Hello Everyone! I know it's been a while since you've heard from me but this is just a little something I thought up after listening the The music from Beauty and the Beast all summer! I tried to keep it close to the Beauty and the Beast story line and added enough Harry Potter to it (I Hope)! This is probably not one of my better works but let me know what you think of it!
This Chapter Features: Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Lavender Brown, and the Patil Twins!
~Disclaimer: I own nothing, except a maybe a few plot changes I made...and I'm not even sure I own those!
"Hermione, where are you going?" The petite brunette looked back at her father and smiled, "I'm just going into town to exchange my books, and get some supplies before school starts, be safe while I'm gone, we aren't at home anymore"
"I will, do be carefully in town" He said kissing her forehead
"I will daddy" She said smiling as she picked up her basket and headed into the small town. She had relocated her father to a small village in the French country side after deatheaters had killed her mother, she hadn't told anyone, she couldn't take the war any more. She had even told the villagers her name was Belle. "Little town, It's a quiet village, Ev'ry day, Like the one before, little town, Full of little people, Waking up to say"
"Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour!" The towns folk seemed to sing along with her song as she walked through the streets at a leisurely pace, watching the people interact
"There goes the baker with his tray, like always, the same old bread and rolls to sell, Ev'ry morning just the same, since the morning that we came, to this poor provincial town" She sang smiling at the backer
"Good Morning, Belle!" he said being polite, though she could tell the smile was forced
"Good morning, Monsieur." She returned the greeting
"And where are you off to, today?" He asked being nosy
"The bookshop. I just finished the most wonderful story, about a beanstalk and an ogre and a" She tried hoping for once he was actually interested
"That's nice. Marie! The baguettes! Hurry up!" He said walking into his shop calling to his wife. She sighed and continued making her way to the book shop
"Look there she goes that girl is strange, no question, Dazed and distracted, can't you tell? Never part of any crowd, 'Cause her head's up on some cloud, No denying she's a funny girl that Belle, Bonjour! Good day! How is your fam'ly? Bonjour! Good day! How is your wife? I need six eggs! That's too expensive!" She sighed listening to them sing about her and banter through their daily lives
"There must be more than this provincial life!" She muttered to herself
"Ah, Belle." The book teller spoke with a pleasant smile; he seemed to be one of the only people who didn't think her odd or strange.
"Good morning, sir. I've come to return the book I borrowed." She said handing him the book
"Finished already?"
"Oh, I couldn't put it down. Have you got anything new?" she asked thumbing through the books
"Not since yesterday." He replied putting a few books away
"That's all right. I'll borrow . . . . This one!" She said after a few minutes of browsing
"That one? But you've read it twice!" He said looking surprised
"Well, it's my favorite! Far off places, daring, swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise" She said dreamily
"If you like it all that much, it's yours!" He said with a small chuckle
"But sir!" Hermione said starting to protest
"I insist."
"Thank you. Thank you very much!" Hermione said as she walked out of the store and back through town, intent on heading back home.
"Look there she goes that girl is so peculiar, I wonder if she's feeling well, With a dreamy, far-off look, And her nose stuck in a book, What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle,"
"Oh, isn't this amazing? It's my fav'rite part because - you'll see, Here's where she meets Prince Charming, But she won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three!," Hermione said smiling as she told a small child about the story
"Now it's no wonder that her name means "Beauty", her looks have got no parallel," The child's mother said as she pulled the child away and over to the nearest shopkeeper
"But behind that fair façade, I'm afraid she's rather odd," He said to her as they did their business
"Very diff'rent from the rest of us, she's nothing like the rest of us, yes, diff'rent from the rest of us is Belle!"
"I got it Ron! Wow! You didn't miss a shot, Ron! You're the greatest hunter in the whole world!" A dark haired man said as he ran in and caught the duck as it fell
"I know." The red head said smirking as he posed
"No beast alive stands a chance against you. - And no girl, for that matter."
"It's true, Neville. And I've got my sights set on that one." Ron said pointing to the girl reading a book, they'd been in this stupid town for about two weeks now and Ron had found her. The girl who looked almost identical to his Hermione and he'd have her until he found the real one.
"The hermit's daughter?" Neville asked, they'd seen her plenty of times but never her father, and the villagers said they never see him.
"She's the one - the lucky girl, I'm going to marry." Ron said walking towards her
"But she's" Neville tired to protest
"The most beautiful girl in town." Ron filled in ignoring his friend
"I know, but" He tried again
"That makes her the best. And don't I deserve the best?" Ron asked glaring, he'd fought that stupid war to the end and in the end Harry and Hermione had both disappeared! He was the lone survivor of the Golden Trio; he deserved nothing less than the best
"Of course you do!" Neville said with a heavy sigh
"Right from the moment when I met her, saw her, I said she's gorgeous and I fell, Here in town there's only she, Who is beautiful as me, So I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle"
"Look there he goes, isn't he dreamy? Monsieur Ron, Oh he's so cute! Be still my heart, I'm hardly breathing, He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute!" Neville rolled his eyes at the three girls who had followed them from England, Lavender, Pavarti and Padma, Ron's fan girls.
"Bonjour! Pardon, Good day, Mais oui! You call this bacon? What lovely grapes! Some cheese, Ten yards! One pound, 'scuse me! I'll get the knife, Please let me through! This bread -
Those fish - it's stale! They smell! Madame's mistaken. Well, maybe so, good morning! Oh, good morning!" The town said as it roared to life, much to Ron's dismay as he began to lose sight of her.
"There must be more than this provincial life!" She said with a heavy sigh as she walked out of side
"Just watch, I'm going to make Belle my wife!" Ron told Neville as they gave up
"Look there she goes, the girl is strange but special, A most peculiar mad'moiselle! It's a pity and a sin, She doesn't quite fit in, 'Cause she really is a funny girl, A beauty but a funny girl, She really is a funny girl, That Belle!"
Well there it is, more too come soon! And For those of you who are confused as to who is who the list below explains it!
Belle-Hermione
Gaston-Ron
LeFou (Gaston's sidekick)-Neville
Maurice-Hermione's Father
Silly Girls-Lavender, Pavarti, Padma
I hope you enjoyed!
~Redshadow17