Gained A Couple Battle Scars (Second Installment)

Chapter 8: Discussions with Friends

I can barely hear Dumbledore speaking, I feel far away, I cant concentrate on anything. The room lights up red for some reason and what snaps me out of this daze is when Dumbledore speaks another name.

“Harry Potter…Harry Potter!” he yells.

My head snaps up and I look at Harry who is next to Hermione. He begins to stand and then he sits back down, trying to hide himself. I watch as Hermione takes him by the shoulders and pulls him up and pushes him forward.

“For goodness sake, Harry.” She says, before sitting back down.

I watch as Harry makes his way to the back. He looks worried and confused. I look over at Fred and George and they look speechless. People start to shout things at Harry, how hes not of age and that he cheated. Rubbish, Harry wouldn’t cheat. Harry goes through enough he doesn’t want this. Professor Dumbledore dismisses us as the teachers go to the back room behind the professors table.

The large group exits the Great Hall and no one can stop talking about how Harry got picked for the tournament. I notice Ron huffing and puffing as he walks past me. I’m not sure what’s gotten him all bothered. Ginny walks up to me and I look at her.

“Hermione and I are going to the study hall, wanna join us?” she asks.

“Yeah, that sounds good.” I say, standing up, I follow her and Hermione to the study hall. I need to take my mind off of what just happened.

We sit down and Hermione hands me a book about metamorphmagus abilities. I open it up and begin to research more on this. Fred and George sit on either side of me, but they don’t get books out so merlin only knows what they’re doing in a study hall.

“Hermione, it’s just saying that the abilities are inherited. I have to have someone in my family that is a metamorphmagus…it's impossible…I have no magic in my family…my parents hated magic, well, my dad does..” I say, looking up at Hermione.

“I know, I don’t understand it either.” She says, cautiously.

“Or maybe I was right.” Ginny says. We all look at her. “She's rare. Shes a muggleborn with metamorphmagus abilities. Magic in humans had to start ssomwhere, someone had to be a muggleborn witch or wizard for this whole thing to start.”

“Huh, little sis makes a good point.” Fred says.
I close the book. Ginny has to be right. It had to start somewhere.

“Your boyfriend is walking this way.” Ginny says with a smile. I can feel Fred and George tense up on either side of me. I find myself blushing and get off the bench and walk over to Cedric. He has the biggest grin on his face.

He gently takes my face and kisses me.

“Congratulations.” I say with a smile, trying to hide my worriedness.

“Crazy that Potter is in it too, huh? You’ll still root for me right?” Cedric says, he takes a Hufflepuff scarf out of his bag and hands it to me. As I stare at it, all I can think about is the scarf George gave me that’s shoved at the bottom of my trunk.

“Of course I will.” I say, looking at him.

He wraps the scarf around my shoulders and kisses my cheek. “You get back to studying, I’ll see you later, okay?”

“Yeah,” I smile. “Hogsmeade tomorrow.” I say.

“I want you to wear that scarf tomorrow.” He says with a smile and exits the study hall.

I breathe out and go back over to my group and sit in between Fred and George. Hermione and Ginny are beaming at me. I cant help but feel a little lost.