A Cedric Diggory Story

The Quidditch World Cup

Cedric woke up very early by the sound of the blue alarm clock on the side of his bed. He got up , got dressed and went downstairs . As he got downstairs he saw that both of his parents were already awake and ready .

"Excited Ced?" , asked Amos Diggory , his father.

"Yeah ", answered a tired Cedric , " but why do we have to get up so early?".

Amos and Cedric left the house a few minutes later and went into the woods to wait for the Weasley family , who they were going to take a portkey with to the Quidditch World Cup. They waited for a while and sooner or later Cedric had gotten bored and decided to climb a tree.

"Don't go far Ced ", said Amos as Cedric ran to look for a good tree to climb , "they should be here soon".

It was almost 3 quarters of an hour before Arthur Weasley appeared with Fred, George, Ron and Ginny Weasley behind him, followed by Hermione Granger and Harry Potter.

"Arthur , it's about time too ", sighed Amos.

" Sorry Amos , some of us had a sleepy start ", explained Arthur while glancing a look back at Ron and Harry.

All of a sudden Cedric had jumped out of a tree.

"And this jumping lad must be Cedric?", asked Arthur.

" Yes sir ", answered Cedric while shaking Arthur's hand , " This way ".

He led the way further into the woods and eventually they all ended up not he top of a hill where a very old boot lay.
They all lay down around the boot apart from Harry who was looking curiously at the old boot.

"Harry this is a portkey", explained Fred Weasley.

"A portkey?", asked Harry lying down like everyone else but still a bit confused.

"Everyone ready "?, asked Arthur , as everyone touched the boot. Harry did as everyone else but as confused as ever. "1 2 3 " Harry heard Amos say. As he heard the number '3' he immediately felt himself being taken off the ground . He looked aside and saw that the boot was lifting everyone and bringing them somewhere , Harry assumed the Quidditch World Cup.

"Let go kids", yelled Mr Weasley over all the noise.

"WHAT", yelled Hermione and Harry shocked, But they saw that Cedric, Mr Weasley and Amos had already let go.
Hermione , Harry , Ron , Fred, George and Ginny all let go at the same time.
A few seconds later they felt themselves hit the ground.

Everyone had fallen on their backs , accept , Cedric Amos and Mr Weasley , who had landed gracefully on their legs.

Cedric and Amos left the Weasleys , Hermione and Harry and went to look for their tent. They were walking for a while and eventually found it. It looked very small , even if only two people were going to be sleeping in it .

As they walked in the tent wasn't small at all . It was huge . It had four different rooms , two bedrooms , a kitchen and admitting room .

As Cedric and Amos had been camping before they knew what was coming, and acted as if the size of the text was perfectly normal.

That night they left the tent and headed up to the Quidditch stadium. They found their seats and waited only a few minutes before the teams emerged. The two teams playing was Ireland and Bulgaria.

The final score was Bulgaria : 160 Ireland : 170 .

Although Bulgaria caught the snitch ,Ireland had won because Bulgaria had only 10 points when Victor Krum, the Bulgarian seeker , caught the snitch awarding them an extra 150 points , when Ireland already had 170 points .

Cedric was pretty happy with the final score and so was most of the other people he knew that went.

Cedric and Amos were relaxing in their tent when they heard loud screams. Cedric thought it was just the Irish supporters cheering but Amos doubted it. Amos went outside the tent and ran back in the tent almost immediately looking very worried.

"Cedric we need to get out of here , now!" Explained Amos. Cedric quickly emerged the tent with his father looking quite worried.

As he walked out he realised why everyone was screaming almost immediately. A fire had started and a bunch of clocked figures with masks were walking around while everyone else ran away from them. Cedric had recognised these figures as death eaters , He - who-must-not-be-named's followers.

Cedric and his father ran into the woods and Cedric whipped out his wand. After a while of waiting eagerly the sound had died down and there was a lot less screaming, but as Cedric and Amos started making there way out of the woods they had heard a lot of screaming, somewhere behind them. They jerked their heads around and saw a green snake in the sky - the dark mark. Cedric and Amos ran for it . They reached the portkey and was immediately teleported back. They walked back to their house and Cedric contacted all his friends that weren't there and informed them about the World Cup.

He went up to bed early and packed up his trunk ready for tomorrow , which is the day he returned to Hogwarts. He got into bed and fell asleep.