Draco and I quickly followed Snape to his office, Me and Snape went in, but Draco had to wait outside. I was glad now that he was there, it was comforting, as much as I didn't want this to be happening, and as much as I wanted it to be Cedric outside that door instead, I needed someone, and Draco was someone. Snape sat behind his desk and gestured for me to sit in the seat opposite, which I did. There was an awkward silence for a moment before Snape finally spoke. "Parisa, I'm really sorry that I have to be the one to tell you this, I'm sure you have seen today's paper and so I'm sure you know about the Attack." I nodded slowly and tears started to sting at my eyes. "The Attack on the Ministry was actually very successful; it all went to plan how The Dark Lord wanted. Unfortunately, there were some... deaths on our side. Parisa, I'm sorry to tell you that your mother was one of them." I gulped, I knew he was going to say this, but I'd barely had time to prepare, all of fifteen minutes for Merlin's sake. "S-She's dead?" I looked up at Snape had he nodded, I sobbed, like I said; I loathed them for doing this to me, but I didn't want them dead. I was crying now but tried to contain my sob's as Snape continued. "There is going to be a newspaper article. About your... family. Parisa the Ministry know that your parents were chosen, that they're Death Eaters. As you know, the penalty for this is life in Azkaban so The Dark Lord has sent your father into hiding. He is too valuable." I tried to process what he was telling me; it just didn't seem real. "I can't tell you where he is hiding, as only he and The Dark Lord knows, but I have been asked to watch over you until it is safe for him to return. We do not know when this will be, but as always, The Dark Lord has a plan. He doesn't wish me to tell you his plans, in case they cause your loyalty to weaver. But it is unknown how much longer things will be as they are. Something is coming and you and Draco need to be prepared for anything. I also must ask you to stay here over the summer, it is not safe for you to go home, I'm sure people will be looking for you."
"Does the Ministry know about me?" I asked Snape. "No, I managed to convince Albus that I was sure you did not follow in your parent's footsteps and that you were not a Death Eater, If he believed me or not I'm not sure, but either way he ensured the Minister that he knew you were not a Death Eater. He said the Minister promised him that, it would be written in the article that you were not on the same side as your parents. Whether the public believe it or not is up to the individual so it will be safer for you to be here. Albus is in agreement." I had stopped crying whilst he had been speaking, but after he finished, I couldn't help but start again. I started crying hysterically, I was slightly embarrassed to be doing this in front of Snape, but I couldn't contain it any longer. I was crying loudly when Draco burst into the room and helped me stand up before hugging me. "Were you listening Draco?" Snape asked and I felt Draco nod above me. "Then you know, you two are dismissed." Draco hugged me tightly before putting his arm around me and walking us out of the room. I cried into his chest and he ended up just picking me up and carrying me with his arms under my knees and back as I sobbed into his chest. 'Shhh, Ris it's okay, I'm going to take you back to your dorm and just get some sleep, it'll be okay I'm here for you, I'll do anything, and I'll get you anything you need okay." I nodded but continued to sob. Draco inhaled sharply but I didn't look up to see why, "Diggory, get out of here before I finish what you started earlier." I looked up now and saw Cedric through the tears in my eyes. I felt kind of ridiculous like this, Draco carrying me, I must have looked a right state, I rubbed my eyes and the blackness left on my hands told me my mascara was everywhere. I sighed and Draco just gently pushed my head into his chest forcing me to look away and I sighed before sobbing again. Cedric didn't say anything, and I didn't miss the look of pain in his eyes as he looked at me. I forgot about Cedric as Draco took us to my dorm and led me down in my bed. Seconds later, Pansy and Blaise rushed into the dorm and Pansy got into my bed with me, pulling me into a hug. "Oh Parisa, what happened?" Draco told them quietly and Pansy gasped "Oh Ris, I'm so sorry, everything will be okay I promise, I'm here for you, do you need anything?" I shook my head, I needed Cedric, I needed him to forgive me, I needed him to hold me and tell me that he loved me. But that wasn't going to happen. I cried harder. In less than twenty-four hours everybody was going to know about my family, even Pansy and Blaise, and I was sure considering Pansy's reaction to Draco that she was going to regret laying here with me right now. I was terrified, what would people think of me? Not many people liked me anyway, but everybody was going to hate me. I was going to have to stay locked up here just to stay safe, it was better than going home of course, I hated it there, but I just wished I had to stay here for better reasons. I was hysterical and I had completely worn myself out from crying. Pansy stayed in my bed with me all night, even Blaise and Draco stayed in our dorm, they stayed sat on the end of my bed and Draco left every now and again to get us water and some food as we all skipped dinner. Eventually I stopped crying and I just led there staring at the ceiling, I fell in and out of sleep but when the sun shone through the small window to our dorm, we all woke up. Draco and Blaise went back to their dorm to shower and change but then came right back. Pansy showered but I didn't move from where I was, I couldn't, I wasn't crying anymore, I just felt nothing. Draco went to Dumbledore to tell him I wasn't going to my lessons today and he excused me from them for the rest of the term.
I spent the day in bed but when it came time for dinner I decided I wanted to get up, I couldn't stay in bed all day I was beginning to get stiff so I stood up and got changed into some sweats and a hoodie before making my way down to the great hall where everybody else was. When Draco saw me there was a look on his face that I couldn't understand; he looked scared. Draco rarely got scared and especially not in front of other people. Then I noticed that again, everybody was staring at me, there was a mix of terrified, disgusted and disappointed facial expressions and I immediately knew why; Nearly everybody was holding a newspaper, todays newspaper no doubt. I made my way slowly over to my friends but only Draco was looking at me apologetically. Blaise and Pansy looked disgusted. I gulped and smiled at them, but Pansy said nothing she just started reading out the newspaper. The rest of the hall was silent, and I could feel everybody's eyes on me, I instantly wished I had just stayed in bed. "After the recent attack on the Ministry of Magic it was confirmed that Cecilia Rosier was one of the deaths. However, it has also been confirmed what side the Rosier family were on. Felix and Cecilia Rosier have been confirmed by the Ministry of Magic as Death Eaters. The Dark Mark was seen on the arm of Cecilia's body and many witnesses have confirmed seeing it on Felix Rosier's arm too. Mr Rosiers whereabouts is currently unknown but the Minister suspects that he has gone into hiding, when he is found he will be sentenced to life in Azkaban. However, their daughter; Parisa Rosier who is currently attending Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry in her fifth year has been said to not have followed in her family's disappointing footstep's. Albus Dumbledore, has personally defended her saying that he is certain she does not support her family neither does she have The Dark Mark and did not plan to receive it." Pansy looked up at me in disgust, but it was Blaise who spoke. "You knew about your parents and you didn't report them? How could you do that? You must be one too or you would have, any sane person would have reported them." I felt the tears return but I forced them away, Pansy spoke now, "We are not friends anymore, and stay away from Draco, he was already trying to defend you but there is nothing anyone could say to stop you from being a monster." I didn't know what to say, I had just lost my mother, I had just lost Cedric 8 months ago and now I was losing my friends too, I knew I wasn't loosing Draco, not really, but I knew he wouldn't go against his girlfriend in front of her. Pansy and Blaise stood up and left the great hall dragging Draco behind them. He gave me an apologetic look and mouthed 'I'm sorry, I tried.' before disappearing around the corner. I looked around the room any everybody was still staring at me, they all quickly looked away apart from one. Cedric. His eyes lingered on me for a second longer than everybody else's, but then he too looked away. I ran out of the great hall but didn't know where to go, I decided to just risk it and go back to my dorm. I was excused for the rest of the term, I could just stay in there the whole time and only leave for meals every now and again, stock up. I'm sure Pansy would request to move dorm anyway. The common room was practically empty but even the people who were there had obviously heard by the way they looked at me, I rushed up the stairs and relief flooded through me when the dorm was empty, I noticed some of Pansy's things were missing along with her trunk and I assumed she would be staying with Draco and Blaise. I got into bed and just laid there, I didn't cry though, I felt like all my tears had been cried out already, like I had none left. Everybody hated me, but I understood because I hated me too. The only person who I really had was Draco but even he was still there for me because he understood, if he wasn't a Death Eater too, I'm sure he would have felt the same as everybody else.
I led there for hours going over everything in my head. I had nobody. Even my father couldn't talk to me, I wished that I could just have a new life, a fresh start somewhere else, where nobody knew me, or my family, I wished they weren't my family. I wished I could have a family like Weasley's or something. I wished my parents were disgusted by Voldemort like normal people were, of all the people that actually truly supported Voldemort why did my parents have to be one of them? What did I do to deserve all this? My thoughts were disturbed when Draco walked into my dorm. "Ris oh my god, I'm so sorry, I tried to say that you didn't know and that you would be disgusted by them, but they ignored me." Draco came over to me, lifting me out of bed and hugging me tightly. "It's okay Dray, It's not your fault." I sighed. "I know Ris, but I don't want them to be like that to you, you don't deserve all of this. You need support right now, and I will be here for you as much as I can be." Draco let me go and pulled a bag out of his robes. "I brought you this, so you don't have to go out again for a bit." He passed me some food and I thanked him. "Pansy sent me to get some of her books, she's going to drive me insane, she's staying in our dorm until she can move out of here." I sighed and got back into bed, sitting up. "Hey, you'll be okay, she'll come around, see sense. Everybody will, this is just the initial shock." I nodded my head and Draco gave me a quick hug before saying goodbye and leaving with Pansy's books. I laid down and went back to my thoughts, Cedric still hadn't said anything about me to anybody. Nobody thought me anything to do with Death Eaters before this, now some people assumed I was, but Cedric could confirm that, and he hadn't. Why? Why was he protecting me?
-Cedric Diggory's POV-
I felt quite guilty. I shouldn't I know, it was nothing to do with me, I hadn't said even a whisper about what Parisa... was. But I still couldn't help myself feel terrible about all of this. Her mother had just died. She had told me about how she hated her parents sometimes, but I knew Parisa, or I thought I knew her I suppose, and I don't think she would actually want them dead. I was reminded of that night, when I saw her and Draco. I didn't know why but I had found myself near the dungeons as I was walking back from dinner, then I turned the corner and there she was, limp and sobbing in Draco's arms. That was the first time I had felt truly sorry for her and I remembered who she was... who she used to be. For a split second, I wished that I was the one carrying and comforting her, only for a second though. She looked at me and it made my heart drop, her mascara was all around her eyes and her face was red and tear stained. Draco pushed her face into his chest, and she sobbed harder, and for a split second, I wanted so badly to just hold her in my arms and tell her everything would be okay.
Then when I saw her walk into the great hall this evening, I already knew it was going to be bad. She walked in, dressed in her comfy clothes and her face immediately looked regretful when everybody stared at her, her facial expression changed however when she looked at her friends, she looked like she was about to cry and silently it broke my heart. She hesitantly walked over to her friends and Pansy started reading the newspaper out loud, everybody was silent, listening. When she finished Blaise spoke, "You knew about your parents and you didn't report them? How could you do that? You must be one too or you would have, any sane person would have reported them." I couldn't imagine what she must have been thinking, she was one of them, the newspapers were wrong, she was being protected by someone. She was just as evil as they were, but by her facial expressions as her friends spoke to her, I knew that she truly didn't want to be. It really made me think things through. Yes, she was defiantly a Death Eater, but did that mean she wanted to be? I started thinking about the night she told me, the night that I had walked away from her. Something she said that night had always stuck with me, in the back of my head, I had blocked it out until now, "Cedric I didn't want this, I had no choice, please. Believe me." I hadn't believed her of course, and when she walked closer, I had to move away from her, I struggled to even look at her in that moment, and for days after that. But now, I couldn't help but question my original thoughts, I knew that right now, that she didn't want this. I should have known it all along, from the things she said to me before she left that summer, what she said about her parents; about how it didn't matter what she believed, she could only do what they said, but she broke my heart and I couldn't see past it at the time. Now however, I found that I could.
-End of Cedric Diggory's POV-
authors note: Hello! Cedric's POV finally! There's about to be a time skip to the end of the year because it's not really relevant, but the fifth year is almost over!! Two years left, the seventh won't be a year really because of the war, I'm following the actual Harry Potter events pretty closely after fifth year so that's... exciting? I don't know haha, just imagine if Ced actually was in the HP war bless him. Anyway! Thanks for reading and please VOTE!!!