Ch. 4 Fluent Blushing
Helena sat in the Slytherin girl's dormitories, half nervous, half excited. "He's here. He's here. He's here." She repeated aloud a few times. "There's only one thing you can do Helena, you can pretend to not care about him and move on, dating around." She told herself. "Yes, that's perfect." She reminded herself aloud.
Helena realized that she should probably go back down towards the great hall; Dumbledore was probably making some speech to the visitors and picking out the contestants to participate in the Triwizard Tournament.
She couldn't miss this.
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Clarissa sat boredly amongst the Gryffindors. The students from Beauxbatons were sitting with the Ravenclaws, "Go figure" she thought. They were all eying her, realizing that she was veela.
"Ampèreheure, regard Adèle, un veela, il est très impair qu'elle aille à Hogwarts au lieu de Beauxbatons."
"Ah, look Adèle, a veela, it's very odd that she goes to Hogwarts instead of Beauxbatons "
"La seule raison pour laquelle je vais à Hogwarts doit rester loin des personnes comme vous. J'ai pensé vous sauriez que le bavardage est tellement très sneaky et non nécessaire... particulièrement si la personne dont le bavardage de you're sait le français en tant que leur langue fluente. Et oui, je suis allé à Beauxbatons pendant une semaine, et je devrais dire que c'était encore plus mauvais puis Durmstrang."
"The reason I go to Hogwarts is that i prefer to remain far from people like you. I thought you would know that gossip is so very sneaky and not necessary ... particularly if the person of whom the gossip is about knows French as their fluent language. And yes, I went to Beauxbatons for a week, and I should say that it was worse then Durmstrang."
They sat there dumbfounded at Clarissa's fluent French that had seemed to come out effortlessly.
"'Ou speak ah, français ?" the girl with long blond hair said
"Oui" Clarissa said and turned around back to her table
The girl with brown hair of whom the girl with blond hair had called Adèle tapped Clarissa on her shoulder and asked,
"Could 'ou 'elp us? Our Anglais iz, um how you say? Mauvais?"
"Sure, what do you need?" Clarissa questioned
"Umm..'Hoo iz 'e?" the blonde girl pointed toward Cedric Diggory
"Cedric Diggory," Clarissa smiled "And he is taken, by the way."
"By 'oo?" Adèle questioned
"Her" Clarissa pointed towards Cho Chang and turned around
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Matthew looked at the goblet longingly, "I wish I could've entered" Many of his seventh year quidditch mates had entered, including Cedric.
Dumbledore finally stood from his chair in the center of the staff table and started;
"Hello Students, I wish for you to give a welcome to our visitors from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang" he gestured towards the tables. The students from Beauxbatons were with Ravenclaw, and the students from Durmstrang were seated with the Slytherin. "Go figure," he thought "Evil with Evil."
"I know that many of you are anticipating the reading of the contestants to participate in the Triwizard Tournament" Dumbledore continued
"Yeah!" George Weasley interrupted. He and Fred had tried to put their names in, but the age line had caught them and given them beards.
"Yes Mr. Weasley, we are about to announce them," Dumbledore laughed a bit, and Professor Snape evil eyed him for interrupting
Dumbledor gestured towards the goblet once more, and stuck his hand in and read the first name
"Viktor Krum will represent Durmstrang!" the burly Bulgarian Quidditch Team player stood up and loud cheers came from the Slytherin Table
"Fleur Delacour will represent Beauxbatons!" Fleur stood up and smiled, and immediately all the guys started cheering. Including Matt. Fleur resembled a veela.
"Cedric Diggory will represent Hogwarts!" Cedric stood up and smiled, the whole school was supporting him. At least the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Cedric was very well liked.
"And there are your contestants!"
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Necia yawned. "Boy, this sure is interesting" she looked up to see Dumbledore looking confusedly at the goblet, which was still flaming. He stuck his hand in once more and read:
"Harry Potter will..also..represent Hogwarts" He said a bit quizzically. The whole school went silent.
"Harry?? Harry's a fourth year!" Corin whispered in Necia's ear
"Yeah..how odd.." Necia said back
Dumbledore confusedly gestured the contestants into a small room.
"I wonder where they're going" Necia wondered aloud.
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Helena stole a seat next to some first years and asked,
"What's going on? Who are the contestants??" she asked a first year
"Well, Krum's for Durmstrang, Fleur Delacour's for Beauxbatons, and oddly enough, both Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory for Hogwarts." The small first year girl said
"Wait, Harry's a fourth year, how could he have entered??" Helena said as she dug into her steak
"I don't quite know." She replied back
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"Bloody hell, how did Potter get in?" Draco Malfoy questioned Blaise Zambini
"I dunno...maybe he got someone to enter his name for him..that's just like a Gryffindor, they want all the attention. Potter's got enough already with his bloody scar." Blaise replied
"You're right." Draco said back
"Bloody Gryffindors" Crabbe muttered
Draco ate a bit of his mashed potatos, and muttered "Potter gets all the fun."
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Corin yawned "I'm awful tired, I think I'm going to head back to the dorms" Corin told Necia
"I'll just go with you. I'm not hungry anyway." Necia said
"She's never hungry" Corin noted.
Corin knew about the fact that Necia's parents abused her, but Necia had never told Corin why she never ate. Corin figured that Necia ate while she wasn't around and never took any mind to it.
Corin didn't want to, she chose to ignore the obvious, and she liked it that way. As long as Corin didn't note the problems, they didn't exist. Well, to her at least.
----
The next few days passed quickly, mostly from gossip about the way Harry got his name in the cup. Clarissa didn't concern herself with it, she didn't like gossip at all. She considered it very rude and unnecessary. But she couldn't help but listen every once in a while.
Muggle Studies was a very boring class, but Clarissa had taken it just to get a few extra points for her NEWTS.
As the professor explained the use of Muggle Money, Clarissa started doodling on her parchment. First the Giant Squid, then a dragon. She did a quick animation spell on them and they started fighting on the page. Clarissa giggled a bit as the Dragon scorched off one of the Squid's tentacles.
"What are you laughing about, Miss Cirqueau?" the Professor questioned.
"Er Nothing..sorry Professor." Clarissa said back
"Well, if it was nothing, can you please tell me three names of Muggle currency they use in the USA?" The Professor Questioned once again
"Um.." Clarissa started "Quarter, Nickel..Dime?"
"You sound uncertain; say them with confidence, Miss Cirqueau" the Proffessor added
"Three Muggle Currencies they use in the USA are Quarters, Nickels and Dimes."
"That's better. Five points to Gryffindor."
Clarissa sighed and drew some more, praying for the class to end.
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Necia sighed and looked at her History of Magic Book, "Nicholas Flamel is hardly interesting" she thought and Professor Binns droned on about Flamel's childhood. "I wish I had more friends in my year." She thought as she looked around the classroom.
Since the students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons had to stay at Hogwarts for the Tournament, many new students were in their regular classes. Necia was friends with a girl Charolette from Durmstrang, and a girl Laure from Beauxbatons. There was a boy from Beauxbatons who was very good looking. But he already had a thing for Cho, like ever other guy.
Necia looked around once more, spotting a boy from Durmstrang. Professor Binns had once addressed him as Christoph. He had curly blonde hair that resembled an angels and light blue eyes. He was very cute. And he made History of Magic interesting.
He was so unreachable though. But Necia didn't know the meaning of unreachable, and decided that she'd introduce herself after class.
"Hello, Christoph right?" Necia asked in the hall
"Yah, You're um..Necia?" He questioned
"That's me." She smiled
"I'm sort of lost around here, could you direct me to.." he studied his schedule "Transfiguration?"
"Yeah, it's a few corridors down. That's my next class too" Necia grinned
"I'm counting on a seat next to you Necia" Christoph winked and caught up with his friends from Durmstrang.
Necia almost blushed. But Necia was too cool for that.
Helena sat in the Slytherin girl's dormitories, half nervous, half excited. "He's here. He's here. He's here." She repeated aloud a few times. "There's only one thing you can do Helena, you can pretend to not care about him and move on, dating around." She told herself. "Yes, that's perfect." She reminded herself aloud.
Helena realized that she should probably go back down towards the great hall; Dumbledore was probably making some speech to the visitors and picking out the contestants to participate in the Triwizard Tournament.
She couldn't miss this.
----
Clarissa sat boredly amongst the Gryffindors. The students from Beauxbatons were sitting with the Ravenclaws, "Go figure" she thought. They were all eying her, realizing that she was veela.
"Ampèreheure, regard Adèle, un veela, il est très impair qu'elle aille à Hogwarts au lieu de Beauxbatons."
"Ah, look Adèle, a veela, it's very odd that she goes to Hogwarts instead of Beauxbatons "
"La seule raison pour laquelle je vais à Hogwarts doit rester loin des personnes comme vous. J'ai pensé vous sauriez que le bavardage est tellement très sneaky et non nécessaire... particulièrement si la personne dont le bavardage de you're sait le français en tant que leur langue fluente. Et oui, je suis allé à Beauxbatons pendant une semaine, et je devrais dire que c'était encore plus mauvais puis Durmstrang."
"The reason I go to Hogwarts is that i prefer to remain far from people like you. I thought you would know that gossip is so very sneaky and not necessary ... particularly if the person of whom the gossip is about knows French as their fluent language. And yes, I went to Beauxbatons for a week, and I should say that it was worse then Durmstrang."
They sat there dumbfounded at Clarissa's fluent French that had seemed to come out effortlessly.
"'Ou speak ah, français ?" the girl with long blond hair said
"Oui" Clarissa said and turned around back to her table
The girl with brown hair of whom the girl with blond hair had called Adèle tapped Clarissa on her shoulder and asked,
"Could 'ou 'elp us? Our Anglais iz, um how you say? Mauvais?"
"Sure, what do you need?" Clarissa questioned
"Umm..'Hoo iz 'e?" the blonde girl pointed toward Cedric Diggory
"Cedric Diggory," Clarissa smiled "And he is taken, by the way."
"By 'oo?" Adèle questioned
"Her" Clarissa pointed towards Cho Chang and turned around
----
Matthew looked at the goblet longingly, "I wish I could've entered" Many of his seventh year quidditch mates had entered, including Cedric.
Dumbledore finally stood from his chair in the center of the staff table and started;
"Hello Students, I wish for you to give a welcome to our visitors from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang" he gestured towards the tables. The students from Beauxbatons were with Ravenclaw, and the students from Durmstrang were seated with the Slytherin. "Go figure," he thought "Evil with Evil."
"I know that many of you are anticipating the reading of the contestants to participate in the Triwizard Tournament" Dumbledore continued
"Yeah!" George Weasley interrupted. He and Fred had tried to put their names in, but the age line had caught them and given them beards.
"Yes Mr. Weasley, we are about to announce them," Dumbledore laughed a bit, and Professor Snape evil eyed him for interrupting
Dumbledor gestured towards the goblet once more, and stuck his hand in and read the first name
"Viktor Krum will represent Durmstrang!" the burly Bulgarian Quidditch Team player stood up and loud cheers came from the Slytherin Table
"Fleur Delacour will represent Beauxbatons!" Fleur stood up and smiled, and immediately all the guys started cheering. Including Matt. Fleur resembled a veela.
"Cedric Diggory will represent Hogwarts!" Cedric stood up and smiled, the whole school was supporting him. At least the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Cedric was very well liked.
"And there are your contestants!"
----
Necia yawned. "Boy, this sure is interesting" she looked up to see Dumbledore looking confusedly at the goblet, which was still flaming. He stuck his hand in once more and read:
"Harry Potter will..also..represent Hogwarts" He said a bit quizzically. The whole school went silent.
"Harry?? Harry's a fourth year!" Corin whispered in Necia's ear
"Yeah..how odd.." Necia said back
Dumbledore confusedly gestured the contestants into a small room.
"I wonder where they're going" Necia wondered aloud.
----
Helena stole a seat next to some first years and asked,
"What's going on? Who are the contestants??" she asked a first year
"Well, Krum's for Durmstrang, Fleur Delacour's for Beauxbatons, and oddly enough, both Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory for Hogwarts." The small first year girl said
"Wait, Harry's a fourth year, how could he have entered??" Helena said as she dug into her steak
"I don't quite know." She replied back
----
"Bloody hell, how did Potter get in?" Draco Malfoy questioned Blaise Zambini
"I dunno...maybe he got someone to enter his name for him..that's just like a Gryffindor, they want all the attention. Potter's got enough already with his bloody scar." Blaise replied
"You're right." Draco said back
"Bloody Gryffindors" Crabbe muttered
Draco ate a bit of his mashed potatos, and muttered "Potter gets all the fun."
----
Corin yawned "I'm awful tired, I think I'm going to head back to the dorms" Corin told Necia
"I'll just go with you. I'm not hungry anyway." Necia said
"She's never hungry" Corin noted.
Corin knew about the fact that Necia's parents abused her, but Necia had never told Corin why she never ate. Corin figured that Necia ate while she wasn't around and never took any mind to it.
Corin didn't want to, she chose to ignore the obvious, and she liked it that way. As long as Corin didn't note the problems, they didn't exist. Well, to her at least.
----
The next few days passed quickly, mostly from gossip about the way Harry got his name in the cup. Clarissa didn't concern herself with it, she didn't like gossip at all. She considered it very rude and unnecessary. But she couldn't help but listen every once in a while.
Muggle Studies was a very boring class, but Clarissa had taken it just to get a few extra points for her NEWTS.
As the professor explained the use of Muggle Money, Clarissa started doodling on her parchment. First the Giant Squid, then a dragon. She did a quick animation spell on them and they started fighting on the page. Clarissa giggled a bit as the Dragon scorched off one of the Squid's tentacles.
"What are you laughing about, Miss Cirqueau?" the Professor questioned.
"Er Nothing..sorry Professor." Clarissa said back
"Well, if it was nothing, can you please tell me three names of Muggle currency they use in the USA?" The Professor Questioned once again
"Um.." Clarissa started "Quarter, Nickel..Dime?"
"You sound uncertain; say them with confidence, Miss Cirqueau" the Proffessor added
"Three Muggle Currencies they use in the USA are Quarters, Nickels and Dimes."
"That's better. Five points to Gryffindor."
Clarissa sighed and drew some more, praying for the class to end.
----
Necia sighed and looked at her History of Magic Book, "Nicholas Flamel is hardly interesting" she thought and Professor Binns droned on about Flamel's childhood. "I wish I had more friends in my year." She thought as she looked around the classroom.
Since the students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons had to stay at Hogwarts for the Tournament, many new students were in their regular classes. Necia was friends with a girl Charolette from Durmstrang, and a girl Laure from Beauxbatons. There was a boy from Beauxbatons who was very good looking. But he already had a thing for Cho, like ever other guy.
Necia looked around once more, spotting a boy from Durmstrang. Professor Binns had once addressed him as Christoph. He had curly blonde hair that resembled an angels and light blue eyes. He was very cute. And he made History of Magic interesting.
He was so unreachable though. But Necia didn't know the meaning of unreachable, and decided that she'd introduce herself after class.
"Hello, Christoph right?" Necia asked in the hall
"Yah, You're um..Necia?" He questioned
"That's me." She smiled
"I'm sort of lost around here, could you direct me to.." he studied his schedule "Transfiguration?"
"Yeah, it's a few corridors down. That's my next class too" Necia grinned
"I'm counting on a seat next to you Necia" Christoph winked and caught up with his friends from Durmstrang.
Necia almost blushed. But Necia was too cool for that.