My Champion || Cedric Diggory

Backstory

Isabel Weasley is the fourth kid of Molly and Arthur Weasley, along with Fred and George. From the day those three came to earth, they have been inseparable since. They may have many differences, but that doesn't change the love that the two boys have for their sister and the fact that they try to protect her from the world. Everyone in Hogwarts wonders how these three are triplets when they have so many things different. From example Fred and George like to set up pranks to Filch during their free time but on the other hand Isabel likes to sit in the Gryffindor common room with her nose into a book

Izzy as her friends call her is an introvert girl with not many friends. Kids at school found funny the fact that she wore black glasses and liked to read, which ended up with people calling her "Nerdy Izzy" from over the years. Izzy didn't mind the fact that she didn't have many friends like her two brothers had, or that she wasn't popular like them. She loved having a quiet life and not having boys obsessing over her the moment she walked into the room. Boys in fact never looked at her, they looked at girls like Angelina Johnson or Katie Bell, who were famous because of their position in the Quidditch Gryffindor team and because they were pretty. They were everything that Izzy wasn't

Izzy's only best friend is Hermione Granger, but they don't spend much time together if you consider the fact that Izzy is two years older than her, but they still love spending time together. She also hangs around with her two roommates Angelina and Alicia, but not that often because of how busy they are with Quidditch and stuff. So she is mostly on her own, but she has got used to it

Her first ever friend was a young Hufflepuff boy in her year called Cedric Diggory. They used to be childhood friends, even before both of them were accepted into Hogwarts. Because they lived close to each other and their parents were friends, Izzy and Cedric would meet up very often when they were little. When they realised how many things they had in common, they would meet up in the forest every single day and do different kinds of adventures. They used to climb on the trees and read together while sitting on a huge branch, or they used to play pirates in the lake near Izzy's house. On rainy days, they would meet up in Izzy's house while they would lie on her bed under the blanket and read scary stories together with a torch that her father brought from the muggle world. He had more things in common with her than Fred and George, this is why they immediately clicked since the day they met. They were inseparable. They shared many classes together and used to spend plenty of time together in the library studying and talking about stuff until one day something happened between them.

*THREE YEARS AGO*

The thirteen-year-old Izzy was walking to the library to meet with her good friend Cedric for their usual study session together. Izzy went and sat in her normal spot in their favourite section of the library, which was filled with books of Herbology. Both absolutely adored plants and every day after they finish their homework they would pick a different book to read together and learn more about plants they have never heard before. Madam Prince would drag them every day out of the library, but nothing could stop them for continuing reading on their way back to their common rooms. 

She was waiting for her best friend with excitement to tell him about a plant she found in the Black Lake, but as time passed, he didn't show up. She began to worry that something happened to him, so she stood up to go look for him. She checked the Hospital wing, Great hall and even the Black Lake which were the places he usually went to, but he was nowhere to be found. She gave up and decided to go finish her homework on her own until she heard laugher from the yard and spotted some familiar yellow robes. She then noticed her best friend talking with some other boys from his house, and then she walked up to them. She then realised that they were the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, which meant that her best friend made it to the team. Words couldn't explain how much happy she was for him, and couldn't wait to congratulate him, because she knew how much Cedric wanted to enter the team as a seeker. Everyone turned to her and Cedric's eyes widened when he saw her 

?: Oh hey guys, look is nerdy Izzy 

A Hufflepuff boy from their year said and everyone else laughed, but she ignored them and then turned to Cedric, who was looking at her with wide eyes

Izzy: Ced can I talk to you?

She asked, but before he was able to answer another boy older than them spoke up 

?: Do you know her Ced? I didn't know you were friends with Nerdy Izzy 

He said, and Izzy was ignoring them while waiting her best friend to stand up for her like he usually did when kids used to make fun of her. He always said that no one could make fun of her on his watch, but now he didn't do anything else than stand and look at her embarrassed. Was he embarrassed of her?

Cedric: Are you mad? Why would I want to be friends with a girl like her? Get lost Nerdy Izzy

He said, and you could see the hurt in Izzy's eyes from miles away when those words left his mouth. He had never called her that nickname before because he said that people who did were just stupid. How her own best friend could call her a name she despised, even though she ignored the others when they called her. She removed the friendship bracelet he had given her when they were little and threw it at him with tears in her eyes 

Izzy: Have it your way then Diggory

She said, and Cedric's eyes widened in horror when he realised what he just had done, but he wasn't able to say anything because Izzy was gone. She ran to her common room with tears rolling down her cheeks. She couldn't believe that her own best friend could do something like that to her. She entered the common room to find her brothers tasting some new pranks now that it was all empty, but they stopped when they saw their crying triplet. They stopped what they were doing in a matter of seconds when they saw her teary eyes and walked up to her with worried matching faces 

Fred: Who did that to you?

He asked in his overprotective tone when his sister started crying in his arms and George was rubbing her back slowly, trying to comfort her. She tried to explain everything between her crying sobs, but they understood everything she said and they looked furious 

Fred: George, are you thinking what I am thinking?

He asked before his brother nodded with a smirk on his face

George: Puking pastels

He said, and Izzy looked at them with a worried looked before she wiped her puffy blue eyes. She didn't want them to get themselves in detention again 

Izzy: What are you going to do?

She asked, worried, but they smiled at her with the smiles that meant that they were planning something, she wasn't going to like.

Fred: I know you don't want us to actually murder Diggory, but Georgie and I have a much better idea 

They said with matching smirks, but at that moment Izzy didn't care what her brothers were going to do because Cedric wasn't her friend anymore. They comforted her until the sun risen and even made Lee Jordan sleep on the floor, so they would take care of their upset sister the entire night.

Izzy found out what they meant the next day when they "accidentally" threw some puking pastels in Cedric's cereal that morning, as a result he had to skip all the classes that day. Izzy didn't give him her notes like she usually did when he was sick and even begged Professor Sprout to change her Herbology partner, but she refused. She only had to face him for a few more months, and then next year she would have a new partner. But Professor Sprout didn't change them because of how cooperative they were with each other. Izzy tried to convince her professor for months at their fourth-year but with no luck

Cedric never even tried to apologize to her, and avoided looking at her in the eyes during the classes they shared, but also when they bumped into each other at break or the library. The words they exchange were only a few during their classes but since that day they stopped considering each other their best friend


"I don't hate you. I hate what you did to me. Because a real friend wouldn't do that"