The great hall was buzzing, just walking in the students were all chatting excited about the news the headmaster Madame Beiste had revealed the previous night, The triwizard tournament would be held at the Beauxbatons academy of magic unlike their British counterpart they didn't have such a thing as houses they were sort into based on their personalities and potentials, they were all 'equal', they however were separated based on their sex, except for classes, lunch, dinner and special events such as Quidditch practices, games and in between classes girls and boys were in different buildings, female students were ladies and male student were gentlemen. Quinn Fabray daughter of Gabrielle Delacour and Russell Fabray was sitting with her best friend Brittany Pierce, Tina Cohen Chang, Marley Rose and Kitty Wilde having breakfast and talking, the young girls were complaining about the age requirement, it had been dropped a year after what happened in 1994 and more rules were added to make the tournament 'safer' for the participants and since the dead of that Diggsomething guy nothing 'major' had happened as far as she knew.
"I can't wait to tell Ryder" Kitty said excited talking about her boyfriend and then they started discussing about who they thought was going to be their champion and if something like what had happened in 1994 would happen again and there would be 4 or more.
"What do you think Quinn?" Tina asked her and Quinn looked at her with a raised eyebrow and a confused look at this the asian girl shook her head and smiled "About Sam, the boy's been pinning after you since he first laid eyes on you, I think he could be our champion" Tina said and Quinn almost wanted to laugh, Sam was a good boy, dorky and not very bright but good and athletic, her friends couldn't understand why she never gave him the time of the day and treated him as just a friend if anything.
"Him and pretty much every male that ever lays eyes on her" Kitty grumbled clearly not fond of the Veela side of her friend. It wasn't Quinn's fault and she hated it as much as she sometimes enjoyed it.
"And don't forget females" Marley said nodding towards some other tables where girls were pretty much drooling over Quinn, she just shrugged her response.
"Are you going to enter your name?" The hazel eyed quarter Veela asked the other 16 years old and smiled softly - ignoring the longing sighs of some of the people around the hall, she was used to it by now, hearing people sigh every time she smiled or on the rare occasion she laughed out loud, it was better now, in her first year she was sure she heard sighs every time she breathed and blinked as well - at Tina who shook her head fear written all over her features.
"I will" Brittany said proudly "Lord Tubbington will help me win it" She said and all the girls ignored the comment about the overweighted cat.
"This is awesome news" Puck said excited as he sat with his friends practically vibrating with happiness "A chance to prove the world who badass I am" he said and high-fived Finn and his little brother before looking at his female friends with his trademark smirk. Noah 'Puck' Puckerman, Kurt Hummel and Santana Lopez were the Slytherin's of the group, Finn was the only Hufflepuff sitting with them, Rachel Berry, Jake Puckerman and Blaine Anderson were the ones wearing red and gold ties. They were all sitting on the official Ravenclaw table even if there wasn't anyone from that house in their group of friends but after war things were different at Hogwarts, there were still tables assigned to houses but no one really followed that rule anymore except for a few, students just sat wherever they wanted, for them the Ravenclaw table was neutral territory.
Rachel Berry daughter of two gay men, a wizard and a muggle, his dad Hiram Berry worked in the ministry of magic and Leroy Berry, a New Yorker who moved to London to work on the West End, he was a well known stage manager, they had met because Hiram was a fan of musicals, after the war wizards and witches started to take more interest in muggles and their world, they were still hiding because even if they didn't look down on muggles they still knew that being different, being more powerful than muggles in the sense of power would create issues among them but they still tried to mingle even their clothes were different now to try and blend in more. After being together for years and getting married they decided the next step was a family and to avoid controversy they contacted a witch, friend of the family who accepted to be their surrogate that way even if Hiram wasn't the biological father there were still chances of their kids being a wizard or a witch, Shelby had died in the delivery room and it felt wrong to have more kids. Rachel tried not to dwell on it and not blame herself, which was impossible but at least she no longer voiced her concerns and instead let the guilt consume her when she was alone, she had met Puck when they were both little kids, his family was half-blooded too and his muggle father was jewish just like her muggle father and they went to the same temple, Santana through their families when they were 9 since the Lopez family moved to the house next door and upon arrival to Hogwarts Puck befriended Finn, Santana had an interesting relationship with Kurt, frienemys would describe them perfectly and they had introduced their new friends to Rachel who in exchange introduce Blaine his fellow Gryffindor.
"I'm gonna miss quidditch" Finn sighed deeply and they all agreed and then changed the subject back to the exciting news of the tournament they all discussed submitting their names and how awesome Beauxbatons would be for those who were going, Puck making lewd comments about European girls, while Jake and Finn tried not to agree so much but failing miserably. Kurt muttered a comment about wanting to go since Blaine wanted to become Hogwarts champion but added that if chosen he would probably faint and scream and run back to Hogwarts.
"Oh please! The Goblet of fire knows what it's doing, he would never set Hogwarts up to failure by chosing you! You throw fits if you get dirt on your robe" The Latina teased with a smug smirk and Rachel and Blaine rolled her eyes knowing what was to come and scooted away from them.
"I never get dirt on my clothes Satan you take that back!" The boy exclaimed as if Santana had said something really offensive to him, the girl smirk widened as she took her chocolate pudding and smudged it all over Kurt's uniform making sure to get his tie and everywhere else noticeable on the mostly black uniform.
"You got something there Porcelain" she said gesturing to her own uniform before laughing boisterous at Kurt's face.
Rachel was in her own world wondering what to do about the tournament on one hand she liked the spotlight, she craved the attention it was the only reason why she ever even considered practicing Quidditch Gryffindor was down a chaser for a match against Ravenclaw, now any other Gryffindor would say they'd rather lose against Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw than Slytherin but not Rachel B. Berry, she's not like any other Gryffindor, she's not like any other student, she's not like any other girl, ever since her first year of Hogwarts one of her classes shared with Ravenclaw, she was distracted and was asked a question, she stammered an answer to buy time and think of her answer when a dark-haired girl with blue eyes stood up an answered correctly as the teacher was praising her, the girl turned to look down on Rachel advising her to focus before sitting back down not before doing a hair flip, the bitch dared to hair flip Rachel and ever since then their rivalry could give Potter and Malfoy's a run for their money. Rachel joined the team as a chaser at first because it was the available position even if Harmony was a seeker, they didn't win the quidditch cup that year, second to Slytherin but for Rachel that was almost as winning, Blaine proposed an idea to their captain the following year as Rachel was tiny he could try as a chaser and give Rachel the position of seeker which she turned out to be great at.
There was a loud high pitched sound before professor Sylvester pointed to her throat with her wand and used sonorus, they were in one of the bigger classrooms, students from age 16 and 17 were all talking happily until Sue interrupted them and smirked happily when they all looked at her. "This is NOT a social gathering" she shouted and even professor Mcgonagall, the head master grimaced, moments like this made her nostalgic and think of Snape, she liked Snape methods of intimidation better at least he wasn't as noisy. "Those of you who are afraid of dying a slow certainly painful bloody death in the hands of your worse fears come true, blood thirst dragons, giant spiders and creatures pulled out of Hagrid nightmares and being so disfigured the only thing that would make us able to identify your body would be the teared up Hogwarts clothes you'd be wearing should leave now" a lot of students gathered their stuff and left, with the exception of Rachel, Santana, 'The Mack', Lauren Zizes and Harmony most of the students that left were females "Those of you who stayed thinking you're all good enough to bring back the triwizard cup back to Hogwarts let me tell you're all pathetic I've never..." Professor Mcgonagall cut off Sue by taking the wand away from her throat and giving her a pointed look.
"Ladies and Gentleman as you all know this year the Triwizard tournament will be held by our friends from Beauxbatons, in this room is our future champion" she said with pride ignoring Sue's roll of eyes and mutters about how this room smelled like failure and some other things about troll snot that everyone decided to ignore, Sue was a combination of Lockhart and Snape if such a thing was possible, maybe even some Slughorn thrown into the mix. Professor Mcgonagall explained the details of the trip told him they had to get a signed permission from their parents and to start paying more attention in class (she said looking at Finn, Puck, Santana, Joe Matt and the Mack) and they would get together daily to have extra training sessions with Sue Sylvester instead of Quidditch practice and they all groaned at that.
October was fast approaching as the students of Hogwarts that were traveling to Beauxbatons for the triwizard tournament had reduced, Professor Sylvester methods of training were actually more along the lines of torture, Lauren had refused to do any kind of physical activity claiming she was a witch and didn't need to run or jump or do anything else and when Sue refused to do as she pleased she left stating she had only wished to miss classes anyways, since the group of possible champions was so small, Professor Mcgonagall had decided to take a group of the best students from each house to cheer so Kurt decided to drop the act and just go as audience, now it was up to Rachel, Puck, Santana, Blaine, Harmony (much to Rachel's dismay) The Mack, Finn, Sebastian and Hunter.
It was a sunny day Quinn noted as she looked outside the window from the side of the castle where her room was, she was in the common hall of the dorms with a book in her hand, Durmstrang's ship had already arrived a little earlier, Hogwarts wouldn't take long and then to wait until dinner for everything to start, she was focusing back on her reading when Brittany joined her by the window and pointed at the sky "Look Quinn they are so pretty!" She exclaimed and ran to the room and came back carrying the overweighted cat who didn't look amused by his owners antics "Look Lord Tubbington! So Pretty!" she said once more and Quinn focused on where she was pointed and frowned, she was about to ask her friend what she meant when she saw two carriages flying towards their.
"The carriages?" she asked frowning and Brittany shook her head and Quinn frowned when Brittany told her the things pulling the carriages, she had learned long ago Brittany was different in a good way, not stupid like most people thought, Brittany was smart in her own way and it sometimes scared Quinn just how smart she could be, nevertheless she was about to say that nothing was pulling the carriages that had just landed when she saw the Hogwarts students and two teachers getting out the carriages and a girl walking forward and away from the group, the short brunette walked slowly towards the front of carriages and placed her hand on something that for Quinn wasn't there, before giving it a sad smiled and doing the same with the other carriage "Let's get ready for dinner" Quinn said in a whisper as if speaking louder would disturb the girl even if she was so far away Quinn could barely see her features.
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