metanoia - cedric diggory

chapter three

September 1st, 1994

Harry Potter was found shortly after Clementine walked away from Cedric Diggory, his usual happy expression was painted with a face of guilt and regret. He didn't move from where he stood in the crowd, looking to her as she fled up the long stairs.

"I feel as if you might want to speak to me?" Clementine had sped walked up the stairs until she finally reached 'The Golden Trio.' Harry instantly turned his head around, meeting the eyes that stood a stair below him.

"I do, indeed." A smile small formed across his lips as he glanced down to Clementine. Ron and Hermione had turned around at this point, also smiling at the older girl.

"Brilliant," Clementine said a small taste of mockery within her voice. Harry wasn't sure how to react to her stealing his accidental catchphrase until Hermione let out a loud snort. Ron began laughing also, causing a short giggling session between the four before they remembered how risky it is to stand on the moving stairs.

Clementine laughed with the goofy trio throughout the halls, creating a lot of playful banter for them to hold. They decided to sneak her into the Gryffindor common room, not that it was hard with everyone paying attention to the first-years. Hermione usually would cancel the plan, but this wasn't the first time it had been done.

"We saw it in the sky and I felt it here," Harry began to immediately speak as he closed his shared room, gesturing to his forehead while walking closer to the others.

"Right into it then yeah?" Ron teased him as he sat on his bed, slipping his shoes off by the nightstand. This made Clementine smile, knowing how forward Harry could be with his words. Clementine glanced to Hermione, who nodded her head, looking to the ground.

Clementine was well aware of the fact of what this could mean. He, as in He, could be coming back anytime soon. That in itself could mean a million different things but it just didn't seem to be making sense.

"Most Death Eaters don't even care about Voldemort anymore, the worst ones are rotting away as we speak, or they're already dead. It just doesn't make sense." She crossed her arms as she rambled, leaning against one of the bed frames.

"You're telling me." Harry ran a hand through his hair, a frown hiding on his lips. Clementine felt bad for the boy, knowing that he couldn't get one normal school year. All because some bald powerful man is obsessed with him.

The group of four talked for as long as they could before she left, Hermione really didn't want Clementine to get in trouble for breaking curfew, especially on the first day back. With soft smiles amongst themselves, Clementine closed the Gryffindor bedroom. By the time they were done talking, it was too late to head to the Slytherin dungeons.

September 2nd, 1994

School instantly started the second day after coming back. After you got your schedule, it was time to go back to class. Penelope and Clementine walked happily to class, many loud outbursts of laughter shared between them made other students jump.

Penelope wished her friend a sweet goodbye as they parted, due to them having different first periods. Clementine waved goodbye to her before slipping into the potions classroom, it was nothing strange for it to be dark and gloomy in the room.

Clementine let out a loud sigh of happiness when she spotted Olive and George Weasley already sitting down at a table. Thank Merlin she didn't have to find a seat for herself alone, and she seemed to already have friends at her reach.