At Diggory House, Cedric finished breakfast early. Then he began his usual morning routine, shutting himself in his room, sitting properly at his desk, and carefully bending over it to complete the summer homework assigned by his professors.
Today, Cedric was working on the Transfiguration assignment Professor McGonagall had given him. It was the last unfinished piece of all his summer homework. Once he finished this essay, his summer homework would be completely done.
Cedric's quill glided swiftly across the parchment. Before long, an excellent second-year Transfiguration essay, neatly written and well composed, appeared on the page.
With that, Cedric's summer homework was finally complete. He suddenly felt as though a major burden weighing on his heart had vanished. Relaxing somewhat, he neatly put away his homework, pulled out a sheet of parchment from his drawer, and began writing a long letter.
At breakfast that morning, Cedric had seen the front-page news in the Daily Prophet about Roy's arrest and the Obscurial outbreak. Even while doing his summer homework just now, he had been thinking about it. His father and mother had been away these past few days, and though Cedric wanted to help Roy, he had no idea what he could do.
"If I write to him, will he receive it?"
Cedric had barely written the opening on the parchment when his hand stopped. The Daily Prophet had not reported that Roy had been released from prison, so Cedric thought Roy was still in a cell.
"Should I ask Professor Sprout or Professor McGonagall instead?"
Just as Cedric was about to erase what he had written and start over, a familiar conversation drifted in from outside the window across from his desk.
"Is this his house?"
"How would I know? Why don't you knock?"
As the man and woman