"how many nights does it take to count the stars? that's the time it would take to fix my heart".
a cedric diggory story.
Emelie Fawley is a sixth year at Hogwarts. All of her years in the school had been the same while she hanged out with her fri...
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Saturday came much quicker than expected. Emelie put on her cloak and sneaked her wand inside the pockets just in case.
She met Harry, Ron, and Hermione outside at the entrance hall where McGonagall was standing, patiently waiting for everyone to gather.
"Is everyone here? Professor Dumbledore specifically requested that I make sure no unwanted students are going with us. Additionally, considering this is our first trip of the year to Hogsmeade, I would kindly like to remind any of you who have forgotten your galleons to go pick them up".
Neville immediately rushed out, mumbling, "I knew I'd forgotten something!".
McGonagall then starts to call out names written on the parchment in front of her. Out of all the names she calls out, one in particular stands out to Emelie. One she's heard too much of for it to be the first semester.
"Cedric Diggory", McGonagall calls out. Cedric replies, with a simple "Present". Emelie feels herself searching the crowd for him, and notices him standing with his usual Hufflepuff friends. He looks around and sees Emelie. Smiling, he waves. She smiles back quickly, until Hermione nudges her because Professor McGonagall is calling her name.
"Did Ms. Fawley decide not to show up for Hogsmeade?", she says.
"I'm here, Professor, sorry". McGonagall eyes her suspiciously, then continues to call out more names.
Emelie catches sight of Cedric slightly chuckling about the girl not hearing her name. She laughs looking at him, but as McGonagall moves forward to enter Hogsmeade she's being transported along with the rest of the students.
"Emelie, you seem distracted. Might there be something worrying you?", Hermione asks.
"Oh no, I just, uh... I'm afraid we might get caught, that's all". Hermione chuckles.
"Oh please, if Harry didn't get caught sneaking to Hogsmeade last year, we'll never get caught sneaking to see Padfoot". They'd resorted to calling Sirius by his Marauder name to avoid others finding out.
"Yeah, you're right", Emelie replied, playing along with her lie.
Before they could even blink, they were walking through Hogsmeade, Fred and George already running towards Zonko's Joke Shop.
"I reckon we go get some sweets for Padfoot. I have all the food in here already". Harry holds up the bag stuffed with the variety of breakfast foods that had been served that morning.
"Sounds like a plan", Emelie says. So, the four friends walk over to Honeydukes to buy something for Sirius. When they enter, Ron immediately picks up a bag of lemon drops.
"Dumbledore likes these, you know? Maybe we could buy them for Sirius". Hermione nods, snatching the bag. Ron gapes at her aggressiveness but Hermione just laughs.
"I was just being silly, you don't have to take it personally". She continues laughing, Emelie joining in with her.
Harry then gets two chocolate frogs and pays for them along with the lemon drops.
The four of them then hanged around, having fun seeing the faces of the shrieking Slytherins when the twins pulled out Filibuster Fireworks. Then, at half past one, they headed north past Dervish and Banges, where they'd never been.
They walked past the countryside deep into Hogsmeade, where cottages were fewer and gardens were more numerous. They moved toward the foot of the mountain and turning, they found the stile that Sirius said he'd be waiting at. Sure enough, at the topmost bar of the stile stood a saggy, black dog, who looked very much like Sirius, holding a newspaper between his teeth.
