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Harry met Cedric by the foot of the marble stairs, both in their dress robes. "You ready?" Harry asked Cedric. "Ready as I'll ever be, this is our moment." There was a stage of sorts added to the great hall for the awards ceremony, Harry and Cedric needed to receive their awards after all, they did win the Triwizard tournament. Harry and Cedric made their way up to the stage to loud applause, from most of Hogwarts and some of the other students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons clapped along politely. Harry saw the Minister of Magic standing on the stage holding two large sacks and two large golden trophies were sitting behind him with the words Triwizard Champion written in what looked to be solid diamond. When Harry and Cedric made it all the way up the stage together they made eye contact and something passed between them, but neither of them knew what it was. The moment was over before anybody in the great hall noticed anything. Harry and Cedric took their gold from Cornelius Fudge, and before they took their trophies, the Minister gave a speech. "Hello, hello, I am here to present the Triwizard trophies on this rather odd occasion when there has been a tie in the Triwizard tournament. The same Triwizard tournament that had four contestants has two winners. We are probably the only witches and wizards to have ever seen such a rare occasion, and what a crazy occasion it has been. There was some crazy flying from Mr. Potter and some very clever transfiguration spells from Mr. Diggory. I think I am right in saying that nobody would have bet that we had two champions. But enough said on the matter. Mr. Potter and Mr. Diggory, please step forward and take your prizes." Harry and Cedric took their trophies and suddenly they were lifted into the air. Golden light shone between them for thirty seconds and then it faded and they slowly floated down to where they were standing before. Everyone was in a daze, nobody, not even Dumbledore, expected this to happen. It was just supposed to be a flash of light. Then everybody started clapping, the lights were rather spectacular and everybody must have thought this was normal. Harry looked at Cedric and Cedric looked back, Harry's emerald eyes looked into Cedric's grey eyes. Then the moment passed and they marched down the path they came from, both very confused. When they left the great hall, Harry looked at Cedric and said "So, erm, that was nice…." "Yeah…" Replied Cedric very awkwardly. Cho Chang burst out of the great hall, right behind Cedric and pulled him into her arms. She kissed him right there in front of Harry, and Harry decided it was the right time to re-enter the great hall for lunch, where he and Cedric would sit at the head table. When Harry saw Cho kissing Cedric, for a couple seconds he felt an unexplainable rage, he had given up on his crush on Cho Chang a couple months ago when he saw her with Cedric at the Yule Ball. So why did Harry feel so angry suddenly? "Oh well" thought Harry, "I'll think about this later, after lunch."
When Harry and Cedric flew into the air, with the golden light between them, Dumbledore thought to himself, "What? Well this is odd, I have no clue why they floated or why nobody said anything, I shall have to look this up." Hermione said something to Ron that was very much along the lines of what Dumbledore was thinking. "Ron, this isn't normal, it takes very powerful magic to make someone float when they touch something…" "You worry too much Hermione, Dumbledore is powerful." "Well I guess you're right, but I am going to the Library to look this up."
Lunch after the ceremony started out very uneventful, but the food was even better than normal Hogwarts standard. Even the Beauxbatons students thought the food was better than normal. Harry was glad to be seated next to Cedric, while Cho was across the room. Something just didn't feel right after Harry left Cedric and Cho to do their kissing. Harry took a rather large gulp of his pumpkin juice and downed the rest of the goblet in one swallow. Odd, Harry never remembered pouring that pumpkin juice. All of a sudden Harry couldn't keep his eyes off of Cedric, his handsome face, arms perfectly toned by playing quidditch for so long, his cold grey eyes that looked so interesting… "Harry, Harry, you there?" Harry snapped out of his revery and saw that Cedric was talking to him. HIM, Cedric was talking to him. "Errr, yeah. What's up?" "Harry would you stop staring at me, it's getting a little weird." "OH right, sorry, I must have started daydreaming there for a second." "It's quite alright." Harry noticed that Cedric's goblet of pumpkin juice lay untouched. A few awkward minutes of silence passed at the table when Harry noticed Cedric empty his goblet in one swallow. All of a sudden Harry found himself face to face with Cedric and did the only thing that seemed appropriate, he kissed Cedric, something felt so very right, but also it felt wrong at the same time. Harry and Cedric were kissing in front of most of the wizarding community. Draco Malfoy was the first person to say something. "Ha! I knew it! Potter IS a fairy!" Everyone in the great hall laughed. Harry and Cedric were both very embarrassed about the whole situation. They didn't know what had come over them but in the back of their minds, they both wanted to continue what they had started in private. Then something clicked into place inside Harry's brain. He wasn't attracted to boys, what had just happened? Then Harry noticed Cho rushing toward him and she punched Harry right in the mouth. Pain blinded Harry's thoughts for a couple seconds. Cho's punch knocked him to the floor. He got up and heard Cho shouting at him "CEDRIC. IS. MY. BOYFRIEND. POTTER., WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING.?" And Harry saw Cho trying to get at him to hit him some more, but she was being restrained by one of her friends from Ravenclaw. Harry and Cedric were both very embarrassed and Harry wanted to know what was going on. But then the answer came to him, he saw a pink, heart shaped something on the floor in front of him. He bent down and picked it up. "Fred and George." Harry growled in a deep voice. "I'm going to kill them." Harry looked Cho dead in the eyes. "It was a love potion." He showed her the pink heart shaped cap, to a love potion bottle, that he just picked up. "What is Weasley Wizard Wheezes?" Asked Cho when she saw what the cap for the love potion said. "Fred and George Weasley are trying to open a joke shop. That's their name for it. I need to have a chat with them as soon as I can." What was odd to Harry was that the effects of the love potion were very short, probably something Fred and George meant to happen. Just then Harry noticed a dark haired, dark eyed, second year that he recognized from the Gryffindor common room looking livid and marching up not to him, but to Cedric, and she had a friend who was running behind her, looking like she was trying to talk sense into the girl. The girl went up to Cedric and said "That was supposed to be MY kiss Diggory!" and she pulled out her wand and attempted to hex Cedric, but with all the teachers now closing in on the situation, professor Flitwick was already reprimanding Cho, her wand was summoned from her hand by professor McGonagall before she could do any damage to Cedric. "What is going on here Miss Vane?" shouted professor McGonagall, her nostrils flaring, her mouth a tight, thin line. The girl looked at McGonagall and said "Diggory just took Harry's first kiss! That was supposed to be mine! I'm going to kill him!" "There will be no killing on my watch, Miss Vane, fifty points from Gryffindor and you will have detentions every night with me for the rest of this year and half of next year if your explanation for embarrassing Hogwarts in front of the other schools is not better than Mr. Diggory kissing Mr. Potter." "And Mr. Potter, you may kiss whoever you like, just don't do it in the great hall next time." "Professor! No! It wasn't like that! Someone fed us love potions!" At this remark, the girl, Ms. Vane, turned very red and murmured something about not knowing which seat Harry would be in. Professor McGonagall looked livid. "So, Romilda, giving love potions out to your celebrity crush now? That is no way to behave in front of the other schools. Mr. Potter is two years older than you! You foolish girl. You will be serving nightly detentions all throughout your third year. You are lucky you are not being expelled, love potions are on the top of the list of banned items here in Hogwarts, I will see you in my office at 7:00 tonight." And professor McGonagall walked away, back to her office, Harry assumed.
The rest of lunch was a very awkward affair as everybody heard what had happened, Harry left lunch early and walked around the lake on the grounds by himself. He very much wanted to be alone for a while and he couldn't face his friends, Cedric, Cho, Fred, George, or really anyone he knew, and especially anyone he didn't know. Harry decided it was getting too chilly for him to be walking around the grounds around five or six o'clock and so he went to the Gryffindor common room as fast as possible, using as many secret passages and hidden doors as he could, to avoid people who had seen what happened during lunch. Harry grabbed his invisibility cloak from his trunk and his regular cloak too, he did come inside only because it was chilly. Then under his cloak, Harry went up to the astronomy tower so he could at least look at the stars and have time to himself. Except after a while, Harry wasn't alone.
***Author's Note***
Hey guys, sorry for the wait, my work schedule has been unpredictable lately. Thanks for reading and again, I would appreciate some reviews. Thank you!