Chapter 3- The World Cup

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"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN." A loud voice called who they all realised was the commentator. "PRESENTING THE MASCOTS OF THE COMPETING TEAMS, EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR THE VEELA OF BULGARIA!" Everyone cheered (mostly the male population of the fans) All the boys especially Ron leaned forward with a closer look, their mouths gaping. For the Veela were by far the most beautiful women they had ever seen, enchanting all that looked at them. The only two lads that weren't overly thrilled by the Veela was Harry and Cedric. They did think they were beautiful but they didn't really see the craze about them. Harry noticed Cedric also wasn't paying attention to them, and then a mischievous thought crossed his mind that made him grin to himself. He quickly put on the most dreamiest face he could and leaned forward with his mouth open staring directly at the Veela as if he was just as entranced as everyone else. Out of the corner of his eye he watched Cedric role his eyes and pouted at the sight of Harry, which made Harry very pleased with himself. When the Veela had finished Hermione pulled Ron back and said to Harry, "honestly Harry I expected this from Ronald, but not from you." She said exasperated. In that moment Harry thought he would take things one step further to see just how much he could mess with Cedric. "Hey it's not my fault they're the most beautiful things I have ever seen." He exclaimed whilst trying to hold in a laugh seeing Cedric's annoyed face. Hermione rolled her eyes and muttered something about boys and then went back to watching the pitch. "AND NOW FROM IRELAND THE LEPRECHAUNS." Everyone cheered as happy dancing creatures came out dressed in green throwing shimmering gold coins into the crowd. The crowd roared with delight as they scrambled to pick up the coins before they vanished into thin air. "Why are the coins vanishing?" Harry asked with a puzzled look. "It's leprechaun magic so it's just an illusion." Cedric answered. After the leprechauns had finished the match finally began. Ireland won however Bulgaria's seaker caught the snitch as the crowd cheered in delight and soon the group had made their way back to the tent. "Come on everyone, we don't have to blog back to bed now but we soon do can't have to much of a late night." Mr. Weasley announced just outside the tent. They all walked in however as Harry was about to enter the tent he slipped on some wet grass. He was about to fall face first on the ground, until he felt two warm, strong arms around his waist, stopping him from falling. He didn't even need to turn around to know who it was. He looked back and saw Cedric's handsome face. He was so close Harry thought. They stared at each other for ages. Until Harry finally said, "thanks" as he giggled. "No problem" replied Cedric as he smiled. There was silence as their eye contact grew more intense, but then the entrance to the tent opened and Ron yelled, "CAN YOU TWO STOP EYE FUCKING AND GET IN HERE!"
"Shove off Ron" Harry said as he put his finger up at him and brushed past him. Cedric chuckled as Ron gave him a suspicious glance as he entered his tent. For a while it was loud and jubilant the tent. Ron was talking about how Viktor Krum was an artist. Hermione and Ginny were gossiping and the twins were doing a strange Irish dance wearing their flags like capes. Harry couldn't stop laughing at it all but a certain Hufflepuff kept appearing in his mind. Eventually they started settling down until there was a loud explosion from outside. Many of them thought it was just some fans partying that had just gotten out of hand. But a strange worried feeling kept it's way up Harry's spine, there was just something off about how the explosion sounded he thought. Then Mr. Weasley and Amos burst in and shouted. "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK WE NEED TO LEAVE!"
"Attacked by who?" Bill asked
"DEATH EATERS!" Amos replied. "FRED GEORGE YOU PROTECT GINNY. HARRY, HERMIONE AND RON YOU GO WITH CEDRIC. ALL OF YOU GET TO THE PORTKEY AND WAIT FOR US DON'T LET ANYONE TAKE YOU AWAY. BILL CHARLIE YOU COME WITH US WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET." Shouted Mr. Weasley frantically. Quickly everyone got all their stuff and came out. Amos, Arthur, Bill and Charlie ran to the havoc and chaos. Cedric started to run after them, desperate to help his farther. But Harry grabbed his sleeve and sternly said,"no" Cedric looked like he was about protest but Harry glared at him, so he shut his mouth. They all started running to the hill avoiding everyone as much as possible but that was hard being in a screaming crowd full of fear. They managed to get to the small area of woods that was near that separated the portkey hill and the Quidditch stadium. Harry looked back and realised that they had lost Fred, George and Ginny. Because the three red heads were no where to be seen. Ron tripped on a root and fell to the floor. Everyone stopped, Harry let go of Cedric's wrist and said, "if you make a run for it back I will personally fire a stunning spell at you." Harry glared at Cedric and for some reason instead of being scared, Cedric thought it was cute how much Harry didn't want him to go. Harry helped Ron up putting his arm around his soldier and they started jogging to the portkey. "Careful Weasley with feet like that you'll make the ground shake." A voice sneered from behind them. They turned around to see Malfoy leaning against a tree. He started walking up to them. "Your pathetic ness trying to stop those real witches and wizards."Draco laughed. "Is your dad helping those freaks out there." Hermione retorted. "Very brave for a mud blood, you'd better get out of here if your with her they'll kill you all." He said with an evil smirk. "Right that's it Malfoy." Harry rushed up to the blonde and punched him so hard that he stumbled and fell on the floor. He howled in pain and fury as he got up raging red and tuck out his wand. Cedric saw red at this but before he could do anything about it Hermione gave Draco a right hook that knocked him out cold. "Jesus Hermione your punching Malfoy every year now." Ron joked half amazed half scared. Hermione tried to hide a smirk. "Come on we need to go." Harry said. Soon they all made it to the portkey safe and waited patiently for the others. After a couple of minutes Fed, George and Ginny arrived which made everyone take a sigh of relief. "Have the others not arrived yet?" Ginny asked. "No not yet. But I'm sure they'll be fine." Harry reassured her. They all sat down except Cedric who was pacing back and forth growing more and more worried about his farther. As if reading his mind, Harry said softly, "I'm sure your farther is ok Cedric." Trying to reassure him. It didn't work because Cedric started muttering and becoming more and more frantic by the minute. Harry stood up and hugged him rubbing his back softly, "hey, hey it's ok Cedric everything's gonna be ok." Harry said soothingly. Cedric's eyes widened as he calmed down realising what was happening. Harry broke apart to Cedric's disappointment. "Better?" He asked. "Loads," Cedric replied. Little did he know Ginny and the twins were burning a hole in the back of his head as they glared at him (metaphorically of course). Suddenly they heard a yell from the woods shouting something they couldn't quite hear as a green light erupted in the sky. Everyone gasped except Harry filled with fear as a green skull with a snake slithering out its mouth appeared. Harry looked around wondering what was going on. In seconds a group of people appeared around them their wands raised. If Harry hadn't reacted so quickly who knows what would have happen. He grabbed them all, pulling them down whilst shouting,"GET DOWN!" As spells were firing from all sides. They covered their heads as explosions and hexes flew past them left, right and centre. Suddenly the wizards seized fire as a man shouted. "RIGHT WHICH ONE OF YOU DID IT?" "Did what?" Harry replied confused. "WHICH ONE OF YOU CONJURED THE DARK MARK." The man shouted. "The what." Harry said even more confused now as he looked in the sky. "It's his mark Harry." Replied, "the mark of you know who."
"Sir please non of us did this you can check our wands we were just waiting for our parents." Cedric tried to explain. "WAIT THOSE ARE MY KIDS!" A voice shouted from behind. Everyone turned to see Amos and Arthur with Bill and Charlie running up to them. Ginny hugged Charlie and Bill crying so happy that they saw them. "Barry you can't seriously think these lot conjured it?" Arthur said. The man had an apologetic and slightly embarrassed look on his face as he began to apologise for the miss understanding. "If I may sir we heard a voice from over their that shouted something like an incantation before the dark mark appeared." Hermione said timidly as everyone nodded their heads vigorously. "Over there you say?" The man said. Hermione nodded. "Some of our spells went off in that direction maybe we hit the culprit come on let's go. You lot are excused." The man said as him and the other raced off. Mr. Weasley turned to Charlie and Bill, "you two take these lot back to the tents. Me and Amos are gonna stick around a bit for crowd control." Bill and Charlie nodded. "Cedric you go with them and hang out in the tent with everyone else." Amos said. Bill whistled and laughed while Charlie said, "oh I bet some people are gonna like that." He said teasing. Everyone looked at them perplexed but then just shrugged it off. However Bill and Charlie were looking straight at Cedric and Harry with a grin on their faces. This made Harry look down and Cedric blush uncontrollably. "Come on you let them." Said Bill. Him and Charlie walked off and the others quickly followed them. Eventually they reached the tent and everyone unloaded and sat down exhausted. As everyone started chatting a hand pulled Cedric into a sectioned off bit of the tent. Cedric was blushing inside praying that Harry couldn't see. He acted indifferent and said, " oh hi Harry you feeling alright." Cedric said with a warm smile. "Alright considering that the followers and mark of a man who's been trying to kill me since my first year at Hogwarts was out tonight." Harry laughed which made Cedric smile even larger. They sat down and started talking for hours, talking about School, themselves but mostly Quidditch until Harry could feel his eye lids slowly getting heavy and realised how tired he was. He didn't mean to but he found himself resting his head on Cedric's shoulder. A fiery tingle went through all of Cedric body as his eyes widened and he could feel his face getting reder and reder. Harry moaned as he started gradually falling asleep. "Erm, Harry?" Cedric stammered. "Tired" Harry said quietly. Cedric was screaming inside thinking, "WTF WTF WTF HIS HARRY FUCKING POTTER REALLY RESTING ON MY SHOULDER RIGHT NOW FALLING ASLEEP?!" Suddenly they heard a knock as the entrance to where they were slowly opened. Harry sat up and pulled away as the face of Charlie Weasley poked through. "Could I just borrow Harry for a quick sec Cedric?" He asked. Cedric put on a fake smile and said, "sure cya Harry." Harry put on a smile and tried to hide his disappointment. When they left Cedric's smile vanished he was kinda upset that Harry had to leave there was just something about him. He was so handsome in his jeans and leather jacket Cedric thought as he shook his head. Meanwhile Charlie took Harry to another part of the tent. And closed the entrance behind them. Harry was confused as to why Bill and Hermione were there to. "What's up?" Harry asked slightly confused. "Harry you know bloody well what's up." Charlie said chuckling. Harry was starting to lose his mind wondering what was going on. Hermione spoke slowly. "Harry do you like Cedric?" Harry was stunned thinking about his answer. "WHAT NO-why-why do you think th-that?"
"Oh shut up Harry we all know that there is something going on." She spoke slightly sternly. "Do you know what let's just leave them to it, it's not really our business." Bill said cautiously. "Thank you Bill." Harry replied relieved at this statement. "ARE YOU KIDDING BILL?! Cedric is seventeen there's a three year gap." Hermione spoke loudly but calmed herself quickly after. "Actually it's less than three years and there's nothing going on between us." Harry corrected. "Yeah, yeah sure Harry." Charlie said as he winked at him. Hermione looked convinced which Harry only really cared about. "Ok Harry I believe you." She said finally satisfied. She left after she hugged him. After a few moments Charlie turned to Harry. "So have you snogged him yet?" Charlie asked with a smile. Harry laughed as he grabbed a pillow and threw it at him. "Shut up Charles"
"Oh god never call me that again hate my proper name." Charlie replied. Harry sniggered and left with Bill and Charlie howling with laughter. The next day Harry and the others said good bye to Amos and Cedric and made their way back to the Weasley's house. As they reached the gate they saw a Molly Weasley in her nightgown running screaming/crying/laughing. "OH IM SO HAPPY YOU LOT ARE SAFE I JUDT SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAILY PROPHET!" She yelled. She ran up to Mr. Weasley and kissed him for a while. Ron groaned, "ohhh.... Mum not now in front of everyone."
"Honestly Ronald I think it's sweet that they care about each other." Hermione replied. Ron rolled his eyes as the group went inside the house.

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