The Fall of the Hufflepuff Champion

DISCLAIMER: if you started reading with Chapter One, you have already seen the disclaimer. If not so, why don't you go back to do this right?


In an alternate world, where he survived the Triwizard Tournament, Cedric Diggory did not join Dumbledore's Army. He had already finished school when Dolores Umbridge arrived at Hogwarts. But he continued dating Cho Chang at Hogsmeade days and during school holidays, and from her tales he may have guessed that Harry Potter had a crush on Cho. He certainly heard about the cruel treatment of Cho's best friend, and when Harry Potter and Hermione Granger turned down his request to lift the curse off Marietta Edgecombe, it became the last time he had talked to them.

From there on, the Diggorys virtually vanished from historical records. Some witnesses claim that they met Cedric many years after the Battle of Hogwarts, and that he had turned into a dark and dangerous person. Some say that Amos Diggory was slain by goblin renegades or rebellious house-elves, who may or may not have been in alliance with Dumbledore's Army or the Order of the Phoenix, for always being nasty to non-humans. Some say that Cedric Diggory killed Neville Longbottom, who may or may not have tried to defend his allies against Cedric's rage, in the Battle of Hogwarts or on some other occasion. Some say that Cedric had actually become a Death Eater, but the details are lost to history.


A/N: I give up. There is nearly nothing to work with here, and I'm obviously better at analyzing and interpreting stuff than at making it up. One's for sure, though: Even the best may break if they are stressed too far, but having his Bubble-Head blown up to a ridiculous size is not sufficient to turn Cedric evil. There must have been more.

Thanks again to my beta readers Iximaz and Storme Hawk.