I AM SO SORRY ABOUT BEING OFFLINE! I've been dealing with tough problems with family and school and needed a break.
Add the fact that the cursed error type two was on for so long! I wanted to update this story a week ago but thanks to that error, I couldn't. FINALLY IT IS OVER!
But now I am back with a vengeance for not updating for so long! I will be updating the next few chapters for my stories relatively close to one another to make up for lost time.
Now with the news about my disappearance over, let's get on with our new story!
After seeing how varied your choices where for the girl in Lord Azkaban, I decided to start some new stories about them.
I do not own Harry Potter,
Mirror of the Soul
Chapter One
Two Worlds
The world brightened as a young woman opened her sapphire blue eyes. She yawned and slowly, but gracefully, got out of her bed. She stretched and quietly walked across the room to the bathroom. The last thing she wanted to do was to wake up her roommates. Lia and Diana Binatae. Two annoying, identical twins who always spoke together. They presumed that their life was dedicated to making everyone else's a living hell. And lucky for Fleur Delacour, she was their latest target. Fleur began her shower and thought of when Madame Maxine announced their departure.
(Two days ago)
'Hurray for me.' She thought when her headmistress, Madame Maxime, announced the eligible students that were to travel to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the Triwizard Tournament.
"It is to our part of the Triwizard Tournament." Madame Maxime said as formally as possible. "It is a great honor to represent our school in this international competition." She exclaimed to all the eligible students. She then announced that they were to leave the next day. Once again their Headmaster had waited until the last minute to inform her students of important events so they had to pack all night long.
'Eligible? Yeah right' she had thought as they had left to pack. 'We're required to go to the tournament.'
(Present)
Fleur had finished her shower and gotten dressed. She stood in front of the mirror and gazed into it. What she saw made her groan. Though her hair was wild from the combination of rolling around in bed and soapy water, she still looked beautiful.
Being a Veela was hard. No one could understand why she sometimes hated her heritage. But other times she did enjoy its perks. But being a Veela meant living a lonely life. Men only wanted to shag you cause you're pretty and women wanted kill you cause they're jealous of your beauty. When she was just eleven, a seventh year had tried to date her. Luckily, her parents had raised her on how to act around these types.
She had spent her years pretending to be a cold, ice princess, personality to drive away those who could never see her true self.
But that meant that Fleur had no real friends. For no one at her school did see past her outside. They all hated her or they all wanted to use her for their own pleasure. They only saw her beauty and nothing else. Not the young woman trapped inside of that beauty. The only people that saw her truly were her parents and her sister. It was nice to be loved, but they were her family. She wished that there could be someone in the world that could see past the Veela and see her inner beauty .
Fleur finished her morning routine and stepped out onto the room's balcony. The carriage was soaring high above the clouds. She always did love looking a the sky. It was dawn and the sun was just beginning to climb into the air.
Suddenly, the winged horses pulling the carriage began to lower. Fleur felt the water in the clouds soak her. Cursing in her native tongue of French, she pulled out her wand and performed a drying spell. The clouds parted above her and they were slowly beginning to lower. The horses slowed down to an easy glide. Fleur gazed at the landscape below. A picture could not begin to describe the thousands of words that entered Fleur's mind as she looked at the mountains glowing in the bask of the rising sun. An ever flowing river of crystal glass water gushed along below them. Even from thousands of feet in the air, Fleur could glimpse at the tiny dot rushing along the glass water, directly below them.
Fleur conjured up a chair and sat down to watch the scene erupt into color. The orange of the skies were beginning to turn a mighty blue. The dull mountains were turning into a bright, vivid purple. The glass water became a glowing Caribbean blue. And Fleur watched as a tiny dot in the far distance that could be barely spotted grew larger and larger.
A half hour later we find Fleur Delacour still staring of into the distance. Gazing at the wondrous scene before her. The mountains seemed to grow taller. The sky was now free of any clouds. The blue waters glowed even bluer. And the tiny dot had grown into a ancient castle. Fleur guessed that many of the carriages occupants were already awake, but just beginning their morning routine. If they were lucky, Madame Maxime will have awakened by the time they landed.
"What are you doing out there ice queen?" Two voices rang in hideous harmony.
"Zut!" Fleur turned around. There stood, side by side, the Binatae twins. They stood confidently as if they owned the school.
"I'm 'ust watching the 'orld awaken." Fleur replied icily. No one at Beauxbatons knew that she was actually more than a stubborn ice queen. And she planned to keep it that way.
"Why would you want to look at that disgusting nature? The twin on the left said. Fleur could never tell them apart. And she didn't really care.
"Yeah, nature is gross." The right twin agreed as usual. "Why can't it be indoors?" She complained.
"Well I think somethings are more important than clothes, makeup, and boys." Fleur responded.
"Which shows just how stupid you really are." Left twin replied.
"After all, what could be better?"
"I'm 'ot even going to bother vith you two."
"See? She can't even come up with anything! She is stupid!"
"Than, would you care to explain to me why I have the top grades at school?" She asked coolly but at the same time innocently.
"Cause you use your dumb Veela power to swoon the teachers over!" Right twin shouted.
"Say 'hat vu want. I don't really give a rip about any of that crap of 'vors."
"Yeah. What boy would give you any attention while we're around?" Twin lefty asked cockily.
"One who is not as dumb as the plain ones this school has." Both twin were aghast. Students who attended Beauxbatons were always beautiful or handsome. And to say that a Beauxbaton student was plain was a insult the Binatae twins declared an insult. Because they had dated every male in the school at least twice, even the first years. But they never stayed in a relationship longer than two weeks.
"You dare to call our school's boys dumb and plain?" The right twin shrieked in shock.
"Oui."
"And you think 'Ogwart's boys will be any better?" Lefty argued.
"I do not know for Je 'ave not met any 'Ogwarts boys yet. The twins ignored her and began to talk about one of their favorite topics, boys. But this time, 'Ogwarts boys.
"I hear they 'ave a good 'ooking 'ufflepuff seventh year." Righty said happily.
"And that 'Litherin boy who just 'raduated. Pity il et not here 'nymore."
"Je heard 'arry Potter goes to 'Ogwarts." The twins shrieked out in joy.
"That is un garçon that I would date for at least three weeks!"
"I know! Now who should be his girlfriend first?" And the two were oblivious to anything else.
Fleur sighed and went back outside to watch the scenery. It really was beautiful. Much more than she was. It was sad how the rest of the world seemed to disagree. And those two airheads think they'll date a boy they have never met before straight away? Then again, Beauxbatons had only few smart witches and wizards such as herself. Most of the students and staff cared only about their appearance and hated the fact that she had brain and beauty. The carriage glided closer to the growing castle.
(Inside the Great Hall)
Harry Potter had rushed into the Great Hall. He had just quietly walked away from another one of Hermione's pointless rants about house elf rights.
"Why doesn't she ask them whether or not they want to be paid?" Harry grumbled to himself ashe sat down at the Gryffindor table. "She hasn't even been down to the kitchens to see if they like to work!
And moaning on and on like Myrtle about how Hogwarts A History didn't mention house elves. Even though they have only just recently been added as workers to the castle. But then again, it is Hermione we're talking about." He helped himself to some bacon and eggs.
Hedwig flew into the hall and gave him a letter. It was from his Godfather Sirius. He was back in the country and was going to keep an eye on things. Harry was angry for a split second, but then thought about it from Sirius's point of view. He decided that Sirius was indeed right.
Ron and Hermione were still arguing as they walked into the hall. They sat down and hadn't even noticed that Harry had left them to go eat.
"Honestly Ronald. If you just thought about it from their point of view-" Harry gobbled down the last slice of bacon.
They-like-to-work!" Ron bellowed. Harry got up and began to turn around. Finally Hermione noticed him.
"Harry, aren't you going to eat?" They had not even noticed that he'd already eaten.
"No thanks, I'm not hungry. I'm going to go outside for a breather." And out of the Great Hall he went.
Harry sat in the entrance courtyard. Professor McGonagal had said that this was where the school was to greet the other two ones. Harry waited and waited. Finally he saw a dot in the sky, it was powdered-blue and seemed to be guided by giant, black horses. Harry watched in amazement and then noticed a slight ripple in the Black Lake's surface.
'Here they come.' Harry thought eagerly. The rest of the school was beginning to flow out of the castle as well. They began discussing how the other two schools would arrive.
"The train?" He heard Ron ask. At least they weren't arguing this second.
"Doubt it." Hermione said bossily.
"Broomsticks?" One person asked.
"Not from that far away." Another answered.
"Portkey? Apparation?"Ron guessed again.
"How many times do I have to tell you? You can't Apparate inside the Hogwarts Grounds!" Hermione said in her know it all tone. "Am I the only one who has read anything about the history of Hogwarts?"
"Yes. Now how else can they get here?"
'If you'd all shut up and look in front of you…' Harry thought, annoyed at the way the Hogwarts student body was treating its guests. 'You can easily see the mast poking out of the water and the horses flying now!'
The body of Hogwarts chatted away until a crash hit the ground. The chatter continued. Harry, even more annoyed, watched from the front row as what appeared to be a blue house on wheels pulled by twelve, elephant sized horses halted in front of them. Another crash failed to catch the attention of the Hogwarts students as a giant ship erupted from the waters of the lake. Harry heard Ron and Hermione get into yet another argument about S.P.E.W.
'It's right in front of you!' Harry thought exasperated when someone asked,
"When are they going to get here?"
'This is a school of idiots!'
The ship was slowly pulling into a dock by the boathouse where the first years usually docked on the first night of school.
The carriage had stopped completely and Harry watched in amazement at how long it would take the students to look at the giant building no more than fifty feet in front of them.
The door of the Beauxbatons school carriage slowly swung open. The students of Hogwarts were still chatting away.
The first thing Harry saw from the door was a pair of beautiful, sapphire eyes.
A/N: Hi everyone! I was shocked by how many of you wanted a Harry/Fleur Story from Lord Azkaban. I was already planning to begin writing a Harry and Fleur story cause they're one of my favorites from the Potter universe. So here it is. I'm taking a French One class so my French is very little at the moment. I promise that it will get better. This is just the beginning of the story so I'm sorry about how Fleur seems to be English and not French.
Tell me what you think and do the challenge below.
CHALENGES
1. How will Harry and Fleur meet?
2. Any suggestions for the story's name? I'm not to sure about the title of this one… It has to deal with Souls, Eyes, or Mirrors though. Or a combination of them. They will be relevant to the idea of the story.
Sorry about being inactive for so long
T.L.L.P. T.S. will probably be Sunday or Monday.
See you next chapter,
SuperXBrother
