AN: DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER ALL I OWN ARE THE CHARACTERS NOT MENTIONED IN THE BOOK ALL THINGS IN ITALLICS ARE SPELLS AND ARE IN LATIN AND I DO NOT SPEAK FRENCH. IN FRENCH YOU DON'T PRONOUNCE THE LAST LETTER ON A WORD.
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Vienna ran down the narrow gangway at the back of the girls section of the carriage to get to her shared room, she quickly opened and closed the room door to find the oddity of Gabrielle reading a book on one of the chaise chairs with her small toad Vért. They would be staying in this room for a year because they spoke both perfect English whereas most of the other students did not, an unfortunate position - at least that's what they thought - to be in. It was a decent size room with walnut panelling and baby blue painted walls throughout the two bedrooms, the living room, bathroom and small study.
Vienna sat down on the other chaise chair and felt her cat, Florian jump onto her lap. Florian purred and snuggled Vienna as she stroked him.
"ce qui vous a faire cette fois?" (What did you do this time?) asked Garbrielle. She was about to answer when they heard a commotion. As soon as it died down Vienna replied.
"Rien, vous suspectez toujours le plus mauvais." (Nothing, you always suspect the worst.)
"nous sommes ici!" (We're here!) Said someone out in the gangway. Vienna and Gabrielle peered out of the window.
"Regardez-nous sont ici ! Le est si grand!" (Look we're here! it's so big) said Gabrielle pointing out the window in front of her. Gabrielle was an extremely ditzy mousy-brunette girl who didn't quite fit in with the populars nor the geeks and dweebs. Vienna was Gabrielle's closest friend, but then Vienna didn't have many friends so to speak of because of her chosen hobby. Vienna kept tabs with a couple of people, but Gabrielle and Vienna kept each other company, so you could say Gabrielle best her best friend.
"Oui, je conviens, bien qu'il regarde considérablement froid" (Yes, I agree, although it looks considerably cold) Pointed out Vienna as she peered from her seat.
"Je pense que nous devrait commencer à parler en anglais maintenant, ce qui vous pense?" (I think we should start talking in English now, what do you think?) Gabrielle said blankly.
"No attendez jusqu'à ce que nous soyons dans le château." (No wait till we are at the castle) Vienna said shaking her head at - what she thought was - Gabrielle's idiocity.
Vienna and Gabrielle were fifteen and fourteen respectively and fifth years in Beauxbatons academy, they were just about to land at Hogwarts. They were there for a year because of the tri-wizard tournament. Vienna was a little apprehensive of the trip because her father had given her a letter for Dumbledore at Hogwarts. Her father said that Dumbledore would inform 'her' of what the letter contained. Whom 'her' was Vienna did not know. Vienna didn't know what to think. She pulled our the letter from her silk cape pocket, it was in a wizarding envelope with the family seal: Two theatrical faces with a ribbon through one eye on each face.
Maybe she was a childhood friend; maybe he had met 'her' on one of his business trips to England via the French magical council as her father was the head magical diplomat, he also worked with Gabrielle's father. Vienna had been on many of his business trips till when she started Beauxbaton at age 10, and even then she enjoyed accompanying him on the holidays, that's how she spoke perfect English. Hardly any of the students knew English, not a lot of the teachers did either so Vienna and Gabrielle were translators essentially. Suddenly an announcement shattered her thoughts.
"Des filles nous sommes sur le point de débarquer!"(Girls we are about to land!) Called Mademoiselle Allard into their section of the carriage. Mademoiselle Allard's name was Ninette she was very young, in her early twenties and had gone to the academy herself before she attended the French medical school for witches and wizards in Paris. Mademoiselle Allard might I have been young but she was head of Vienna and Gabrielle's house in Beauxbatons: Résolu. The house was known to hold grudges and be ruthless if provoked but were still jokers, rebels and mavericks, their house symbol was a robin redbreast, Vienna's brothers Etienne and Eliott were also in this house. There were three other houses: Raffiné, whom were academically lead, with a fantastic moral compass although they were prone to be haughty their symbol being a swan. Vienna's younger sister, Annette, was in this house. The other house was Maladroit: they were shy and timid but very kind and sweet-hearted, they would retreat if they thought you had crossed them in any way, never would they hurt anyone, their house symbol was a blue bird. Polie was the last house, people in Polie were loyal to a fault, but they were elitist and were so competitive that they always got the best grades (Gabrielle's sister Fleur was head of this house) their symbol was a vulture.
Suddenly the carriage flopped from its flying state to the ground. The whole carriage went into a flurry of excitement; all of the girls went to the door with a hurried sense of time. Gabrielle and Vienna made their way to the door of the carriage. Once they got there they got in line, Vienna glanced at her watch, dragged Gabrielle into a random room of a student that had a glass door. Thankfully no one was there.
"Sealae." Vienna sealed the door.
"Montre ce que j'ai fait!" (Watch what I did) she whispered. They both did so immediately. There was a scream of terror from all the girls on the outside of the door. When the initial onslaught of screaming had died down Gabrielle, opened the doors glaring at Vienna disapprovingly. A rush of purple skinned girls rushed out of the magically compacted room. Vienna and Gabrielle stuck flat to the wall spy-style. Eventually no one was left, Vienna and Gabrielle just looked at each other and burst out laughing, doubling over in content. Then suddenly someone grabbed their wrists hard, their laughing ceased as they looked down to see their irritant that was the teacher everyone at Beauxbatons loved: Mademoiselle Claude. She was an impossibly thin, impossibly pale shadow of a woman.
"Que vous pensez-vous faites-vous tournant tous les autres filles étudiants la couleur pourpre?" (What do you think you are doing? turning all the other girl students purple) The teacher said dramatically flaring her arms after letting go of the two girl's wrists. "Qui a planté la bombe?" (Who planted the bomb?) She asked, eyes beating down on the two girls, who by now were side by side heads bowed trying to conceal their laughter. Luckily because of Claude's anger she didn't notice. Vienna knew she could never get caught from a prank with enough evidence that it was her, she always covered her tracks well enough to do so, but not this time it seems. Vienna was an innocent and a pet to the teachers but the opposite to Mademoiselle Claude, but she couldn't let Gabrielle take the fall - or the glory- for this prank; if word ever got to her mother, she would kill her, but Vienna was not one to shy away from a telling off, she had been given a talking to by Claude umpteen times.
"J'ai fait." (I did) Vienna raised her head and looked up at the towering woman with a smile on her face.
"Vienna-Renée Jean Robespierre, vous êtes a hardiesse, vexant scélérat!" (you are an imprudent, insolent, miscreant!) Scolded the French woman in her thickly upper class French twang. Vienna glowered at Mademoiselle Claude; she hated being called by her full name, but having to be called it by every teacher and student except Gabrielle because of a stupid French custom. " Vous êtes très chanceux que pas chacun entre dans leur grand hall." (You are very lucky than not everyone is going into their great hall) She shouted in Gabrielle's face "mais vous allez à l'avant du chariot parce que la directrice recherche son assistant, ainsi vous allez mieux à elle maintenant, Dieu sait pourquoi elle t'a demandée d'être elle assistan." (but you are going to the front of the carriage because the Headmistress is looking for her assistant, so you better go to her now, God knows why she asked you to be her assistant) Claude patronised.
Vienna proceeded to leave quickly glancing back at Gabrielle before proceeding up to the front of the train and knocking on the headmistress' door.
"entrer, arriver!" (Come in!) Madame Maxime's voice boomed, Vienna opened the door. "Je dois courir par le programme avec vous." ( I need to run through the schedule with you.) Vienna scurried over to the chair infront of the desk and produced a small journalist notebook from her pocket.
"Que voulez-vous pour aller plus de?" (What do you want to go over?) Vienna asked flipping the notebook open.
"Bien je veux vérifier de ce que nous avons besoin." (Well I want to check of what we have need) Maixime explained.
This meeting continued for ten minuets longer, discussing the in's and outs of their stay in England.
"Nous devrions subsister, tous les étudiants devraient être et préparer pour aller à ce jour," (We should be getting along, all the students should out be and ready to go by now,) Madame Maxime stood up. "Êtes vous un des interprètes?" (Are you one of the performers?) Asked Madame Maxime referring to the entrance they had planned.
"Oui, je suis celui qui gicle un merle de ma baton." (Yes, I'm the one that spurts a robin from my wand.)
"Courez alors le long aux autres étudiants, ma cousine." (Then run along to the other students, my cousin.)
"Un coup manqué de plus de chose, mon père m'a demandé de donner ceci à Dumbledore a dit qu'elle sait le bénéficiaire voulu. Vous fera le fait dans ma place?" (One more thing miss, my father asked me to give this to Dumbledore, said he knows the recipient intended. Will you deliver it in my stead)
"Qui, oui je le prendrai." (Yes, yes I will take it.) She said as Vienna handed over the letter. "Courir le long de mon enfant!" (Run along my child) she added inspecting the letter. And with that Vienna sighed, walked back down the corridor out into the fresh air and was greeted by the momentous sight of Hogwarts school of witchcarft and wizardry.
"Dites-moi comment recevoir toutes les filles non pourpres!" (Tell me how to get all the girls not purple) Madame Claude demanded.
"color exhaurire." Vienna stated. They all watched as purple drain from the girlsgo skin. Vienna smirked at her professor and casually strolled over to her brother, Eliott.
"Ce qui t'apporte nous les sixième années?" (What brings you to us sixth years?) Shouted Eliott, 'Always together' Vienna thought as she seen Etienne come around the corner.
"Bonjour petite soeur!" (Bonjour little sister!) Etienne exclaimed a tid sarcastic.
"Je peux être peu, mais la taille ne corrèle pas la fonction de cerveau, dont vous n'en avez aucun!" (I may be little, but the size does not correlate brain function; of which you have none!) Vienna smirked.
"Celui qui vous disiez cher, celui qui vous disez." (Whatever you say my dear, whatever you say.) Etienne chuckled and his friends laughed.
"Effectivement Etienne peut-être vos amis aimerait savoir qui fille dont vous parlez dans votre sommeil quel était son nom?" (Actually Etienne maybe your friends would like to know which girl you were talking about in your sleep what was her name?)
"Vous n'oseriez pas?" (You wouldn't dare?) Etienne sneered. Etienne lunged to try to get at her, but she dodged and he fell to his knees and hands onto the grass below.
"Vous!" (Attention!) Madame Maxime shouted. All students immediately stood up and straight. Vienna scuttled over to Maxime's side as her assistant.
The large group of students were then lead into the castle round bends, twists and turns. They went past windows and seen that it was getting dark outside very quickly. They were lead to massive door and then from nowhere appears mademoiselle Alldard.
"Entrons sans des hoquets, gardez ce propre." (Let's enter with no hiccups, keep this clean.) mademoiselle Allard announced. They got in formation. Vienna took out her fourteen inches long, silver birch and black walnut, basilisk scale cored and rigid wand. The wand was decorated with the bark of the silver birch with the black walnut swirling from being the handle up the wand, so it had a silver-white and black swirly wand.
Vienna kept the spell in the back of her mind and tried to keep it there. The doors opened and she rushed forward in synchronisation with the rest of the students. The back of the pack dropped down on one knee, including Vienna; two pointing up and to the left, two pointing up and to the right, one going up the asile of tables, one going down the asile and stright up two pointing up. The one's on the left's wand spurted Robin's, on the right there was bluebirds, the ones pointing up ant down the aisles were vultures and upwards there were swans. When the spell finished the students got off their knees and all pointed into the centre and up, musketeer style, and suddenly the school symbol appeared above them and an array of lights. Then they rushed forward to meet the rest at the front to the applause of the Hogwarts students. They were then led to the side where they waited for the headmaster to finish speaking.
After Dumstrang entered, Albus Dumbledore finished speaking and the goblet revealed, the rest Beauxbaton students were brought in and all the students were divided between the four tables along with the boys from Dumstrang boy's following. Vienna and Gabrielle were split up at the red and yellow tables respectively.
"Hello do you speak English?" The Black-headed boy beside Vienna asked.
"Yes I am fluent in English." Vienna said stressing the 's' as it was not a common sound in the French language. "Could you please pass ze sauce, I do not know ze name of it." He did as she asked and she smiled and thanked him.
"It's called Gravy. We use it to soften meat up if it is dry"
"It iz very different to what we 'ave back 'ome, What iz your name?"
"I'm Neville Longbottom." The boy replied.
"My name iz Vienna-Renée Robespierre. Everyone calls me Vienna-Renée."
"Vienna-Renée is a very unusual name."
"Vienna iz where I was born and Renée was my grandfather's name." Vienna explained slightly mock offended, this made Neville flustered. Vienna decided to exploit this as per usual. Vienna fixed her brown eyes on him and made her face look offended.
"No! No, I did not mean to offend you it is a nice name, I mean it's different but pretty and unusual!" As the sentence wore on he got more and more flustered. "Me and my big mouth." He muttered quietly.
"I'm zorry, I did not quite catch 'zat." Vienna inquired.
"I said that I'm sorry if I offended."
"You did not offended." Vienna assured.
"But?!" Neville trailed off confused. Silence went on for a bit, before Neville got brave enough.
"What year are you in you look younger than the other students?"
"I am fifth year but it's your um... What is that word? Ah! Equivalent to fourth year."
"I'm fourth year too." Neville said lapping up the soup from the south of France that had been served in the honour of Beauxbatons .
"'Zat means I will be 'aving classes with you as Gabrielle and I are ze only fourth years and they can't put on classes in ze carriage so we will be taking classes with your fourth years." Vienna speeched. Neville opened his mouth to talk but someone interjected, namely the red-haired girl beside Vienna .
"Neville could you please pass the pumpkin juice?" The girl asked. Neville grabbed the juice and handed to Vienna who handed it to the red-haired girl . "Who's your friend Neville?"
"This is Vienna-Renée." Neville answered.
"Well my name is Ginny Weasley, and we're the Gryffindor table."
"My name is Vienna-Renée Robespierre and I am Résolu house at Beauxbatons."
"These are my brothers Fred and George." she pointing across the table at the twins.
"Bonjour mademoiselle." They both chorused in extaggarated French accents.
"Boys, don't insult the girl." Ginny scolded sipping her soup.
"Sorry." They both said in sync. 'Were they linked?' Vienna couldn't help but think.
"It iz fine, I get it all the time when I go to non-French zpeaking places. W'ich one iz Fred and w'ich one iz George?" Vienna asked.
"I'm Fred." the one opposite Ginny said. Vienna stood and shook his hand.
"And I am George." Said the one sitting opposite to Vienna whose hair was more fanned out at the front. Vienna stood, reached accross and shook his hand a well. As they shook George made eye contact, George's green eyes staring into Vienna's brown coloured one's, this happened just for a millisecond. Ginny sighed annoyed.
"They do this all the time it's the opposite way around."
" 'Ow do you know w'ich one iz w'ich?" Fred and George started glaring at Ginny.
"You tell anyone how to tell us apart and you'll be having bad hair days for a year." Said Fred... Or was it George.
"I'm the only one that knows how, you see-." Ginny stated simply.
"Pink, orange, green hair." The same twin said quietly.
"It iz fine, drop ze subject." Vienna assured. They continued eating for a while, giddily talking.
"I'm zorry I am afraid I must retire, as I am quite weary from ze journey " Vienna said seeing as the majority of the Beauxbatons delegation had already left.
"I could walk you out if you want." One of the twins said.
" 'Zank you but I am okay, now goodbye I 'ope to see around." Vienna bid them farewell and made her way out of the hall and down the stairs and out into the foyer.
"Wait! Vienna!" Someone called from behind her. Vienna turned and was face to face with one of the twins. "You forgot this!" He said finally catching his breath. The twin had Vienna's wand.
"Where did you git it I 'zought I 'ad it in my pocket."
"You left it at the table." Vienna shook her head.
"I did 'ave in my pocket. I remember putting it 'zair." Vienna sighed as he handed it over. Once he did Vienna continued walking, catching the twin by surprise.
"It's a very pretty wand?" He said try to catch up.
"Iz 'zat a question or a statement?" Vienna said still ahead of the twin in the courtyard.
"You did't let me finish: it's a very pretty wand," Vienna herd the footsteps stop about ten feet behind her. The twin sighed out. "for a very pretty girl." He finished. Vienna stopped dead inner own tracks.
" 'Zilver birch and ebony wood. Basilisk core, ridged and fourteen inchez." Vienna said smiling to herself, her back still turned. Vienna turned on her foot slowly. "May I know ze name of my purzer? W'ich one are you?"
"And what fun would that be!"
"Well, 'zank you for bringing me my wand, goodnight." Vienna turned to go, sly smile on her face. "Oh and?" She said walking away.
"Yeah!" He shouted.
"You're much too forward, better luck next time, it was zweet zough, veray zweet ."
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