Chapter 13

"Potter!" said none other then Draco Malfoy who was accompanied by Crabbe and Goyle, standing next to him of his both sides as always.

"I thought it was a mater of time before you started to realize that dating a Weasley would only lead to misery!" he said and the two brutes laughed. "At least I'm happy to see that you have stepped up a notch with your choice, but tell me Cedric, do you really want to go out with Potter? Is it because if you do, you too would be famous?" Malfoy asked Cedric and Harry was going to say something but Cedric stood in front of him with his right arm out so he shielded Harry.

"Why are you here, Malfoy?" Cedric said with such an icy voice, which made Harry scared of him. And so did Crabbe and Goyle, the two brutes were dumb but not that dumb and they both knew if they chose to pick a fight with Cedric Diggory…

"Well we were only taking a walk in the snow, Diggory! What, aren't we allowed to go here?" he asked icy too. Crabbe and Goyle took two more steps back and so did Harry. He did not want to be between the two or… At least one of them was a young man.

Harry had seen on a nature program when he was younger, (The Dursley had left him for a day while they were visiting aunt Marge) and had seen two male lions fought for their territory, well this reminded him of that program seeing Cedric and Malfoy both looking prepared to hex each other at any second.

Malfoy was now close to Cedric and was looking up at his face with anger in his eyes. Yes Malfoy was tall but Cedric was taller. And again, every boy in Hogwarts was taller than Harry, except the first and second years. That would have been awkward.

"I suggest that you leave…" Cedric said to Malfoy who smirked "Oh, yeah? What are you going to do about it if I'm not?" he said, not avoiding a good challenge.

"It's not what I will do to you it's for what will happened to you" Cedric said and lowered his voice. "Do you know what happens to people who fights with a champion, Malfoy?" Cedric asked him. Harry could see that Malfoy didn't like were this was going but didn't get a chance to answer before Cedric spoke again.

"People who dares to intertwine a champion form his or hers duty will getting a curse from the goblet of fire it self, but it's not any normal curse of course… At first you don't see or feel any different but then you start to feel… Weird is the best way to put it. You can't describe it but it feels more as if something is eating inside of you. And it's true-" he said and look at Crabbe and Goyle who stood paralyzed of fear.

"- There is a worm inside of you that has a face of a skull who's eating you alive and people have tried to take them out of people before but somehow, after one is taking out two pops inside of you. Taking those two four will pop and then it multiplies and multiplies and all you want to do is to die, just so you can get rid of the pain. But even if you try to commit suicide you can't die. You remain a living cocoon for those worms until they decide when you can die." Cedric said and every one except Malfoy shivered of the thought of it.

"Oh and one more thing" Cedric said to Malfoy "You can't get kids. And I would guess that your father would not be happy about it, am I right?" at this Malfoy really reacted.

His former hard and tough exterior disappeared for a brief second but he knew that both Cedric and Harry had seen it. He looked from Cedric to Harry before he snorted and turned around and said to Crabbe and Goyle, "Let's go" and they did as they were told.

After they left Cedric relaxed, let out a sigh and turned to Harry.

"What?" he asked Harry with his normal tone when he saw Harry's confused face. Just as if nothing had ever happened!

"What was that all about?" Harry asked trying to get a grip of what just happened. "I was just chasing him away" he said with a smile and shrugged.

"So none of that was true?" Harry asked, "What about the worm with a skull face?" Cedric said and Harry nodded "No, that was just something I made up!" he said and laughed. Harry couldn't help but to join but he got the feeling that Cedric and Malofy had a war going on between them.

So Harry asked after they had stop laughing, "Why did you say that about children to him?" and Cedric looked at him. "I shouldn't say too much because that's their privet life but the Malfoy family lives for getting powerful offspring's. That's a must in a Malfoy to be able to get children and if not, well you are cast out" he said and Harry frowned.

"How do you know this?" he asked Cedric, "Well I don't know if you remembered my dad but he likes to talk… A lot!" he said and rolled his eyes and with that Harry knew that they had left the event for now.

Cedric looked at his watch he had around his wrist.

"Ops! It's the time so late already?!" he said and showed Harry the time: 17.30.

Wow time really went fast! The students had to be back at the castle at 18.00!

The two boys starting to walk along side the road to the castle talking about something random. Then Harry had to ask.

"So how long have you known?" Cedric looked at him, "Always I guess… I have been in loved with both a girl and a boy…" he said and look into the sky. Harry got curious of course.

"May I ask who they were?" Cedric laugh "He, more like are!" he said. "Well, let see the first one was Oliver Wood" Cedric said and Harry looked like a deer in the headlight. "Oliver Wood?!" he said so loud so Cedric shushed him, "Sorry" Harry said and blushed.

Cedric continued, "Yeah, it was when I started at Hogwarts and I saw him one day and I was like, damn! And he got better as time passed on. He was one of the reasons I started playing Quidditch" he said and Harry raised his eyebrows and nodded. "Of course I liked the sport before but it got much better when we were against each other, but it also made my focus not so good if you know what I mean" he said winked at Harry who smiled now.

"Then the girl is Chu" he said, "And yes it only became harder for me when I had to meet her during Quidditch games since she's a seeker too" he said and sighed.

"Does she know?" Harry asked Cedric but he shook his head, "That I'm bi? No, but does she know I like her? Yes that's why I asked her out to the ball" he said.

"Well I won't lie but you have good taste" Harry said, he had never seen Oliver in that light before but now when he thought about it, yeah he was good looking. But not as good as George of course!

They were now at the foot of the castle were they could see some of the students hurry in to the great hall for dinner. Harry saw Malfoy again and realized something.

"Do you think he would say something about us?" Harry asked Cedric and he seamed to know of what he was talking about.

"No, no he won't" he said and Harry hoped that Cedric was right. Then as they entered the doors Harry saw another blond at the hall. He said good-bye to Cedric and they promised they would meet again soon and then he went to the blond.

"Eh, excuse me?" Harry said and the person turned around.

"Oh, hello Harry Potter" Luna Lovegood said and took off her 3-D looking glasses from hear face so Harry could see her eyes.

"Would you like to go to the ball with me?" Harry realized he was nervous. He had never asked anyone out before in his life. And it wasn't like he had to ask out George either, that just happen.

Luna smiled "Yes I would like to but Harry…" she said and looked "concerned" Harry guessed, "Wouldn't George Weasley get angry at us dancing together?" Harry smiled at her.

"That's why I want to talk to you about, Luna. I have to dance with a girl at the first dances until later that night, it's apparently tradition that the champions have to dance with a girl at the formal dances. I'm wondering if you would consider helping me with that so I can dance with George later?" he asked her hoping she would say yes.

She was still smiling, "Of course I will help you Harry Potter! It would be interesting to see how all the Wrackspurts will react in a situation like the Yule ball" she said and waved at Harry before heading to her seat at Ravenclaw.

So, Harry had a date now and he was happy with his choice. He went to Gryffindor table were he kissed George hello and sat between him and Hermione who was glaring at Ron when he was asking Padma Patil if she wanted to go with him at the ball.

George gave Harry a bag full of candies, which made Harry even happier.

"So how did it go?" George asked Harry after had received another kiss from him. Harry wanted to tell George everything but he had promised Cedric to not talk about it with others, and besides it wasn't the best place to talk.

"It went good" Harry said and gave George a smile before digging into his dinner.

What he didn't see was the war between Cedric and Malfoy. They were looking at each other with anger in their eyes but Malfoy's anger was not only for Cedric.

It was also for Harry and George.

So, Harry is going with Luna, which should be fun to see how the outcome looks like.

Cedric and Malfoy has clearly a dispute going on between them and will Harry get to know more of it?

This chapter wasn't much of Harry and George but I promise there will be more next time!