The morning after Harry had slept with George, he had told Hermione about the dragons and about how George was going to help him teach Accio. She was immediately interested to help and she had gone straight to the library.
He was wondering if he should tell Cedric about the dragons… He knew that Fleur and Viktor knew about them from Maxime and Karkaroff, and he thought it wouldn't be fair. Cedric had also been one of the few students who refused to get a "Potter Stinks!" signs from Malfoy, and Harry thought that it would be sort of a thank you.
Harry saw that many student's had drop their signs as the first task closed in. The whole Gryffindor house had smashed their signs, even Ron. There was a few Ravenclaws and Justin Finch-Fletchley and Susan Bones were the only Hufflepuffs (except for Cedric) who didn't wore those signs. Harry thought that Justin felt bad about it, since he was one of the first who thought that Harry was the Slytherin heir, in their second year. And Susan was his best friend and a close friend to Hermione as well.
But the majority of the school was still on Cedric's side, and the Slytherins with Malfoy as their leader weren't shy about showing it. Everyone knew though they didn't care about Cedric or the Hufflepuff house, they only wanted to make Harry angry and unfocused but Harry didn't gave in.
Later that day, Harry found Cedric tougher with some of his friends outside the castle and he knew this was the only time he was going to get a chance to talk with him before the task.
As he made his way to Cedric, Ernie MacMillan and Hannah Abbott shouted and laughed at him as they pushed their signs so it stood "Potter Stinks!", he couldn't care less about them now as the had more important things to do.
"Cedric, may I talk to you?" he said as he approached them. One of Cedric's friends immediately pushed his sign so it changed to red, and the second after all of them became red. Cedric looked embarrassed and stood up and took quickly Harry around the shoulder and took him behind a tree a bit far from the rest of the Hufflepuffs. Harry would lie if he didn't think that Cedric was hot, but he couldn't compete with George!
"I'm so sorry about my friends Harry! I told them to not take those signs and to do that in front of you!" Cedric started but Harry pulled up his hand and shook his head "No, you don't need to apologize, Cedric! It doesn't affect me anymore!" he said and smiled. Cedric seamed to want to argue but Harry was quicker "Anyway that's not what I wanted to talk about anyhow… Our first task is dragons" he said and Cedric became pale.
"W-what?" he asked and wanted Harry to tell him that it was a joke. But it wasn't a joke it was bloody real! And he got the question answered as Harry nodded.
"Are you s-sure?" Cedric asked again and Harry nodded again "Yes, I have seen them- don't ask me how!" he said as Cedric was going to ask how he knew about them. He didn't want to get Hagrid in trouble again!
"What about Fleur and Viktor?" Cedric asked then "They know, Maxime and Karkaroff have probably told them before breakfast, and I thought you should know as well" Harry said and Cedric looked down at him.
"Why?" he asked then. Harry was surprised about that question, thinking since Cedric is a Hufflepuff he would know why!
"Since you are the only one who didn't know, I thought it would make the competition even. And, you are one of three in your house who doesn't hate me… This is like a thank you in away I guess" Harry said and looked at Cedric.
Cedric thought for a bit, taking in what Harry had told him before he smiled. "You don't need to do this, Harry…" he said but Harry shook his head "I do… I don' want this and there's the risk that I won't even survive the first task… I want it to at least be fair, you know?" he said and Cedric nodded and put a hand on Harry's arm.
"You will survive not only this task Harry! But also the second and the third as well! You will think about something I know you will!" he said and they both smiled to each other. Harry became happy for getting more friendly with Cedric, maybe the two of them could be friends in the end after all this? Cedric was thinking the same, and the two of them waved good-bye. But none of them saw the Weasley twin, glairing at them of jealousy.
After dinner, Harry and Hermione was looking for a empty classroom they could use for practicing Accio. Though it seamed that the teacher's new about their plan, because the majority of the classrooms were looked with magical charms. It didn't help wit Alohomora, to Hermione's annoyance.
As the two of them were headed towards the Gryffindor tower, Harry got knocked back all of the sudden. There was also a "Ow" but it was not Hermione, it was another girls voice. One Harry didn't recognize, he got up on his feet and looked at the girl on the floor. She was blond, almost white like Malfoy, she had silver gray eyes and she had a dreamy expression on her face. She was a Ravenclaw and Harry thought he had seen her before.
"I'm so sorry! Are you hurt?" said Harry and kneeled beside her. "Oh, no it my fault!" she said with a dreamy voice "I should have seen the Wrackspurts getting more visible around your head" Harry had never heard about something called Wrackspurts. The first impression he got for this girl was that she might be a bit crazy.
"Oh, Luna Lovegood!" Hermione said "What are you doing here?" Luna looked at Hermione, and Hermione became nervous for some reason. "I was heading to my common room when I heard the Wrackspurts, I was… interested" she said and picked herself up from the floor. She didn't seam bothered by it and she was holding a oddly pair of glasses. Harry thought they reassembled like 3-D glasses, but he got the feeling that they weren't meant to be used for that purpose. She put them on and looked at Harry.
"You are looking for a room" Luna suddenly said making Harry and Hermione look at each other. "Yes, how did you know that?" asked Harry confused but also intrigued by this Luna.
"Your Wrackspurts told me, your head is full of them…" she said and Harry started to look around see if there was something near him. But there wasn't. "Eh, Luna if you don't mind me asking, what is Wrackspurts?" asked Hermione and Luna turned to her with a smile.
"Invisible creatures that make your brain go fuzzy…" she said and then turned to Harry "Follow me I know a place you can use!" she said and started to walk. Harry and Hermione looked at each other again but decided to follow Luna.
The three of them stopped in front of a empty wall. Neither Harry nor Hermione knew what they were going to say before there was a door in front of them. Luna opened the door and went inside it, Harry and Hermione soon followed after her.
The room was empty except there were three different things on a table. A teddy bear, a huge rock and a cup with pumpkin juice. "Luna, were are we?" asked Harry baffled, he had seen many weird rooms at Hogwarts before but he had never seen anything like this. The walls and floors of the room were like mirrors and it gave the room a light blue shade to it.
"The Room of Requirement" she said as if there weren't anything strange about this. "I have read about it!" said Hermione "This room will appear with anything of what the person really need at the moment" she said. Harry frowned "So what, let's say I need a own private bathroom, would I get it if I came here?" he asked and Hermione nodded "Kind of like that" she said.
"This is perfect!" Harry said "I need a room to practice Accio and I guess that those three things on the table appeared because we need it right now?" he asked both to Hermione and Luna. The two girls nodded and Harry thought that he had to tell George as fast as possible when they got back to the common room.
"We should probably go now" said Luna "Harry Potter wants to go back to his common room" Both Harry and Hermione looked at her as she skipped out and before she got out through the door she turned around and gave Harry a smile "Good luck on your first task, Harry" she said and skipped out to her own common room.
Harry and Hermione stood still, "She was weird…" said Hermione and Harry nodded "Yeah, but helpful…" he didn't know why but he liked Luna somehow. He could tell she didn't care about how others saw her or thought about her. Harry smiled to himself before he said to Hermione they should head back to Gryffindor Tower.