"--The first Hogwarts train will arrive at eight o'clock next Wednesday morning, and I need you to meet at the school gate at half past six and arrive at Hogsmeade Station by half past seven

The school has twenty carriages to transport this group of guests, and you will need to escort them with them, and when you arrive, half of them will immediately return to Hogsmeade Station, while the other half will guide the guests and arrange for them to be seated, and I will give you the list in advance—"

Smack!

The door to the gym room closed neatly, and Hermione and Cedric were locked out, but instead of leaving immediately, they stood in the doorway, listening to Professor Bryan's voice coming from inside. It wasn't until ten minutes later, when there was a scattered sound of kicking in the classroom, that Hermione and Cedric's ears left the door panel, and the two stood in front of the door and looked at each other awkwardly.

"Ahem--"

Cedric looked at Hermione, who was a head shorter than him, with an unnatural expression.

Indeed, when he first became a Warrior, Seyd's heart was immediately filled with excitement, but as the tournament date progressed, that feeling faded away and was replaced by panic and fear. To outsiders, the Warrior is a title full of honor, and only the Warrior himself knows that there is only a thin line between becoming famous and becoming a clown that everyone laughs at.

After the change of mentality, Cedric's little dissatisfaction with Hermione disappeared, but instead, he had sympathy for Hermione, he knew very well that this girl was under more pressure than himself, and at least no one questioned his status as a warrior, and no one secretly wanted to use his life to achieve anything.

"I'm going down to dinner, what about you?"

Cedric squeezed out a friendly smile at Hermione.

It wasn't hard for Hermione to tell that Cedric was trying to talk to her, which surprised her a little.

She and Cedric didn't have any friendship, and if it weren't for the physical education class, neither of them would have spoken at school. Of course, Hermione knew that Cedric was very popular with girls at school, but his private life was not chaotic, and his single-minded pursuit of Ravenclaw was known to almost everyone among girls.

"I'm going to wait here. Well, I'll go down too--"

In the middle of speaking, Hermione suddenly reversed her voice, and then the two of them walked towards the stairs together.

Out of some kind of mutual understanding, Hermione and Cedric didn't walk fast, and they walked almost in the hallway in a walking fashion.

"How are you feeling?"

As he passed a porch, Cedric said coldly, his footsteps stalled, "I mean, do you have any idea for next week's game. Oh, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to ask anything! ”

Just as Cedric knew the pressure Hermione was under, Hermione also foresaw the pressure Cedric was facing as a warrior, and they were about to show their faces in the entire European wizarding world, and if they were not careful, Hogwarts would become a laughing stock.

At this time, Hermione suddenly remembered one thing - she was bound to Cedric during the game.

It was a decision made by Barty Crouch to deal with Karkaroff's displeasure, and Hermione hadn't forgotten it, but she had never had it easy enough to ignore it.

Hermione was in a trance, and Cedric clearly misunderstood Hermione's silence, and he sighed, his handsome face slightly bitter,

"You're worried too, right, worried that you won't be able to pass the challenge, and my mom and dad have been writing to me for a few days, and they've been writing to me that they've told all my relatives that I'm going to represent Hogwarts, and they're going to be proud of it, and that's a good feeling, but if I don't know if I'm going to have enough, they're probably going to suffer from you, what do your family think about it?"

Hermione knew that Cedric was trying to say more than just the family's opinions, and that the pressure they were under came from all sides.

"My mom and dad are Muggles, and they don't know what Triwizard Tournament is."

Hermione said, feeling guilty.

She hadn't written to her parents about it yet, and she wasn't going to say that if they knew their baby daughter was about to fight a dragon that only appeared in the movies, they might rush to Hogwarts overnight to pick her up.

"That's pretty good--"

Cedric said worriedly, but the figure of Qiu Zhang appeared in front of him.

Letting his parents lose face in front of his colleagues and relatives and friends, as well as his own disgrace in front of his beloved girl, no matter which one, is not what he wants.

But he didn't have a way to back down, did he, his warrior status was the pride of so many people, and Hufflepuff literally regarded him as a banner.

Hermione looked at Cedric's melancholy face, a hint of doubt and hesitation flashing in her eyes.

"What do you think about the event, Cedric?"

Hermione asked tentatively.

"I don't know, but Professor Sprout suggested I look for the previous information," Cedric suddenly came back to his senses, he looked at Hermione and smiled sheepishly, "I don't think this can be considered cheating, right?" ”

"Of course not, um. Have you spoken to Durmstrang or the Beauxbatons Warriors? Hermione took a deep breath and asked quietly.

"You mean Krum and Delacul?"

Cedric's eyes widened in surprise, not understanding what Hermione's question meant.

"No, I don't have much to do with them--" Cedric shook his head and said calmly, "Of course, I know they're both strong opponents, so no matter which of the two of us, we have to do something good, or Hogwarts will be too humiliating!"

Hermione was pretty much sure that Krum wasn't kind enough to reveal the details of the game to both Hogwarts warriors, and he was just here for himself to be honest, and Hermione was far less confused about the issue than Harry.

The girl's emotions are much more delicate than the boy's, she has some feelings, and in the days when they were looking for materials together in the library, every time Krum looked at him, the eagerness in his eyes could not hide from Hermione's eyes, but she was embarrassed to say it to others.

She has already been criticized for being a warrior, and if Krum's huge star-chasing group knows that their idol has a good opinion of her, then I am afraid that she will not be able to stay in the dormitory in the future.

The atmosphere was suddenly a little charming, mainly because Hermione was moved by the fact that Krum was willing to take the initiative to reveal the valuable information about the content of the game to her, but in Cedric's eyes, it was not the same at all, and he suddenly found that Hermione Granger next to him looked at his eyes and became drifting, and then, his cheeks flushed, like those girls who handed him love letters!

However, isn't Hermione Granger close to Harry Potter and Ron Weasley?!

"Ahem, okay-"

Cedric's eyes became frightened, and he subconsciously took a step back,

"That's it, there's nothing more to say, I have to go to the auditorium for dinner, then, go first--"

As he spoke, Cedric was about to walk past Hermione, and he didn't want any unclear rumors with Hermione Granger that she wasn't the girl he wanted.

"Wait, Cedric!"

Hermione subconsciously shouted.

Hermione wasn't quite sure why she was telling Cedric all this, and if she had to do it, it would be fair.

Now that Fleur, Krum, and herself already knew, it would be fair to let Cedric know this crucial piece of news—Hermione had convinced herself.

Hermione didn't want to care about why Cedric felt like she wanted to run away from her for the time being, she looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no little wizard nearby, she took a deep breath, lowered her voice and said quickly,

"I'll just say it once--"

"What?"

Cedric's voice began to tremble, and he already felt that things were exactly what he thought.

"We're going to deal with the fire dragon, the first competition item, and then um, that's all, you have to hurry up and think of tricks!"

After a moment's hesitation, Hermione didn't say the second reminder.

Cedric was motionless, obviously unable to get out of the shock caused by Hermione's revelations, but Hermione didn't think that when Cedric came back to her senses, she just turned around and was about to leave, otherwise, it would be too suspicious for others to see the two Hogwarts warrior gods talking mysteriously together-

however

"Miss Granger—"

Just as Hermione had just taken two steps, the door of a room opposite them suddenly creaked open, and Professor Moody's low and hoarse voice directly made Hermione and Cedric's cold hairs stand on end.

"Come to my office--"

(End of chapter)