These are scenes I would have liked to include in the original story Highlander: The Hogwarts Champion. But since I was telling them from first person and Cedric was the main character, it would have been confusing to constantly change perspectives.

So here are the "Deleted Scenes" from Highlander: The Hogwarts Champion, along with some "director's commentary".

Amanda and the Twins

"I swear to God, if anyone harms that boy I'll…"

She quickly descended the stairs. The red haired boy followed closely behind, occasionally glancing a little farther downwards than a person walking downstairs needs to look.

Her tight black clothing fit perfectly over the voluptuous curves and hypnotic, muscular shape of her well seasoned body. As they entered the Great Hall, they saw Tonks in a death grip with a Death Eater. Lupin, bloodied up and weakening fast was fighting off three death eaters who were surrounding him.

Tonks turned her nose into an elephant trunk and wrapped it around the robust form of her attacker.

Seeing that she could take care of herself, Amanda rushed to Lupin first. She pierced the first Death Eater in the back and with drew, raising the blade and spinning around so that the head of the second Death Eater went flying by the time the third realized what was happening.

"Expelliaramus!" Fred yelled.

The disarming charm knocked the third man's wand and sent him flying onto his back.

"Thank you," Lupin said to Amanda. "Tonks!"

Without missing a beat Lupin rushed to help Tonks while Amanda and Fred went to find George.

The Death Eaters had knocked him out and pulled him from the fray. Now they were dragging him, limply down the stairs to the entrance.

"Let him go!" Amanda yelled.

"Hey, it's one of those freaks!" A Death Eater replied.

"That's the one who killed Vicilia."

"Get her!"

Two of the Death Eaters rushed Amanda. Both were armed only with their wands, betraying their ignorance of Amanda's abilities.

"Crucio!" Both wizards cursed at once.

Both Cruciatas curses hit Amanda, shocking the Death Eaters when they were ineffective. A few steps down and a couple smooth swipes left the wizards without their wand hands.

Fred cursed the ones who held George with a leg locker while Amanda swung, swiped and kicked.

At the bottom landing, a man raised a sword of his own and locked blades with Amanda. This was one of the ones trained to fight Immortals. A second death eater, a barrel-chest, broad-shouldered man with a bastard sword snuck up from behind her.

George quickly recovered and got to his feet. Fred ran from his space on the steps and jumped, slamming into the man and grabbing for his sword arm. George slammed into his side and also took hold of his sword arm.

"You never stab a lady-"

"In the back!" The twins said respectively.

Amanda dispatched her foe and turned to help the twins. A full-body bind from both twins kept the man from being any further trouble. George stumbled a bit, but tried to keep his balance, hoping to impress Amanda.

"Well done ma'am," he said, looking at her impaled opponent. "You're a natural with that sword."

"Are you boys all right?" Amanda asked, sincerely.

"Yeah, we're fine," Fred replied, trying to staunch a bleeding nose.

"It'll take more than a fat oaf like this to stop us," George said, puffing his chest out and kicking the petrified death eater. "Ow!"

Amanda grabbed George as he was about to fall over. She helped him sit down on the steps and rolled the pant leg of the injured area.

"Ow!" George yelped when she squeezed the ankle.

"Yup, that's a hairline fracture," she said. "You must have injured it fighting him."

George was about to complain, but then Amanda ran her hand through his hair and all was well again. He even thought he could stand.

"OW!"

"Do you know any spells to heal this?" She asked Fred.

"No," Fred answered. "But I know where Madam Pomfrey keeps her good medicine."

"I'm all right, really," George protested. "We were the ones who were supposed to save you."

"And you were very brave." Amanda leaned in and gave George a peck on the cheek.

She gave Fred the same and he was perfectly willing to do as he asked her.

"Get whatever you think might help. And be careful."

Fred bolted up the stairs faster than he had ever moved in Quidditch.

Author's Commentary

I wanted to explore the idea of Amanda and the Weasley twins getting along really well. Between their mischievous and often imp-like natures, I felt that they were the kind of people Amanda would consider dear to her.