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"All righ' now son?" Hagrid and Robbie were standing outside the Great Hall.
Robbie was embarrassed about crying and just nodded gruffly and pushed open the door.
Nobody noticed them come in as many were still only finding their seats. Robbie looked around, the light blue uniforms of the Beauxbatons students, the brown fur coats of the Durmstrang boys and the black cloaks of Hogwarts made it look like their were a lot more people in the Hall then there really was. The Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students were spread here and there across the Hall – when Robbie glanced at the Gryffindor table he saw Frederick and a blonde girl Robbie didn't know and the black-haired girl he thought was pretty sitting beside him. They weren't sitting so far away from Leanne, Alfred, Victoire and Ted. They were all staring at the Frederick in open-mouthed shock.
Great, thought Robbie. This wasn't going to be awkward AT ALL.
Grimly, he said goodbye to Hagrid who looked like he wanted to go over to Frederick, and made his way over to the Gryffindor table.
Luckily, Frederick didn't see him coming and by the time he sat down, the three Headmasters were walking up the aisle so Frederick couldn't change tables even if he wanted to.
The Beauxbatons crowd jumped up and didn't sit down again until the Headmistress-who-wasn't-Olympe sat down. Some people laughed, including Teddy, though Victoire did not.
It seemed everyone was watching him as he sat down. Many don't know about him having a twin, but it wasn't hard to guess now. Their stares went from Frederick, to Robbie, to Hagrid and back to Frederick. Hagrid was busy having a forced-looking conversation with Neville, Frederick looked oblivious to their stares as though he was use to it so Robbie plunged into a conversation with Teddy to get the heat off him.
He forced a grin. "So, Teddy found a way to get passed the age-line?"
If Teddy thought anything weird about the tone of his voice or the look on his face he didn't say anything but enthusiastically began talking about his and Victoire's plans which soon got Robbie smiling for real and laughing.
"I tell you, there is no way that is going to work! Crouch was a really skilled wizard, you will so not be able to confund the Goblet of Fire!" Leanne exclaimed, Ted had been talking to his godfather and got it into his head that he'd be able to enter if he confunded the Goblet.
"Nope, Crouch was not a skilled wizard, he was loopy! I can definitely do this." He leaned back casually, his voice confident.
"But you know, Crouch wasn't trying to get passed the age-line, he just wanted to confuse the Goblet into taking one more school." Robbie pointed out.
Ted's confident smile got wiped from his face as he exchanged horrified looks with Victoire. The other three laughed, their 'amazing' plan was going downhill fast.
"Maybe we could vanish the age line…?" Victoire suggested without much conviction.
Teddy shook his head. "No…do you wanna pop down to Hogsmeade to talk to George, he might have some ideas."
"Hogsmeade isn't until November, and the champions will be chosen tomorrow night." Alfred said.
"DUH. Who said we're going to wait until November to go to Hogsmeade?" Teddy exchanged incredulous looks with Victoire as though Alfred was thick.
"Emmm says the Hogwarts rulebook?" Alfred retorted.
"We have a rulebook?" Ted and Victoire exclaimed at the same time, genuinely shocked. Teddy recovered first and continued the conversation. "Anyway, have you three have never been to Hogsmeade without permission before?"
"Nope. We'd get caught anyway." Leanne said.
Victoire and Teddy rolled their eyes. "Of course you'll get caught if you walk straight out the gate! Have you ever wondered about any other ways to get into Hogsmeade? Any secret ways?"
"Not really." Leanne sounded off-hand but Robbie and Alfred looked interested. "Are there any secret ways into Hogsmeade?"
Teddy looked mock-outraged. "Tut, tut! A Head Boy wanting to break the rules?"
Victoire looked scandalized. "Oh my! What my Uncle Percy would say if he ever heard that…"
Teddy and Victoire laughed and began swapping stories on the most boring stories Percy had ever told them. Teddy was invited to most Weasley family reunions and he was almost apart of the family so he was as well a part of the family-jokes as any one of them. Indeed, he made up half of them.
Robbie continued to dwell on what they had said. He would never grass on them but he was often curious how Ted and Victoire knew all the secret passages around the school. Once Robbie had walked into Teddy's dormitory where he heard him whisper "Mischief Managed," and then he closed his trunk with a snap. That was the closest Robbie had ever got to finding out about their secret.
He was about to enquire more when a girl interrupted Teddy and Victoire's conversation for him. He started when he realized it was the pretty, black-haired girl from Beauxbatons, who had been sitting next to his brother. He wondered why Frederick and the blonde girl didn't come over with her.
"Excuse moi?" she tapped Victoire on the shoulder, who turned around to face her. "I am sorry. But you look very familiar! Have we met before?" Robbie noticed that her English was very good.
Victoire didn't look surprised at all, it was as though French strangers always came up to her and claimed to know her.
"Well my mum and aunt went to Beaxbatons, maybe there is picture's of them or something…" she replied.
"What was your muzzer's name?"
"Fleur Delacour."
The French girl clapped her hands in delight and squealed, "Oh but of course! You look exactly like her! Fleur Delacour is a hero in Beauxbatons, after all she did represent the school in the Triwizard Tournament! You must be so, so proud!"
Victoire looked slightly taken aback by the girls enthusiasm and just nodded. Wondering if the French girl was going to bring up anything embarrassing that Teddy could tease her about, she switched to French and the girl looked, if possible, even more pleases and happy.
They jabbered in French for the next couple of minutes, only stopping to eat their food which had appeared on their plates a couple of minutes earlier.
After a while, Victoire switched back to English. "Ehhh…we were wondering what happened to Madame Maxine, your old Headmistress?" She glanced quickly at Robbie, but he, along with Leanne, Alfred and Teddy were all watching the French girl closely. She went a bit pink and glanced over at Frederick. His tension seemed to have eased and he was laughing with his blonde friend.
"Well…she..she.." She took a deep breath. "Died. Fifteen years ago. Apparently she had been very sick before and one day, during a holiday, she went to sleep..and never woke up." Her voice faded a way. And for the first time, she set her deep brown eyes onto Robbie. "I'm so sorry." She rose up and went back to Frederick.