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AN: Written for the Your Favourite Hogwarts House Boot Camp Challenge! By ToxicRainfall.

AN2: Summerby is the boy who takes over as Hufflepuff Seeker after Cedric's death.

There were days when Summerby wished he could fly away on his own amongst the stars, just vanish into the dark void of space that hung above the Earth. One of the reasons he loved Astronomy so well was because it let him just imagine being one, a spec of light in the night time sky that looked down on the world below, not worrying about homework and parents and everything life threw at you.

There was one good reason to avoid becoming a star however.

Stars were isolated and Summerby was a social creature by nature, never going anywhere without company and an easy word. To him, the idea of such isolation

Stars of the Quidditch team and House were a different kettle of fish though. Cedric was adored by his house as one of the few Seekers to beat Harry Potter to the snitch and as their Tri-wizard tournament champion. He had a beautiful girlfriend (the fact that he had been friends with Cho for years beforehand completely passed him by). He even had a following of girls who would have probably given their right arm to be his girlfriend or even just a casual lover. (Cedric was far too much a gentleman to take advantage of those girls, but Summerby had no such limitations.)

In the end though, it didn't matter. He didn't have what it took to be a great seeker, but in the end he discovered that it wasn't as important as the value of good friends.