Not so Golden - Cedric Diggory FanFiction

Chapter One - Returning to Hogwarts

I sat on the Hogwarts express, ready to start my sixth year. I looked around the compartment I was sitting in and reminisced about all my past years at Hogwarts. My friends who sat with me made all these years breeze by. When I say my friends, I really just mean Fred and George.

Looking out the window, watching as the train zoomed by all the trees and sky. I daydreamed about all the potentialities of the year to come. I just had a good feeling about this year.

Fred and George goofed around across from me and did their usual bickering. I giggled along as I listened to them. I sat and read my book waiting for the Hogwarts Express to finally arrive to the school. I was anxious to get there. I had put my Hufflepuff robes on as soon as I got on the train so I could read all the way there. Fred and George slightly changed my plans of reading, it was quite hard for me to concentrate as they bickered loudly.

"What are you boys bickering about now?" I inquired, slightly annoyed that they were interrupting my reading, but I couldn't help giggling along with them.

"We aren't bickering this time, Parker," George replied.

"We are planning," Fred finished.

I rolled my eyes at them. I was never one for their pranks. Their version of pranking normally ends in a disaster- for others of course, not them. I don't want anyone to get hurt. I especially don't want to get in trouble. These two always seemed to wrap me up in their shenanigans, but I won't let them this year. I can't afford to receive any detention.

We were very unlikely friends, but Fred and George and I really did get along. We've been friends as long as I can remember, our parents are best friends too. Besides, making friends in Hufflepuff is harder than you would think. At least for me. I'm unbearably shy, and it probably doesn't help that I've always got my face in a book. I'm okay with closing myself off to more friends though. Fred and George are really all I need anyways. Besides they make my life a little more exciting every day.

I felt the train come to a stop, so I closed my book and got my stuff together. The three of us stood up and George put his arm around my shoulder.

"Look Parker, we could really use you in our next prank..." George started.

"No! I told you I cannot be getting into trouble this year, I have to focus on my N.E.W.T.s courses!" I giggled, trying hard not to give in.

"Come on, Parker! We need you! We need someone that isn't suspicious and someone small!" Fred exclaimed, practically pleading.

I walked out of the compartment to leave the train, the boys followed.

"You guys need to stop trying to get me to do this stuff! It's peer pressure!" I complained as I walked backwards.

I was so focussed on bickering with the twins that I didn't even notice that there was someone in front of me, waiting to get out of the train. I bumped into him and quickly turned to see who I bumped into, so I could apologize.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you," I awkwardly stuttered, my face becoming red from embarrassment.

The boy in front of me was none other than Hogwarts' golden boy, mister perfect himself, Cedric Diggory.

"It's really no problem, love," he winked and strutted off the train.

The twins and I looked at each other, confused as all hell.

"Love?" George questioned.

"Is there something we don't know Parker?" Fred smirked suggestively, elbowing my side.

I was beyond surprised. Did Cedric Diggory just flirt with me?

"Trust me, nothing is going on. I think that he was just being Cedric," I explained, or at least tried to.

The subject was immediately dropped as we exited the train. They went back to the prank conversation as we entered a carriage. The carriages got all the way to Hogwarts and stopped. Fred and George walked into the great hall and I followed. They waved goodbye as they walked over to the Gryffindor table. I walked over to the Hufflepuff table and randomly sat myself down to an area where less seats were filled.

It was disappointing when the twins got sorted into Gryffindor for me because being without them is hard. I still don't have many close friends in Hufflepuff really, so being secluded to this table was pure torture.

I was suddenly pulled from my thoughts when I felt a tap on my shoulder. A smiling blonde boy is sitting next to me, looking eager to speak to me.

"Hey, uh, Parker, right?" The boy stuttered.

"Yeah, and you are?"

"I'm Zacharias Smith, I'm a fourth year."

"Oh cool." I tried to show I wasn't interested in talking, trying to read my book.

"Are you coming to the Hufflepuff welcome back party tonight?"

"Have you seen me at this party in the other years?"

"Well... no," he muttered, knowing where I was going with it.

"Then no, you won't be seeing me there," I said matters of factly.

"What a buzzkill.." Zacharias said as he was walking away, scoffing.

Ouch.

A sudden rage built up inside me. I am NOT a buzzkill. I am best friends with the Weasley twins for crying out loud.

I stood up quickly and walked towards the Gryffindor table. Once I arrived to Fred and Georg, I put my hands on their shoulders and said, "I'm in."

"What?" they questioned at the same time.

"Your plan, the prank. I will help you, I say we consult about it tomorrow," I stated, walking away to the Hufflepuff dormitories.

"Nice!" they exclaimed as they high five. That made me giggle. I'm ready to prove everyone wrong, I am not a buzzkill. I can be fun. Right?

Once I got to my room, I searched through my clothes for an outfit to wear to the party. The problem is I never planned to go to any party this year or ever. I have nothing to wear. Literally nothing.

I finally decided that I would just wear my yellow Hufflepuff sweater and and black skirt. I curled my hair and put it up in a yellow ribbon and put on some natural makeup and peach lip gloss.

I am going to rock this party tonight.