Treat You Better || Cedric x fem!Harry story

~Prologue~

It was almost Christmas time and yet again Harry had been sent back to the Dursleys for the holidays. He always asked to go with Ron to the burrow, but the the older red-head seemed to have a reason for him not to, every, single, time. He didnt want to stay at Hogwarts because what was the point if he can't spend christmas with his friends? So here he was again, being beaten for "dropping dinner". When he actually tripped over one of Dudley new motorised toy cars, which was (of course) put there on purpose by Dudley.

He was used to the pain by now, it's been about 7 years since he started getting abused. At first he thought it was normal; but then he met Ron, and saw how Mr & Mrs Weasley treated her children with kindness and slowly realised that you weren't supposed to be hit with a belt (sometimes even a whip... depends on how "badly behaved" he was) when you spilt even a drop of water on the newly renovated kitchen floors. He just couldn't ever get the good end of the stick could he? Always picked on, blamed, ignored, and forgotten. 'How could they forget the-boy-who-lived?' I hear you say, well everyone knows the-boy-who-lived, but no one knows Harry.

He just couldn't wait to be back at Hogwarts... His home...