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╭══❅══༺ 𓅪 ⋆ ♛ ⋆ 𓅪 ༻══❅══╮ “I’m Ced,” he said, apparently pretending there was any chance Y/N had not recognized him. “And I could really use the help of someone who knows how to disappear.” ┝━━━━━━ ✦ 🪔 ✦ ━━━━━━┥ Everyone knows Cedric Diggory was born for a crown. No one knows how desperately he wants to escape it. Y/N has spent their life in Knockturn Alley, surviving on quick thinking and repairing enchanted objects nobody else considers worth saving. When they help a disguised stranger evade his guards in Diagon Alley, they expect nothing more than an interesting afternoon. Then the stranger reveals himself as Cedric Diggory—the golden Hufflepuff heir bound by an ancient decree to choose someone worthy of standing beside him. Soren Carrow offers Y/N an impossible bargain: retrieve a legendary wish-bound lantern hidden beneath Hogwarts, and he will give them a place in Cedric’s world. Instead, he takes the lantern and leaves them trapped underground. Desperate, Y/N awakens Silas Crouch, a mischievous Ravenclaw bound to the relic’s magic. One wish secures their escape. Another gives Y/N a noble name, a glittering reputation, and the chance to meet Cedric again as his equal. ╰══❅══༺ 𓅪 ⋆ ♛ ⋆ 𓅪 ༻══❅══╯