Star Girl | Cedric Diggory

|*| Twenty Six |*|

"What an uneventful fifth year," Aquila declared. She sat on the train with Cedric, Ethan, Fred, and George. Their fifth year at Hogwarts had flew by. Between getting into meaningless little quarrels with Bellamy, gossiping with Abby, and avoiding Alexis and Harry Potter like the plague, Aquila decided it was the most peaceful year at Hogwarts she had seen.

However, on her last day that year, the stars sent her a message. She hadn't received a message from the sky in quite some time, so it shocked her when the night sky practically called her to it.

Words formed in shining, twinkling patterns in the sky:

Beware the final task.

Aquila had no clue what the stars above were trying to tell her, but she knew this final task couldn't've been good. She pondered over it for a while, but soon got bored of her never-ending list of possible theories.

She decided it best not to burden any of her friends with the message; it probably meant nothing.

"It wasn't that uneventful!" George told her I'm the train after she had said that nothing had happened.

"Yeah, Fred and I got plenty of work done this year," the other twin said.

"You're Fred," Aquila said. "Seriously, stop trying to confuse me!"

"How could you tell?" Fred asked.

"Intuition," she answered.

"I hope next year is more interesting," Ethan said.

"I have a feeling it will be," Cedric said.

"How do you figure?" Aquila asked.

"Intuition."

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"Eternal glory! Eternal glory, and you're the only one of us who can win it!"

Because her brother worked for the Ministry, Aquila knew ahead of time about Triwizard Tournament and its newest age restriction. She was beyond pissed when she found out that she was just one year off.

"I don't make the rules, Quil," Cedric said.

"Don't enter! It isn't fair to me!" Aquila pleaded.

"I'm entering, Quil-like it or not," he told her firmly.

"Fine, fine, I'll support you. But split the money with me when you win."

"Of course," he said, smiling. "But I have to be chosen first."

"I'll just ask Jennifer if she knows who gets chosen-"

"No, Quil, don't use your fortune-telling friend. I want it to be a surprise."

Aquila sighed, "Fine. I will never understand you Hufflepuffs."

"You've been my friend since first year, and you don't know what a Hufflepuff does?"

"Yeah," Aquila said. "Basically sums that up."

"I don't understand you Slytherins either, always going against everything I say and breaking the rules and getting into trouble-"

"Woah, Ced, slow down. Slytherins don't get in trouble. Yeah, we break rules here and there, but it's the Gryffindors who get in trouble. See, us Slytherins know how to avoid getting caught, while Gryffindors go around boasting about all the rules they've broken and get themselves in detention."

"Yes, but you shouldn't even be breaking the rules at all!" Cedric argued.

"Why is that?" Aquila asked.