What is Right and What is Easy by zahra (NC-17)

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Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Cedric/Cho, Cedric/Viktor
Author on LJ: hackthis
Author Website: dysfunctional
Why this must be read:

This is Cedric Diggory's story, and it brings him to life brilliantly. The other secondary and original characters are also very real and believeable. The story lets the reader understand what it means to be a Hufflepuff, and provides a great look at inter-house relationships. Reading about these events from Cedric's point of view reminds me that Harry Potter isn't the center of every wizard's world.

It's easy to get wrapped up in this story and to forget that we already know how it has to end. And it's topped off with an absolutely perfect, powerful ending.

Cedric Diggory was eleven years, three months and sixteen days old when he was sorted into Hufflepuff house. Both Cedric's father and older sister had been sorted into Gryffindor, but his mother, Emma, came from a long line of Hufflepuffs, and Cedric saw nothing wrong with being sorted into "That Other House." He had no idea that people saw Hufflepuff as That House That No One Remembered, or that the students in other houses saw Hufflepuff as that place where the rejects were sent.

No one told Cedric that Hufflepuff students were seen as weak and simple-minded. No one bothered to explain that people in Hufflepuff were useless and forgotten about by the rest of the world. And if no one told that to Cedric, no one had bothered to tell the other students in Hufflepuff either.

What is Right and What is Easy