The other Miss Granger

I'm so sorry I haven't updated in such a long time, I've recently been in hospital to have my appendix removed and I lost my memory stick with the next four chapters so I have rewrite them all.

Chapter 9:

Jolie Defontaine was walking towards the library thinking of a certain red head she had met the day before, for some reason she just couldn't get him out of her head. She hadn't been watching where she was going until she bumped into someone, she dropped her books and stumbled backwards until she felt two strong arms around her waist. She put her hands on the persons chest to steady herself. She looked up and saw bright grey eyes.

"We have to stop meeting this way Miss Defontaine" Cedric Diggory said looking down at the beautiful student from Beauxbatons. All the male population have been talking about her, in his dorm room the boys talked about her. When he had told them the time they had first bumped into each other they had all stared at him in pure jealousy. All the girls hated and admired her at the same time if that was even possible.

"I agree Mister Diggory." she said grinning, Cedric Diggory was very handsome but there was something missing. Her mind then went back to the red haired dragon keeper from the day before.

"Please call me Cedric." he said and grinned. He was flirting with her.

"Only if you call me Jolie." she replied, no harm in flirting back. She thought to herself.

"You going to the library?" he asked. She nodded.

"I'm meeting with my sister. I'll see you later, Cedric." she said and smiled. Cedric watched her walk away with a dreamy look

In the Library she saw Viktor Krum sitting by himself in a corner. Jolie smiled and walked over to him.

"Viktor Krum, after all this time I would of thought you would of least stopped and said hello. After all I am slightly hard to forget and we did have a nice chat after the match." she said and smiled. Vikotr looked up from his book, looking shocked. He gave a little smile.

"Forgive me Miss Defontaine I thought you would of forgotten about me and you are right it is very hard to forget seeing as most of castle talks about you. Some boys from my school have already sent you letters and flowers." he told her with his strong Bulgarian accent. Jolie laughed.

"You can call me Jolie, didn't I tell you that the first time we met." she told him. He nodded.

"Jolie, sorry I'm late!" Hermione said rushing over to her. She stopped when she saw Viktor.

"Sorry was I interrupting something?" she asked. Jolie saw the look Viktor gave Hermione, interesting she thought.

"No it's fine Hermione. Hermione this is Viktor Krum and Viktor this is Hermione Granger, my little sister." she introduced them. Viktor looked slightly shocked but then again most did when they found out the rumours were true.

"I have to go, I'm having tea with Professor Dumbledore." Jolie said.

"Again?" Hermione asked, giving her a confused look. Jolie nodded.

"Professor Dumbledore is a very interesting person I enjoy his tales. Hermione maybe you could help Viktor find books that he needs or anything." Jolie said and rushed out. She went straight to Dumbledore's office.

"Hello Professor." she said smiling. Fawkes flew over to her and sat on her shoulder.

"Hello Fawkes." she told the bird and gave him a treat, he nipped her ear in a sign of affection and returned to his stand.

"Hello Miss Defontaine." Professor Dumbledore said from his seat, watching curiously as Fawkes admired the young dragon speaker.

"I'm afraid we won't have time for our tea today. The dragons have been rather uneasy and the judges wish to know if it were possible for you to help during the first task. We do not wish to see any of our students in danger. But because Mr Crouch does not believe you are a real dragon speaker, the judges wish to see it with there on eyes." he told her. She nodded.

"I do not want anyone to be hurt so of course I'll help. Our the judges waiting for us now?" Jolie asked.

"Yes, lets go see these dragons. I actually haven't had the chance to see them up close yet and thank you Miss Defontaine." he said.

"Any time Professor."

As they reached the middle of the dark forest they saw the judges all standing as far as they could from the dragons.

"This is the girl?" Barty Crouch asked, eyeing her.

"She is." Madame Maxime said standing behind the girl.

"I'm Ludo Bagman."a man with blonde hair and blue eyes, Jolie recognized him as the head of the Department of magical games and sorts.

"It's a pleasure to meet you sir." She said and shook his hand.

"The pleasure is all mine, it's not everyday you meet the only dragon speaker in the world." he told her.

"We don't know if that's true." Crouch interrupted. Jolie glared at him.

"Jolie helped us with the dragons yesterday. The horntail got a little out of control." said one of the trainers, if she recalled correctly his name was Michael.

"Really?" Ludo asked, his eyes wide in amazement and grinning like a fool. He reminded her slightly of the Weasley twins who both now claimed she would have to marry one of them.

"Can I go see her again? She has a quite interesting mind." she asked the trainer. Who stared at her in awe and nodded.

"Go ahead." he said watching as she approached the large and vicious dragon.

Albus Dumbledore watched her walk towards the Hungarian Bontail, his eyes twinkling. She walked over calmly and completely normal as if she was just walking in to the great hall. There wasn't any fear or hesitation. As she went closer he saw the dragon stop and stare at her. Gazing at her like it loved her. She reached the dragon and held out her hand, the dragon lowered its head so she could touch its face. He had never seen something so interesting as he watched the young woman stare into the creatures eyes and then she began to sing. It was a slow and beautiful sound, it was in the ancient veela language he was sure of it. The dragon surprisingly purred like a cat and snuggled closer as the young woman wrapped her arms around it. When she was done she smiled at the dragon and kissed it's head. The dragon then went towards it's eggs and wrapped itself around them to protect them and drifted of to sleep.

Albus looked at Crouch and Bagman. The former was just staring with his mouth hanging wide open and Bogman was watching in awe and curiosity. Albus Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as he saw Charlie Weasley a former student at Hogwarts staring at the beautiful young woman. She must of noticed to as she approached him. She took his hand and brought him right up to the dragon which still was asleep. Albus smilied, Mrs Weasley would be pleased he mused.

"Why didn't the ministry know of this?" Crouch asked interrupting Albus's thoughts. He just turned around and gave him a small smile.

"Her mother did not wish to share her gift." Madame Maxime replied sternly. Crouch gave her a cold look.

"And why not?" He asked with a light sneer on his face.

"Perhaps Miss Defonaitine's mother wished for her to have a normal childhood and not chasing after dragons at the request of the ministry." Dumbledore replied. Crouch just glared at the older man.

"I would wish to speak to this mother of hers." Crouch said sternly.

"I'm afraid that's impossible her mother died this summer." he replied.

"Weatherby- I mean Percy give us a moment in private." Crouch said harshly to his assistant who nodded.

Percy Weasley made his way other to his brother and Miss Defontaine who were now standing in a safe distance from the dragon.

"Charles it's been awhile." Percy said to his brother. Charlie glared at his brother, the twins had told him how up himself he has been lately.

"Hey Percy. This is Jolie Defontaine, Hermione's sister." Charlie told his younger brother. Percy looked slightly shocked but quickly hid it.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Defontaine. I'm Percy Weasley." Percy said and shook her hand.

"Your brothers did say that you worked for the ministry. Do you enjoy your job?" She asked curiously. Percy smiled at the beautiful woman who asked about his job.

"Yes very much. Are you thinking of getting a job in the ministry when you leave school?" Percy asked. Jolie shook her head.

"No. I was actually hopping to be a dragon keeper. I wish to study maybe write a book about their behaviour." Jolie said and smiled. Percy looked at his older brother who grinned.

"Maybe you could come to Romania. You'd love it there." Charlie told her. She smiled at him and blushed slightly.

"I'll look into it." she told him and grinned. Charlie couldn't help but grin at her like an idiot. Percy started at his brother and wondered how he and Bill always got the girls.

"Jolie it iz time to go back to ze school." Madame Maxime said mentioning for her star pupil to come with her.

"I'll see you tomorrow at the first task. They asked me to be with you guys just in case." Jolie told Charlie.

"Then promise me you'll stick to me. Wouldn't want you getting hurt." he said and then blushed.

"That and mum would kill me if I let you get hurt she sees you as her new daughter." Charlie quickly said, still blushing.

"It was nice to meet you Percy." she said and shook his hand again.

"You fancy her." Percy suddenly said as they both watched the young woman walk away.

"Do you blame me?" he asked Percy.

"True." Percy muttered, staring after her as she went.

The following morning the atmosphere in the school was one of great tension and excitement. Lessons were to stop at midday, giving all the students time to get down to the dragons enclosure though of course, they didn't yet know what they would find there.

"Will you sit by me or do you have to sit with your school?" Hermione asked her older sister as they walked down towards the dragon enclosure.

"I was asked to stay with the dragon keepers so that I could be there just in case there's a problem and so I can help with the dragons." Jolie told her, she saw the look Hermione gave her.

"Don't worry Hermione I'll be fine and I'll make sure Harry is to." Jolie said and put her arm around Hermione's shoulders.

"Thanks." she said in a whisper. Jolie kissed the top of her head.

"Oh there's Charlie." Jolie said as she saw Charlie wave at them.

"Be careful please." Hermione begged and hugged the older girl.

"I promise." Jolie said and kissed Hermione's forehead before going towards Charlie.

"She looks worried." He said, looking over at Hermione.

"Wouldn't you be if for example Ron was up against a dragon?" Jolie asked him. Charlie nodded in understanding.

"She's worried about you to." he told her.

"I know." Jolie whispered and smiled.

As Harry walked in to the tent he was greeted by Bagman.

"Well, now we're all here - time to fill you in!" said Bagman brightly. "When the audience has assembled, I'm going to be offering each of you this bag" - he held up a small sack of purple silk and shook it at them - "from which you will each select a small model of the thing you are about to face! There are different er varieties, you see. And I have to tell you something else too.. . ah, yes... your task is to collect the golden egg!"

After each one of us pulled out a mini version of the dragon we would be facing.

"Well, there you are!" said Bagman. "You have each pulled out the dragon you will face, and the numbers refer to the order in which you are to take on the dragons, do you see? Now, I'm going to have to leave you in a moment, because I'm commentating. Mr. Diggory, you're first, just go out into the enclosure when you hear a whistle, all right? I don't want any one to worry. The dragon keepers will be close by just in case and we also have miss Defontaine who is the only dragon speaker helping and will be with the dragon keepers."

Harry had to admit he was a bit shocked no one had told him that, did Hermione know? Harry looked at Fleur to see her sigh in relief so she must know that Jolie was a dragon speaker. He then looked at Viktor and Cedric who both clearly looked shocked.

Harry felt sick as he waited his turn to face his dragon.

After Harry had finally got the golden egg the fastest he might add.

Harry saw the dragon keepers rushing forward to subdue the Horntail he saw Jolie hugging the dragons head and immediately calmed it down, and, over at the entrance to the enclosure, Professor McGonagalh, Professor Moody, and Hagrid hurrying to meet him, all of them waving him toward them, their smiles evident even from this distance. He flew back over the stands, the noise of the crowd pounding his eardrums, and came in smoothly to land, his heart lighter than it had been in weeks. . . . He had got through the first task, he had survived.

After Harry was in the first aid tent when Ron and Hermione burst in. Ron had apologized and Harry had forgiven him.

"You were the best, you know, no competition. Cedric did this weird thing where he Transfigured a rock on the ground. . . turned it into a dog. . . he was trying to make the dragon go for the dog instead of him. Well, it was a pretty cool bit of Transfiguration, and it sort of worked, because he did get the egg, but he got burned as well - the dragon changed its mind halfway through and decided it would rather have him than the Labrador; he only just got away and probably wouldn't have if it hadn't of been for Jolie she's amazing! And that Fleur girl tried this sort of charm, I think she was trying to put it into a trance well, that kind of worked too, it went all sleepy, but then it snored, and this great jet of flame shot out, and her skirt caught fire - she put it out with a bit of water out of her wand. And Krum - you won't believe this, but he didn't even think of flying! He was probably the best after you though. Hit it with some sort of spell right in the eye. Only thing is, it went trampling around in agony and squashed half the real eggs - they took marks off for that, he wasn't supposed to do any damage to them. And Jolie went of to comfort the poor thing you should of seen the look she gave Krum. If I was him I would of pissed my pants."

After receiving the scores Ron and Harry saw Charlie and Jolie.

"You're tied in first place, Harry! You and Krum!" said Charlie Weasley, hurrying to meet them as they set off back toward the school. "Listen, I've got to run, I've got to go and send Mum an owl, I swore I'd tell her what happened - but that was unbelievable! Oh yeah – and they told me to tell you you've got to hang around for a few more minutes.. . . Bagman wants a word, back in the champions' tent."

"You did great Harry." Jolie said and hugged him. Harry smilied.

"So did you. I didn't know there was such things as dragon speakers." Harry commented.

"I'm the second one there has ever been." she told him and grinned. Harry and Ron looked at her in awe.

"I'll see you soon Jolie. If I don't see you before I leave I'll send you an owl." he said blushing and he kissed her on the cheek before rushing of. Jolie blushed.

"My brother fancy's you." Ron stated. Which made Jolie blush more.

Ron said he would wait and so did Jolie seeing as she wanted to wait for Fleur as he went to the champions tent.

Fleur, Cedric, and Krum all came in together. One side of Cedric's face was covered in a thick orange paste, which was presumably mending his burn. He grinned at Harry when he saw him.

"Good one, Harry."

"And you," said Harry, grinning back.

"Well done, all of you!" said Ludo Bagman, bouncing into the tent and looking as pleased as though he personally had just got past a dragon. "Now, just a quick few words. You've got a nice long break before the second task, which will take place at half past nine on the morning of February the twenty-fourth - but we're giving you something to think about in the meantime! If you look down at those golden eggs you're all holding, you will see that they open. . . see the hinges there? You need to solve the clue inside the egg - because it will tell you what the second task is, and enable you to prepare for it! All clear? Sure? Well, off you go, then! And don't forget to thank Miss Defontaine!"

Harry left the tent, rejoined Ron. He saw Fleur and Jolie hug each other close and nearly crying. Harry thought that maybe Fleur wasn't that bad. He could tell she deeply adored and loved Jolie as a sister.

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