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A Haunting From the Past « Thread Started on Oct 27, 2003, 1:22pm »
ok, i didn't write this...Harry Potter did. If you read what I put in the announcements section then you'll understand...ok here we go!
Harry read the letters from his friends, hoping desperately for something that could comfort him. Nothing.
“Why are they always ignoring me?” he asked himself, but since Hedwig was there, he decided that since she was the only being in there, he was talking to her.
Harry rolled over on his side. He closed his eyes, waiting for the sleep to roll over him…
A graveyard. He had been here before…but what was he doing here now? What was going on? He tried to move, he couldn’t. He looked to the side, and saw the spirit of Cedric Diggory, deformed, rotting, floating near him.
“Haaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrryyyyyyyy,” Cedric moaned through the night. “Haaarrrryyy, sssssaaaaaaavvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee meeeeeee!”
“What?” said Harry frantically. “No! I can’t!”
“Whhhhhhyyyyyyyy?” Cedric moaned, coming closer. “Whyyy did you let me, DIE?!”
Cedric flew threw the air, grabbing for Harry’s neck.
Harry woke up with a start, breathing hard, sweating. He sat up, looking for some parchment and his quill.
Dear Ron, I think, I need help! I just had a dream…Cedric. He’s after me, I know it! Ron, I need help! Come to pick me up, quickly! Harry
Harry threw down the quill and folded the parchment quickly.
“Come here, Hedwig,” he said.
Hedwig flew to him, and he tied the note to her.
“Take this to Ron, really quick! This is an emergency!”
Hedwig flew out the window.
Harry sat there, alone now, thinking of his dream. Cedric had looked so scary…it had been two years since Cedric had died. But his ghost shouldn’t have been that deformed….the skin was rotting off of him, his eyeballs were bulging, one of them hanging down…his hands full of boils… And why now? Why, after two years, did Cedric all of a sudden come back to haunt his dreams? He had visited the graveyard in his dreams before, but Cedric had always been there helping him…what sort of sign was this?
Harry stayed on his bed, just thinking, not wanting to go back to sleep.
He hoped Ron came to save him, and soon…
As Ron received the letter, he read it through, frantically.
“Thanks, Hedwig,” he said. He gave Hedwig some food and told her to go rest with his own owl.
He ran down the stairs, going to tell his mother that Harry was in trouble.
“Mom! Mom! Harry’s in trouble! Someone’s after him!” he said, rushing through everything so she could hear it.
“Now, calm down dear,” said Mrs. Weasley impatiently. “What’s going on?”
“Someone’s after Harry.”
“Who?”
“Cedric.”
“Cedric? The ghost, Cedric?”
“Yes.”
“Ron, I think this is more serious then you might think…go write Harry and ask him to describe to you what EXACTLY the ghost looked like.”
Ron ran upstairs and got out some parchment and a quill.
Harry, What did Cedric look like? Me mum said that this could be more serious then we think. Write soon! Ron
Ron tied the note to Hedwig and let him fly.
“Hurry,” Ron muttered.
Harry saw Hedwig flying toward the Dursley’s house. He took the letter from her and tore it open. As soon as he read it, he started writing back on the same piece of parchment.