"Promise you will go easy on me Hermione?" The Longbottom gently inquired as he faced down the bushy haired Witch, who grinned in response.
"I don't know Neville, you did turn your back on Harry. I think that earns a bit of a beating."
The boy chuckled, before nodding in defeat, "Yeah… yeah I guess that is fair… just uh… could you at least take it easy on my face?"
"Why? Does Susan Bones have plans with you tonight?" the Witch teased.
"Actually, yeah."
She nodded in reply, "Fine, fine no spells to the face."
...
"So, uh Harry… about last year…"
"I believe Hermione has gotten over it Miss Brown, so no hard feelings."
The girl nodded, remembering very vividly how easily the boy standing across from her had beaten the group of Gryffindors. The only hope she had was winning by surprise. "That's good, I mean I am really sorry about… Stupify!"
The boy-who-lived casually brushed the spell away, as if it were an insect before he slowly walked towards the Gryffindor. "You know Miss Brown we really never have had a chance to just sit down and talk…"
A few more spells were chanted by the girl, each tossed to the side or against the ceiling as if without thought.
"How are your classes going? Are you having a good year?"
Lavender tried one more spell, one that an older girl had taught them for emergency situations, such as a boy getting a little too aggressive, it too was easily deflected.
"You and Ronald doing well? I would hate to hear about the 'power couple of Gryffindor' having problems."
Her shoulders slumped. Clearly, she had already lost. Harry had defended her entire arsenal and hadn't even pretended to be slighted by any of them. "Yeah I umm I guess so…"
"You guess? You can talk to me Miss Brown, Slytherins might be many things but we do know how to keep a secret."
"Lavender… just call me Lavender, and I… well with the other school arriving, and Krum and the Veelas and… I just haven't had much of his attention and it hurts you know?"
"I can imagine, but rest assured I am sure he will come to his senses… otherwise I might just have to steal you from him hm?" the boy finished with a warm smile, sending shivers down her spine.
...
"Fleur?"
The French Champion's head snapped around, before her face lit up in excitement. "Gabbie!"
With a squeal of excitement, the younger girl ran across the hall to where her sister had crouched down before throwing herself into a hug.
"Oh, Gabbie I have missed you so much!"
"Ah hem…"
The Champion fought the urge to simply Curse the owner of that voice, before standing straight and giving a curtsey as she had been taught, "Greetings father, mother how was your trip?"
The older man was already looking around the castle in barely-concealed disgust, "Uneventful, I would not have made the trip out myself save for your reported scoring in the tournament thus far. Although I am rather disappointed you are in second place."
'I am never good enough for him, no matter what I do.' The teenager mentally seethed, before her thoughts were interrupted by a pulling on her hand. Looking down she spied the excitement in the eyes of her sibling.
"Is he here!?"
"Who?"
"Harry! Harry Potter!"
For a moment something ugly flashed inside of the older girl's mind, a jealousy that frightened her back to reality as she smothered the feelings towards her innocent younger sister.
"Oui, I have seen him a few times."
"He saved you, didn't he? From the Dragon? Like a knight saving a princess!"
Fleur smiled at the young girl, "I wouldn't say I am a princess Gabbie…"
"Of course you are Fleur! Which means Harry must be a knight… or a prince! Then you two can get married!"
"A very nice idea Gabbie, but he also saved two others. Two boys even, should he marry them too?"
The younger girl frowned after being confronted by the new logic, before being pulled into a hug once more. "I have missed you so much little sister…"
From further down the hallway a certain boy watched the reunion with an odd expression on his face. Perhaps he had been a bit quick to judge Fleur after all.
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