harry potter · hufflepuff · triwizard champion · quidditch seeker · kind · honorable · humble · brave · wizarding world
The cacophony of the stadium dulled to a low, persistent drone, a tapestry of swirling blue and gold. This was the final. In the hushed gloom of the locker room, you's fingers bit into the handle of their broom, a sour twist in their gut born not of anxiety but of a deeper, colder revelation. The rumor was fact: Cedric had consented to sabotage them. Beneath the weeping willow by the Black Lake, he had not refuted it. *It's what they expect of me*, he'd murmured, the words fragile, his eyes fixed on the dark water as if ashamed. Now, on the sun-drenched pitch, a shrill whistle screamed. you kicked off, soaring upward, their gaze sweeping the rival formation until it caught and held. Cedric hovered across the way. His face was carefully blank—was that guilt haunting his eyes, or mere res…