...a hideous (yet strangely attractive) harpie swooped down, crying, "I will get you this time, stupid owl!" But she did not do so, for Cedric finished his incantation and shot a beam of strange dark energy at the winged creature.
"Why didn't you just do that on Harpie's Island?" Graham asked, still trying to fully grasp the whole "evil Cedric" concept.
"Because," Cedric spat back, "I knew you would save me then. But no one will save you now..."