he said and he moved his glance to Harry. Everyone started to look at Harry and Harry just kept looking at Moody in front of him.

"The killing curse is a very powerful curse and to use it it needs powerful magic behind it, but that doesn't matter as I'm not going to teach you what to do it. Now if there is no counter curse you are probably thinking why am I showing you? Because you have got to know about it. You don't want to find yourself facing a situation where you're facing it. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" he roared and we all jumped again.

"All three curses are that we have just discussed are known as the Unforgivable Cures. If you used any of these against another human being it would earn you a life sentence in Azkaban. You need preparing, but most of all you need to practice constant vigilance" he explained.

The rest of the lesson we sat in silence and took notes about the unforgivable curses. When we left the lesson everyone started to talk about the lesson and wondered what he was going to learn next.

"He's a bit batty" Ron stated as we started to walk down the corridor.

"Yeah he is" Harry agreed.

"You would think that we were going to get attacked the way he was going on though" Ron interjected.

"Constant Vigilance!" Harry mimicked. As we were walking down the corridor I noticed that Neville was standing alone, towards the end of the corridor and he was staring at the stone wall in front of him. His face still wore the same horrified look that he was worn when Moody had demonstrated the Cruciatus curse.

"Hurry up" I said sternly to Harry and Ron.

"You don't want to go to the library on break do you?" asked Ron.

"No" I answered back and nodded in Neville's direction. Harry and Ron both looked at what I was looking at and then pulled a concerned face.

"Neville?" I said quietly. This caused Neville to look around at us.

"Oh hello" he said quietly.

"Interesting lesson wasn't it? I wonder what's for dinner" he added.

"Neville are you ok?" Harry asked.

"Yes I'm fine" he said quietly. I was about to open my mouth to say something but I was stopped by heard a familiar clunking noise behind us and when I turned around I saw that Professor Moody was limping towards us.

"Longbottom why don't you come up to my office and have a cup of tea..." he said to Neville.

Neville looked scared and neither spoke or moved.

"Come one Longbottom I've got some books that might interest you" Moody said as he turned to start to walk away. Neville gave us one pleading look but we didn't know what to say so Neville sighed and then followed Moody down the corridor.

"I hope he is ok" I said as we watched him walked down the corridor.

"He should be, he's with a teacher. But saying that he's with Moody" Ron said looking scared.

"It was some lesson thought wasn't it. Fred and George was right, he does really know his stuff" Ron said as we started to walk again.

"Yes" Harry said slowly as we made our way towards some stairs.

"You ok Harry" I asked when I saw his face.

"Yeah I'm fine. Just was a draining lesson that's all" he said quickly.

"You sure? It's ok if it upset you speaking about..." I started.

"It's fine I've spoke about them before and let's face it it's not the first time I have seen that curse" he said looking away from me and Ron. We had made our way to a court yard and sat down on a bench. I was sat on the end with Harry in the middle of me and Ron.

"Sorry" Ron muttered.

"No need to be sorry, it made me have flashbacks but it's fine" Harry said shaking his hand in front of him trying to dismiss the matter. I put my head on his shoulder and snuggled into it. He wrapped his arm around me and we sat there for a couple of seconds.

"You have some nerve Granger" I heard a voice say. I pulled away from Harry and looked up to see a girl dressed in hufflepuff robes in front of me.

"What now?" I stated.

"I don't see why you would think Harry should take you back" she snapped.

"Take me back?" I asked aghast.

"Yeah, I thought you would be in the library on a date with Krum" she sneered.

"You really will believe anything people tells you won't you" I said sarcastically.

"Don't get at me just because you have the reputation of a stray alley cat" she stated.

"Hey!" Harry said standing up.

"Oh I've touched a nerve" she said sarcastically. I opened my mouth to speak but Harry jumped in before I could say anything.

"Me and Hermione are not and were never a couple!" he snapped loudly. This caused students around us to turn around to look at us.

"So believe what you want, but if you remember last year I was sitting with Hermione and the year before that and the year before that" he said slowly. The girl looked shocked and took a step back.

"Why don't you just go away? If you don't have nothing to nice to say" Ron interjected. The girl took one quick glance at Ron, then me and finally at Harry and then quickly turned and walked away.

"Let's go to charms" I said getting up and starting to walk away. We walked to charms in near enough silence, quietly and quickly trying to keep out of the glances of those around us.


The rest of the morning went quickly and it seemed like we were only in charms a matter of minutes. As we sat down we noticed Neville was sitting there and he looked a lot better than we last saw him.

"You ok Neville?" Harry asked as we sat down next to him.

"Yeah I'm fine. I'm just reading a book Professor Moody has lent me" he said with a smile. He then held up a the book so we could see the cover "Magical Mediterranean Water Plants and Their Properties".

"Apparently Professor Sproat told him that I am good at Herbology" she stated proudly.

"That's good Neville" I said smiling at him. He quickly smiled back before going back to the book and turned a page over.

Lunch flew over as well and I felt as if I wasn't really able to take my time today.

As I was walking to Ancient Runes I saw Weaver flying towards me. He landed on a bench that I was about to walk pass and I quickly untied the letter then I walked away from him and he flew off. I slowly opened it and I saw Cedric's familiar scrawl.


"Dear Hermione,

Just a quick note to say that I don't believe this morning's paper, so don't worry.

Hope the rest of your days go without any public rows like break. However it looks like you, Harry and Ron can handle yourself.

When can I see you again? I don't think I need to tell you that I enjoyed yesterday AND last night.

Love you.

Yours Cedric".


I smiled at the letter and quickly put it in my pocket and walked to my class as quickly as I could without any more drama occuring.


I didn't get chance to answer Cedric's letter until after potions as I was waiting in the common room for Harry. I was sat with Ron and he was concentrating on his essay. Harry was in a meeting with the other champions and he told us that he wouldn't be long. We knew he wouldn't be as there's no way that the champions and the teachers involved was going to miss the feast.


"Dear Cedric

Thank you for your little note, I knew you would not believe it but it's still nice to know. You know Krum means nothing to me and me and Harry has been good friends for the last four years that we could never cross that line.

I can't believe that it has escalated into the wizarding world - is there any limits to how far this will go?

I think you of all people know that me, Ron and Harry can all handle ourselves Cedric - especially me.

When would you like to see me again? Or should I say when are we able to see each other again?

I got the impression that you did enjoy our time together yesterday...so did I.

Love you too.

Yours Hermione."


I quickly folded the letter in too and looked up at Ron.

"Ron can we quickly go to the owlry before going to see Harry outside the Great Hall. I need to send my parents a letter" I lied. He looked up from me and smiled.

"Yeah of course, do you want to use Pig?" he asked as he started to pack his things away.

"Erm, Yeah can do" I said slowly. Hopefully Ron wouldn't see where Pig actually went.

"Give me two seconds to dump my bag" he said and with this he left the table and went to his dorm. I quickly did the same but tucked the letter in my pocket.

"Let's go then" he said as I met him back in the common room.

"Let me guess - you're hungry!" I laughed.

"Yes but we are going to need to be quick if we want to get back for Harry from the owlery" he explained.

We quickly walked to the owlrey and thankfully Fred and George were there and they started talking to Ron so they distracted him as I tied my letter to a Hogwarts Owl's leg.

"Take this to Cedric Diggory" I whispered to the dark brown owl. It blinked it's large yellow eyes at me in response then flew out of the window.

"Ready to go back?" Ron asked as Fred and George left the owlry. "I hope Pig was ok - I know he can be a pain" he added as we started to walk back down the stairs.

"I ended up using a Hogwarts owl, I couldn't see Pig. I guess it was because I was trying to rush" I slowly lied. In all fairness I did look for Pig but I couldn't see him.

"Really? That owl?" Ron exclaimed.

"Sorry" he apologised shortly after.

"Don't worry about it" I said with a small smile.

When we walked to the Great Hall Harry was already waiting outside for us.

"Where have you been?" he asked as he noticed that we came from outside instead coming from the staircase.

"Hermione wanted to send a letter to her parents" Ron answered back.

"Ah right" Harry answered.

"So how was your meeting?" I asked as we walked into the Great Hall.

"It was pointless really. Moody was checking that we were all ok, our wands got checked and weighed by Olivander. Then..." he stopped as he rolled his eyes.

"Yes?" I prompted as we sat down.

"Rita Skeeta came in and took pictures of us and spoke to us all individually again. You can only imagine what she was taking about when she spoke to me. I tried not to speak to her very much so I don't know what she is going to write. Cedric got it worse than me though" he explained.

"Why?" I immediately asked. This caused Harry to pull a confused face for a couple of seconds before he shook his head before he continued.

"Well somehow she had found out about Cedric daydreaming in Snape's class and she started to question him about Cho Chang. He kept telling her he wasn't in a relationship with Cho Chang but she wouldn't have anything said against it" he slowly explained.

"Poor Cedric" I said shaking my head.

"How did she find out about it anyway? She's not allowed on the grounds during term time unless she's invited to interview someone" Ron said.

"God knows, but if I find out how I'll report her" I snapped.

"The things she has wrote about us this year" I added when both Harry and Ron started to pull confused faces.

"God has no fury has a Hermione scorned" Ginny said as he dropped into the seat next to me.

"Oh behave" I laughed. It was at this time that we heard a cough and we all turned around the see that Professor Dumbledore was now standing looking at us. The whole hall went quiet and waited for him to speak.

"Welcome one and all I hope you have all had a good day" he said smiling to us.

"Now I hope I don't need to remind you that everyone fourth year and above should get themselves a partner for the Yule Ball as time is ticking on" he stated. I felt a heaviness drop into my stomach. I hadn't sorted this out with Cedric yet and I still didn't know what we were going to do. I glanced in his direction and we shared a quick glance before looking back at Professor Dumbledore.

"No with that reminder mentioned I don't think there is anything else to say apart from enjoy the feast" Professor Dumbledore said as he waves his wand and the food appeared.

The feast went quickly and I didn't see Cedric again after this but when I went up to my dorm to drop my robe off on my bed I noticed that the same Hogwarts owl was waiting for me outside my window. I let it in untied the letter and watched it settle on my bed waiting for instruction.

"Wait there please" I instructed it before I opened the letter and read it slowly.


"Dear Hermione,

I hope you are ok. I'm in a funny mood after speaking to Rita Skeeta - I don't know whether Harry has told you.

She started on Harry first asking about you and how he felt after you broke it off to go after Krum. She then moved on to Krum and asked how your library dates were going, when he denied everything and said you were only friends she laughed and said we could tell her about our relationships as we could trust her. Krum still denied everything, thank god! She didn't like this very much. Hearing the way she was speaking about you and him and asking about the "rumours" that she had heard of what you had been heard saying to each other or seen doing - nothing too bad I swear! Just enough to get my annoyed imagining it.

She then started to speak to me and somehow she found out about what happened in Snape's lesson. She kept asking me how my relationship with Cho was going and I told her that I wasn't in a relationship with Cho. She told me that she had heard differently and she knew that we were going out. I kept declining what she was saying but she advised that she knew I was going out with someone so if it wasn't Cho who was it?

I tried to cover my tracks but you never know with Rita Skeeter. I can only imagine now that someday soon there will be an article about me and Cho or a secret girlfriend - I don't know which story I would prefer!

I know this will be hard for you to read and I can only apologise for this. I did try to tell her that I wasn't in a relationship with Cho or anyone for that matter but she just wasn't having any of it.

You know if I could I would see you all the time, I think next time maybe somewhere different? I'm free most evenings you know that I'll leave my dorm any time to come and see you. When is best for you? Tomorrow night or night after?

I know it is easier said than done but try not to worry - everything will be ok.

I love you Hermione Granger.

Cedric".


"Dear Cedric,

I wish I could give you a hug and make everything feel better. Yes Harry did tell me what happened; well he told me that you got it worse than him and I can now see why.

I know hate is a strong word but I hate Rita Skeeta. She just twists everything that is said to her to her own advantage and she is spreading more rumours and making things worse for people.

God only know what what she is going to write, secret girlfriend or Cho I bet she tries to push that story forward.

Don't worry about how the article will affect me - I know what is really happening.

Tomorrow night is good for me and the night after - this time for me to be greedy? Where different would you like to go?

Same back to you Mr Diggory - try not to worry.

I love you too Cedric Diggory.

Hermione".


I tied the letter to the owl's leg and watched as it flew out of the window. I followed it to the window and shut it slowly. What can of worms is that woman going to open up now? I sighed and shook my head and picked my bag up from the side of my bed and made my way down to the common room where Ron and Harry were patiently waiting for me.