He‘s hot and a Champion
The students of Hogwarts, Durmstrang and Beauxbatons were all sitting in the great hall. In front of them was the Goblet of Fire and Dumbledore who was about to announce the three Champions participating in the Triwizard Tournament.
Ollie was shifting in his seat. "Nervous?," Frieda asked him with a sympathetic smile on her face. "Me? Nervous? Never." His friend put her hands up and chuckled. He was nervous, she could see it by the way he was behaving.
Usually, Ollie Knight had the best posture there was. Now he was slouching like a prawn. He also normally took great care of his black curly hair but today he just let it do its thing sticking up in every imaginable direction.
"Here, have some tea," Frieda said pouring it from her thermos into a cup. "Thanks." Ollie basically yanked the beverage out of her hands making it spill a bit on her robe. "Sorry. I guess I am a little nervous." "No big deal. Drink your tea and you’ll feel better in no time." And really. A few minutes after he took the first sips he calmed down.
"So, now that we’re all here I am glad to announce the Champions." Dumbledore stuck his hand out, awaiting that a piece of parchment would come out of the Goblet. "Representing Beauxbatons, the first Champion is Fleur Delacour." A blonde girl in a blue uniform stood up. Her friends (or at least what Frieda assumed to be her friends) were the first ones to embrace her with the others in the hall clapping. The girl walked towards Dumbledore who shook her hand.
Then the next piece came out. "For Durmstrang: Viktor Krum." "Krum, Krum, Krum!," the students from Durmstrang along with a few Gryffindors were chanting.
Frieda had a few relatives from Durmstrang since her mother and her siblings used to go there when they were younger. Agathe‘s siblings still lived close to the school in the north so some of Frieda‘s cousins went there. She hasn’t seen any of them though and she also did not plan on looking for them.
"And now onto the representative from Hogwarts." Now Ollie (and Frieda for that matter) was on edge. He almost crushed his friend’s hand from squishing it too hard. "Cedric Diggory!" The Hogwarts students cheered loudly the proudest being the Hufflepuffs.
"Of course it‘s him! Who else would it be to ruin my life again." "Hey, he‘s not ruining it. He could be saving it for all you know." Ollie let out an annoyed snort. "Yeah right. When will you get into your head that nobody’s going to die. He just took my chance of being seen for once."
"Calm down. Evie and I see you. Isn’t that enough?" "Try again. I think Evie sees other people." Ollie nodded into the Ravenclaw‘s direction. And indeed, she only had eyes for the freshly presumed Champion cheering and clapping enthusiastically for him. "Wow I haven’t seen her this happy since she caught the twins in one of those giant sticky fly traps." "You’re right. But that only proves my point. Not even one of my best friends can come over and comfort me."
"But I‘m here." "Yeah but that doesn’t count. You’re always here." "You’re right. Better not give me a reason to change that then," Frieda said with a raised eyebrow.
But before Ollie could answer her, the two turned their attention to the Goblet as it was about to spit out another piece of parchment. "What on earth..." Ollie‘s eyes were wide open staring at Dumbledore. The bearded wizard also looked like he was just as bewildered as his students. "Harry Potter!,“ he read out.
'That poor kid,' was the first thought going through Frieda‘s mind when she heard that. There was no chance that he put his own name into the Goblet. But since it was always Potter when something weird happened at Hogwarts, the other students were going to make his school year a living nightmare for him.
"See, I told you it’s always Potter. How do you think he did it?," Evie asked suddenly appearing behind her two best friends. "Oh, look who decided to show up Frieda. It‘s my 'best friend Evie'." "Don’t be a drama queen Ollie. You didn’t get chosen. It’s not a big deal." Ollie looked almost offended. "It wouldn’t be a big deal if that git Diggory didn’t get chosen. He takes everything away from me! And you‘re supporting it!" "Let’s not get your knickers in a twist. He‘s hot and a Champion. Of course I’m supporting it." "He‘s hot and a Champion," Ollie mimicked the brunette warping his face.
"Okay, I think it’s time for a cool down again. Can we maybe find an agreement?" Frieda looked demandingly at her friends. "Nothing? Okay, so how about that? There is no need to mock what Evie is attracted to. She is entitled to her opinion and free to support the Hogwarts Champion." Evie stuck out her tongue believing she won the argument.
"On the other hand, Ollie has every right to be upset that he didn’t get chosen. He was really looking forward to it and the fact that Cedric got chosen instead doesn’t make it any better. We should be there to support him because he’s our friend."
"You’re such a libra," Ollie said. "Me liking harmony has nothing to do with astrology. How do you even know about that?" "I found your Muggle magazine in your bag once and it was full of that stuff and now I’m obsessed. Did you know that I’m an Aquarius?" Frieda rolled her eyes. "Yes, I know. How fitting." "Oh fun! What am I?," Evie asked not even knowing what the two were talking about. "Your birthday's June first right?" The two Hufflepuffs looked at each other concerned and said in unison "You’re a Gemini." "Cool...and what does that mean?" "I’m gonna give you that magazine Ollie was talking about so you can read for yourself." "Wait is it that bad?" "No, not at all. It’s just that..."
Frieda stopped in her tracks when she suddenly felt something tickling her. The feeling didn’t stop and to make matters worse she felt the urge to laugh uncontrollably. "Frieda, what’s wrong?,“ Evie asked panic rising in her as she realized that nothing about this situation was funny.
"I...I don’t...know...something’s ti...tickling me," Frieda said inbetween laughter. It didn’t take long for her to find out what was going on though. "This...this is...a...a tickling...ch...charm! Do...some...thing!" Evie did not know what to do. But Ollie took out his wand making the spell undone.
"This was the twins! What is their problem with you at the moment. To Merlin, when I catch these two plonkers they’ll have nothing to laugh anymore."
"That was way funnier than we thought," Fred said, a grin on his face. "You can think?,“ Evie was quick to answer. "Why is it, that whenever we talk to little Frieda, it’s you guys who answer instead?" "Maybe because she’s got something better to do than talking to some absolute knob heads like you two." "Calm down woman. It was just a joke," George chimed in.
"Yeah, they’re right Evie. No need to get angry. Really it’s okay. And we’re gonna get them back anyways, right?," Frieda tried to defuse the tension before her friend could do something stupid.
"Okay that’s it. Tell us!," Fred said all of a sudden. "Tell you what?" Frieda genuinely did not know what the two wanted from her. "Tell us what your secret is. You’re never angry at us, no matter what we do to you. How do you do that?" Now George was doing the talking.
"Well, there’s no need to be angry. That only ruins all the good energy. If you have anger issues though, you should try meditation. For me that always helps." There was no chance Frieda was telling them her real secret. Firstly, they could use that against her and secondly, it was just embarrassing to admit that the only thing preventing her from having a mental breakdown every five minutes was a little plant.
"You’re joking. For heaven’s sake. Just tell us. We won’t snitch if it’s something illegal." "Haven’t you gotten the message? She won’t tell you. And now bye, we have more important things to do than talking to you two."