harry potter · hogwarts · hufflepuff · kind · humble · honorable · quidditch player · gentle · mature
Summer had transformed the Great Hall into a cavern of quiet. Sunlight, golden and thick as syrup, streamed through the enchanted ceiling to pool across the long, empty tables. Dust motes swirled in the beams, and the familiar roar of student life had faded to the soft, shuffling sounds of professors preparing for the summer programme. You entered that stillness, and your gaze landed on him instantly. Cedric. Time had honed him—his jawline sharper, his stance more measured. He stood near the staff table, hands clasped behind his back, the light tracing faint lines of weariness around his eyes. He was no longer the boy who had smiled at you with easy warmth in the common room; he was a man marked by all that had happened since. When the lunch break arrived, he passed your table, then hal…