I'm sorry for not updating in forever, but I've been a bit busy, but I'm updating now.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter, or Hermione Granger, Viktor Krum, Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour, I don't own anything ok? lol But I do own this plot! Ok, so I guess I do own something. And I'm chaning some things around, just to let you know! Don't hurt me!
Summary:
Hermione has falen head over heals for everyone's Hufflepuff, Cedric Diggory. Hermione fights for Cedric's effection, as he enters the Triwizard and his already big fan base grows. Will Hermione be Cedric's or kicked to the side? What about Viktor and Ron? Do they mean anything to her? Or is she too into Cedric to notice how much they've fallen for her? Will one of her best friends betray her by dating Cedric when she knows how much she's into him? Just another year in the life of Hermione Jane Granger.
This Chapter is in Cedric's POV
Cedric woke up almost a week after he and Harry were selected to be Hogwarts champions, and since then his house had suddenly stopped being friendly with the whole of Gryffindor house. People with friends in Gryffindor, stopped walking over to them between classes, even Sprout was cold with the Gryffindors. Cedric knew why, Hufflepuff was never a popular house, for it wasn't the best house, Cedric, even being a proud Hufflepuff himself, admitted this ever so often, and Harry had taken the spotlight away from his house. Hufflepuff had never had anyone famous in their house, like Gryffindor, and Slytherin, they did not have the best Quidditch team, or the top student's. Hufflepuff had to be the most boring house in the school, so bad that most first years would rather be a Sltherin, rather then a Hufflepuff. As he was so often reminded of, he fit the description for every house (not Slytherin of course) and the sorting hat could have placed him anywhere. His father, who had been a Gryffindor, had thought prehaps he was placed there to give Hufflepuff some glory, and Cedric had. Girls from other houses had begun paying much more attention to Hufflepuff since Cedric had been sorted into it, he often heard girls remarking on how handsome he was, he was, indeed, greatly flattered by their coments, but that was all he feared he'd be known for, his looks.
Cedric took school serisouly, as he did with everything he did. But did girls take notice to his perfect marks? No, all they really saw was just his looks. No one would deny this, his friends would look the other way when a girl would stop dead in the corridors, just looking at him, which did not happen often. He only knew of one girl who saw him as for then a handsome face, Hermione Granger. She was not the prettiest girl in the school, that much was certain, she was most commenly known as Harry Potter's female best friend, but Cedric didn't see her as that alone. Hermione was very clever, and like himself, had top marks in every subject, even when the teacher wasn't a fan of her. Hermione was the only girl who looked at him through a differnt lense, she saw a person when she looked at him, not just a person who was tall, had dark hair and grey eyes, adn was extremly handsome. She saw the real him, insted of just his looks.
He sighed and stood up, shaking sligthly on this feet, before walking to the foot of his bed and began pulling his robes out of his trunk. After three tugs, the robes, which were stuck between some books, came flying out of the trunk and Cedric staggered backwards, recovering his blanace before he ran into the person sleeping behind him. Every person but himself in the dorm was still fast asleep, Cedric bent over and began digging for his watch, which he kept in there for safe keeping. Once he got hold of it, he straitend up and squnited at the watch's face. He wasn't surprised that his dormmates were still sleeping, it was barely after six. He sighed, and lightly tossed the watch onto his bed, his dormmates breathing, and the ticking of the watch was the only thing Cedric could hear as he continued to pull the rest of his uniform out of his trunk. He pulled off the shirt he had been wearing the night before and began pulling his plain white school shirt on. He buttoned his shirt and pulled on his pants over the boxers he was wearing. He glanced around at his dormmates, who were showing no sign of they were still living. He began messing with his yellow and black tie, it always took him about nine failed attempts before he could tie it properly. This morning was a new record, only seven attempts.
"Ced, c'mon, we'd better get to Charms," One of his friends said, standing up and pulling his bag on, some of this other friends had stood up as well, looking at Cedric, who had a half-eaten peice of toast in his hand. He sighed and set the toast on his golden plate and stood up, he pulled his new bag onto his shoulder and follows his friends out of the Great Hall.
Cedric was half listening to his friends' rants about Harry, they were quoting the article in very high voices. They had reached the top of the stairs, after what seemed like ages of climbing the marble stares. He made a left, towards the Charms corrider. Then, all of a sudden, his bag split. Parchment, quills, and books spilled all over the floor, and seven of this ink botteles smashed. Cedric bent down and started gethering the ramians of the ink bottles.
"Don't bother," He told his friends in an exasperated voice, as his friends bent down to help him. "Tell Flitwick I'm comming, go on..." His friends straightend up and continued into the Charms classroom, leaving Cedric alone to gather his things. He heard footseps comming down the hall in his direction, he was sure it was Flitch comming to tell him to hurry along, but when he glanced up, he didn't see Flitch, he saw Harry Potter standing in front of him. "Hi," Cedric said, picking of his copy pf A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration, which was now spalttered in ink. "My bad just split...brand-new and all..."
"Cedric," Harry said, watching Cedric grab his Potions book. "The first task is dragons."
"What?" Cedric asked looking up, not believing what he'd heard.
"Dragons," Harry said, he was talking very fast, he kept glancing at the Charms classroom, as if Flitwick would come otu of it. "They've got four, one for each of us, and we've got to get past them."
Cedric just started up at him, panic he had been feeling for this week was flickering in his grey eyes.
"Are you sure?" Cedric asked in a hushed voice
"Dead sure, I've seen them" Harry said
"But how did you find out?" He asked. "We're not suposed to know..."
"Never mind," Harry said quickly. "But I'm not the only one who knows, Maxime and Karkaroff both saw the dragons too."
Cedric straightened up, his arms full of inky quills, parchments, and books, his new, ripped bag dangiling off one shoulder. He just started at Harry with a puzzling, suspicious look in his eyes. When he finaly found his voice, he asked, "Why did you tell me?"
Harry started back at him in disbelief.
"It's just...fair isn't it?" He said. "We all know now...we're on an even footing, aren't we?"
Cedric was still staring at him un a suspicious look in his eyes, the familair clunking noise filled the corridor. Mad-Eye Moody came clunking in their direction.
"Come with me, Potter," Moody growled. "Diggory, off you go."
Cedric looked down and he realized he'd grabbed all his things, he would not be making Charms today, but for show, he made his way towards the Charms classroom. What Harry had said was still fresh in his mind. Could he trust Harry? Maybe Harry was telling the truth, he contiuned to contemplate this, while he took the long way to the Hufflepuff common room.
