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Authors Note: I'd like to give a massive thank you to all my readers, it's amazing seeing how many of you have read this! Also I'm really happy, as I got 5 reviews for chapter 10 (that's my most so far)! This chapter is dedicated to brit-brit-98, as that was the nicest review I've ever had!

The day had finally come, the 30th of October, the arrival of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The castle had been thoroughly cleaned, the great hall had been decorated and all the students were very over excited.

The day's lessons finished early and the students were made to stand outside and wait for the arrival of the other schools. Astoria had to stand with her year group, so was separated from Theo so she stood in silence as she waited.

After a while there was mutterings around her, the first school was arriving, and by flying carriage as well! Astoria tried to look unfazed but even she thought this was pretty cool. The Beauxbatons students left their carriage graciously and walked up towards the school. They were greeted by Dumbledore and then led inside out of the cold. Typical Astoria thought, Let the guests get in out of the cold, but your own students can freeze! But her thoughts were once more interrupted by mutterings; she guessed this meant the arrival of the second school. This thought was confirmed when a large ship appeared out of the black lake, the Durmstrang students marched out of the ship and towards Hogwarts. She noticed there was a large difference in-between the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students, the Beauxbatons students wore a uniform made of blue silk, they looked very elegant and delicate; whereas the Durmstrang students were clad in think furs and blood red robes, they looked fierce and sturdy.

They eventually were allowed into the castle out of the cold. Astoria made her way to the great hall and sat at the end of the Slytherin table, she couldn't be bothered to listen to people prattling on about how excited they were.

As she sat silently at the end of the table Theo and Blaise entered the hall and made their way over to join her.

'Guess what!' Theo exclaimed

'What Theo, I'm seriously not in the mood?'

'Cheer up, only Viktor Bloody Krum's here!'

'What? Oh my god, Durmstrang! I should have guessed! Have either of you seen him?' She said cheering up immediately.

'No not yet, but there coming to the hall now so I'm sure we will!' Theo said excitedly and both he and Blaise sat opposite Astoria.

At that moment the doors of the hall burst open and the students from the other schools made their way in with Dumbledore. The Beauxbatons students sat on the Ravenclaw table, and surprisingly the Durmstrang students seemed to want to sit on Slytherin table!

Astoria realised then that the only spare seats were down her end of the table; they made their way towards Astoria and sat themselves right beside her. She hoped it would be Krum who sat next to her but she wasn't that lucky, however she did have a very good view of him from where she was sat and was just close enough to him to be able to have a convocation, she would defiantly have to ask him about the Wronski Feint later.

The feast had started however the Durmstrang students only seemed to want to talk among themselves, and Theo and Blaise where now looking very nervous by their presence, it didn't look as if anyone was about to start a convocation. So she decided to.

'Excuse me could you pass me the carrots?' She said to the Durmstrang boy next to her, at first he seemed quite shocked that a girl had the courage to talk to him, and so did the rest of the Durmstrang students as they were all now silent and staring at her.

'Vot are you doing Aleksander? Pass the girl the carrots!' a boys voice said from across the table, she looked and was very surprised to see that the voice had been Viktor Krums.

'Oh yes, very sorry, here are the carrots' he apologised, but it seemed as if the apology was directed at Krum.

'It's fine' she smiled as she took the carrots of him 'I'm Astoria Greengrass, and you are?' she said holding out her hand for him to shake.

He looked nervously at her hand before regaining his cover 'I'm Aleksander Sirakov' he said gruffly before shaking her hand firmly.

'Well Aleksander welcome to the castle!' she smiled.

'Zat is very kind, ve haff a castle also but not as nice, but ve haff bigger grounds than this' he said with a strong accent.

'Ahh they must be quite large then! So are you entering in the tournament?'

'Yes, ve are all here to try, but Viktor is the first choice' he said nodding towards Krum. At his name Krum looked up at his food .

'Ve all haff a good as chance as each other' he said, he then turned to Astoria 'I am Viktor Krum, of Durmstrang' he said and nodded, looking very serious.

Astoria was dying to blurt out loads of questions but she decided it was probably best to act casual at first.

'Astoria Greengrass' she smiled, she was about to ask how he found Hogwarts when they were interrupted by a Colin Creevey asking for a photo with Krum, she sensed Krum was getting irritated by all everyone harassing him, especially while he was eating his food

'For god's sake Creevey, leave the boy to eat his food!' Astoria shouted

Colin looked up petrified by Astoria 'Yes Astoria, sorry' he muttered before scurrying off

Krum and the over Durmstrang students once again turned to Astoria shocked.

'Vell, you sure do scare the younger students' Krum smirked

'He's actually older than me' she said, she was even impressed by the authority she held over the other students.

'That is impressive, especially for a pretty girl like you' Another Durmstrang boy said from across the table.

Astoria should have taken it as a compliment but there was one thing that pissed her off more than anything, discrimination. It didn't matter if it was against people's gender, race, blood status or religion; she hated it.

'Excuse me? What do you mean by that? I don't see why a girl should be any less powerful than a boy!' the boy looked very shocked by Astoria's outburst.

'I am sure Stefan didn't mean to offend' Aleksander said

'Yes I did not mean to offend, it is just unusual in our country' Stefan said

'Well girls are just as good as boys, look at Clara Ivanova she scored the first goal for Bulgaria in the Quidditch World Cup!' once again everyone looked extremely surprised at her knowledge at Quidditch, why couldn't they just learn she was just as good as them despite her gender?

'Vell knowledge of Quidditch, that is impressive' Krum said with a smirk on his face

'Yes actually, I know quite a bit about Quidditch, I can play it to' she said confidently

'Vell I shall have to decide that, if you have a broom I should be happy to vatch you fly' Astoria nearly screamed with excitement. Flying with Krum, it would be a dream true, the things he could teach you, he was the best seeker there was!

'That would be amazing!' she smiled

She spent the rest of the feast chatting happily to the Durmstrang students. Theo and Blaise were still sat in silence as they were too nervous to talk. She wold have introduced them but she was having to good a time.

This chapter is in two parts, I'm midway through the next part so I will try and upload it ASAP!

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