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Chapter 4: House sorting
-flashback three days ago, England, Dursley house-
In the Dursleys house it was calm and peaceful, no shouting or sounds of someone in pain, the Dursleys were happy they got rid of the 'freak' almost three years ago now, suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Vernon answered the door to see a man standing there 5'11 with silver hair and an extremely long beard tied in the middle.
"I am Albus Percival, Wulfric Brian, Dumbledore, I came to speak to Harry Potter about attending Hogwarts school this year, is he in?" Dumbledore asked as he walked in.
"Umm, no, unfortunately not," Vernon said and looked to Petunia and Dudley to come to him.
"play along with it, we need to seem upset that Harry is missing, if he knew Harry was here, he must be a 'freak' as well" Vernon stated as Dudley and Petunia nodded in agreement and went to Dumbledore.
"Truth is, Dumbledore sir, Harry went missing three years ago, we were on a trip in France when suddenly he trapped Dudley in with a snake and ran off, he has been very rebellious lately, we have no idea why" Vernon started by saying and looked at Petunia.
"We gave Harry so much love and care we even gave him his own room, but he kept throwing it in our face and getting into trouble and starting fights in school" Petunia added.
"I am worried about Harry; I just hope that he is somewhere safe in France," Dudley said, trying to squeeze out a tear.
"Hmmm, sounds like his father's double, making trouble when trouble is not needed, ok thank you for telling me this, I will be on my way now," Dumbledore said as he got up and noticed a beetle on the floor next to him and grabbed it and walked out.
Once out and around a corner in an alleyway he places the beetle on the floor.
"digging for another story Rita?" Dumbledore said as the beetle turned into a woman with a quill in hand.
"Yep, and it should make the next paper, bye Albus" Rita said as she apparated away.
-Present time, Beauxbatons carriage-
No longer able to keep up the charm he learned before the arrival of the carriage as Harry nervously passes Fleur and Gabby the newspaper.
"écume couchée" Fleur says and Gabby just stared in shock at the paper.
Hermione sees Harry's hand and her eyes go wide.
"HARRY, YOUR HAND, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAND" Hermione shouts pulling Gabby's view from the paper to Harry's hand and suddenly the windows and walls of the compartment start to rattle.
Seeing that Harry is in no state to answer or even register what is going on around him she grabs hold of his right hand and kneels on the floor in front of him, looking into his emerald eyes seeing they are glazed over as if no one is home, she leans into him and hugs him.
"Harry, it is going to be ok, nothing will happen anymore, I promise," Gabby said, but Harry still not being with it properly does not register what she is saying.
Hermione getting more worried about what is happening stands up to leave when the floor starts to shake causing her to fall on the opposite chair.
"Harry, it's going to be ok" Gabby tries again but gets no response.
Grabbing both of Harry's cheeks forcing him to look at her as she places her forehead on his and starts whispering 'it's going to be ok' to him over and over again, as Harry snaps out, he realises his heads touching Gabby's and relaxes into her.
As Harry relaxes the compartment stops shaking, as they separate their heads Gabby sees Harry is pale and then slumps against the window this leaves a stunned Hermione trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
"H-Harry, wha-" Hermione started to ask as she got interrupted.
"I-I under, stand you are, confused but, I will explain later, sorry," Harry says as he gasps for breath.
Hermione nods in agreement and reads the paper to get at least some sort of understanding, after doing some reading and re-reading she lowers the paper to ask Harry a question to see him stroking the head of an adder.
"HARRY! THAT'S AN ADDER ITS POISONOUS AND DANGEROUS" Hermione shouts drawing the adders attention.
"He's not dangerous, he's my friend," Harry says then goes back to looking at the snake but Hermione notices a low hiss coming from them both.
"Sorry black, she's a new friend and didn't know we are friends" Harry explained to black.
"itsss fine, that issss a normal reaction" black reassured him and then coiled up on Harry's lap.
This causes Hermione to stare jaw dropped as the 'deadly' adder lays as docile as a cat on Harry's lap.
"That was my first reaction when I watched Harry talk to a snake as well" Gabby giggled and explained that he is a parseltongue while Harry was deep in conversation with black.
After regaining his composure and getting colour back into his skin he moves black off his lap and goes over and hugs Gabby.
"Thank you, again for helping me, I-I hope I can survive with you not being by my side," Harry said to her and pecked her cheek making Gabby go 30 shades of red starting at baby peach and ending in crimson.
When Harry sits back down, he notices that Hermione is red at the scene and Fleur is a light shade of red.
"So cause maman and pere are not here Arry does that mean you're going to flirt more" Fleur says with a playful smirk increasing the shade of Gabby's blush from crimson red to scarlet red.
Harry blushed a little bit.
"I-I was just being appreciative; I wouldn't flirt while you're around…I think," Harry said and Fleur smiled and shook her head, Harry turned to look at Hermione and sighed.
"You want to know why I reacted like that?" he asked, Hermione, looked at Harry.
"Yes, and I would like to know what is wrong with your hand," she says nodding towards it.
This caused Harry to look down as he realised the transfiguration charm had broke revealing his scorched hand.
"ok, it might take a while but we have a while to go still," Harry said with a sigh.
Harry explained to Hermione about the abuse of his relatives and the abandonment, on the verge of tears from reliving the memories while telling them Gabby moves next to Harry and latches on to his arm calming him down, once harry calmed down he recast the transfiguration charm on his hand making it look like normal.
"so you have no feeling in that hand at all?" Hermione questioned looking astonished at what she had just been told.
"none at all," Harry said as he touched the glass window with his right hand, "with this hand I can feel the cold smooth surface" Harry stated and switched hands, "this hand… nothing no coldness no texture" Harry explained.
Hermione stared speechless, unable to say anything.
"It's ok though, thanks to Gabby, Fleur, maman and pere, I am happy and it didn't bother me till the paper," Harry said with a smile looking at Gabby and Fleur.
"Arry, it was mainly Gabby who helped you," Fleur explained to him.
Suddenly the compartment bumped.
"We have landed, let's get ready," Fleur explained.
All four of them got their trunks and things together and Harry placed black in his case.
"Sorry buddy, you need to go in here for a while, I will let you out when I can," Harry said to black.
"fine jussst leave me a rat to eat firssst," black asked and harry conjured a rat inside of the case for black and placed the lid on it.
As they got off the carriage, they heard a female voice shouting.
"FIRST YEARS OVER HERE, EVERYONE ELSE TO THE DINNING CHAMBER" the voice repeated over and over again Gabby, Harry and Hermione said goodbye to Fleur as she went ahead.
Everyone lined up in front of the woman.
"I am Alice Dewpont, I am the groundskeeper here, I will take you all to the dining chamber follow me," Alice said loud enough for everyone to hear.
"When we arrive leave your trunks outside the dining chamber and everything will be taken to your rooms" Alice explained and started leading everyone down the path to the building.
Harry pulls both his and Gabby's trunks instead of using the locomotion charm so that way he does not draw too much attention to himself after a 30-minute walk they arrive outside of Beauxbatons building.
When they go inside, they leave their trunks outside the dining chamber.
"first years all take the table on the right-hand side" a woman yelled from the back of the room in the centre behind a table with five other people next to her.
As Harry, Gabby and Hermione sit down with each other they look around on the far-left side of the room was a table with a banner above it by the main door, the banner has five leaves and is a soft green next to in is a sapphire blue banner with a grey crescent moon and next to that which is next to the first years is an amethyst purple banner with a butterfly on it and above their table was the Beauxbatons emblem.
"Welcome back to another year at Beauxbatons academy of magic and if you are newly joining us then welcome to Beauxbatons academy of magic, I am Madame Olympe Maxime, you can call me Madame Maxime, for tonight we will stick to your house tables, first years once you have a house you will go and sit there with the rest of your housemates" Madame Maxime explained to the students.
"Your house shall be chosen by the sorting arrow, you will come to the stand and first a silver arrow to the far side of the chamber, when it bursts into sparks it will reveal your house, professor Barton will call your names at random" Maxime further explained.
A 5'5 female stood up from the chair next to Madame Maxime and walked the length of the table and stood next to the stand.
"Adnet, Alice" the professor called and a girl by the top of the table got up and walked to the stand.
She held her wand towards the door and fired a silver arrow, traveling the length of the room it burst next to the door revealing the purple banner with a butterfly.
"house, Papillonlisse!" Professor Barton called and Alice walked to the table where they cheered for her.
"Next, Durand, Salamandra" a silver head boy rose from the far end of the table and walked up.
Firing a silver arrow it exploded into a sapphire blue banner and formed a grey crescent moon.
"house, Ombrelune" Professor Barton called.
"next, Delacour, Gabrielle" Professor Barton called and Harry gave her hand a squeeze.
"good luck," he said with a smile as she walked up to the stand.
Taking a deep breath she fires a silver arrow which bursts into green sparks and forms five leaves.
"House, Bellefeuille" Professor Barton called, Harry watched Gabby walk to the table and sit next to her sister and took a deep breath of air knowing that she is with Fleur.
Five minutes passed and Harry still had not been called, all who remained was him, Hermione and three others.
"Next, Granger, Hermione," Hermione gave Harry a smile and walked to the stand.
Firing the arrow it bursts into green sparks and forms five leaves.
"house, Bellefeuille" Barton called and Hermione takes a breath and sits next to Gabby.
After Hermione Harry hoped, he was next but the other three got called first.
"and last, Potter, Harry '' Barton called and Harry stood up, causing murmurs and whispers to be sent throughout the whole chamber, walking to the stand he took many deep breaths before firing the arrow.
'Please Bellefeuille, please Bellefeuille' Harry kept thinking to himself suddenly it burst into sparks as he opened his eyes, he saw five leaves.
"House, Bellefeuille" Barton called and he took a sigh of relief and went next to Gabby.
Professor Barton went and took her seat next to Madame Maxime.
"now that concludes the housing ceremony, this year you will be doing practical lessons in charms and defence against the dark arts, this goes for all years, at the end of the winter term before Christmas break there will be a wizard duel tournament against Hogwarts and the top three from each year group will be chosen to take part in the tournament, I wish you all luck and hope you enjoy your year here at Beauxbatons, start the feast" Madam Maxime finished her speech and then suddenly food appeared in front of everyone.
While eating Harry notices that it feels like people are staring at him as he looks up most of the people look away, other than a few boys and he leans over to Gabby.
"is it just me or does it seem like I'm getting death glares?" he whispers to Gabby who looks up and sees the boys go red.
"I think you're getting death glares because of me," Gabby said to him and leaned more on to his shoulder.
"Well I will be now, but why because of you?" Harry asked while placing a cookie from his dessert plate in her mouth.
"Veela blood, remember maman warned you this would happen" Gabby stated as he leaned his head back and remembered.
"Oh yeah, my bad, well if I'm going to be getting death glares might as well make most of it" Harry stated with a smirk as he rubbed his nose on hers making her blush and making the blood of all males looking boil.
"This is going to be a fun night for me I guess," Harry said and Gabby giggled.
As they all finished their meals Madam Maxime stood up.
"first years follow your house prefects they will show you to your corresponding dormitories" Madam Maxime stated as two prefects for each house stood up one male and one female, the first years also stood up, Harry and Gabby hand in hand while Hermione is next to Harry on his left.
They followed the prefects to the dormitory common room.
"tomorrow will be a tour of the school and each one of you will get an individual timetable, start making new friends now because some of your old ones might be in a different class to you," the female prefect said.
"female sleeping quarters are on the left-hand side, there is a ward that will stop boys from entering that area" the female prefect stated.
"the boys sleeping quarters are on the right-hand side, there is a ward that stops girls from entering there as well" the male prefect explained, Harry and Gabby looked at each other and gave a faint smile both thinking 'please no nightmares' at the same time without knowing it.
"Some of you might find that you have a room to yourself whereas others will be sharing with one other person, your trunks are by your beds, find your room number on the board here" the male prefect explained and stood by the board.
Harry and Gabby turn to face each other.
"I will meet you here in the morning, go on I will be ok," Harry said trying to reassure her.
Gabby nodded reluctantly as they checked for their rooms.
"Harry, I found my room, looks like I'm with Hermione" Gabby explained, Harry nodded and pecked her head.
"Go ahead, I'm still finding mine," Harry explained.
Reluctantly Gabby went to find Hermione and they headed to their room together, Harry turned back to the board, After Harry found his room number, he walked to it and entered.
As Harry entered the room, he took a sigh of relief knowing he was not sharing a room with anyone, proceeding to lay on the bed he closed his eyes.
A half-hour later Harry woke up in a sweat and shot up breathing heavily, moving to his trunk he took black out the snake case and placed him on the bed.
"I'm sorry to wake you up, I just needed to know you were still there," Harry said, breathing a sigh of relief.
"it'ssss ok Harry, wassss it a nightmare?" black asked and slithered to Harry placing its head against his.
"Yes, it was," Harry said as black lick his nose.
"I wasss warned about them, luckily there wasss no ssshaking" black said and Harry stood up.
"thank you, I'm going for a drink, I'll be back in a second '' Harry said walking out leaving back to coil on the desk next to Harry's bed.
In the common room, Harry sat down drinking a pumpkin juice, surprised at how it tastes, sits back and relaxed.
Once he finishes the drink he starts to walk to his room, as he goes to enter in the distance, he hears people talking and looking at him stopping outside of his room he tries to listen to what they are saying.
Unable to properly hear the people he then decided to ignore them he went into his room and decided to try and sleep some more.
Author's notes: Harry is about to have an interesting time at Beauxbatons because of how close he is with two certain Veelas as well as the news article in the daily prophet.
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