Author's Note: Okay. So I've said this in an author's note in the back, but I felt the need to say this up front, too. I'm re-writing Polianthes Tuberosa and it's going through some majorly minor changes. Just saying. (as of 9.11.11)
Disclaimer: I don't own; JKR does.
Chapter One
"Aurelia," a man spoke.
"Oui?" replied said girl, Aurelia.
"It is nearing your d'anniversaire," he drawled, "you should be receiving letters from Beauxbâtons and Hogwarts soon."
"Je suis en effet," she said with the same amount of lazy arrogance in her tone, speaking in French unconsciously.
"I want you to enter Beauxbâtons with your sisters."
"But Père! I want to go to Hogwarts!" her voice changed suddenly, becoming one of urgency.
"Aurelia!" her father thundered, "you do not talk back when I make decisions for you! You are going to Beauxbâtons, whether you like it or not."
"Honestly, Lia, Beauxbâtons n'est pas that bad," piped up a blonde-headed girl who looked to be about fifteen.
The curly-haired, emerald-eyed girl drooped.
"Yes, father," she murmured.
He smiled at her.
"C'est marveilleux," he told her.
Aurelia, or Lia, as her sister had called her, nodded dully.
"I'm sure it is c'est magnifique, Père," she intoned.
"Excusez-moi," she continued, "may I be excused, Mère?
"Yes, Lia."
Lia pushed her chair back and retreated away from the dining hall.
Her gait was sure and steady, smooth and silent. She walked up the her room, collapsing onto the large circular bed.
A couple of fidgets later, she lay spread-eagle on her back, in the middle of the mattress.
She was Aurelia Artemis Chevalier, pureblood witch.
Her ink-black curls fanned out around her head, giving her a mane.
Neon eyes bore holes into the ceiling, as the girl huffed.
"I can't believe him," she muttered to herself, "the nerve of him! I want to go to Hogwarts, not Beauxbâtons, and he forbids me! Who is he to forbid me from going to a certain school? And he claims to be on the side of the Light? Is he trying to make me think he's a Dark wizard?"
A tap on the door announced the arrival of someone.
"Come in," she sighed.
The door opened, and three identical girls walked in. All had platinum blonde curls and slate-gray eyes. The only difference was their clothing.
"Lia," began one, "we promise Beauxbâtons isn't that bad."
"I know, Elli, but I wanted to go to Hogwarts with Tate and Earl," moaned Lia.
The one called Elli sighed. She was the one wearing dark wash skinny jeans and a charcoal jumper.
"Sorry, dear, we tried to change his mind, but Père isn't giving in," sighed another, wearing a t-shirt and capris.
"Eva, Elli, Thalia, it's alright. I promise. I just... I just need some time to myself, she sighed."
They cast another glance at her as they walked out the door, before shutting it and leaving Lia to her own.
"Aurelia," a woman who looked like an older version of Aurelia but with mercury eyes called.
"Oui, Mère," replied Aurelia lazily.
"You leave for Beauxbâtons tomorrow. We're going to Diagon Alley for supplies," reprimanded Lia's mother.
She nodded.
Half an hour later, Aurelia was wandering the streets of Diagon Alley with a small pouch full of galleons and two pieces of parchment in her hand. The first one said:
l'Académie de Magie Beauxbâtons
Directrice: Olympe Maxime
Chere Madame Chevalier,
Nous sommes heureux de vous informer que vous avez été accepté à l'Académie de Magie Beauxbâtons. S'il vous plaît trouver ci-joint une liste de tous les livres et le matériel nécessaires. Mandat commence le Septembre 1. Nous attendons votre hibou au plus tard en Juillet 31.
Cordialament,
Nichola Faivre
The second one said:
l'Académie de Magie Beauxbâtons
UNIFORME:
1 - Trois séries de plaine robes travail au noir
2 - Celui indiqué chapeau noir
3 - Une paire de gants de protection (dragon cacher ou similaire)
4 - Un manteau d'hiver (noir, avec des attaches d'argent)
S'il vous plaît noter que tous les vêtements élève doit effectuer les balises de nom.
Les livres de cours
Tous les étudiants devraient avoir une copie de chacun des éléments suivants:
Le Standard Book des Sorts (Grade 1) par Miranda Goshawk
Une Histoire de la Magie par Bathilda Bagshot
Théorie magique par Adalbert waffling
Un Guide du débutant pour la Transfiguration par Switch Emeric
Mille herbes magiques et champignons par Phyllida Spore
Brouillons magiques et potions par Arsenius Jigger
Animaux Fantastiques Où les trouver par Newt Scamander
Les forces des ténèbres: Un guide d'auto-protection par Quentin Trimble
AUTRES ÉQUIPEMENTS:
1 baguette
1 chaudron (étain, taille standard 2)
1 verre de définir ou fioles de cristal
1 télescope
Une échelle en laiton mis en
Les étudiants peuvent également apporter un hibou ou un chat ou un crapaud.
PARENTS ON RAPPELLE QUE LES PREMIÈRES ANNÉES NE SONT PAS ADMIS LEURS BALAIS PROPRES.
Her parents had dropped her off here, saying that they would meet her at Nereus Kettletoft's wand shop in three hours.
She turned into Twilfit & Tattings. A ring signaled to the shop that a new customer had walked in.
A witch in stylish robes immediately bustled to the front of the shop, and saw Aurelia.
"Lia," she smiled warmly, "it's time for you to go to Hogwarts, isn't it?"
"No," she replied dully.
The witch's smiled faded.
"Oh?"
"Yes, Père is sending me to Beauxbâtons instead," she assured the witch.
The witch brightened again.
"Well, I'm not quite sure what Beauxbâtons wants for it's students," confessed the witch.
"Same thing as Hogwarts. Three sets of work robes, a hat, gloves, and a cloak."
"Oh, well then. Step up here, dear, and we'll have your clothes in just a moment."
Aurelia stood still obediently as the tape measure began measuring her. The witch, who's nametag read "Marnie" tittered about, pulling various robes off of racks, frowning, and putting them back.
At last, she pulled one out that she deemed good. She magicked it onto Aurelia's body, and Aurelia's robes fell to the floor.
With another flick of her wand, Marnie adjusted the robes.
They were soon perfectly tailored to fit Lia's body, and even in black robes, she managed to look dignified.
The robes were duplicated three times, a hat, cloak, and dragon hide gloves were found, and twenty galleons later, Aurelia popped out of Twilfit & Tattings. She held a tiny package the size of her palm that held four sets of tailored black robes, a pointed hat, a winter cloak with silver fastenings, and a pair of shiny dragon hide gloves.
The next stop Aurelia made was a trip to Flourish and Blotts. She purchased a copy of each book on her supply list - making sure they were in French, before popping out that shop as well. Fifty galleons this time.
She looked at the time - 1:54, she had another hour and a half at least.
She looked at her list - she needed potions stuff, a telescope, and her wand.
Aurelia decided to stop by the apothecary first.
While in there, she bought the cauldron, a set of diamond phials, a set of brass scales, and a potions kit. 17 galleons this time.
Wandering through the stores until she found a telescope, she proceeded to buy one for five galleons.
There was an hour to spare.
She stopped by Eeylop's Owl Emporium, and bought herself a great eagle owl she decided to call Teddy.
Her hands were getting full, what with four fist-sized packages and a giant owl cage, so she stopped by the latest store and bought a dragon-hide slouch bag.
She stuffed the packages in the bag, and simply held Teddy's cage in her hands.
"I suppose I'll just use the bag to carry my books when I get to school..." she mused quietly.
After popping into Scribbulus Writing Implements for brand-new quills, parchment, and ink, she still had half an hour left to spare.
Aurelia strolled along to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, bought herself an ice cream cone, and then walked to Nereus Kettletoft's shop.
Just in time, too, because she had been in the shop for all of five seconds before her mother came in.
"Mère," she greeted distantly.
Her mother nodded.
"Kettletoft," trilled the woman.
Almost immediately, a man with a graying, balding head and large blue eyes appeared.
"Yes, Madame Chevalier?"
"My daughter needs to get a wand," she told him.
He nodded jerkily before turning to Aurelia.
"Wand arm?"
Aurelia held out her right hand.
Another tape measure began measuring. A moment later, it dropped to the floor.
"It will be two hours, Madam Chevalier."
"Fine. We will wait," Aurelia's mother said primly.
And they waited.
Exactly two hours, one minute, and thirty-two seconds, Nereus appeared again.
He held out the wand for Aurelia, who grasped it and immediately felt a sense of warmth fill her body.
She pointed it at an object and murmured Bombarda in her brain.
The box exploded.
She grinned.
"It's perfect," she said, "thank you very much!"
"N-no problem, dear," smiled Nereus, "that'll be seventy galleons, please."
She fished seventy galleons out the pouch, and left the store with her mother.
A/N: As for the French, I just ran the Hogwarts Letter through Google Translate, so I'm not expecting it to be very accurate. ^^ Most of the other French should be self-explanatory. 'd'anneversaire' means birthday, etc etc.