...when you wish upon a star...
Harry stared blankly at the letter in his hand. Glitter had fallen onto to the table when he'd opened the purple and gold missive; he never received such an ostentatious letter.
"Wha's tha'?" Ron asked as he swallowed his breakfast.
"No idea." Harry answered truthfully and passed the letter over to his friend.
"Congratulations on your win HARRY POTTER" Ron read aloud "You and five friends are invited to the Walt Disney World Resort to celebrate your victory in the Triwizard Championship." Ron looked up at Harry, "What's Walt Disney World?" Harry shrugged. They turned to Hermione.
"I'm not sure. It's a movie studio and I think there's a park or something in America but I've never been."
"American huh? That explains this nonsense." Ron gestured to the sparkly dust that had spilled from the letter and onto Harry's breakfast. "But what exactly did you win?" Harry shrugged again.
"Dunno, there's a lot of fine print..." He passed the letter to Hermione and she perused the information.
"It's a trip...six days in Disney World...hotel, transportation, park tickets, dining included...Harry and five friends...one must be 18 or older...there's directions to a portkey near Heathrow..." She trailed off and looked up at Harry. "Could be fun...get away for a while...?"
"But I don't have anyone 18 or older who could come with me." both Ron and Hermione opened their mouths to answer but a third voice beat them to it.
"Deesney World!" Harry turned to find Fleur Delacour standing off to his left. "You are going 'Arry?"
"What? Oh, uh...maybe...I guess I won something..." He stammered, somewhat embarrassed by this turn of events.
"Eet is fun. There eez a Deesny in Paris but Gabrielle and I 'ave never beeen to zee reeel one in zee Etas-Unis." Fleur looked happier than he'd seen her since she'd first been chosen for the Triwizard Tournament.
"Uh, well you can have my trip if you want." Harry tried to hand the letter to Fleur but Hermione stopped him.
"No, Harry, it's non-transferrable. If you don't go nobody does." Fleur looked disappointed but Hermione pushed the letter back to Harry.
"Oh." he said, not quite sure what else there was to say. Ron, who'd been quietly gazing at Fleur in that rapturous way he had whenever she appeared in his sight, perked up suddenly.
"Hey, yer 18 right Fleur?" she turned rather surprised to him and he blushed under her gaze but blundered on when she nodded, "So if you come with us we can go."
"Ron..." Hermione started, "Don't you think your mother - " But Fleur interrupted her.
"Reelly? You would breeng Gabrielle and me?" Ron nodded, Hermione shook her head. Harry looked from one to the other, then to Fleur. He smiled apologetically at Hermione and nodded as well.
"Yeah, ok. We'll bring you and Gabrielle." Fleur grinned and kissed his on the cheek then bounded off to find her sister. Hermione glared at Harry. "I had to Hermione, she looked so happy and I don't even know where this is. She might've won the tournament after all..."
"She was never even close! She came in last Harry. And if she had won she wouldn't bring you!"
"C'mon Hermione, you get to go too. Harry gets 5 friends, that's you, me, Fleur, Gabrielle and...uh..." Harry's gaze travelled over to Cho who sat with her friends in Ravenclaw, looking as she had for the past few weeks since the disastrous end of the tournament. He wondered if a trip to an amusement park might mend her broken heart. But Ron had already turned to his sister. "Ginny, you can come."
"Ronald! Maybe Harry wanted to choose his five friends himself!" Hermione screeched as Ginny asked,
"Go where?"
Ron smiled at her and answered with a twinkle in his eye and a giggle in his grin. "Deesney World!"
