Chapter 11

"So he's all right?" Harry heard George's voice in the distance of his dream. He broke away from his dream, were he got the Horntail to chase after Malfoy by his command. Harry still felt tired but he knew he had to wake up. He kind of knew already that he was in the infirmary wing, and if he was there, that meant that he had done something that had made him end up there. And by George's voice he knew he was right

So, he opened his eyes but shout them again when the strong sunlight that decided to pep through the clouds blinded him. He heard someone, probably Hermione, gasp and stand up beside him. He shifted in his bed so he was sitting and rubbed his eyes with his hand and opened his eyes once again.

There he saw the faces that made him smile. He saw Mrs. Weasley that let out a sigh in relief and she looked like that she was going to cry any second, Ron and Fred smiled widely, Hermione had tears in her eyes. But Harry's eyes landed at the person that mattered the most to him, George looked at him as if he was an angel. He too had tears in his eyes and he was smiling before he attacked Harry's lips.

After what felt like an eternity the two of them heard a cough from the others and broke away. Harry looked at George and then at the others, "Hi" he said and then all of them launched at him with hugs and kisses.

"How are you feeling, dear?" asked Mrs. Weasley and gave him a glass of water that was standing on his night table next to him. Harry took a sip from it before answering her, "Good, just a bit tired that's all" he gave her a smile to reassure her that he was fine.

"If you all could please get away from him" Madame Pomfrey said from the end of the bed to the Weasley family and Hermione so she could cast a few spells on Harry to really state that he was fine.

George sat on a chair next to Harry and just hold his hand and looking at him with happy eyes.

"OK Mr. Potter" the med-witch said, "You are definitely on your way to become normal again, but you will have to be here this night just to be safe. Dumbledore will be here nay minute now and he has some questions for you" she said and turned around and got to her office.

"How long have I been here?" asked Harry afterwards, "A few days, mate" Ron said. "What happened?" Harry asked and Ron was about to say something but got cut off, "I was hoping that you would know something…" said Dumbledore who had somehow popped out of nowhere next to Ron, which made him jump a little in the air.

That George would remember in the future.

Mrs. Weasley looked at Dumbledore with concerned eyes "Albus, don't you think we should wait before we ask him about it?" she said and Dumbledore meet her eyes. "I understand why you think we should wait Molly, but we haven't even find one single clue about who could have done this. And right now with the tournament we have to find the one who is responsible fast, who knows maybe the one who poisoned Harry is out for the other champions as well" Dumbledore said and Mrs. Weasley sighed. She knew she couldn't change the old man's decision.

"I was poisoned?" Harry asked and it became quiet in the room. All of them waited for someone else, or actually on Dumbledore since they all had been beside Harry's bed all this time and have heard Madame Pomfrey's version of it.

Dumbledore made his way next to Harry's other side of the bed, he didn't want to interrupt the chemistry between the two boys.

"What's the last thing you remember, Harry?" asked Dumbledore.

"Well…" Harry started, he did remember the party the Gryffindor's had thrown to celebrate Harry's fight against the Horntail. However, it wasn't allowed by the schools rules to have parties and definitely not with alcohol.

However, it wasn't Dumbledore Harry was afraid of. It was George and Fred who had brought the alcohol to them, so the one Harry feared was Mrs. Weasley. Harry meet George's eyes and he too seamed to think the same thing, Dumbledore would have let him get off easily but his mother was another story.

"Eh, well I remember I got the golden egg from the dragon, then we all went up to Gryffindor tower, we stayed up for a while and then I went to bed" Harry tried to leave out the stuff with the alcohol but-

"What did you all do during that time?" asked Mrs. Weasley and her eyes went from Harry to George and then to Fred. Fred rolled his eyes "We had fun mom! And yes, some of us drank but we would never put poison in the drinks. For one it's dangerous and second it's bad for business, right George?" he said and looked at his twin brother for support.

George didn't like to talk about their business with anyone besides his brother, even Harry didn't know much about their affairs and where their supplies came from. He let out a "Mhmm" to the other's as a sign that he agreed with Fred. Though a thought hit him: could it be possible that someone knew about where the drinks that they had ordered came from and poisoned one of the bottles?

But if the person had intended to poison Harry, why do something that complex?

His theory sounded like that someone, probably a Slytherin, had poison one of the bottles and then hoped that a Gryffindor drank it and it happened to be Harry. However, the poison was too complex for any student in Hogwarts to brew it.

In his thought, George had missed how Mrs. Weasley and Fred were arguing about how irresponsible they were and how dangerous it was with alcohol for children at their age. Fred said something about how this wasn't their fault and that from now on they would be more carful with these kind of affairs and said that she too had done something's in her youth that outclassed their "stupidity" which made Mrs. Weasley almost turn even scarier then You-Know-Who.

Luckily Dumbledore stepped in before anything really happened.

"Now, now you two. We shouldn't dwell about what happened, the most important thing is that Harry is well, though there is one thing Fred and George could help me with" he said and the two Wealsey's became quiet but threw daggers at each other with their eyes.

"I have seen you two become very successful in your business through the years and it have always fascinated me in a way…" said Dumbledore and Mrs. Weasley looked at him with stunned eyes.

"I wished there was someone like you two when I went to Hogwarts… It would certainly have helped me get away from my studies at times…" he kept saying dreamily and Mrs. Weasley seamed to almost get a heart attack and Fred seamed proud.

"Anyway, what I really want to say is that you two know how much bottles there was and from whom it came from, so if you could meet me at my office in ten minutes would be good- Oh and I will send you an owl to you Harry about an appointment with me, I really want to talk to you, okay." he said and didn't wait for a respond before he waved good bye to Mrs. Weasley and the others and got out of the infirmary.

"So…" Mrs. Weasley said and let out a sigh and turned to Harry and the others, "I think I have to return to my courters and start packing my things" she said and went to Harry and kissed his forehead "It's good to have you back" she said and winked which made Harry blush a bit but smiled at her.

"Yeah us too…" Hermione said and nodded to Fred and Ron, "Me and Ron have astronomy essay to do until tomorrow but first, Ronald needs his lunch and I'm sure Fred will wait for you George outside of Dumbledore's office" She said and took Ron and Fred in their arms with her hands and started to marsh them out. "By the way…" Hermione said and turned her head towards Harry, "You don't have to worry about the lessons you have missed, every teacher knows what had happened and I'm sure they will let you do the work during the holiday after I have talked to them!" she said in a annoyingly positive way which made Harry scowl but smiled a thank you to her.

After they too, had left the infirmary, the only persons left were Harry and George.

The two boys looked at each other nothing else needed to be said. George stroked Harry's hair from his forehead and then kissed him deeply on the mouth.

"So…" he said after they broke away and rested their foreheads against each other, "Yeah…" said Harry dreamily, he didn't want George to go but he knew that he would return as fast as possible.

"I'm not going to say something cheese or something like that… Well at least not yet!" George said and the two laughed a little, "But it feels really really good to have you back!" he said and kissed Harry once more.

"However there is one little thing you should know…" George said and sat on Harry's bed and took his hand in his. Harry frowned because he sensed that George was something important, and especially when he said "little"…

George took a depth breath before he told Harry: "The whole school knows about us…"

"WHAT!" Harry said really laud so Madame Pomfrey popped out her from her door and looked angry at them and was about to tell them that this was a "hospital", but since there wasn't any other student there she just glared and closed the door.

"How?" Harry said and looked choked at George and hoped that George was only joking but he realized very quickly that he wasn't.

"Snape…" George said and Harry closed his eyes. He was trying to control his magic since he has had experience with mishaps when it came to his magic when he was angry. And he really didn't want to blow George up like he did with aunt Marge last summer…

"Well…" Harry started, "At least we don't need to keep hiding from people… How has the respond been?" Harry asked even if he really didn't want to know.

"Really good actually" George said and gave Harry a small smile "I haven't been around school that much since you have been laying here, but what I heard from Hermione is that people love you more now, even your fan-girls who I thought was going to cry rivers now wants you more!" George said and rolled his eyes, which made Harry laugh.

George had told Harry one night how irritated he was when girls not only from Hogwarts but also from Beauxbatons came to him with roses and stuff. He was mostly jealous which made Harry love him more!

"The Slytehins has of course added this-" he pointed at their intertwined hands "to their collection of 'Anti-Potter' propaganda, but since it's normal with same-sex marriages in this world, they don't really care. Mostly they mock you or us, because you are with me" he said and shrugged and harry rolled his eyes. It would be so fun to go out of here.

"Anyway, I think I need to go to Dumbledore's!" George said and gave Harry a good-bye kiss. "I'll return as soon as possible, okay" George said as he stood up and let go of Harry's hand and winked at him. Harry blushed and smiled as he saw George disappear.

…

During the day Harry got visits not only from Ron and Hermione, but also from Neville, Seamus, Dean, Fred, Lee, Angelina and Ginny…

It was a bit uncomfortable when Harry saw Ginny, he knew that Ginny had had a crush on him and he wasn't that oblivious like some people thought he was. Girls like to talk especially when they think they are alone with their friends.

But, Ginny surprised him.

She was… fine with it, if her brother made him happy then it was fine. Besides, Dean had asked her out a few times before but she had said no. Now, she might say yes, she told Harry.

Harry and his friends were happy to see each other again, which moved Harry but he didn't show it. He would only become embarrassed by it!

However, there was one person who Harry hadn't counted to show up, and it wasn't Ginny.

It was around the time when Harry usually ate his dinner, but since he was in the infirmary, he ate there instead with George. Later, George was going back to Gryffindor Tower to retrieve a book, which Hermione had ordered George to give Harry that night so he could see what he had missed.

After a minute or two, none other then Cedric Diggory comes in with a hand in front of his nose.

He saw that Harry was there and smiled at him and waved with his other hand.

"-I there!" he said with a voice that clearly indicated that the blood had come to his throat.

Harry gave him a nervous smile "Eh, hi?" he said and looked at Cedric's nose, Cedric realized why Harry looked at him funny.

"Oh! Tis! Tripped at on the satires, didn't see it!" he said as if that was the funniest thing in the year. Harry frowned, "But you are okay?" he asked and Cedric nodded but as he bent the head downwards the blood saw it's chance to slip through his fingers and pure out like a waterfall, which made Cedric take his free hand against his nose too.

"-adam pofreay?" Cedric asked and Harry was going to say that she was in her office but she came out from her room as Cedric asked for her.

"Mr. Diggory!" she asked choked and hurried to him and took out her wand. "Sit here!" she said and pulled him to one of the beds so he could sit on it. "Get your hands of your nose so I can fix it!" she said and Cedric did as she said and after a few seconds later the blood had stopped and his nose, which Harry could see that Cedric nose bridge was bent inwards in the middle, was fixed.

"Ah!" Cedric said and patted his nose and Madame Pomfrey cleaned the blood away from his shirt and face, "Back to normal!" she said when she was finished "Now Mr. Diggory, you should head back to your common room, good night!" she said and turned around to her office and closed the door.

Harry thought that Cedric was going to say good-bye and head out, but instead Cedric headed towards Harry and sat on the chair where George had sat during their dinner, next to the bed.

"Well that was uncomfortable" Cedric said as he positions himself comfortably in the chair. "I bet…" Harry answered wondering what Cedric was doing there.

"I tripped on my way to Hufflepuff's common room after dinner and since none of my friends are good with these things I decided to come here" he said and smiled at Harry.

Harry wonder why Cedric thought he would actually care, and Cedric's approach were as if they were friends. But Harry remembered that he had warned Cedric about the dragons, and probably Cedric wanted to be nice he guessed.

"So… how are you feeling?" Cedric asked Harry which made Harry get taken back a bit, he got told by George that since everyone knew about them they also knew he was laying there!

He sighed, "Good I guess… Will be back at Gryffindor's tomorrow…" he said and Cedric nodded, "Well that's good" he said.

"How much do people know?" Harry asked, "Rumor says that sometime during the night after the first task, you got poisoned by some super toxic potion which made you almost get killed." Cedric told Harry and he sighed, that was pretty much it…

"So it was true…" Cedric said and Harry nodded.

"It always amazes me how fast people hear news or gossips…" Harry said and lay back on his pillow and looked at the ceiling.

"You mean you and the Weasley twin?" Cedric asked Harry, "Well, that too…" Harry said.

"Well people like to talk and hear the latest gossip…" Cedric said "And sorry if this may come out wrong, but people likes to talk about you…" he continued and sounded ashamed and a bit angry Harry thought, but he started to get annoyed.

"Cedric… Why are you here?" Harry asked and looked at Cedric who seamed to see that Harry was annoyed. "I came to talk to you" he said calm that made Harry more annoyed, "Yeah but why? To report back to the rest of the school how I am doing?" Cedric shook his head.

"No, I'm here on my own and besides, I'm not that kind of a person. I'm a Hufflepuff after all!" he said and Harry snorted, "Well Cedric, if you are a Hufflepuff then you can explain to me why the rest of your house decided to go against me like the rest of the school! Shouldn't you Hufflepuff's be all loyal and stand for justice?" Harry asked and Cedric looked ashamed by it.

"Yeah, you have a point there… I won't lie, Harry but after your name popped out of the goblet, many in my house hated you. Even I was a bit convinced that you had done it on purpose and wanted all the glory. However as time went on and those badges from Malfoy began to spread I had to think about the whole situation. I decided to believe you and support you even if it wasn't huge to you, it was to me…"

"Why?" asked Harry and frowned, "Honestly?" Cedric asked Harry and he nodded.

"I was ashamed… I was ashamed by myself and on my house… As you said: we are supposed to be loyal not only to each other but also to the rest of the school. And I have always thought my self to be a true Hufflepuff, I have always been against people who treat other's badly and always been loyal not only to my own house but to the rest as well… Always been helpful and friendly to others, even to the bullies like Malfoy!" he said with disgust in his voice. Harry got the feeling that Cedric didn't like Malfoy at all, which made him smile a bit, who likes that guy anyway?!

"So, it really surprised me when I too, started to dislike you for a thing no one had proof off! As I said: I was ashamed…" Cedric said.

It became quiet between them for a few seconds.

"How did you come to the point to believe me? I mean, besides the badges. Everyone had them, even the Gryffindor had them, even Ron who supposed to be my best friend! However, I do recall that some people besides Hermione, George, Fred and Neville didn't have them but they weren't many…" Harry said and Cedric nodded.

"Yeah, I didn't take them even if Malfoy almost begged on his knees for me to take them" he said and the two of them snorted and shook their heads.

"Then there was Fletchley and Bones in Hufflepuff, and a few Ravenclaws… " Cedric continued and stopped when he couldn't count more people who hadn't taken the badges from Malfoy.

"I guess they are more smarter then the rest of us…" Cedric said to himself about his Hufflepuff friends.

"Anyway, to answer you question. All I had to do was thinking rationally! For the first: No fourth year old student could trick Dumbledore or the goblet, if not being a very dark wizard and no one can have that much experienced in magic in that age. Second: you are not the best student to figure out how to trick Dumbledore or the goblet! I bet even your friend Granger cannot even find one single clue of how to trick them, even after all the books she might read, and she is even more smarter thane some of us seven year students!" Cedric said and Harry laughed.

"And third: Your reaction." Cedric said and Harry frowned, "What do you mean?" he asked Cedric.

"When you came down the satires you seamed scared and frightened, as if someone had just died. Plus when Fleur asked you if you were there to get us back to the ceremony I thought it was a bit strange. I mean, why would you or any other students in that mater come and get us and not a teacher or our headmasters or even Filch! It didn't make sense I thought. And your face was not lying that night, Harry. You didn't put down your name in to the goblet." Cedric finished.

"Thank you…" Harry said after a while when he didn't know what to say to Cedric's final reason to believe him.

"You don't need to thank me, Harry. I should be the one to ask you for forgiveness even if I didn't do anything directly too you…" he said and they looked at each other.

"You don't need to ask me for forgiveness, you are only human… I would have reacted the same if I was in the same situation as you" Harry said and gave Cedric a smile. Cedric smiled and remembered that he had to return to his common room soon. He cast a spell who said that the time was soon 21.00.

"I have to go now, it's getting late-" he said but got interrupted by George who came in through the door and looked his eyes on the Hufflepuff in the room. The Hufflepuff who he didn't like one bit! And who was talking to his boyfriend made his eyes burst into flames.

"Diggory…" George said with an icy voice. Cedric saw him and nodded and gave him a smile, which made George more irritated. "Nice to see you, Weasley!" he said smiled to George and one of George's eyebrows twitched. He really wanted to hit him with the book Hermione had giving him!

"I was just leaving so see you soon! Oh that's right!" Cedric said and turned to Harry.

"Can you meet me sometime during these next few days? During lunch maybe?" he asked Harry and Harry nodded, "I guess, I can write an owl to you" he said not knowing that George looked at him with those burning eyes.

"Great! See you soon Harry!" he said and smiled at Harry and then turned around, nodded to George and exited the infirmary.

"So…" George said after Cedric had closed the door, "WHAT were you two talking about huh?" he said not hiding his jealousy in his voice.

Harry looked at him first and then started to laugh.

"What's so funny?" George asked annoyed but he was also happy to see Harry laugh. "You!" Harry said "You look so funny when you are jealous!" he said and whipped away a tear in his eye.

"Humph!" George said and sat on the chair, "Here is your book!" he said and dropped the heavy book on Harry's chest, which made him cough and lose his breath a little.

Harry met George's eyes and took his hand, "You don't need to be jealous, he came in with a bleeding nose and after Madame Pomfrey fixed it we ended up talking to each other." Harry said and George snorted. Harry sighed and pulled George close and kissed him.

"You are kind of cute when you are jealous…" Harry said and winked at George, which made him blush and roll his eyes. Harry smiled and kissed him again.

After they broke away George had to return to Gryffindor Tower.

"Now, Hermione wants you to read this" he said and pointed at the book still lying on Harry's chest "And then tomorrow you will have to talk to the teachers and then do your homework, okay?" he said and Harry snorted, "Yes, mom!" he said and George hit him on the head and the two laughed and kissed good night before George got back to the common room.

It was nice to laugh again!

So last chapter for 2012! Next would hopefully come up soon, I just have been lazy with it! :P

So, Harry is back and Cedric starts to come into the picture and getting closer with Harry. Will this affect the relationship between him and George and what is his intentions? Since not only George but also Harry starts to think about sex and to get their relationship to the next level.

However, will Cedric stand between them or not? And will they ever find out who poisoned Harry?

Answers will come next year! XD

Happy New Year!