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Dumbledore reappeared roughly thirty minutes later with his phoenix, looking windswept and worn out. Dumbledore looked from Harry to Cedric and said "Harry, Cedric, what I am about to tell you is very important and you must not tell anybody except maybe your closest friend. You two were in the graveyard with Wormtail and Voldemort?" "Yes, and it seemed like they were going to perform some kind of ritual there" replied Cedric, "yeah, there was a cauldron and some other things set up, I think I saw a silver dagger there on the ground." said Harry. "Well I happened to know that graveyard as the one Tom Riddle Sr. was buried in, I believe that Voldemort was attempting to reobtain his body. This is possible because he has made certain dark objects which contain parts of his soul. I believe that he used objects with some historical or personal significance. That diary Harry, the one you destroyed with the basilisk fang in your second year, I believe that was a horcrux, one of the containers for Voldemort's soul. It troubles me that Voldemort has gone so far down that path to have made more than one Horcrux. We need to destroy these horcruxes to have any hope of destroying Voldemort as he is. I have detained wormtail and destroyed what was Voldemort's current body, some odd humanoid figure. I have no idea what happened to the part of soul that was in that body, it may have been destroyed along with the body or it may have just become a shadow, less than even the meanest ghost. This school term is almost over, next term you should expect me to contact the both of you. Now, Harry, off to bed, Cedric, not yet." "Yes Sir." Replied Harry as he left for his dorm room. "Now Cedric, I know you didn't mean to get mixed into this mess with Harry Potter and Voldemort but since you were there to see the failed rise of the Dark Lord you will now be a target. I only told you about all this because you will be a target and you need to understand that. We are in a new era of war. You must be ready for anything at any time. I will be placing wards around your home, and I will make it unplottable. Other safety measures will be placed around you and your home. I am very sor-" CRASH! The door to Dumbledore's office flew open and Alastor Moody stood in the doorway "Ah Alastor, what can I assist you with?" Said Dumbledore, with no hint in his voice that this was at all unexpected. "Dumbledore, I know who put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire! It was that sneak Karkaroff, that's why he fled tonight, that is why he ran awa-" but just then something very odd started to happen to Professor Moody. His magical eye popped out, his wooden leg fell off, his face seemed to be melting and reforming itself. Dumbledore acted quick as a whip, he stood up, pulled his wand on the man who was pretending to be Moody for so long, and shouted "petrificus totalus!"
"What does he need to talk to Cedric about I wonder? Is it about me? Does Cedric have something that I don't? Is there something about me that Dumbledore doesn't like?" Harry felt bad for thinking these things but he was very curious about what the headmaster needed to talk to Cedric about. Harry saw Professor Moody running towards the Headmaster's office. "Hello Professor Moody" Harry said, but Moody offered no reply. "Well that was odd." Harry thought to himself. When Harry made it back to his dorm, people were celebrating and cheering and Harry was greeted with the biggest party he had ever seen in the Gryffindor common room. A butterbeer was shoved into his hand and he felt himself get lifted into the air by all the other Gryffindors. Harry was not enjoying the attention but he didn't want to say anything because everybody was very happy with him and he didn't want to be rude so he let them parade him around the room before they set him down and let him walk around and try to enjoy the party. Harry saw Ron and Hermione and made a beeline for his two best friends. "Blimey Harry, that was bloody brilliant! A Hogwarts Victory! But Harry, why did you let Cedric get to the cup at the same time? You could have taken all the glory for yourself." "Ron, Harry wanted to share the spotlight, he's always the center of attention anyways, he didn't need all that, and it's still one hundred percent a Hogwarts victory anyway, so why does it matter?" "Thanks Hermione, but no I wanted Cedric to take the cup, he deserved it more, but we need to talk. Seriously. Tomorrow though, there's too many people here to discuss things..." The party went on until around two in the morning when Professor McGonagall came in and started shouting at them to go to sleep and that she was happy about the victory too but everyone needed to rest up for their exams which were coming within the next couple days. The party still continued until three in the morning until Professor McGonagall came back red in the face and threatened to curse the lot of them to the moon and back. The Gryffindors decided that they had enough partying anyways and most of them went up to their dormitories.
Harry had trouble sleeping that night. He was plagued by dreams of Voldemort returning and of Wormtail casting the killing curse at Cedric, each time he dreamt something like this he would wake up out of breath, and in a cold sweat. By the time the others got up Harry guessed he had maybe slept all of one hour that night. Harry was exhausted and very thankful that being in the tournament exempted him from all his exams at the end of the year.
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"Cedric, go fetch Professor Snape, fast, tell him to bring veritaserum if he has any. Go!" "Yes, Headmaster!" Cedric ran out of the room, leaving Dumbledore alone with the immobile imposter.
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