Writer: Azure K Mello
Title: A Bond Never Dies
Part: 126 of ? or part 41 of Part Three
Words: 310
"My parents are going to kill you," he said with a smile as he shut the front door behind him.
Cedric flicked his cigarette away and asked, "They can't cope with a person of legal age smoking?"
"Not when he's with their kid. Besides, don't point that out. If they realize how old you are they're not liable to be happy. Would you want your good, innocent, fourteen year old son hanging around with a lay about seventeen year old?"
"Not this seventeen year old, no. Where's this field? I want to fly with you." He said waving the broom in his hand.
Harry smiled and said, "It's in my backyard."
"You have a pitch in your backyard?"
With a slight nod Harry moved to walk around the house. In the rear there was a huge field. And while it appeared, to muggle eyes, that the hedge was about eight feet tall it in fact stood at sixty feet and formed the walls of a secluded pitch where Harry had ridden brooms with his dad when he was younger.
Cedric whistled and said, "My god."
"Do you like it?" asked Harry.
"This is nicer than Hogwarts' gardens.." Cedric looked around the garden which seemed too large for the house and he said, "Is this real?"
"Well," said Harry, "The space was made by Sirius but all the plants are real. Remus has a green wand."
"Is that a pond?" asked Cedric still stunned and pointing towards something blue at the other end of the pitch.
Following the eye line of his friend's finger Harry said, "Yeah, for swimming. I'm gonna go grab my broom from the shed." Cedric followed him to the low hut in a near daze.
"So the field belongs to you and is actually its own world?" Harry just shrugged, "Cool parents," said the older boy finally. Then he finally asked the question Harry had been waiting for, "Why aren't you at school?"