I had been friends with Cedric Diggory for quite some time, he was part of the Hufflepuff group I was friends with, which included Alice. He lived close to Fred and George, my best friends, was in several of their classes. My uncle, Professor Snape thought he was incredibly intelligent and liked him. Unfortunately, Cedric was very handsome, which meant a lot of the girls would go around school saying things like, “Oh Cedric he’s so dreamy!” and the boys of course made fun of him for this. He was a talented quidditch player and to me, what made him attractive was the fact that he didn’t find himself attractive at all. He hated how he looked and didn’t understand why people couldn’t see the person underneath. I guess we had that in common. We used to help each other with assignments, homework etc. The most important was when I needed his help in Potions and I couldn’t understand it at all. Being in the year above me he was able to help me out and my grades went straight up. So did his transfiguration grades. I think you could call us “really best friends” before we became anything more.

We had already worked out most of the details and now we were more or less ready to set our plan into action. Me and Cedric started dating as soon as we got to school. The only snag we hit was that we both came from old-fashioned families. We didn’t tell anyone until we started officially dating and then he wanted to ask permission from Professor Snape. I thought he was mad when he brought it up, I literally asked him if he wanted his head sliced open, but I knew we had to do it. Cedric was the bravest person I knew and there was no way my uncle was letting me date someone without permission. It was just unfortunate that we couldn’t just send an owl to our families like normal students and we saw him every day. None the less, we worked out a plan, not really aided by the fact that Mrs Norris was petrified, but we went to see him in his office after dinner on the 1st November. We explained that we would like his permission to date each other. I think my uncle liked Cedric, he certainly didn’t make any bad comments towards him, although he didn’t make great ones either. The mere fact that we were asking permission, we hoped was enough. Cedric said he respected him enough to do that. I just went along with it.