"Champions"
AN: Ok just in case you didn't get my last message I'm going to have to use wands because of later in the story. But they will still have their special powers.
One week later…
When Harry awoke Thursday mourning he realized what day it was. 'I wonder if Cedric is going to be chosen as the Hogwarts Champion' he thought to him self as he lay in his four poster bed. After a few minutes he heard his roommates start waking up. Harry pulled his curtains open and saw Ron getting out of bed.
"Mourning." Ron mumbled.
"Mournin." Harry replied.
Harry and Ron both got up and got dressed. They headed down to the staircase to the common room. When they entered the room they saw Hermione walking towards them.
"Mourning." Hermione said to the both of them
"Mourning." They both replied
"Aren't you two excited?" Hermione asked as they headed for the portrait hole.
"For what?" Ron said
Hermione watched as a grin spread across Harry's face
"What do you mean for what; today is the day that the champions are chosen." She snapped
The bushy haired girl shot Ron a disappointing look. He just shrugged it off and kept walking. She then turned to Harry.
"So do you think Cedric is going to be chosen?" She asked
"I hope so." Harry replied. "He sounded all excited when he asked me if I he could enter."
"What did you tell him?' Hermione asked
"Sorry I guess I forgot to tell you everything last week, well I told him that it was ok that he entered." Harry told her. "I just hope that he is careful." He added
"I think that if he is chosen, he will do a great job." Hermione said.
"Me to." Replied Harry
She gave him a smile as they walked into the Great Hall for breakfast. When they sat down Harry piled some sausage, bacon and eggs onto his plate. While he was trying to put jam on his biscuit he felt an elbow hit him in the side. He looked over to Hermione who motioned for him to look up. Harry looked up and saw Cedric smiling at him. He saw Cedric motion up in the air, he looked up and saw an owl heading towards him.
"What are you looking at?" Ron asked looking over his shoulder.
"That's none of your business!" Snapped Hermione
After the owl landed, Harry untied the note and watched as the owl fly away. Harry opened the note and began reading it.
Harry,
I've been thinking about something for the past week. I was just wondering if you wanted to maybe be um, well be my boyfriend. If you don't want to that's totally fine. Just let me know soon.
Cedric
Harry sat there with the note in his hand staring at it in amazement. Hermione looked over to Cedric who started to look worried after Harry didn't look back up from reading his note.
"What did he ask you?" She asked
Harry handed Hermione the piece of paper, she quickly read over it and Harry saw her mouth drop a few inches.
"What are you two doing?" Asked Ron who was starting to get impatient.
Hermione shot him a dark glace and Ron resumed to eating his breakfast in silence.
"What are you going to say?" Hermione whispered to Harry. She took another glance towards Cedric who was now starting to look as if he was going to pass out. "You had better hurry because he's not looking so well." Hermione quickly added.
Harry looked up towards Cedric and gave him a smile and shook his head yes. Hermione watched as both boys started to turn deep scarlet on their cheeks and ears. Cedric nearly jumped out of his seat in excitement, but he used all of his will power to contain himself.
"We had better get going so we aren't late to potions." Hermione said
Both Ron and Harry groaned as they got up from the table. Harry looked toward Cedric and waved at him before turning to leave the Great Hall. When they reached the dungeons and their class they took their seat as Snape walked in.
"Take out your potions book and turn to page 312." Snape said "I want you to work on sleeping potions, the supplies are in the cupboard and directions are on the board. Now get to work." He snapped and walked behind his desk and saw down.
Hermione, Harry, Ron began working on their potion. When they were nearly finished Harry felt something hit his back which startled him and he threw out is hands and blew out the glass out of the doors on the ingredients cabinet. Snape quickly looked up to see what happened.
"What the Hell happened." Snape snapped
"Potter, did you do this." He asked angrily
He started to walk towards Harry who was looking at the mess.
"Professor, I didn't mean to do it." He said.
But when Snape got closer to Harry, which Harry still had his hands out; Snape's desk blew into pieces.
"POTTER!" Snape roared
Harry turned around and Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle's potion blew up and onto them. One by one they started falling to the ground fast asleep.
"PUT YOUR DAMN HANDS DOWN." Snape angrily said "And get out of here, go to your head of house NOW." He roared
Harry quickly picked up his things and left the room in embarrassment. When he reached Professor McGonagall's office he knocked on the door.
"Come in" Came her voice
Harry opened the door and walked in.
"Shouldn't you be in class?" Professor McGonagall asked looking at Harry sternly
"Professor Snape sent me out." Harry replied
"What did you do?" She asked
"Well I sort of blew things around the room." He said
Professor McGonagall's mouth dropped open a little and her eyes grew wide. "What do you mean you blew things up?" She asked
"Well I got startled and I threw my hands up and his cupboard blew up." Harry said. Harry threw his hands up in despair and when he did so a lamp behind his head of house blew up into pieces landing on the ground. Professor McGonagall jumped when this happened.
"I thought your power was to freeze things." She asked
"That's what I thought" Harry stated.
"Well it looks like you got a new power, your lucky to have two especially when some people don't even get special abilities." Professor McGonagall said
Harry looked down at his hand in anguish.
"Take the rest of the day off, ok Potter, I'll excuse Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger for the day also, and for the rest of the day, try and get a control of your new power so your aren't so dangerous." She said.
"Thanks professor." Harry said
He saw her writing a note and watched as it burned up. After a moment a note appeared back into her hand.
"Your friends will be waiting by the main staircase." She said.
"Good bye professor, and thanks again." Harry said as he walked out.
When he reached the bottom of the stair case he saw Ron and Hermione waiting for him.
"What happened?" they both asked him
"Professor McGonagall said my power is getting stronger." Harry said
"Wow." Hermione said. "Hardly any wizards or witches get two powers." She excitedly said.
"Let's go outside." Harry said, "Professor said I need to try and get a handle on my new power so I'm not so dangerous."
The three of them headed out the doors and headed down the hill by Hagrid's house so they could practice Harry's new power.
Cedric watched as the three of them left the school. 'I wonder where they are going' he though to himself. He started to follow after them. When he saw them go down by Hagrid's house he sat down on the hill side and watched them. He watched as Hermione would conjure inanimate objects and watched as Harry would blow them up. His mouth dropped open. He watched as Ron pointed toward him, Harry turned around and saw him sitting there. Cedric watched as Harry walked over to him.
"Hey." Cedric said when Harry got close to him.
"Hey." Harry replied.
"What are you doing" Cedric asked.
"Well I kinda blew a few things up in potions and Snape sent me to McGonagall and she gave me the afternoon off and told me to practice my new power." Harry said
"Wow, you have a new pretty impressive power." Cedric Said
"Yea, tell me about it, my hands are dangerous, I'm dangerous now." Harry said looking sadly down at them.
Cedric stood up and went close to Harry taking his hands into his.
"I'll be here for you, not matter what." Cedric said. "I know you'll get control of this new power." He added
Ron looked up at Harry and Cedric and Hermione watched as his mouth dropped.
"What the bloody hell is he doing to Harry?" Ron Said
"Well um.., Harry and Cedric are kinda going out." Hermione stated
Ron looked over to Hermione with his eyes wide and mouth open.
"Why didn't either of you tell me?" Ron asked angrily
"Well Harry was afraid you wouldn't want to be his friend if you found out." Hermione replied.
"I already figured he was." Ron stated
"How?" Hermione asked.
"Cuz he sometimes talks in his sleep, and ever since the Quidditch World Cup, he and Cedric have been acting strangely."
"Oh, we didn't' know or we would have told you." Hermione quickly said.
"Oh well" Ron said sitting down on ground looking disappointed.
"Ron, were really sorry." Hermione said.
"Don't worry about it" he stated
They both looked back up at Cedric and Harry, they saw them kiss and hug then separate. Harry was heading towards them and Cedric was heading back toward the castle. When the got back Ron looked up at him.
"Well I'm happy you found someone you like." Ron said
A blush crept across Harry's face.
"Listen I'm really sorry I didn't tell you sooner." Harry said "It's just I wasn't sure how you would react." He added.
"Its ok, I'm not mad, and I don't hate you for it." Ron stated
"Thanks." Harry said
"Well shall we get back to training?" Harry said looking at the two apprehensively.
Later that Night…
When the three entered the Great Hall for dinner everyone was there talking happily. They sat down and started gathering food onto their plate. Harry looked to the table across from him to see if Cedric was with his fellow Hufflepuffs. He didn't see Cedric anywhere. When they were finished Dumbledore stood up everyone quieted down. He took out his wand and swooshed it across the room making the food disappear; he then tucked his wand back inside his robes.
"Shall we announce the champions?" He said
The Great Hall went up in cheers. Harry saw as Cedric walked in and smiled at him. He took his seat at the Hufflepuff table. Everyone watched at the goblet was brought in and placed in front of the staff table.
"Let the drawing begin." Dumbledore said.
Everyone watched as the goblet turned from its blue color to a roaring purplish red, it spit out a piece of paper that was burned around the edges.
"The first Champion Chosen is, Viktor Krum representing Durmstrang." Dumbledore yelled.
Everyone applauded and watched Viktor walk up toward the Headmaster; Dumbledore pointed him towards a door for him to go through. Once again the fire turned to the purplish red and spit out yet another piece of burned paper.
"Representing Beauxbaton is, Fleur Delacour." Dumbledore's voice rang.
Yet again everyone started to applaud. When the fire turned to its color for the final champion everyone quieted down when the papers shot out.
"And representing Hogwarts." Dumbledore said, "Cedric Diggory."
The Great Hall filled with cheers. Cedric looked back towards Harry and gave him a wink. Harry smiled back to him and watched him enter the other room.
"And now that our champions are chosen, the tasks will begin, each one will have the chance to with the Tri Wizard Cup and go down his history, but sadly only one of them will win." Dumbledore said
When the fire started to change colors again, Dumbledore and everyone looked at it with a horrified look. Another paper shot out of the fire, Dumbledore grabbed it and slowly opened it and called out the name.
"HARRY POTTER." Dumbledore's voice rang.
Harry tired to sit down but Hermione kept pushing him forward.
"Go." Hermione said to him.
Harry slowly made his way up the isle, no one was applauding for him, and they just stared at him with a suspicious look. When he reached Dumbledore he pointed him to the door. When he reached the door Professor McGonagall ushered him down. Harry walked down the steps, when he reached the bottom he saw the three champions. Cedric turned around and looked at Harry and saw a look of horror on the raven haired boy. Fleur looked up at him.
"Do sthey vant us to cuv back out." She asked
Harry slowly shook his head back and forth. When he heard the door slam behind him he quickly turned and looked. He saw Dumbledore running down the steps followed by all the staff. Dumbledore grabbed Harry.
"Did you put your name in the goblet?" He asked looking at Harry in the eye.
"No sir." Harry replied
"Did you get someone older to put it in for you?" Dumbledore asked patiently.
"Nor Sir." Harry once again replied
Dumbledore turned to the Minister of Magic.
"Is there any way he can get out." Dumbledore asked.
"I'm afraid not, this is a magical contract." The minister said
"But he's not old enough." Professor McGonagall nearly yelled.
"You can't let eim compete." Madame Maxime barked "Vat vould give ye two champions." She added
Cedric turned to Dumbledore. "Sir, Harry doesn't have the skill yet that we have, how is he going to get through when it's going to be hard for us." He asked looking down at Harry.
"There's nothing we can do, Harry will have to compete." Dumbledore sighed. "You may all leave, and the first task will be within the next few months." Dumbledore added.
Everyone walked out of the room. Cedric took Harry's hand and led him into the nearest empty classroom.
"Harry." Cedric said. "Did you put your name in the goblet or have any else do it for you." He asked with a look of worried ness in his gray eyes.
"No, I promise." Harry mumbled as his look of fear grew more upon his face.
Cedric pulled Harry into his chest and wrapped his arms around him.
"Listen to me, we'll do just fine ok." Cedric said and he held onto Harry. "I won't let anything happen to you, I just don't understand why someone entered your name."
"Because someone wants me dead." Harry replied.
"What do you mean?" Cedric asked
"Haven you ever noticed, someone always wants me dead one way or another." Harry mumbled into Cedric's chest.
"Like I said, I won't let anything happen to you." Cedric said Holding Harry even tighter.
AN: WOW, that took a little while to write, well I hope you enjoy this chapter, and I decided that soon that there will be a lemon, but only if I get enough reviews. Muwhahahah! Well please review and let me know what you all think. Off to the next chapter.