Title: Hello Beauxbatons!
Summary: Hogwarts students go on an Overseas Exchange Trip to Beauxbatons. Who goes and what happens?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Author's Note: I decided to post the next chapter though I didn't get the number of reviews I asked for (Humph!) because I know there are at least a few people who want to read.
Lily slumped back exasperatedly onto her chair. She just couldn't seem to successfully transfigure her eyebrows into colourful ones. She looked around her to see most people sporting blue, red, yellow, green, purple and other coloured eyebrows. Some, like James Potter and Sirius Black, had even managed to transfigure their eyebrows into rainbow-coloured eyebrows and were strutting around the classroom displaying them to the rest of the class. Of course, Remus had also managed to do so, but was sitting at his seat, unlike the other two.
She sighed and got up to try again, when Professor McGonagall stopped any further activity in the class. "That's all for today. Those of you who have not managed to perform the spell properly-" at this her gaze rested upon Lily, who inwardly groaned, and a few others. "- I expect you to be able to do it."
Some of the students started to scramble out of their seats and stuff their Transfiguration textbooks into their bags, but Professor McGonagall looked like she had more to say.
"I have taken down the list of students who signed up for the Overseas Exchange Trip to Beauxbatons. Quite a number of you signed up for it so I had to choose the first five girls and the first five boys to go for it. I'll read out the names so that you are aware of who is going and who is not. James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Frank Longbottom, Katherine McLenon, Alice Henderson, Lucy Patterson, Annabelle Grundy and Lily Evans."
"Huh?" Lily whispered, confused. She hadn't signed up for it. Raising her hand, she said, "Professor" to grab McGonagall's attention. McGonagall turned to focus her gaze on Lily questioningly, to which Lily started politely, "Professor, I think there's been a mistake-"
Kathy grabbed Lily's hand, which was still in the air and pressed it down onto the table. Alice, meanwhile, spoke, "Um, professor, it's nothing."
Lily was looking from Alice to Kathy for some kind of explanation. "We signed you up," they muttered in a low voice to her.
Lily, looking furious, was just opening her mouth to respond, when McGonagall cut her. "That's all. You are dismissed. May I see these ten people for few minutes?"
The students scraped their chairs across the floor as they prepared to leave the Transfiguration classroom. The ten students McGonagall mentioned moved to the front of the classroom.
Professor McGonagall passed out a sheet of paper saying, "This sheet of paper bears all the information about the trip to Beauxbatons. School ends in two days, so we'll be starting on the next day. Please gather in my office at seven in the evening." "You may go," she added.
"Oh my god! This sounds even more exciting!" Kathy whispered to Alice.
"Yeah, dinner, a few lessons with them, Quidditch games and even a ball!" Alice said excitedly, trying to keep her voice in control as they were still in the classroom.
"Humph! Now all because of the two of you, I have to tag along for this stupid trip!" Lily retorted, though she was a little calmer by then.
"Whatever, Lily!" Kathy said loudly, now that they were out of the classroom. "You have to admit it's going to be a great trip!"
Lily refused to reply, though her expression softened as she skimmed through the itinerary.
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"James, how could you have pushed us into this mess?" Remus asked, exasperated, as he looked through the itinerary carefully. "We have to attend a ball. That means we have to ask someone." "Again," he added after some thought. "I still haven't forgotten the torture I went through last year just to ask Lucy to the Yule Ball."
Sirius sniggered, and at the same time, patted Remus sympathetically on the shoulder. "We remember too, Moony. You even-"
"There is no need for you to repeat it, Sirius. We all know," said Remus irritably. "I could have used this time to study!"
"Put studying aside for six days, Remus. Only-six-days!" Sirius told him, as if he were talking to a five-year-old. "Besides, there will be hot girls. You're sure you know that girl, aren't you Prongs?" Sirius asked doubtfully, turning towards James.
"Er, yeah, yeah, I know that girl. Her name is, er, Fanny. Yeah, it's Fanny," James said hurriedly.
Sirius looked at him thoughtfully, one of his eyebrows arched upwards, as if scrutinizing his reply. Then, apparently considering it to be trustworthy, he gave a little nod.
Rumble"Oh no! It's raining!" Sirius cried, running towards the window and tilting his head to look at the sky, which was a clear blue, lighted up by the sun's rays.
"Sirius, you dolt! It's summer!" said Remus as he walked up to where Sirius was standing and gave him a smack on the head.
"But there was thunder!" said James, also joining them. "Unless it was-"
"-Peter's stomach?" Sirius completed the sentence, turning towards Peter with an incredulous look on his face.
"Again?" James asked Peter, amused and shocked at the same time.
Peter gave a small nod. James, Sirius and Remus roared in laughter, with Peter joining in, and went to the kitchens with Peter to grab something to eat as well.
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There was much discussion among the students over the next two days. They had sent owls to their families to inform them of all the necessary details.
Even Lily had agreed to be more tolerant towards James, and James had been convinced by Remus not to irritate Lily and get on her nerves by staring at her every second of the day except for when she was in the girls' dorms. This would, professor McGonagall said, radiate a good image of Hogwarts.
So the ten students over the two days also got to know one another better. Lucy Patterson, a pretty Ravenclaw with blond hair and blue eyes and Annabelle Grundy, a Slytherin with light brown hair and eyes who was neither pretty nor ugly, got familiar with Lily, Alice and Kathy. Despite the fact that Annabelle was a Slytherin, she was friendly and somehow had all the traits not of a Slytherin.
Frank Longbottom, whom Alice long had a crush on, was a Hufflepuff with dirty blond hair and dark brown eyes, fitted in very well with the Marauders, especially since he played Quidditch as well.
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By 6.55 pm, everyone going for the trip had gathered outside professor McGonagall's office. Their trunks, with necessary items had been sent to Beauxbatons earlier.
"What do you think Beauxbatons is going to be like?" asked Alice breathlessly from the excitement that was making her stomach queasy.
"I don't know… Nice?" muttered Kathy, almost unable to speak from the excitement.
"Well, I once had this pen pal at Beauxbatons, who said there were magical fountains with rainbow-coloured water flowing out of them," Lily said, staring blankly ahead, possibly in reminiscence.
"Really?" Alice and Kathy exclaimed, grabbing Lily by the shoulders and excitedly shaking her.
"You never told us," squealed Alice, just as Kathy waggled her eyebrows. "Was it a guy?"
Lily was saved from further questions and having to answer the questions posed, by Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout, who were to accompany them on the trip.
"Please come into the office," McGonagall said, showing them into her office.
All the students shuffled into the office, looking around at the objects there in interest, while Professor Sprout picked up an old Transfiguration textbook, which was a portkey.
They all gathered around it holding a hand out and touching a finger to the textbook.
A jerk behind the navel and a rush of wind while their bodies bumped into each other's, and they landed. At Beauxbatons.
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