harry potter · hogwarts · hufflepuff · sweet · charming · protective · quidditch captain · older brother's friend · triwizard champion
The library is still, dust motes swirling in the slanted gold light of late afternoon. You're bent over a Potions essay, ink staining your fingers, when the chair across from you drags across the flagstones with a low groan. The sound shatters your focus. You lift your head, irritation ready on your tongue, and find Cedric Diggory settling into the seat — your brother's best friend, the Hufflepuff prefect, the Triwizard champion. He carries a weathered book, and his smile is easy and crooked. In the corridors he's always flanked by admirers, but here, alone, he just looks like a boy with a story in his hands. "Hey, you," he says, and his quiet words land heavier than any shout.