𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 - 𝐝.𝐦 !!𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝!!

𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨

I arrived at hagrid's hut with harry. Hermione was with ron, who still wasn't talking to harry. It had been absolute madness. Gryffindors were on particularly good terms with the hufflepuffs, but after harry's name came out of the goblet, everything changed. They think harry is trying to outshine cedric, and I can kinda see where they're coming from, but it's still no excuse.

"Are you okay?" I asked harry.

"Of course, why wouldn't I be?"

"Because you don't look like you are."

He sighed. "I'm just tired of all the looks I've been getting from the hufflepuffs, and I just know this class is going to give me hell from the slytherins."

"If draco starts anything, I'll try to stop him."

"Ah, look, boys, it's the champion." Speaking of draco. "Got your autograph books? Better get a signature now, because I doubt he's going to be around much longer... half the triwizard champions have died... how long do you reckon you're going to last, pottah? Ten minutes into the first task's my bet."

"Draco, please, stop."

He went to say something else, but hagrid emerged from the back of his cabin, holding a teetering tower of crates, each containing a very large blast ended skrewt. To the class's horror, hagrid proceeded to explain that the reason the skrewts had been killing each other was an excess of pent up energy, and that the solution would be for each of the class to fix a leash on a skrewt and take it for a short walk.

"Take this thing for a walk." Draco repeated in disgust. "And where exactly are we supposed to fix the leash? Around the sting, the blasting end, or the sucker?"

I rolled my eyes at him.

"Roun' the middle." Hagrid demonstrated. "Er - yeh might want ter put on yer dragon hide gloves, jus' as an extra precaution, like. Harry - you come here an' help me with this big one..."

Harry walked away, and I pulled my gloves on. I grabbed a leash, and started to attach it around a skrewts middle. Another pair of hands came to help me.

"Is this some sort of joke?" Draco said. "Taking these creatures on walks?"

I looked up at him. "Don't be so mean, draco. This is what this class is all about. It's literally in the name, care of magical creatures."

~

It was time for double potions. When harry, hermione and I arrived outside snape's dungeon after lunch, we found the slytherins waiting outside, each and everyone of them wearing a large badge on the front of their robes. For a second, I thought they were s.p.e.w badges - then I saw that they all bore the same message, in luminous red letters that burnt brightly in the dimly lit underground passage:

Support

Cedric diggory

-The real

Hogwarts

Champion!

"Like them, pottah?" Draco said loudly as we approached. "And this isn't all they do - look!"

I gave him an exasperated look when he pressed the badge into his chest, and the message changed:

Potter

Stinks

The slytherins howled with laughter. Each of them pressed their badges, too, until the message POTTER STINKS was shining brightly all around us.