Harry Potter and the Evil Twin

Chapter 14: The Mysterious Return

It was a stormy night as Professor Dumbledore sat at his desk, nervously tapping his fingers.

"Now Margaret," Dumbeldore said, a tone of anger in his voice. "What exactly happened?" Professor Andrews looked down at her feet. How could I have let this happen, she asked to herself. Everything had happened so fast. Never in a million years did she think that Harry Potter, of all people, would fall for that old around-the-back trick. The famous Harry Potter falls for the oldest trick in the book.

"Well, I was teaching the class about the Water Demon and about how to fight them," Professor Andrews explained. "Everyone was going to have to fight them at one point or another so I decided to call on Harry Potter because, well you know. He was a good reputation and everything." Professor Andrews looked up at Dumbledore. He wasn't smiling. "The demon did the around-the-back trick and pretended to be Ronald Weasley. Harry turned around and looked into its eyes and-" Professor Andrews looked down again. She felt so guilty.

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Harry Potter had been walking for hours through the deep brush of a forest. Unfortunately for him, it was pouring rain. He turned around and yelled to the person behind him.

"Hey, I think we're almost there!" Harry said pointing ahead of him were he could see the trees starting to thin out. After a while longer, Harry suddenly realized where he was.

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"Margaret," Dumbledore said, again trying to keep the anger out of his voice. "Do you know were this particular tribe of Water Demons live?"

"Well," she mumbled. "They could be in almost any forest, I suppose."

"Alright then," Dumbledore said unhappily. "Minerva and Serveus are already out looking for—" There was a knock on the door. "Come in." As the door opened, Professor Andrews screamed with joy.

"Harry thank god your alright," she said walking towards him, but then she stopped in mid step. Her face went pale and she looked as if she had seen a ghost. All the color drained from her face and then she fainted into Harry's unsuspecting arms.

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Dumbledore stepped into the Great Hall and took his seat at the teacher's table. He quickly rehearsed the speech he was going to make. When Dumbledore was finished, he looked down at the large crowd of people crowded around the Gryffindor table. Dumbledore could just catch what they were saying: "Hey, Harry! Are you alright?" and "What happened?" As Dumbledore cleared his throat, the group of people all returned to their seats.

"Well students, before you start to eat, I have a few, rather important announcements to make," Dumbledore said, finding the next thing rather hard to say. "Well for starters, I know you all might find this rather shocking but I'd like you all to welcome back Cedric Diggory." There was a loud gasp from the students and Dumbledore noticed them all staring at each other whispering quietly with shocked expressions on their faces. Dumbledore motioned to the large door entering into the Great Hall and in walked Cedric Diggory, looking more alive then he ever had. More gasps followed from the students. "I know this must be very hard for some of you understand but I hope that I'll be able to make it clearer for you." Dumbledore cleared his throat again. "Now you all heard about the whole Water Demon incident, since there are obviously no secrets around here any more. When Mr. Potter was taken to the Water Demons secret hide out, he somehow managed to defeat the Water Demons and save the Fire Demons also. Since the Fire Demons are the keepers of the dead, they granted to bring back one person from the dead as his reward. And that is why Cedric Diggory is here today; he was Mr. Potter's choice."

The rest of the dinner went quietly and Harry couldn't help but feel sad for some reason. He also felt very tired and decided to leave early and go up to his room. As he headed out through the door and into the hallway, Harry felt a hand on his shoulder. Harry spun around to see Cedric Diggory standing behind him.

"Hey Harry. Can I talk to you for a second?" he asked.

"Yeah sure," Harry replied tiredly.

"What I wanted to say is that I am so thankful that you revived me from the dead. I know it must have been really hard for you because of your—" Cedric stopped.

"You can say it. It's hard for me because my parents are dead. That's what you were going to say, right?"

"Yeah. Thanks so much Harry. If there is anything that I can do to repay you for giving me my life back, I'll do it. I'll do anything," Cedric said.

"No, that's okay Cedric. It was partly me fault of why you died so I thought to you should be brought back to life," Harry explained quietly.

"It wasn't your fault!" Cedric yelled at him. "You can't help it that You-Know-Who set a portkey to his house."

"Well, anyway. I'm tired so I'm going to get back to bed." Harry told Cedric.

"Yeah, good idea. It's been a long day." Cedric turned to leave, but then stopped. "Harry, thanks again." Harry nodded and made his way back to the Gryffindor Common room.

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When Hermione Granger returned stepped the portrait of the Fat Lady, it was near midnight. She has been in the hospital wing visiting Draco. She was very worried about him. There was something that was happening to him that neither of them could explain. It was so strange to Hermione how just a couple days ago she had hated Malfoy's guts and now all of a sudden, they were the best of friends. I guess I just always judged him wrong, Hermione thought to herself. As she entered the Common Room she saw it was empty except for one person.

"Harry?" Hermione called walking closer to him.

"Oh hey Hermione," he replied. There was something different about him that day. He looked sad. Hermione took a seat in the armchair next to him.

"Is there anything wrong?" she asked.

"No nothing…well I don't know. I know I should be happy because I brought back Cedric and I saved a whole tribe of Fire Demons from being eaten, but I'm not," he explained. "I was so happy that I could have brought one of my parents back to life. I just wanted to see them, that's all."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I know how you feel," Hermione said trying to comfort him.

"No you don't," Harry said. "You have parents that are alive. You still get to see them and you always know they're there. You really don't know how I feel."

"I know, I just meant that—" Hermione stopped. It was useless trying to argue with him. Without thinking, Hermione leaned forward and planted a kiss on his lips. At first, there was no reaction from Harry but after he came out of the shock, he gladly returned the kiss and sild his arms around her waist. When they finally broke apart, the two were breathing heavily. As Hermione looked up at Harry, she noticed he was quickly wipping away his tears.

"Thanks, Hermione." He said grinning sheepishly at her. With that, Harry got up from his chair and climbed the stair case to the boys dorm levaing Hermione to her mixed thoughts.

The End (until I post the next part)

So, how was this story? I'm sorry it's so short but I've been really busy this past week. I bet all of you already knew that Harry was going to bring back Cedric Diggory. Was I being too obvious? Anyway, most of the reviews that I've been getting want it to be a hr/h story so I that was my first attempt at it. Don't worry all you d/hr fans, they'll be plenty more of that since Draco is my favorite character. I'm still not sure how the couples should go but let me tell you this, there will be no H/G story here. Sorry. Expect the next chapter over the wekkedn of the 24th and 25th. Hopefully I'll have five parts to put out. My birthday is the 22nd so as a birthday present, please r&r! That's all for now,

~*~Cyber Gal~*~