Cedric Diggory has just started his sixth year at Hogwarts with his best friend by his side. He's excited for another year of Quidditch and finally learning how to Apparate. Until he learns that this year Hogwarts will be hosting the Triwizard Tournament. He immediately knows that he would do anything to compete as Hogwarts' champion and eagerly puts his name in the Goblet of Fire. Iris Maya has been Cedric's best friend since first year, but he's too oblivious to notice that she's completely in love with him. She wishes more than anything that he wouldn't sign up for the Triwizard Tournament because she just wants him to be safe, but she knows that competing is important to him so she vows to be supportive. As the year passes by, Cedric begins to realize that the feelings he has for Iris aren't as platonic as he always thought they were, and staying 'just friends' proves more difficult than any of the tasks he's facing. He wants her to stay by his side for the rest of his life, but he's too afraid of ruining the friendship to make his feelings known. Meanwhile, Iris reveals her feelings for Cedric through a series of letters she writes to him and keeps in a box under her bed. Someday, she tells herself, someday she'll send them. I don't own Harry Potter, or any of it's characters. All rights go to J. K. Rowling. Iris is mine, as are any other characters not mentioned and this plot.

"Wha-How-how did you do that?" Malfoy questioned furiously. I gave him a cocky smirk. "Just a few simple jinxes. Guess I'm not that much of a Mudblood after all, hm?" His brow furrowed. "No-you're still a Mudblood. Do you not know what Mudblood means?" Her Muggle brothers never thought anything odd of Lainey Fitzroy until finding out that she's a witch at age eleven. Determined to learn and succeed, Lainey goes to Hogwarts, where she meets an array of life changing people, like the famous Harry Potter, the notorious Draco Malfoy, and the ever-faithful Ginny Weasley. Lainey has a few secrets, though, some she doesn't even know about, along with a plethora of decisions to make as her years pass at Hogwarts. Cover made by my lovely sister. I do not own anything in the Harry Potter world. All rights to J.K. Rowling.

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