George Weasley had his last laugh after he, along with his brother, had grown beards because of their unsuccessful attempt to enter the Triwizard Tournament. He had just snuck out of the hospital wing and left his brother Fred just to get some food because he was starving. He is almost recovering from the beard that he got from his and his brother's attempt to put their names on the Goblet of Fire. He is only left with a ginger coloured beard. He looks at his reflection on a nearby window.
"Improving." He says to himself as he touches his beard.
He finds his way to the Great Hall door when a Beaxbatons girl stops him. "Stay here" she whispers. She has a French accent but she can pronounce English properly. He obliges and hides with her with the slightly opened Great Hall doors. He starts to eavesdrop like the girl. "This here is our Great Hall...".
George realises that the people who were inside the Great hall. Hagrid was with Professor McGonagall and the headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, Madame Olympe Maxime. "This is where our students dine and they also spend their free periods here for studying," said Professor McGonagall.
As George continued to eavesdrop with the Beauxbatons girl, he can't help but study her features. She was wearing the usual Beauxbatons uniform and she clutches her hat in her hand. He couldn't help but notice how her hair curls at the ends of her ponytail. As she glimpses at George for a second, he catches the features of her face, light blue eyes, thin long eyelashes, rosy lips and a fair complexion. George could not help himself. He studied her and admired how beautiful she was even if she was clearly mischievous. He may have seen all the Beaxbatons students but he has never been this close to one.
The Beauxbatons girl suddenly giggles. "Listen," she said, still giggling. As George pressed his ear to the door, he heard a thud and a screech from Madame Maxime.
"Monsieur 'agrid!" screamed Madame Maxime. "Goodness! Sleep draught!" said Professor McGonagall. The Beauxbatons girl laughed almost too loud so she clapped her hand to her mouth.
"It worked!" she whispered. As she peeked through the small opening of the door, George peeked too and saw Hagrid on the floor asleep clutching a cupcake in his hand with a small bite in it.
Kneeling next to him was Professor McGonagall and Madame Maxime. Even if the Beauxbatons girl and George were silent, Professor McGonagall sensed them and called out "You two! Come in here and show yourselves!"
As they were spotted, George and Beauxbatons girl walked cautiously near the area where Hagrid lay asleep because if the Sleep Draught on his cupcake. "Ah! Mr Weasley! I believe you were responsible for this as usual? And aren't you supposed to be in the hospital wing?" said Professor McGonagall. George couldn't say anything. "Um... Well... I just thought of..." said George. "I apologise Mademoiselle McGonagall but I zink that my student iz responsible for this? Am I correct ma fille, Ariadne? "said Madame Maxime pertaining to the Beaxbatons girl.
"Je suis désolé, Madame Maxime. It is not his fault but mine" she said.
"Fine zen. You will receive punishment zack in ze carriage." Said Madame Maxime. "Oui Madame" she replied. "You're both dismissed. Weasley, go back to the hospital wing and you Miss," Professor McGonagall looked at her sternly. "You may go back to the Beaxbatons carriage."
When George, and the Beauxbatons girl named Ariadne, started walking toward their own destinations. "I apologise for having to be part of that."
"It was no problem really" he replied.
"So you must be quite the troublemaker as well. Am I correct?" said Ariadne.
"Quite. As said by Professor McGonagall..." She giggled at his response.
"My brother and I are well known as troublemakers here. If you must know, we also sell candies and sweets that will surely get you excused as soon as digested," said George.
"And you do not get caught?" she asked.
"Well the professors have some hunches but only the students know about our secretive business"
"That's actually a great idea. I believe you pay younger students to test your prototypes?"
"Well, most of our testers are eager to test it so that they can really be excused and some are paid when the experiments fail or take the student too long in the infirmary."
"I can see that you didn't have much of a success lately," she said as she pointed on his ginger-coloured beard.
"I guess you can say that" replied George.
She giggled. Her giggle makes George blush even more and makes him feel glad that he still had his beard. "Well, we still haven't grown back to our right age that's why Madame Pomfrey didn't allow us to have it shaved off."
"I guess it's better that way so she can monitor the de-aging," she said with a laugh.
George is glad when he makes people laugh but this the first time that he really wants to hear a laugh and make sure that the person enjoys his lines and jokes. There is something about her that George could not explain. Maybe 'Love at First Sight' or simply an 'Instant Crush'.
"So you have a brother?" she asked.
"Yes. A twin actually." He said, glad that the beard is hiding his blushing cheeks.
"Really? I have a stepsister that studies here. We practically grew up with each other but she's in her fourth year here at Hogwarts. She's in Ravenclaw."
"Is she a troublemaker as well?" said George.
"No. We're different in that category but we're very close." she said with the beautiful smile that left George utterly speechless for a moment.
They were nearing the door to the grounds and Ariadne was the one to say farewell.
"I believe this is where we part," she said with a smile. "It was a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Weasley."
"You can call me George. There are a lot of Mr. Weasleys around here." George said.
"George then. I'm Ariadne Clemenceú," she replies with a curtsy.
"It was a pleasure to meet you, Ariadne." he said.
"Likewise."She grinned and they both waved goodbye. George hoped that they would meet again and even if it was not obvious, Ariadne thought so likewise.