-1 Chapter 3: Ron's Secret
That night, Harry had nightmares. He dreamed of Voldemort ordering Wormtail to "Kill the spare" as Cedric had accidentally
teleported with Harry to the graveyard. He didn't know the Cup was really a Portkey for Harry to meet his untimely (although in Voldemort's case 14 years overdue) demise. He ducked behind a gravestone that was nearby and dodged the killing spell . Voldemort told his worthless minion to forget the spare and they continued through with their ritual with Harry to bring back Voldemort's body. Just as they began to duel and the spells locked together to make the golden web since they both Harry's and Voldemort's wands had twin cores, Cedric stunned his way through the Death Eaters as Harry broke off the duel ( with help from the ghosts of Voldemort's previous victims, including his parents) and Summoned the Cup with Cedric by his side. He woke up in a cold sweat and thought to himself, " Had Cedric been killed that night he would have been one of the ghosts I saw that night.." After the event while Cedric was inadvertently receiving attention as the winner of the Tournament ( They teleported back but Cedric had a tighter grip on the Cup and Harry's grip slackened and inevitably let go as he landed.) Moody was dragging Harry away from everybody else, under cover of the fact that he was wounded and needed the hospital wing. Harry knew right away something was wrong because Moody or Madam Pomfrey ( who was also amongst the other Champions waiting to heal the injured) could have healed a simple cut to his arm but he had no energy to protest. Eventually, Harry found out the hard way that Moody was in fact, Barty Jr., Barty Crouch's son and the "Real" Moody was locked up in his own trunk, alive, of course. Apparently, Cedric realized this also because he helped Dumbledore perform a powerful double Stunning spell to take out the imposter Moody. Later on, it was confirmed magically that both Champions had in fact touched the Cup at the same time, giving Hogwarts a double victory in the Triwizard Tournament. The prize money was split between the two and Harry gave everything he had to the twins to start their shop. After that Cedric disappeared for a while until the beginning of this year where it was revealed that he would be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts in "Moody's" place. He was fully qualified for the position as he was one of the top students in the school when it came to Dueling as well as in Transfiguration and such. " I should really talk to him….it's been a while" Harry said to himself and made a mental note before going back to sleep, this time focusing his dreams on a certain somebody else…….
The next morning, both Harry and Ron woke up to the start of their first weekend of the school year. " I can't wait till we go to Hogsmeade. I miss those butterbeers…." Ron said dreamily. " I thought you only wanted to go so you could look at Madam Rosmerta, you pervert." Harry joked. " Why do I need to look at her when I could just look at you Harry?" Ron replied with a smirk and Harry just smiled back. Hermione joined them for breakfast a little late ( "I have to read five chapters a day every morning you know!" Hermione said after saying hi to both boys.). " So………" after all three finished their breakfast of pancakes, eggs, and sausage (A/N: That sounds SO GOOD right now….) Hermione began, " What are we doing today Harry?" " To tell you the truth, I really have no idea" was all Harry replied. " Oh wait a minute I know!" Hermione said happily. Before she could say further on the subject however, Ron intervened. " If it has anything to do with going to the Library, studying, practicing jinxes and spells a gazillion times over, or all the above then HELL NO." Ron said. "Ron do you REALLY think that I'm that much of a bookworm that I only believe in "Study first, work hard, and play whenever I get the chance, do you?" Both boys said simultaneously, "YES!" Hermione merely blushed and said " Oh, well thank you I'm quite flattered. Anyway I wanted to say that we should visit Hagrid, we haven't seen him since the Beginning of Term Feast and I'm sure he really looks forward to seeing us." " That's a good idea." Harry replied. " I second that." Ron added and they left off with Hermione to Hagrid's Hut.
When they finally arrived they heard Hagrid talking animatedly with someone ( being half giant and all, he WAS kind of loud). " "Who could Hagrid possibly be talking to like that within the first week of school no less, and it's not us?" Hermione said. " Dunno." was all Ron replied. " Thanks for being the epitome of thinking, Ronald" Hermione said in her you-are-such-a-dimwit tone that she usually adopted with Ron. " You're welcome Ms. Marie Curie of the Wizarding World." Ron shot back. Hermione blushed even harder than last time at this statement and merely said back with a smile " Oh you're too kind." Harry knocked on Hagrid's door and the door opened…but it wasn't him who opened it……
I'm sorry this chapter is shorter than usual but I need to add suspense ya know! Reand and review! Seriously PLEASE REVIEW!