Chapter 1: Memory and Confusion

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In summary, Anakin understood that the birthplace of the child named Cedric Diggory, whom he, for some reason, was now observing all his life, was going through a period of darkness and conflict due to the growing rise to power of this "You-Know-Who" or "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named," who was an extremely powerful dark wizard seeking to impose his vision of wizarding supremacy over non-magical folks, Muggles, and establish a dominance of pure-blood wizards.

This powerful dark wizard, whom even others were afraid to speak his name along with his followers, promoted the ideology of magical supremacy by carrying out attacks and violent acts that the wizarding community resisted through the efforts of the Ministry of Magic, its Aurors, and other brave individuals.

But, according to Barbara Diggory, despite the growing threat, the Aurors, who are responsible for enforcing magical law, fought valiantly, they had no chances of winning or even truly controlling the situation.

And to make matters worse, some of these Death Eaters probably managed to infiltrate various magical institutions, including the Ministry of Magic where Cedric's father worked, allowing them to control, exert influence, create mistrust, and concern everyone who opposed them.

Moreover, although Ced and his parents were pure-blood wizards, they actively supported the Ministry of Magic, so they were seen as opponents of these dark wizards, putting them all in danger.

Yes, Anakin had to admit that the situation was quite complex, but nothing new for him, all worlds in the galaxy went through conflicts like this.

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Now, let's move on to the most impressive experience Anakin had in this vivid dream he was having.

It was October 30, 1981, which is the chronological system used on this planet Earth.

On this day, the child, Cedric Diggory, turned 4 years old, and it was this day that his frustration exploded like never before, causing him to show signs of magic for the first time...

Now, Anakin also experienced this as if it were happening to him personally and felt... well, it's hard to describe, but it was undoubtedly something incredibly amazing and wonderful for him.

The sun was setting on the horizon, and the sky took on golden and reddish tones reflecting deep calm.

Cedric, now 4 years old, sat in his room, sad and angry because his parents had not been present all day on his birthday.

His father, as always, had to go to the Ministry of Magic to do many things very early that day, and his mother had even gone earlier than Amos to China on a very important business trip for the Diggorys.

But none of that mattered to Cedric, as they had completely forgotten his birthday, leaving him alone with his paternal grandmother.

And although the boy loved his grandmother very much, he couldn't help but be extremely frustrated at not having spent a single moment with his parents on his birthday.

Naturally, his grandmother tried to console him and make him forget about these things by giving him many gifts, but this only entertained him for a while.

But when night fell, and his birthday was coming to an end, Cedric couldn't help but notice that his parents still hadn't returned, and he couldn't take it anymore.

In anger, he locked himself in his room to cry and shouted at his grandmother not to enter because he wanted to be alone.

It was then that a strange tingling ran through his skin...

Anakin, who experienced this, felt as if a strange energy was surrounding him and whispering around him... waiting to be discovered and used by him.

'What's happening?'

Yes, that was the only thing Anakin could ask himself, while Cedric, in his state of frustration, didn't pay much attention to what he was causing.

Anakin's thoughts circled as he watched the candles in Cedric's room flicker erratically, as if they too felt the excitement in the air.

Without warning, a pair of books on a small desk began to levitate in the air on their own, suspended as if defying gravity.

Anakin felt Cedric's heart beating faster and his breath quickening with each movement of his body.

In Cedric's tantrum, Anakin observed perfectly how with each movement of his body, the books and candles seemed to respond.

The fire in the candles increased to the point where the scorching heat could be felt, and the books spun in the air, dancing around Cedric.

The sheer feeling of what Cedric was causing was like ecstasy for Anakin...

He even shivered with excitement; it was like a spark igniting a flame of astonishment and happiness. The connection he felt with this energy was incredible, like a unique bond.

As the night progressed and the stars began to illuminate the sky, Cedric's grandmother felt and noticed something strange, and this was why she abruptly entered her grandson's room, making him startle, which instantly caused the candles in the room to return to their natural state and all the books around them to fall rapidly.

A torrent of questions and possibilities flooded Cedric's grandmother's mind, but Anakin noticed that as she stared at the situation, she already knew what had happened.

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It wasn't until the night of the following day after his birthday that both Amos and Barbara Diggory had returned to the Vorsiliu Mansion where Amos's mother, Septima Diggory, lived after her husband, Aurelius Diggory, passed away.

Yes, Septima Diggory, Amos Diggory's mother, was the sole heir to the ancient and noble Vorsiliu House of Greece. When she married Aurelius Diggory, everything became part of the Diggory family, but after her husband's death, she decided to leave the Diggory Mansion to her son Amos and return to Greece to live in the old Mansion where she was born and spent her youth.

Anyway, when Cedric's parents finally returned to the Mansion, Cedric was happy, excited, and eagerly awaiting their attention.

Yes, although he was still angry with them for forgetting his birthday, Cedric was clearly expecting them to say something.

Even Cedric's grandmother seemed to be planning to remind Amos and Barbara about Cedric's previous birthday and inform them about yesterday's events.

But before Cedric's parents could even speak to their son or grandmother, an owl with an urgent letter from the Ministry of Magic arrived and captured all their attention.

After quickly reading the letter, both Amos and Barbara looked at each other with wide eyes, extremely surprised. It was obvious from their expressions that something incredibly important had happened.

A mix of positive emotions surrounded both of them, but even so, they wasted no time; they handed the letter to their grandmother and, for some reason, quickly left Cedric alone with his grandmother, again.

Cedric's grandmother was completely confused because she didn't understand why both of them left without saying anything more; it was not typical of them to behave like this.

But when she read the letter, she instantly understood everything and couldn't help but feel the same as them.

Yes, it was great news.

But little Cedric didn't understand the reason, and in anger, he went to his room again. Of course, his grandmother tried to explain the situation to the boy in a way that he could understand, but Cedric didn't listen to reason and became even more upset.

Nonetheless, his grandmother continued trying to make him understand, but he didn't bother to listen to anything she said. All Anakin grasped was that apparently, the dark wizard who was terrorizing Cedric's birthplace had been defeated in some way, and now, finally, the Ministry of Magic had discovered this and was regaining power and the confidence of the entire magical community by spreading the news.

And his parents had been urgently summoned to help the British Ministry of Magic.

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After a few minutes, Cedric's grandmother finally gave up and decided to let the boy release his anger on his own. She came to the conclusion that it would be best for Cedric's parents to sort this out when they returned.

It didn't take much longer for everything in the surroundings to suddenly turn completely dark for Anakin. He could no longer see Cedric's life or the white room. Everything was pitch black.

Until Anakin felt a definite and very strange tension throughout his being.

And this was because Anakin Skywalker was merging with Cedric Diggory.

Naturally, Qui-Gon Jinn was the only one who could witness this.

Currently, both Anakin and Cedric were like two translucent spheres merging or absorbing each other until they blended completely and formed a single sphere again.

In this process, Anakin felt that all of Cedric's memories that he had just seen in a lucid dream were now his own reality. He lived every moment clearly, experiencing it personally, merging both of their lives entirely.

And when the two spheres merged and formed a new one, Anakin Skywalker found himself in Cedric Diggory's body.

But the reality was that he was no longer Anakin Skywalker; he was now a combination of Cedric and Anakin.

It wasn't until the morning of the following day that Anakin/Cedric woke up.

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Chapter 2: Being both Cedric and Anakin?

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-Via Lactea, Planet Earth, Greece, Athens, Vorsiliu Mansion

-November 1, 1981

On November 1, 1981, in the ancient and luxurious Vorsiliu Mansion in Athens, Greece, a tear-soaked child named Cedric Diggory was in one of the many rooms of the massive mansion.

Cedric Diggory, at just 4 years old, had experienced a magical and unique situation that would change the course of the entire future in the cosmos.

Suddenly, the boy who lay in a puddle of tears lifted his head and opened his gray eyes with a look of surprise, confusion, and reflection.

Today, Cedric Diggory opened his eyes like a new person.

All of this was because the look in the eyes of this child did not belong solely to the original owner of this body; it was now also partly the gaze of Anakin Skywalker.

That's right, on one hand, there was Cedric, who until a few hours ago had been crying and was now completely open-eyed in a state of shock and silence, trying to understand his situation... trying to understand who he was.

On the other hand, there was Anakin, who found himself waking up from his strange and very lucid "dream" only to find himself in the body of the child Cedric, whom he had been "dreaming" about and witnessing all the way from his infancy to his recent fourth birthday.

His gray eyes just stared confusedly at the brown ceiling before trying to analyze the situation and formulate a response to what was happening to him.

Yes, after waking up, he had no idea what the hell was happening to him.

All Anakin/Cedric knew was that in some way, he was now something like two people in one...

Impossible, one might think, but here he was.

This was no longer just a very vivid dream because he not only felt that this was real, but in the depths of his being, he knew that for some reason, he was both Cedric Diggory and Anakin Skywalker.

"How is this even possible...?" for him, this simply couldn't be logically possible. He wanted to think that it was just Anakin and that it had all been an overly vivid dream, but no, every fiber of his being was telling him that he couldn't lie to himself and believe that.

It was as if a part of him, like Anakin, was forcing him to ignore the fact that this was real, and then there was his other part, like Cedric, that reminded him that this was very real, that he was also present, scared and confused, just like his other part.

"This is absurd..." he thought frustrated, trying unsuccessfully to understand his situation. He wanted to believe that he was either Anakin or Cedric, but he still couldn't fully accept that he was two people.

"But here I am..." he muttered.

His part as Anakin had a greater presence in his mind and was screaming louder that he was just Anakin, but his part as Cedric didn't give up, and even though it had a lesser presence in his mind, it still managed to make its clear presence felt.

He simply didn't know what to do with the endless emotions, feelings, memories, and knowledge of his two lives...

"And now what?" he reflected aloud, frustrated.

What was he going to do? His entire situation was so damn bizarre now, but he calmed down; he couldn't go into denial now.

"What happened?" he asked himself, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't come to any logical conclusion.

Everything happened somehow, by some unknown means, and for some unknown reason...

Suddenly, he heard a voice speaking to him and immediately recognized that voice.

"How are you feeling, kid?" Qui-Gon Jinn asked lightly but with clear concern as he suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Th-this... M-Master Qui-Gon? Is... is it really you?" he asked, surprised, confused, and hopeful at the sight of the Jedi Master in what he supposed was a very strange hologram.

"That's right, Anakin, or rather, Cedric now," Qui-Gon Jinn responded calmly with a friendly smile.

"I... uh, I don't understand what happened, Master... I... I, as Anakin, was flying, and then I entered the ship that controlled the droids. An-and... w-well..., I started shooting from inside the ship to destroy it, and when I was leaving, the ship started to explode..." he began to say rapidly, a confused and desperate Anakin.

Qui-Gon Jinn was looking at the poor, confused boy in front of him, who was desperately trying to explain in some way everything he remembered happening to him.

"... I was about to get out, but then the fire surrounded the ship and... then... I... uh... then suddenly, I found myself in the body of a child named Cedric, I... don't know how..."

"... but as Cedric, I lived a whole new life, a-and now I have new parents on a new planet with magic called Earth with a 24-hour day, and in a galaxy different and distant from what I once knew as Anakin..."

"And I know that they are my parents and I know that I am Cedric, but it's strange because I am Anakin! A-and my mother is Shmi Skywalker... right?" he continued saying quickly while trying to explain and make sense of everything that was happening to him. He was completely stunned and lost in his many thoughts, memories, and experiences.

"I don't understand, Master... it's like I'm two different people..."

"How can I be both Cedric and Anakin?! It doesn't make sense," he asked desperately and frustrated, unable to understand what the hell was happening to him. He was sure he was Anakin Skywalker, the son of Shmi Skywalker, but he also felt like he was Cedric Diggory, the son of Amos and Olivia Diggory.

"I know, kid, believe me, I know," Qui-Gon nodded with a tired but very kind smile as he gently looked at the confused and worried young man in front of him.

"Listen, this may be difficult and very confusing for you right now, but you must understand that from now on, you are both Anakin and Cedric, and you must accept the feelings of both..." Qui-Gon Jinn began calmly, trying to reassure him and make him relax.

"... Both lives you lived are real and are you; they make up who you are..."

"... And it is also essential for you to be aware that we are currently on a pre-space industrial planet with rudimentary computer systems that lack any kind of network, program, or artificial intelligence, and you, kid, are now physically only Cedric Diggory. Your parents are Amos and Barbara Diggory, who love and appreciate you very much..."

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Qui-Gon Jinn spent some time gradually explaining everything to the boy until he managed to calm down and understand what he was saying.

Qui-Gon couldn't allow him to go into denial now; the boy had to try to understand and accept that from now on, he was both Anakin and Cedric.

Of course, it wasn't all that easy because although the boy had calmed down after talking with Qui-Gon Jinn and understanding his situation, everything inside him was still a complete mess.

His emotions were a tangle of threads, and his mind was still sorting through the two lives he had lived. Clearly, the boy showed a slight preference for his personality as Anakin Skywalker, although he knew he was also Cedric Diggory. This was due to the stark difference in experiences between a 9-year-old and a 4-year-old.

Nevertheless, the feelings, emotions, and other aspects that made up both Cedric and Anakin were deeply ingrained in him now. From the deep love and affection he felt for his parents as Cedric to his fascination with flying broomsticks and Quidditch, as well as various other things that had marked the life of the 4-year-old.

But with his part as Anakin Skywalker being more predominant than Cedric Diggory, he couldn't help but think a lot about his mother on Tatooine and even about Padmé. He wanted to see them both again. His mother was his greatest support as Anakin; he loved her. On the other hand, Padmé was an angel who had taken over his mind and body, one who constantly appeared in his thoughts and made him feel that they had a special and unique connection. She had left a lasting, significant, and emotionally intense impression.

Qui-Gon Jinn wasted no time and taught the boy to meditate so that he could better manage his current emotional and mental development, which was essential.

All Jedi learning techniques involved meditation and mental organization. So, Qui-Gon first had the boy sit with his back straight and hands resting in his lap in a comfortable place in the room.

Then, he taught him to focus on his breath, having him inhale deeply through his nose, feeling the air fill his lungs, and then exhale slowly through his mouth.

After a while, Qui-Gon explained and helped him understand that thoughts were like clouds in the sky of his mind. He told him that they could be observed calmly without judgment, as a spectator, and that if many thoughts suddenly came together, it was okay. He just had to let them pass like the clouds floating in the sky.

He let him know that if he felt different emotions like sadness, anger, or anxiety, he could calmly label them in his mind as "sadness" or "anger." This simple act of recognition could help calm the emotions and relax his mind.

And in moments when doing this didn't help, and he felt overwhelmed by thoughts or emotions, he taught him to quickly refocus on his breath because breathing was an anchor that kept them in the present.

When the boy finally stopped feeling overwhelmed by everything, Qui-Gon asked him to gently open his eyes and return to the present.