𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 - 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒚

18. Cedric Diggory

Elodie and Harry thumped on the grass with Cedric's dead body.

Elodie could not stop crying. Harry was rubbing her back whilst trying to hold back sobs from himself.

Cheers erupted from the crowd, and the trumpets played once again.

Fleur's scream was deafening. She was the first to realise what had happened.

The staff came running over and tried to take the siblings off of him.
Of course, they were having none of that.

"For God's sake Dumbledore what has happened?!" Cornelius asked
"He's back! Voldemort is back." Harry cried, whilst comforting his sister

"Cedric asked- us to- bring his body back. We couldn't leave him. Not there." Elodie sniffled

"It's all right you two. I promise, everything will be okay. You're all home." Dumbledore held their faces.

People behind them were demanding for everyone to be taken away.

"Let me through! That's my son... that's my boy!" Amos pushed through the crowd to get to his son.

Harry brought Elodie back, so that the father and son could say their last goodbyes to each other.

Harry and Elodie got up, and began to walk back to the castle. Neither of them could bare the fact that they had just witnessed a boy being killed.

Professor Moody caught up to them, and brought the pair to his office.

Elodie ran to the nearest chair and broke down crying.

Moody newly down beside her.
"Are you alright?"

"No." She replied

"Does it hurt? That.." he pointed to the open wound on her arm.

"Tremendously." She sniffled

"Perhaps I'd better take a look at it..." he opened the ripped clothing on her arm, and revealed the cut.

"The cup was a port key. Someone had bewitched it." Harry claimed

"What was it like? What was he like?" Moody asked

"Who? What?" Elodie asked confusedly

"The Dark Lord." He came close to her face

He pushed his thumb into the cut and walked away.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Elodie shouted

"What was it like to stand in his presence?!"

"It was like being in one of our nightmares." Harry looked at the Professor who was reaching for his drink and was struggling to breathe.

"In the graveyard, were there others?" He asked
"We never said it was a graveyard." Elodie said, clutching her arm.

"Marvellous creatures, dragons, aren't they? Did you think that miserable oaf would've led you into the wood if I hadn't suggested it? Do you think Cedric Diggory would've told you to open the egg underwater if I hadn't of told him first myself? Do you think Neville Longbottom, the witless wonder could've provided you with Gillyweed if I hadn't of given him the book that led him straight to it?"

"It was you from the beginning! You put our names into the Goblet of Fire! You bewitched Krum but- but-" Harry said

"But- but-" Moody mocked

"You both won because I made it so. You ended up in that graveyard because it was meant to be so. And now the deed is done." He stalked over to Harry

He walked back over to Elodie who was trembling in the seat.

He grasped a hold of her arm and pressed his thumb back into it.

"The blood that runs through these veins, runs within the Dark Lord."

"Get off!" She slapped his hand away and he licked his blood covered thumb.

Harry and Elodie looked at each other with terrified looks in their eyes.

"Imagine how he will reward me when he learns that I have once and for all silenced the great Potter siblings."

Elodie and Harry ran to the back of the room, and 'Moody' lingered behind them.

"Expelliarmus!" Dumbledore burst through the door. Followed by Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape.

'Moody' was forced into a chair and was restrained.

Dumbledore held his face tight, "Severus."

Snape poured Veritaserum in 'Moody's' mouth.

"Do you know who I am?" He held the Elder Wand to his neck.
"Albus Dumbledore"

"Are you Alastor Moody? Are you?" Dumbledore asked
"No."

"Is he in this room? Is he in this room?!"

He looked over to the black box that had been there since the beginning of the year.

"Elodie! Harry! Get away from there!" Dumbledore demanded
They ran to the other side of the room.

Snape threw a spell towards the chests way. It opened.

They peered down, which seemed to be around 10 metres deep.

And there he was. The real Ex Auror - Alastor Moody.

"You alright, Alastor?"
"I'm sorry, Albus."

Harry walked over to have a look inside.

"If that's Moody, then who is-?"
They all looked back over to the restrained impersonator.

Their face began to distort.

Snape sniffed the drink that the impersonator had been drinking all year.

"Poly juice potion."
"Now we know who's been stealing from your stores, Severus." Dumbledore said

They all looked back over to the impersonator and there he was. Barty Crouch. Jr.

At this point, Elodie got up to see what all of the fuss was about.

"I'll show you mine if you show me yours." Barty smirked towards the girl.

"Your arm Elodie." Dumbledore grasped her arm and looked at it.
It had the same shape as the Dark Mark. Only except it was covered in blood, and didn't have that radical black ink imprinted. 

"You know what this means don't you? He's back. Lord Voldemort has returned." Barty said

"I'm sorry sir, I couldn't help it!" She struggled under her professor's grasp.

"Send an owl to Azkaban. I think they'll find that they're missing a prisoner." Dumbledore let go of her arm.

"I'll be welcomed back like a hero!"

"Perhaps. Personally I've never had much time for heroes."

Dumbledore took the siblings to Madame Pomfrey, where she set two beds up for them to stay for the night.

-

It was nightfall. All of their friends had come to see them but Harry and Elodie refused.

It was a lot. Using one of the unforgivable curses, duelling with the same monster that killed their parents, actually seeing their parents for the first time in thirteen years, and watching their Hufflepuff friend get murdered.

They were in bits.