Chapter 149 - 149- friends

FLEUR'S POV

If Fleur was being honest, she was kinda disappointed about this Ball.

With only four guys coming from her school, all of them in relationsh.i.p.s with four of the girls that came, she knew, from the second she were told about the Ball that her date would have to come from either one of the other two schools.

And while it only took one conversation with one of the Durmstrang students about the Ball to realize their headmaster told them to take specific women as a way of gaining information, even going as far as having Victor take Marcus' friend, never realizing she didn't have a date.

That made it so that the only students that she could take were from Hogwarts, the only problem was that with the exception of some Slytherin students, most of them hating the Veela, non had the needed Occlumency to shield themselves from the allure, and those that didn't hate the Veela and had Occlumency already had a date.

The only exception being one of her new friends, who is also one of the champions.

Harry Peverel.

She kinda hoped he would ask her out, even though he is only 14 years old, he, unlike his twin brother, had the body of an a.d.u.l.t.

Yet it wasn't meant to be, by the time she was tired of waiting and asked him herself he already asked Luna, another one of her new friends.

It was frustrating, but in the end she waited so long that the only one she could ask that wouldn't look like she dates a small child was Roger Davies, who right now was sitting next to her with a very dazed look on his face as she and her friends talked.

Victor on the other hand was busy annoying his date by saying her name wrong and have her try to fix it after she told him he shouldn't be friends with Harry and Luna, as they are Slytherin.

"I understand why poltergeist in a school isn't a great idea studying wise." Harry said after she complained about it. "But I find that the pranking Peeves does are both funny and make sure students don't take life too seriously."

"Oh yeah," she said with a smile "So why are you so serious?" If there was one thing you can't say about Harry is that he is a chill guy, he is interesting conversationalist and a good friend, but he is always so serious.

"That's simple, I never got caught in his pranks."

Before they could have continued their conversation, Dumbledore stood up and asked the students to do the same. Then, with a wave of his wand, all the tables zoomed back along the walls leaving the floor clear, and then he conjured a raised platform into existence along the right wall.

It was then that Ludo Bagman said "I'm happy to announce that the band 'Tommy and his Eaters' are about to perform their first concert."

On the platform appeared the four illusions that was a part of why she liked this castle a little bit.

Yet she noticed, that instead of singing, they then changed to four different illusions, and where once was Bellatrix, now sat an illusion of Fleur, with the other band members taking the looks of a different champions.

It was only then that Tommy, now looking like Victor started to sing.

I wanna be the very best

Like no one ever was

The tournament is my real test

Eternal glory is my goal

I have traveled to Britain

Looking for my shot

Everyone will understand

The power that's inside

In me! Gotta win this all! (It's you vs me)

I know it's my destiny

Oh yeah! this will be mine in the end

My school's honor I will defend

Triwizards! Gotta win it all! (A heart so true)

My mind will pull me through

No beating me I'll beat you

Triwizards! Gotta win it all (gotta beat you all!)

Yeah!

As the song played, Fleur moved past the embarrassment and started to really like the song, in the end of it joining Harry and Luna as they danced together, only to be joined by Victor as he left his date.

Maybe she doesn't need a date to have a good time, maybe she just need good friends.

VICTOR'S POV

Being a quidditch star doesn't have many down sides, although, if Victor had to name one, he would have said it is his inablity to make new friends that weren't affected by his status.

In all his years in Durmstrang he was never one with many friends.

He was too much into his studies and quidditch instead of socializing that even now, as he looks back, couldn't see any of his schoolmates or teammates considering him as a friend.

Of course, that changed when he became the youngest professional quidditch player in the world, not to mention him taking the Bulgarian team by the nose to the World Cup.

Suddenly everybody wanted to be friends, and all that they seem to talk to him about was quidditch.

It was like he wasn't the top of the class since first year anymore, all everybody remembered him as is the seeker, which is why he decided to join the tournament, to show them he is more then just a grunt.

A mistake that he regrets deeply.

Fighting dragons? Who on earth thought it was a way to show courage and ability? No matter what plan he thought about, even ones that succeeded only showed either cruelty or a way to show you having a death wish, and Victor wasn't planning to die.

Then, two days before the task, one of the other champions, one who befriended all of the foreigners students, who, Victor noticed, didn't care about quidditch, talked with both Fleur and him about the dragons, telling them about finding out about the test of retrieving a fake egg from a nesting mother, and about his plan of using simple spells to pass the task with minimum effort and that they should also do it.

And it actually worked!

With gratitude, Victor offered his help for whatever the boy needs, and the favor the boy wanted was for him to help his other friends by being the first to play Turbo dueling.

Victor didn't know much about friendship, but he knew he wanted one like that.

One that you are always doing your best to help your friends.

Which is why, his date, the one he asked because his headmaster ordered him to ask even though he didn't want to as he is into more mature women not little girls, was driving him crazy.

While she does seem to know a lot, every conversation with her seem to be like talking with books.

She never has any opinion on anything magic related, only quotes books.

It was only while they were sitting at their table during the Ball when he asked her about Harry.

"Oh, you shouldn't be friends with people like him, he is a Slytherin." Now, Victor didn't understand much about the house method of this school, but he did know that Slytherin is one of the houses.

Frowning his brows, Victor asked

"What does being in Slytherin have to do with being friends, Hermiany?"

"It's Hermione, and Slytherin is evil, everyone know it."

'Oh, she is one of those' he thought, one of the people that judge a person based on the group he is in, who would say Durmstrang is evil for having taught Grindelwald.

"Sure thing, Herme-own" as she seemed to feel annoyed by his way of twisting her name, Victor could see Fleur's mouth twitch into a smile.

By the time they finished the debate on how he would call her, the band of illusions that seem to sing sometimes in this school arrived, only to change their looks to look like the four champions and with him as the main lead starting to sing, Harry and his date, a lovely girl by the name of Luna went to dance and after Fleur joined them, Victor couldn't help himself but join.

Maybe he doesn't regret as much joining this tournament.