Best Friends

Third Task (End of 4th Year)

*Next morning*

Me, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were eating breakfast when Rocky came in with a copy of the Daily Prophet.

She drops it in front of me and flies out of the great hall.

I pick up the paper and start to read it.

Harry Potter's Secret Heartache!
By Rita Skeeter
Harry Potter, the boy who lived, also suspect entrant of the Triwizard Tournament, has a secret heartache! It has been proven that Harry Potter and Y/n Black, daughter of murderer Sirius Black, are secretly dating and in love. As you can tell by the picture below, they were caught snogging in the tent for champions right before the first task of the Triwizard Tournament. However, we have gotten the idea that Miss Black has been cheating on Harry Potter with a fellow classmate Cedric Diggory. They have been caught together many times throughout this year. We believe that Harry Potter has finally found out and is trying to win her heart back.

My eyes widened after I read the article and I immediately looked at the picture.

It was the picture of me and Harry hugging. Rita Skeeter edited the picture to look like me and Harry were snogging instead.

I throw the paper down onto the table in frustration, forming an even deeper hatred for Rita Skeeter.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asks.

"This! This rubbish is what's wrong!" I say pointing at the copy of the Daily Prophet.

She picks it up and starts reading it. Her eyes widened as she read it. She looked up at me with her mouth hanging open in disbelief after she finished reading.

"I can't believe she took that picture! Doesn't she respect anyone's privacy?!" Hermione says.

"That picture isn't even real! It was a picture of me and Harry hugging!" I say.

"What are you two going on about?" Ron asks.

Hermione shoves the paper in Ron's hands. He takes it and reads it and sees the picture, having the same reaction as me and Hermione.

"Alright will one of you tell me what's wrong?" Harry asks.

Ron sets the paper down in front of Harry and says "It's that Skeeter woman again."

"What'd she write about this time? Me being a rebel again? My eyes glistening with the ghosts of my past?" Harry asks.

"Not exactly" Ron says, glancing at me, then back at him.

Harry reads it and crumples it up.

"Seriously? How is Skeeter even getting this type of information? She's been banned from the school grounds" Harry says.

"Maybe there's a way to bug all of us?" I say.

"No way, technology from the muggle world doesn't work at Hogwarts" Hermione says.

"Bugging?" Ron asks, clearly confused.

"In the muggle world there are ways to spy and listen in on people without being there. It's called bugging, it's little pieces of technology that leave around people you wanna spy on" I explain.

"And are we not gonna talk about that picture?" Ron asks, referring to the one edited to look like me and Harry were snogging.

"Like I said before, it was edited! I hugged Harry and that Skeeter woman made it look like we were snogging!" I say.

Another owl came flying in and landed next to me, dropping a letter and leaving again.

"Who did I get mail from?" I ask.