A Cedric Diggory Story

The Goblet of Fire

After the feast had cleaned itself up Dumbledore stood up to give his start of the year speech.

"Welcome , to all the new students , and to the old students Welcome back", said Dumbledore in a kind voice.

"The Quidditch cup will not take place this year", explained Dumbledore as students stared at him with shocked expressions , "and the reason for that is becu... BANG BANG BANG. Thunder had roared and lightning struck from the enchanted ceiling. Students started yelling and screaming , but all of a sudden the noise had stopped and the lighting was perfectly normal.

A man with one normal eye and one magic eye had walked into the hall and fixed the ceiling with his wand.
Dumbledore had walked over to greet him while others stared at him.

" Please welcome Professor. Moody , who will be taking the Defence Against the Dark Arts post", explained Dumbledore.

Everyone applauded lightly for a few second and then fell silent again to find out why the Quidditch Cup wasn't taking place that year .

" As I was saying", continued Dumbledore , " We are to have the honour of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event which has not been held for over a century. It is my pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year. The Triwizard Tournament is a tournament that brings together three schools , in which a single student will be picked from each to compete three tasks , three extremely dangerous tasks."

Excited whispers spread through the hall from students.

"Eager though I know all of you will be to bring the Triwizard to Hogwarts", continued Dumbledore ," The heads of the participating schools, along with the Ministry of Magic , have agreed to impose an age restriction on contenders this year. Only students who are of age - that is to say, seventeen years or older - will be allowed to put forward their names for consideration".

Loads of angry moans lead after this sentence, but Cedric and Willow were looking very happy because they were both of age.

"SILENCE ", yelled Dumbledore over the many raging students, " The two other schools should be arriving in October , and remaining with us for the greater part of this year.

October had came quickly. They were sitting in the Great Hall eating. As soon as the plates were cleared Dumbledore stood up.

"If ye can remember , I said that the two other schools competing in the tournament will be arriving in October", reminded Dumbledore , "Well , please put your hands together in welcoming the lovely ladies of the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic".

The doors of the Great Hall burst open and a few beautiful girls walked in. Cedric saw most of the boys faces drop as the girls walked by them.

When the students of Beauxbatons sat down at the Ravenclaw table Dumbledore continued ," Now please welcome the proud sons of Durmstrang and their headmaster Igor Karkaroff ".

The doors burst open again and a few boys entered the Great Hall carrying long staffs in their hands.

Once everyone was seated Dumbledore stood up again. There was a brown stand in which a cup lay on.

"Any one wishing to compete in the tournament would write their names on a piece of parchment and place it in the flames of the Goblet of Fire. But let me warn you , if u are chosen you stand alone and when I say alone I meant Alone", warned Dumbledore.

As soon as Dumbledore had dismissed us Cedric and Willow went straight up to the Hufflepuff common room to get some parchment and a quill. As soon as they got in they went straight up to our dormitories.

" I'll meet you back down here in a minute ", said Willow as they started climbing the stairs. Cedric ran into his dormitory and searched his trunk for parchment and a quill.

Unfortunately for Cedric his parchment and quills were at the very bottom of his trunk. He pulled at everything and eventually got some parchment and a quill.

He sprinted to the door and nearly tripped over a spare tie that he had pulled out in attempt to find parchment. He quickly shoved it back into his trunk and ran out the door.

When he reached the common room Willow was sitting in an armchair writing her name on her piece of parchment.

"Sorry Will, my parchment was at the bottom of my trunk", explained Cedric. Willow looked up and smiled at Cedric before returning to writing her name , trying to make it as neat as possible.

Cedric sat down next to her and wrote his name on his piece of parchment.

When he had finished Willow was still writing hers.

"Will , can you read what this says"? asked Cedric. Willow took the parchment and almost immediately gave it back saying "Cedric Diggory".

"Well , my writing is messier than yours so if you can read my piece of parchment I'm sure they will be able to read yours ", said Cedric.

"Sorry Ced ", said Willow getting up, "It's just , what if my name comes out and they can't read my writing? That would be tragic".

"Don't worry", said Cedric wrapping an arm over her shoulders as they walked out, " Your writing is as beautiful as you".

Willow smiled and they walked back to the Great Hall. They both entered the Hall to find a large amount of Hogwarts students standing around. All the students stared at them as soon as they walked in the direction of the Goblet.

They both walked up to the Goblet, through the age line , which Dumbledore had drawn, and placed their pieces of parchments in the Goblet at the same time.

They both looked at each other happily and turned and walked out of the Great Hall and back towards the Hufflepuff common room to finish their homework together.