Chapter 35

August 14th, 1990

Delcour Manor

"Why good morning you three" A voice woke Harry from his slumber.

"What the" As he woke up he noticed the body's currently snuggled up with him.

He tried to disentangle himself from his friend Fleur Delacour and her little sister Gabby.

Looking up he saw Isaac looking down and grinning at him.

"You must have had an interesting night" He chuckled.

Harry groaned "Head out of the cloud Patterson" He snapped "We stayed up late last night playing games and talking and we fell asleep on the couch".

"Sure" Isaac smirked.

"Gabby's only four," Harry said raising his hands "That's gross".

"And thirteen is" Isaac raised an eyebrow.

"Stop changing the topic" Harry finally said looking and seeing that the Delacour sisters had turned to cuddle each other.

Isaac gestured for him to come into the kitchen.

As they walked Harry's mind went to this summer.

They were all assembled now to attend the 1990 Quidditch World Cup that would be starting tomorrow.

Until then they would be just hanging out and enjoying the summer.

He had spent much time in the past couple of days relaxing with his friend and playing with her sister,

After school had ended they had gone on another tour of Europe visiting Greece, Portugal, Ukraine, Norway, and Belgium.

The whole experience had been a doozy of experience but had been an absolutely wonderful experience despite not knowing all of the languages being spoken.

He had decided that before they would head to Germany and Italy next year he would learn a little bit of German and Italian so he could somewhat communicate.

Appoline had told him that French and Italian were similar in theory so he hoped that would help make the whole project easier.

Isaac called one of the house elves to get him a cup of coffee.

Their whole group consisting of Fleur, Gabby, Appoline, Sebastian, Isaac, and Harry would be traveling to the games together.

The portkey was scheduled to take them to the Quidditch Grounds in Wales around one in the afternoon.

Until then they would be relaxing until they had to leave.

He then turned and saw Sebastian and Appoline walking into the kitchen laughing and holding hands.

"Morning" Appoline said waving at them "You two have a good night".

"Yeah" Isaac grinned "'Crazy night".

Sebastian rolled his eyes but went to get himself some morning coffee.

Isaac then got into a discussion with Sebastian over politics or something like that and Appoline left to check on the girls.

Harry decided to follow Appoline into the other room and leave the two older men to their conversation.

Back in the living room Fleur and Gabrielle were slowly starting to wake up with a quite amusing bed face.

Fleur looked quite adorable as she picked herself off the couch and tried to get the tousles of hair out of her face.

With a heave, she threw the hair back over her head and breathed in.

Harry stifled a laugh

Her hair looked very beautiful and at the same time absolutely hilarious.

"Don't laugh Arry" Fleur warned softly "Even I can wake up with a bead head".

"I'm not laughing" Harry grinned "It's a good look on you"

"This is a good learning experience for you Fleur," Appoline said looking at the two girls on the couch "How did you end up sleeping on the couch there anyhow".

Fleur looked at him and blushed "We fell asleep on the couch" she murmured.

Gabby then popped off the couch and asked what everyone was talking about still rubbing her eyes to dispel the lingering effects of sleep.

"Good morning sleepy" Appoline chuckled "Breakfast is ready when you all want it" before walking back into the kitchen.

"Great game last night wasn't it Arry," Fleur said.

"Indeed" He smiled "You ready for the game".

"Oui" Gabby butted into their conversation "I want to ve Vittich".

The two of them grinned at the little girl who was now full up active and probably heading to the kitchen for food in a few seconds.

"Of course Gabby," Fleur said ruffling her sister's hair 'You will like Quittich".

Harry raised an eye at that statement.

He was not sure what Gabby thought about Quittich and if she would act more like her sister or if she was still too young to fully understand or care about the game.

They then went to the kitchen to eat some breakfast.

Four hours later their group of six was standing near the entryway getting ready to go.

The house elves had just taken their stuff to their tent on the game grounds.

"All right everyone here," Appoline asked having been talking with one of the elves.

Looking around and seeing everyone present she nodded satisfied.

Then Sebastian turned to address them "Ok I put our portkey in a bush on the hill outside of the wards," He said.

"A bush" Harry quired "Would that not make it incredibly hard to find".

"I placed it their yesterday so I should be able to find it," Sebastian said with what seemed to be strong confidence.

Remembering what Appoline had said about her husband's navigational skills Harry none the less followed the rest of the group out of the house.

The adults ended up walking next to each other and chatting.

Behind them, Fleur and Harry walked across the manor grounds followed by Gabby who was doing a decent job of trying to keep up.

After a little while of walking, Fleur noticed her sister working to stay with the group.

"You need a ride," Fleur asked.

"I can let you ride on my back if you want" Harry offered.

Squealing Gabby happily took his offer and hopped on his back.

Holding the little girl close Harry walked alongside Fleur.

"She does not do good with walking" Fleur stated, "I sometimes have given her a ride but she always pulls on my hair".

Harry chuckled: I guess I would not have to worry about that as much".

Gabby then tried messing with his hair.

"Hey be careful you little munchkin," Harry said, "You don't want to fall off".

Eyes wide Gabby focused on staying on his back and enjoying the ride.

"Wow" Fleur gasped "She is not like that with me".

Isaac had looked back at their little group "He's good with children that's what is" He said before laughing and resuming his conversation with the Delcour Parents.

They walked for a bit longer with the adults holding an intense conversation and Fleur trying to poke her sister who was sticking her tongue at her and trying not to fall off Harrys back.

The wonders of sibling bickering.

Soon they reached the top of a hill and some trees and bushes scattered around the landscape.

"Where is our portkey" Fleur asked.

Sebastian though was already searching amongst the bushes.

After about ten minutes where they where not sure if he had lost their transportation or not Sebastian finally called out in triumph.

"Found it," He said holding up a small coat.

Harry let Gabby slide off his back.

"Ok," Appoline said, "Everone grab on".

All of the members of their group grabbed onto a part of the offered coat and held on.

Even little Gabby understood and hopped into her mother's arms as they got ready to leave...

And then with a rush of air, they disappeared.

The adults managed to land with somewhat of a successful landing along with Gabby who had been holding on to Appoline.

Fleur and Harry, however, ended in another tangle of mass and limbs similar to their mishap when traveling to Poland the previous year.

Harry was much embarrassed by the whole experience just like last time especially with Fleurs dad in the area.

Fleur seemed to brush off the accident quite easily though and with a bit of an undertone of happiness in her posture if Harry was reading her correctly.

The adults despite looking quite amused at the whole thing graciously chose to keep their mouths quiet.

Once everyone was standing up and fully oriented they started to head towards the campground.

Arriving at the front gate they meet the person talking their tickets.

"We have a tent reserved under Delcour," Sebastian told the man.

"Delcour, Delcour" He muttered looking down at his rosters "Ah yes Delcour Row 16,Tent 42"He told the group.

"Thank you," Appoline said and they went to find their tent.

"Watch where we are going," Isaac told the kids '"You may need to know your way around here if you ever need to get back to the tent on your own".

After about a half hour of searching, they had arrived in front of what appeared to be their tent.

Sebastian looked at the numbers "Number forty-two" He said looking at the top and back at the directions "Here we are".

Filling inside Harry was astonished at how much larger the interior looked then the outside.

"The girl's beds are over their" Appoline said pointing at a curtain leading to another room "Harry you are over here" Showing him another room,

"Get cleaned up," Sebastian said, "And then meet us in here and we find someplace to eat before the game".

Harry walked into his room and saw his stuff placed in the corner next to his bed.

He then decided to take a quick shower before joining everyone else.

Author Note I will now be having Harry's second and third years at Hogwarts pass in a blink of an eye basically.

There will be a few important scenes but for the most part, I want to get to the time that Max starts Hogwarts and the good stuff begins.

And I apologize at being pants on writing little children's voices.