Chapter 10

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After the feast, Dumbledore rises to the High Table once more, nodding over to Filch who started to limp forward, holding an old chest. Dumbledore glanced back over to the crowd of students, once more raising the palm of his hand.

Instantly the Hall fell silent, averting their attention fully to the old wizard that stood in front. Dumbledore flashed everyone an appreciative smile before retracting his hand, "I would like to say a few words before we bring in the casket."

Y/N eyebrows furrowed together at those words, she glanced over to the group with a questioning look, "Casket?" but neither of them knew, only shrugging in response.

"Eternal glory. That is what awaits the student who wind the Triwizard Tournament. But to do so, that student must survive three tasks. Three very dangerous tasks." Dumbledore emphasized.

"Wicked." Fred and George muttered out in admiration.

"You see, the Triwizard Tournament has an unfortunate history of killing off its participant. For this reason the Ministry has seen fit to impose a new rule. To explain, we have the Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation. Mr Bartemius Crouch." Dumbledore continued.

Crouch stood up from the staff table and made his way to the front, the hall stayed still throughout the time, not a singe applause nor a single whisper was heard.

Crouch scanned through the crowded hall swiftly before reaching into his robe and pulled out a piece of parchment, "After due consideration, the Ministry has concluded that, for their own safety, no student under the age of seventeen will be allowed to put forth their name for the Triwizard Tournament. The decision is final."

Groans and whispers filled the Hall, disappointed expressions spread along most of the students faces. "What?! Oh come on." Caleb grumbled, earning an unamused look from Lizzy.

"It's for everybody's safety, you'd need to learn really advanced magic in order to be able to get past the tasks, I doubt anybody with the age below 17 would be able to do it." she pointed out as the Ravenclaw hummed in agreement, "I agree with Liz, Dumbledore just mentioned how past champions ended up dying, I'd rather not watch people die for a tournament."

"SILENCE!" Dumbledore shouted forcefully. The hall instantly fell silent, some of them a little stunned by the old wizard's forcefulness.

"Thank you." Dumbledore thanked gently. He grabbed his wand and turned to the casket, giving it three taps causing the lid to open. He reached into the casket and removed a wooden cup, above it danced with blue white flames.

Soft gasps could be heard across the hall as everybody's eyes were now glued to the cup. "The Goblet of Fire. Anybody wishing to submit themselves to the Tournament need only write their name upon a piece of parchment and drop it into the flames within the next twenty-four hours." Dumbledore instructed before giving a stern glare to the hall.

"Do not do so lightly. If chosen, there is no turning back. As of this moment..the Triwizard Tournament has begun."

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Students filed out of the Great Hall, the group of Ravenclaws were back reunited with the Golden trio and some more friendly Gryffindors, "Reckon Dumbledore'll let us join?" Fred mused as George nodded, "Yeah, besides we're just a few months away from turning 17."

The bushy-haired girl rolled her eyes and scoffed, "Dumbledore's set up an age line around the Goblet, nobody past the age of seventeen would be able to cross the line." she pointed out but it didn't seem to stop the twins, instead encourage them.

"Oh just you wait for what we have in mind." Fred retaliated smugly to which Y/N and Caleb snickered at, "You two are always coming up with ways to get in trouble, aren't you?" Y/N mused as she shook her head disapprovingly, "To be honest It's quite surprising you're still allowed in Hogwarts."

Fred and George laughed as they motioned to both of the Ravenclaw's side, swinging their arms around her shoulder, George leaned down slightly to the girl's ear, "Wait til you see the new products we came up with." he teased in a whisper so that no one else could hear.

"Alright, see you lot tomorrow!" Fred called out as he and George turned a different corridor, waving back at the group as they returned the gesture.

"They never learn do they?" Lizzy huffed. "Known them my whole life, never changed." Ron mused as the rest of the group snickered in response. Y/N motioned next to the bushy-haired girl and instinctively wrapped her arm around her waist, sending her girlfriend a dreamy smile to which she returned.

"You ate well?" Y/N questioned genuinely as the bushy-haired girl replied with a nod, "I've learnt other ways to help the house-elves." she pointed out, earning a curious look from the Ravenclaw, "and what's that?"

Though, the bushy-haired girl didn't respond, "You'll find out." she mused with a playful shrug, though the Ravenclaw was about to continue and ask another question before being interrupted by a tap on her shoulder.

She lifted her head and stopped walking, a smile flashed on her face as she recognized the girl standing in front, "Oh, Hi, Angelique. Is there something you need?" she questioned sincerely, not noticing the scowl forming on her girlfriend's face.

Angelique grinned and nodded, flickering her gaze between Y/N and Hermione in her hold, "Yes, I've heard of ze spectacular library of yours, would you mind bringing me?"

The Ravenclaw glanced to her girlfriend, silently asking for permission to which the bushy-haired girl agreed to with a forceful smile, "Sure, I don't see why not."

"Thank you very much, you're a kind soul.." Angelique thanked and glanced over to the bushy-haired girl with a sweet smile, "Thank you too, miss..?"

"Ah, she's Hermione Granger..my girlfriend." Y/N beamed, though Angelique had a somewhat surprised expression, "Bien sûr! Nice to meet you, Hermione." she greeted to which the bushy-haired girl hesitantly reciprocated with a forced smile, "You too...."

"Angelique. Angelique Duval." Angelique mentioned, still keeping her smile. Suddenly, a red-haired boy appeared from the side, extending his arm out desperately, "Hi, I'm Ronald Bilius Weasley. Nice to meet you." he spluttered out dreamily while Caleb and Aidan snickered.

Angelique smile turned into a forceful one as she let out a nervous laugh, hesitantly shaking the red-haired boy's hand, "Pleasure to meet you." she greeted, though the red-haired boy only stared at the girl, still shaking their hands.

Then, Harry appeared at the boy's side, snickering at his best friend before tugging him back on the shoulder, "Okay, Ron that's enough." he instructed as he pulled Ron back, finally letting go of Angelique's hand.

The Beauxbaton's face lit up as she recognized the raven-haired boy, "You must be ze um..Harry Potter?" she asked curiously, the raven-haired boy smiled and nodded, a nervous laugh escaped his lips, "Yeah..that's me."

"Lovely, Y/N's told me about you back at ze feast, say you both are like ze siblings, yes?" she mentioned to which the Ravenclaw and the raven-haired boy nodded at, "I guess you could say that." Harry replied with a slight shrug.

Y/N cleared her throat as she dropped her arm around the bushy-haired girl to turn and face her group of friends, "You guys go ahead, I'll bring Angelique to the library." she told as the group except Hermione nodded and waved a 'bye' to Angelique before leaving.

Hermione took the opportunity and scowled at the Beauxbaton girl's back before motioning next to the Ravenclaw and pecking her on the cheek, "Come find me later?" she questioned as the Ravenclaw shook her head, "It'll be late, how about you go to bed, I'll see you tomorrow, Okay?"

The bushy-haired girl flashed her girlfriend a pout before letting out a soft 'hmph' causing the Ravenclaw to snicker before cupping the side of her cheek, "Don't act grumpy, Angel. I promise tomorrow I'm all yours, well before the announcement of the champions, of course."

The bushy-haired girl sighed before hesitantly nodding, "Fine, I'll see you tomorrow." she grumbled lowly. "There you go." Y/N mused as she pecked her girlfriend on the forehead before waving her goodbye.

She turned to Angelique to her side and flashed a friendly grin, "The library right?" she questioned, earning a nod from the girl as they walked down the corridor.

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"pas possible! All this books!" Angelique gasped, stunned at the amount of books in front of her eyes. Y/N snickered at the girl's reaction, "I know..when I first saw the library, it was quite the magical experience." she chuckled as she walked down the middle, passing by a few aisle's of books before glancing back over her shoulder.

A proud smirk formed on her lips as she watched Angelique gawking the racks of books with a dreamy look, "Are you coming? Or yo'd prefer standing there." she teased playfully, causing the girl to snap back to reality and speed walked next to the Ravenclaw.

"There's tons of books you can find here, covering almost everything you can think of." Y/N stated as she turned down to one of the aisle's. "Students would usually come here often for homework or for bookworms, they'd come here almost everyday just to do some light reading." she continued as she ran her fingers across the leather spines of the books.

Her finger landed on one book that caused her lips to curl up to a smile, Hogwarts: A History, she took the book out of the rack and turned to Angelique, "Go ahead, grab anything you find interest in, I'll wait for you over at the table, there."

Angelique smiled and nodded as she scanned through the titles of each book, the Ravenclaw smiled proudly at the sight before approaching the table, dragging the chair out and sat herself down. She placed the book in front of her, her fingers softly rubbing over the gold lettering of the book.

Her smile widened at the thought of a particular girl, known as her girlfriend. She flipped the book open and started scanning through the first few pages, before a thud sounded in front of her, instinctively lifting her head as a stunned expression flashed across her face.

"Isn't that a little...too much?" she murmured as she eyed the large stack of books in front of her, Angelique's face was barely visible as she took a seat behind her stack, moving it to the side and grinned at the Ravenclaw, "I couldn't help myself, vere's so much variety, vhis library, it is really fantastique!"

Y/N watched the girl amusingly as she flipped through a very thick book, though Y/N didn't recognize it, part of the reason's because it's in french. Curiously she leaned forward slightly, eyebrows furrowed together as she scanned through the foreign words, "What's the book about?"

Angelique glanced up from her book with a surprised expression, "Zis?" she questioned, lifting up the pointing towards the thick french book in front of her, the Ravenclaw gave her a nod. "Zit's about famous witches from Beauxbaton, zeir individual stories on zeir success." she pointed out as she flipped another page of the book.

"I didn't know we had books about other schools..." the Ravenclaw hummed as she watched the moving pictures of some french witches in the book, though Angelique started snickering at the girl along with a few clicks of her tongue, "Isn't zis your school's library?"

The Ravenclaw rolled her eyes playfully as she leaned back to her seat, "Teasing now are we?" she retaliated to which Angelique chuckled at. The Ravenclaw sighed as she ran her fingers across the leather case of the book she had took, slowly flipping it open, not realizing a smile that formed on her lips.

"And what's zat your reading?" Angelique questioned curiously, placing her head onto her palm, her elbow propped up against the table for support. The Ravenclaw grinned as she turned the book over, allowing the girl to read the front cover.

"Hogwarts: Za History.." Angelique hummed to which the Ravenclaw nodded at. "You seem to like zis book a lot, I noticed you smiling vhen reading." she pointed out, the Ravenclaw let out a nervous chuckle as she turned the book back facing her.

Smiling down on the book before letting out a dreamy sigh, "It's just...." Y/N trailed off, glancing up to the girl across, "It's my girlfriend's favorite book. She reads it all the time." she stated, not realizing the wide grin on her face that Angelique smirked at.

"I can see you really love her." Angelique assured as the Ravenclaw felt her cheeks heat up, a subtle tint of pink showing. Angelique snickered at the girl's embarrassed state, though she shot her a reassuring grin,"Your girlfriend, is very lucky to have you."

The Ravenclaw let out a breathless laugh and shook her head, "No, I'm the lucky one, honestly I don't know how I managed to make the brightest witch of our age fall in love with me, I really don't." she mentioned, earning a knowing look from Angelique.

"Seriously! Like have you seen her? She's the most prettiest girl I've ever seen, could you believe that she'd fall for someone like me? Like could you? She aces all her test, tops her grades every time, saved me and Harry's life multiple times already, she's really just brilliant." Y/N continued to ramble on.

At that moment, Y/N poured her heart out, rambling non stop about the bushy-haired girl, though Angelique didn't find the girl annoying, rather amusing as she listened intently to every word she had to say.

Even though, The Ravenclaw just met Angelique in a day, that doesn't stop her from thinking that Angelique would be a really good friend. She enjoyed how for once, she was the one expressing her feelings towards somebody, she liked how Angelique was there to listen.

Even though it's mainly about her girlfriend she found it impressive to how Angelique would give her her full attention despite the topic not having anything to do with her. The Ravenclaw knew that Angelique would be a good friend to have, one that'll last long.

But not everybody thought the same about Angelique.....

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