A/N Sorry about the shortness of the last chapter, hopefully the quickness of this update will make up for it. This chapter is more Seven/Cedric bonding (cause we haven't had it for a while), how fun!

Enjoy!

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Lunch time the next day found Seven in an abandoned classroom on the eighth floor, practicing any and all spells that she thought might come in handy the next day.

"Damn it," Seven swore when her summoning charm failed about half way to her, making the book she was using fall with a thud on the dusty floor.

"You know," A voice said from the doorway, causing Seven turn toward it. "Cursing isn't very becoming for a lady."

"That's what people keep telling me." Seven said before turning back to her book and trying the charm out again.

"Accio Book!" The book moved six inches toward Seven, gave a little wobble and fell to the floor again.

"Bloody hell!" Seven exclaimed. "Why won't it freaking work!"

"Would you like some help?" The voice chuckled, a little closer this time.

"Is that allowed?" Seven asked as she gave a little smirk.

"They never said it wasn't."

"In that case…enlighten me, Professor Diggory, on why this certain spell seems to hate me." Seven said while giving a mock salute.

Cedric chuckled a little.

"Okay then, try it again and I'll try to find what you're doing wrong." He told her.

"Alright," Seven said before trying the spell again. "Accio Book!"

The book scooted about two inches before coming to a stop.

Cedric furrowed his brow. Everything Seven was doing seemed to be right, the book should be in her hands by now. Then a thought accrued to him.

"How about summoning this," He said as he placed his necktie on the desk farthest from Seven.

"Accio Cedric's tie!" It shot right off the desk and Seven ducked before it hit her in the face.

"Okay then," Cedric said slowly. "I… Don't think it's the spell."

"Huh?" Was the intelligent replay that came out of Seven.

"You're doing the spell perfectly, so it must be the book." Cedric told her as he walked over to the book with Seven following.

"Oh, well, that makes total sense." Seven said sarcastically, looking down at the book that Cedric had just picked up.

"What I mean is I think there's a charm on this book to keep it from being summoned." Cedric explained, turning the book over.

"If that's true, then how come I was able to get it as far as I did?" Seven asked.

"No clue." Cedric answered then sighed. "Where did you get it?"

"In the corner over there." Seven answered as she pointed to the dustiest corner of the room.

Cedric tried to open the book but it wouldn't budge.

"Let me try," Seven said, grabbing the book before what she said penetrated Cedric's thoughts.

When she tried to open it, it did just that.

"It's blank," She said as she flipped through the pages until she got to the last page. "Wait, there's something here."

"This book belongs to Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs." Seven read aloud before gasping.

"What?" Cedric asked worriedly.

"It's nothing." Seven denied, tracing the word Prongs with her finger tips.

"C'mon Seven, what's going on?"

Seven sighed before starting to talk. "Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, were best friends when they went to school here. Moony was the voice of reason, Padfoot was the prankster along with Prongs, and Wormtail was the follower."

"What about them?" A very confused Cedric asked.

"They were known as the Marauders. Two are alive, one as good as dead, and one betrayed by one of his fellow Marauders."

"Seven, if you don't mind me asking, what's the point of this story?" Seven glared at him to shut up.

"It will make sense when I finish, so shut up and listen."

Cedric nodded.

"Okay, now you know one of them and have at least heard of the other three. Moony is Remus Lupin." Seeing that Cedric was about to say something, Seven glared at him for, hopefully, the last time. "Wormtail is Peter Pettigrew. Padfoot is Sirius Black. Prongs was," Seven drew in a shaky breath. "James Potter."

"Your dad." Cedric said quietly. Seven nodded.

"Sirius Black is innocent." Seven stated. Cedric gawked at her.

"What!"

"Pater Pettigrew is the one who betrayed my parents. They changed Secret Keepers at the last minute, because Sirius was the most obvious choice, him being the Best Man at their wedding and all that jazz, so they switched to Peter. No one knew, except them. Then, on Halloween, Peter told Voldemort where we were. The next day, Sirius cornered Peter in an ally full of Muggles, where Peter shouted 'James and Lily, Sirius! How could you' before blowing up the street, cutting off his own finger, transforming into his rat Animagus and running into the sewer while Sirius went to Azkaban."

"So, Pettigrew's alive?" Cedric didn't want to believe it, but what Seven said made a lot of sense.

"Yeah,"

There was an awkward silence before Cedric spoke up.

"How about we get some lunch?"

"I'm not hungry." Seven told him.

"C'mon Seven, I haven't seen you eat since lunch yesterday." Cedric tried to persuade her.

"Just because you haven't seen me eat, doesn't mean I haven't. It's fairly easy to get into the kitchens, you know." Seven said while giving him a halfhearted glare.

"Come and keep me company then." Cedric said in a voice that left no room for argument.

Seven sighed. "Fine,"

They walked through the halls in silence, each in their own thoughts.

'I wonder why a book that belonged to the Marauders is blank.' Seven thought as she clutched said book to her chest. 'Maybe it's password activated, like the map.'

Seven stopped walking and stared down at the book.

"What is it Seven?" Cedric asked when he noticed she wasn't walking beside him anymore.

She ignored him as she opened the book and said. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

"What?"

"Look, Cedric." Seven said as she turned her body so that she and Cedric could read the book.

Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are proud to present The Book of Jokes.

The rest of the book was filled with different pranks that the Marauders pulled and some that they didn't.

"My dad wrote a book." Seven said to no on in particular.

"That's pretty cool." Cedric told her before seeing a tear rolling down her cheek. "What's wrong?"

"My dad wrote a book," She repeated. "And I never knew. I don't really know anything about him, and even less about my mum."

Cedric pulled her into a hug. "I'm sure you know more about them than you think."

"I was told that my parents were drunks, that they had been drunk the night they were k-killed in the c-car crash that gave me my scar. I don't know what their m-middle names were, or even if they had o-one. I didn't know what they l-looked like before I saw them in the Mirror of Erised. I didn't know their names until I was nine, Cedric!" By now Seven was sobbing uncontrollably and Cedric was holding her tighter.

"It's okay Seven." Cedric shushed her. "Why don't you ask Professor Lupin about them?"

"He and S-Sirius don't really like talking about them. And even then, they knew my dad more than my mum. The only person that really knew her is my Aunt Petunia, and she pretends she never had a sister. She would never talk about the 'freak' of the family." This sent her into another round of tears.

The only thing Cedric could think of doing was tighten his hold on her even more with out squishing her.

"I-I think I need to sit down." Seven said quietly, sliding down the wall when Cedric let go of her.

When Cedric sat down next to her, Seven cried into his shoulder and he wrapped his arms around her.

Around ten minutes later Seven's crying was reduced to a sniffle and Cedric's shirt was sticking to his shoulder from her tears.

"You okay now?" He asked, looking down at her.

"Yeah," Seven said as she met his gaze. "Thanks Cedric."

"Anytime," He replied before giving her a kiss on the forehead.

"I'm tired." Seven yawned, snuggling into Cedric's side while watching the painting across from them, of a man trying to teach Trolls in tutus to dance. She gave a small giggle when one Troll hit the little man with a club.

"Do you want me to walk you back to the Gryffindor common room?" Cedric asked.

Seven made a negative sound as she snuggled even closer to Cedric; he chuckled a little at her antics.

"Well, you can't sleep in a corridor." As if the castle had heard him (which Cedric thought was very possible) a door appeared next to them.

"Seven," He said.

"Hmm?"

"Come on, Seven, stand up." Cedric told her, causing Seven to give him a half groan half whine as she sat up enough for him to stand.

"Help me up." She ordered when Cedric stood, giving him her hand.

He took it and pulled her up to her full height of five foot four (1). He didn't let go of her hand as he opened the door, revealing a large room that had dark purple walls, an oak hardwood floor with a black rug on top of it, and a King sized bed with black sheets and a dark purple comforter.

"Looks like I've found you a place to sleep, Seven." Cedric said as they walked into the room.

Seven gave him a small smile as she closed the door, which melded into the wall but if you looked closely you could see the handle.

"You can let go of my hand now." She said.

Cedric blushed. "Oh, right." And let her hand go, making his feel cold at the loss of body heat.

Seven walked over to the bed, slipped off her shoes and slid under the covers while Cedric looked around the room some more, not knowing what else to do.

"Cedric," He turned his attention over to Seven. "You should get some sleep too; you look dead on your feet."

"That's okay Seven, I'm fine." Cedric told her

Seven pouted. "C'mon, there's enough room for the both of us." She said, patting the bed next to her.

Cedric gave a dramatic sigh. "Fine, you win."

"Of course I do." Seven smiled as Cedric took his shoes off and slid into the bed, making sure not to invade personal bubble space.

"Sleep tight, Cedric." Seven yawned as she lay her head down on her pillow.

"You too, Seven," Cedric said, Seven's even breathing lulling him to sleep.

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A/N Oh the romance. Oh the drama. Oh the…Okay I'm done now. You like? I felt it was time for some more Seven/Cedric action.

(1) I've always pictured Seven as a little on the short side, so 5' 4" it is!

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