A Hope through time/ Hope Mikaelson in hp and teen wolf

For the next two weeks the Wizarding World was ablaze with articles about Lady Emrys and her intentions in the Daily Prophet every day.

Daphne found the whole thing amusing and actually started collecting the articles and placing them into a scrapbook which frustrated Hope as some of them were labelled, 'Lady Emrys: What's underneath the cloak?' and 'Who is Lady Emrys going to target next?'.

"At least they aren't as lewd as I would make them out to be." Daphne remarked with a smile as she packed her compartment getting ready for the school year while Hope had already packed last night with a snap of her fingers and had her trunk in her pocket with a weightless and shrinking charm on it.

"I'm almost afraid to ask. But then again I'm a sucker for punishment. What have you got?" Hope asked from the bed as she applied some shading to her sketch of Fleur and Gabrielle from the Duelling tournament.

Daphne appeared in front of Hope with her hands bracing themselves to either side of Hope's body as the Tribrid lowered her sketchbook slightly so she could look at her Mate's beautiful ice-blue eyes.

"Hmmm… I was thinking, 'What is Lady Emrys' interest in the school children of Hogwarts?' or 'Lady Emrys saves a pair of cute Veela's. How ever can they repay her?'" The blonde sultry drawed out before planting a kiss on Hope's shocked open mouth before using her teeth and lightly pulling on Hope's bottom lip before letting go and moving through her room again to pack her bag.

After a minute or so Hope composed herself and raised her sketchbook in front of her before muttering under her breath. "Fucking minx."

The Greengrass Heiress chuckled at Hope's awkwardness as she closed her compartment and shrunk it, placing it in her jean pocket before rejoining Hope. Daphne peered over the sketchbook to see who or what Hope was drawing and smiled at the image of Fleur and Gabrille embracing one another. It reminded her a lot of herself and Astoria.

"They're really photogenic aren't they?" Daphne chuckled at Hope.

The Tribrid scoffed lightly. "I had to redo them nearly 6 times until I was happy with it. Fucking perfect genetics. I blame their Veela sides."

Daphne laughed as she snapped her fingers, summoning her own artbook and opening it to a page with Gabrielle and Astoria with mischievous little grins on their faces as they ran circles around Nicolas.

Hope looked over and laughed jovially. "I nearly forgot that. I may have to copy that idea later."

"Sure thing. But if you do you need to give a copy or two to Stori. She really likes them and sends a copy to Gabrielle." Daphne responds with a smirk showing from the corner of her mouth.

Hope shared a look with her girlfriend. "Oh? Is there something going on there? Or is it purely platonic?"

"Stori looks like a love-sick puppy but she also knows that it will be platonic until Gabrielle goes through her Magical Maturity. So I guess we'll find out eventually." Daphne gossiped with an excited smile on her face.

"Aww. That's so cute." Hope replied with a genuine smile on her face.

The girls heard footsteps coming to their door and Hope closed her book lightly before using her magic to transport it into her trunk as she stood up, pulling Daphne up with her. They met Annabeth and Nicolas at the door while Marcus and Perenelle picked up Astoria from her room.

"Ready my beautiful girl?" Annabeth asked as she placed a hand on Daphne's cheek and stroked her daughter's skin.

Daphne smiled, placing a hand over her mother's before leaning into it. "Yeah mum."

Annabeth looked over to Nicolas for a moment as she quietly mentioned with glistening eyes. "Sweet Merlin. They grow up so fast. How are you not breaking down?"

"Yeah dad. Aren't you gonna cry?" Hope teased the older wizard.

"Brat." Came the instant reply from Nicolas' mouth before his expression changed to something soft, "But I will tell you that I'm so proud of you and what you're going to do."

Hope smiled at Nicolas before walking forward and pulling him into a hug. "Thanks Nic."

As they got into the living room with the fireplace, everyone exchanged hugs and words of encouragement.

Astoria blocked the way to the fireplace with a cheeky smile. "Hey Daph?"

A hum came from the aforementioned girl. "Yeah Stori?"

"Can you tell us how Hope's going to compete in the Tri-Wizard Tournament?"

Hope groaned as she placed her head on the taller girl's shoulder while they shook in laughter.

"Sorry Stori. But I'm as much in the dark as you are. Hope wants to surprise everyone but I'll admit I'm a little curious too. How does one place their name in the Goblet of Fire while it's protected by an age-line created by Headmaster Dumblebore, the Greatest Sorcerer to ever live?" Daphne remarked with a sarcastic smile.

Strangely enough, Daphne had asked Hope on how she would enter herself but Hope stayed stubbornly quiet on the subject. A pout came onto Astoria's face as she looked at Hope.

Hope covered her eyes with a hand as she moved around Astoria collecting some Floo Powder. "Nope. I'm not looking at that pout. It's a weapon of mass destruction and I will not be affected this time."

Hope stood in the fireplace and threw down the Powder while calling out. "Platform 9 and three quarters."

The last thing Hope heard as the green fire covered her was a chorus of laughter and Daphne's exasperated remark. "It really is a dangerous pout."

A delicate hand wrapped around Hope's wrist the second she materialised from the platform Floo Network and pulled her out of the fireplace, a blonde head leading her towards the red Hogwarts Express.

Hope normally would have yanked her arm back before kicking the person who touched her into the next century, but she could smell the spring water, grass clipping and cherry blossom, allowing her to avoid using her first instinct to protect herself.

"Good morning Luna. How was the rest of your holiday?" Hope asked as she boarded the train with the 3rd year Ravenclaw student.

"Morning Hope! I enjoyed the holidays but my father and I were unable to find a humanoid spider."

Hope let a full body shiver wash all over her. "Ugh. Arachne's suck and their guts take like 5 washes to get out of your hair and rub off your skin."

Bright eyes turned to Hope as Luna corroded the Tribrid into a compartment behind her and forced her to sit down on the seat. "Tell me! Please?"

A set of silvery-blue eyes pouted up at her and Hope grumbled under her breath before lifting up her hand to erect a privacy ward.

Instead Luna's hand came to rest on top of Hope's, "Don't do that. We're going to have company later." The young seer mentioned happily.

Hope lowered her arm back down to her lap. "Alright. So an Arachne has some interesting attributes like being able to spin incredibly sticky webs to encase their prey, their feed is very similar to a Vampire bite and probably the most disturbing fact of the creature as it's venom liquifies all internal organs, muscles and bones. The other thing that disturbs me is that they strip off the skin of a human and wear it to blend in. The spider is able to get around completely unnoticed. It creeped us out when we saw it mascarding with half of a face at school. Half spider, half human face, not a pretty sight."

"But you were able to stop it with the twin Siphoners help?" Luna asked as she cuddled into Hope's side.

Hope tossed an arm around Luna's shoulders and pulled her into her body.

"How are you always so cold, little moon?" Hope asked as she rubbed Luna's shoulder as the other girl shrugged.

"As for stopping it, technically we didn't. We killed it. Blew it up into little spider bits with orange goop. It was gross. Lizzie was so pissed about getting gooped with spider guts while Josie tried to placate her sister, to keep her calm." Hope admitted with a longing smile as she recalled the conversation between the twins.

After a few moments of quiet Luna whispered solemnly. "You miss them."

Hope hummed as she tightened her grip on Luna. "Surprisingly, yes. I may have only recently become friends with them but I've known the twins basically my whole life. It's weird. Not knowing what happened to them. I mean Josie had been shot by something that would have eaten away at her body and turned her into mud. I told Dr Saltzman to use my blood to heal Josie but I just don't know if he got there in time. Stupid Malivore memory wipe."

Luna reached over and took Hope's other hand within her own.

"Your friends are alive. You saved them." Luna informed her friend with the weight of the world on her shoulders before continuing with a slightly concerned face, "Lizzie, Josie, Dr Saltzman, Landon, MG are all fine… However Raf seems to be… stuck? I don't know… All I feel from him is primal instincts."

Hope was pleased that everyone was okay but when she heard about Raf a look of guilt crossed her face. "Crap! Raf used my kyanite ring to turn himself into a Wolf. He won't be able to transform back without me! Fuck!"

The blonde sighed as she buried herself into Hope. "It's not your fault Hope. You didn't know."

The train had been moving for nearly an hour while the girl's sat in the compartment, just sitting in silence as Luna comforted the time travelling girl as Hope began a new sketch of her friends from her old world.

The sketch showed them in an assembly 'v' pattern with Hope at the front followed by Josie and Lizzie. In the next row there were 5 boys. A tough looking latino kid with glowing gold eyes, a tall mocha skinned boy also with glowing eyes, a bonsai haired boy with fiery wings expanding from his back, then there were two black kids one with afro like hair and the other had dreadlocks.

Hope told Luna about her friends as she went over them, when Hope went over the sketch with Luna from left to right. The first Werewolf was Jed, then Raf, Landon was in the middle, a human Phoenix, the last two were Vampires MG and Kaleb.

Hope could literally feel Myrddin's invisible murderous gaze on Landon and rolled her eyes at the Phoenix before Luna nudged the black bird lightly, pouting at the midnight coloured bird who let out a quiet thrill and turned his head away. Alexandria was dozing on Hope's other shoulder ever so often she let out a little snoring sound which sent out tiny sparks of crackling lightning across her sunlight body.

Thankfully this didn't bother Hope or Luna since the powerful time travelling girl was able to conceal both of the bird's elemental powers when they overflowed from their smaller feathered bodies.

A knock at the door startled Hope out of her serene environment and looked up to the door as it slid open. Susan, Neville, Tracey and Daphne appeared at the door, Hope almost dropped her jaw in shock when she saw the group. It seemed that the children of the Most Ancient and Noble Houses were gathering for some reason but she didn't know why.

"Hey Luna, do you mind if we ask you a few questions about Lady Emrys?" Susan asked the younger blonde.

Luna waved them in, "Sure. But I don't know how much help I can be." The young Ravenclaw girl mentioned.

The three Heirs sat on the seat opposite to Hope and Luna while Tracey remained standing next to Daphne, a silent observer.

"Thank you Luna." Susan replied with a small smile.

"Have you been in contact with Lady Emrys since she sent Myrddin to protect you?" Neville asked politely while Myrddin's head popped up to attention at his name.

Hope stared at Daphne in disbelief at the events unfolding before her eyes as she listened to Luna's response. "I have been in contact with her."

The Bones and Longbottom Heirs were smiling as they heard that reply.

"Do you know when she will be making another appearance? She's been incredibly difficult to get a hold of." Susan asked as she leaned forward in the seat slightly.

Daphne looked up at Tracey who met her best friend's ice coloured eyes before she glanced at the seat next to Hope, then looked back at Tracey with an expecting glance. The brown haired girl sighed but acquiesced to Daphne's silent request moving over to sit opposite Daphne but next to Hope.

Hope's eyes widened in shock as the brunette sat next to her and Daphne scoffed in Hope's mind. 'Don't be an ass to her or I'll kick your ass.'

Hope's gaze turned to Daphne for a moment and blinked once before returning her attention back to the ridiculous situation at hand.

"Lady Emrys mentioned that she would be making her presence known more by the end of this year. I believe that she's considering making an appearance during the End of Year Wizengamot session this year." Luna admitted as she drew shapes on the window with a smile on her face.

"Really?" The red haired girl exclaimed excitedly.

'How did this conversation even come into play?' Hope curiously asked her girlfriend.

Daphne kept her attention on Luna but replied to Hope with a playfulness in her voice while Luna hummed in approval. 'Why don't you ask and find out darling. Or will you find it too difficult to talk about yourself?'

Hope mentally sighed at her Mate before looking at Susan and asked. "Why are you looking for Lady Emrys?"

Susan brought her gaze to Hope. "I need to find her because she killed someone who wronged my family. My aunt and I want to thank her but we haven't been able to send any letters to her. She must have taken the Heir of Slytherin thing pretty hard to stop replying to letters. When we asked the Emrys Proxy, the Goblin King Ragnok, he told us that Lady Emrys had banned all letters going to her. We asked if he could relay a message but we don't know if she's received it."

Hope looked around the compartment subtly before she returned her attention to Susan and mouthed, 'Avery?' with a regretful look.

Susan gave a small nod with unshed tears in her eyes which she rubbed away quickly before turning to face Daphne as the blonde Heiress picked up the red haired girl's hand and held it gently.

"Oh." Hope murmured before looking towards Neville, "So Nev, what about you? Why are you so interested in this woman?"

Susan smirked as she let out a chuff of laughter. "Yeah Nev, why are you so interested in Lady Emrys? Do you think your grandmother will try and write up a betrothal contract between you and Lady Emrys?"

Neville's face became red and Hope groaned loudly as Susan bursted out laughing, throwing herself against Daphne to chortle into her shoulder.

"Wait. What's this?" Daphne asked curiously.

Hope clammed up and stared blankly out of the window. Neville buried his head in knees, blocking out the sounds around him as he stuttered out inconceivable words.

Susan lifted up her head and looked at Daphne with a ridiculous smile as she relayed the events to Daphne. "At the Quidditch World Cup, Hope was with me, Neville, auntie and Madam Longbotttom. We were chatting about Hope joining the Auror Academy soon and if Hope could convince you to join Daph."

Daphne just nods as she follows the story but looks at Hope's stoic face before her facial features morphed into a frown for a microsecond as she thought 'so that's why Hope doesn't like when I use the ice mask'.

The blonde looks back to Susan as she continues her story. "Anyway, Neville's gran was so impressed by Hope that she literally offered Mr and Mrs Fell, Hope's parents, a betrothal contract between Hope and Neville."

Daphne blinked once, then twice.

The Greengrass Heiress's head turned ever so slowly to face Hope but the Tribrid wanted no part in this conversation so she whispered into Luna's ear in ancient Norwegian. "How long until we can get off this train?"

"Not long enough for you to avoid this conversation." Hope looked pleadingly at the younger girl.

"About 2 hours, 39 minutes and 4 seconds." Luna answered with a roll of her eyes.

"About?" Hope replied with mirth in her tone.

"Go answer your wife. She looks pissed."

Hope chanced a glance at Daphne before freezing in fear and raising both hands in the air in a sign of defeat. "If it helps, my parents turned down the request cordially and respectfully without angering Madam Longbottom. I think she was just trying to embarrass Neville."

Susan hummed slightly as she tried to stop laughing. "That's true. I think Hope's first reaction was to show that Hope was already engaged by showing her the ring Hope wears."

Tracey's eyes widened at this and subtly glanced down to Hope's left hand and sure enough there was a silver ring with a sea blue heart-shaped gem in the centre being cradled within an infinity symbol.

Daphne's expression became lighter when she heard what Hope's first instinct was.

"Aw. You're engaged and you never told anyone in Slytherin. Tsk, tsk. Whatever will the house think of you?" Came Daphne's snarky response.

"Like they'd care." Hope muttered honestly.

"I think they would." Luna mentioned in a cheerful voice before adding, "I'm more surprised that no one in Slytherin noticed that you also are wearing a ring, Daphne. Are you betrothed to someone?"

When three sets of eyes landed on Daphne she fidgeted in her seat slightly. "Yes. I am. But I'm not saying who it is. Just know that my father has even given his blessing to this person."

Luckily Daphne wasn't trying to hide the betrothal ring, it had 3 sky-blue stones, like the colour of the blonde's eyes, in a triangular pattern on a golden band.

"How in Merlin's name did I miss that?" Tracey questioned in complete shock. Neville and Susan both made a croaking sound in the backs of their throats.

While those three kids were mumbling to themselves about the rings their friends were wearing. Hope gave a small poke in Luna's side making her giggle while Daphne had an exasperated look on her face that her ice mask just couldn't hide.

"Hang on." The brunette girl beside Hope called out before turning Hope's way, "Mikaelson? Why don't you seem surprised that Daph is wearing a betrothal ring?"

Hope noticed that when the girl with the light green eyes hidden behind a pair of glasses said her last name it wasn't in contempt which weirdly enough put Hope on edge since this is the first time she and Tracey had ever spoken to one another.

Hope softly cleared her throat before answering. "That's because I did know. It's a bit hard not to notice when you're in a Duelling class with only 3 people in the room and you've already memorised where everything is in the room."

"So you started taking notice of Daphne?" Neville asked quietly from the corner of the compartment against the window.

Hope just hummed in agreement instead of answering as she knew something wildly inappropriate would leave her mouth if she answered that question. Thankfully no one asked Hope to expand on that and she let out a relieved breath at her luck.

Hope looked around at the occupants of the compartment and let out a small laugh drawing everyone's attention with furrowed expressions and Hope apologised. "Sorry guys. I just noticed something amusing."

Daphne arched an eyebrow at her secret girlfriend.

"And what was that Hope?" She asked using the copper haired girl's first name partially because she forgot and simply because it felt right.

Hope smiled genuinely at the other occupants and they all began to smile back as well, apparently they never noticed that Hope's had such a charming smile that was infectious causing everyone else to smile along, even Tracey.

"It's just that, this is probably the only compartment on the train with at least one member of each Hogwarts house in it while the remaining seats are filled with snakes. Never thought I'd see the day House Unity was a possibility." Hope remarked.

Daphne chuckled into her hand and shook her head in amusement, Luna giggled into Hope's side while the remaining students looked around and let out a sudden burst of laughter, Susan's laughter was louder and more cheerful than her friends.

"I never even noticed." Susan replied before leaning forwards to Hope and questioned her in conspiracy, "So now that the Slytherin's outnumber us 3 to 1 whatever will you do with us Miss Mikaelson."

This caused Susan and Neville to snicker as they couldn't hold back the ridiculousness of the question while Hope rolled her eyes. Daphne once again shook her head and sighed, Tracy just blinked as she opened and closed her mouth in shock.

However Luna lifted her head up with a smile on her face and blurted out in excitement. "She'll offer us some Butterbeers and confund us to dance on tabletops."

Hope gaped at Luna for a second wondering if it was a vision or just a quip, the cheeky smile gave the younger blonde away and the Tribrid let out a snorted laughter. "God I hope not. Just imagine the scandalous newspaper articles that would be produced."

The entire compartment exploded into another round of laughter before calming down and just talking amongst themselves.

The jerking motion of the compartment door opening, shocking half of the occupants in the compartment while the other three who were able to sense magic, let out a mental sigh.

A smug voice came from the door. "Well if it isn't the sad little Mudblood of the great house of Slytherin." As he was joined by Crabbe and Goyle, although Crabbe seemed to hold an air of sorrow around him.

The group in the compartment glared at the intruders bar Tracey who looked over at Daphne's very visible, menacing stare and the other girl drew in a sharp breath of air at the intensity of magic swirling around her friend.

"Get out Malfoy." Came the words spoken from the Gryffindor boy in contempt.

The blonde Slytherin boy sneered at Neville. "I wasn't speaking to you, Blood Traitor."

Before turning his head back to the Muggleborn Slytherin. "Can't even stand up for yourself anymore, Gryffindor whore."

He looked past Hope and saw Luna curled up around the coppery auburn haired girl. "Or perhaps you're more of an abomination than I thought. Loony Lovegood. How pathetic."

"Draco." Hope simply said without a single emotion in her voice before meeting his eyes. "If you don't leave in the next 10 seconds with your little boyfriends I will make the Duel you had against me last year feel like child's play, and I don't think you'll live to tell the tale. Because your voice will be so hoarse from all the screaming that you won't be able to open your mouth without remembering the exact pain you went through and your throat will bleed at the thought of uttering a single sound."

The entire compartment and the intruders all looked at Hope in astonishment at the brutality of Hope's threat while Draco on the other hand paled significantly.

Hope tilted her head slightly as another thought came to mind as she edged forward on her seat. "And Malfoy? Next time you come into a compartment maybe you should realise that the 3 students on that seat are all members of Most Ancient and Noble Houses. I've learnt if you threaten or speak ill of someone from a Most Ancient and Noble House or higher. They can enforce a Duel with that person and they also have the option of allowing someone else to Duel on their behalf if they agree."

Draco's eyes widened as he truly took in all the occupants of the compartment before turning to look at Hope who had an evil glint in her eye. "So. How about you keep that in mind and leave before I ask if Neville would like to arrange a Duel with you. I'm fairly certain he could think of something that you had done to him to organise an Honour Duel."

The blonde boy gave a gulp before looking at Neville who seemed to start smiling like Yule had come early, he looked back at the Slytherin Mudblood not believing that she was able to outmanoeuvre him.

"Wait til my father hears about this you filthy Mudblood!" He shouted at her before slamming the door shut.

The trip was completely silent for the next few minutes as they tried not to look in Hope's direction, however Hope and Daphne were having a mental conversation, practically ignoring the rest of the room as Daphne applauded her Mate while telling her how hot it was to watch Hope verbally spank Draco.

"Is that true?" A small voice came from the window.

Hope's ears picked up the sound before turning to look at Neville with a questioning look on her face. "About being able to offer a Duel and have someone stand in for me?"

"Yeah. It is." Daphne answered the other Heir's question.

"Professor Flitwick told me about it, seeing as I could call this rule into effect. But he also warned me that using someone else to fight your battles socially belittles your House. So we really shouldn't do it… But then again Malfoy won't know that fact." The blonde girl explained.

"You wouldn't actually follow through on that threat, right?" Susan asked with a tremble in her voice.

Hope shook her head slightly.

"For taunting me. Definitely not. I just make my stipulation of the Duel include Draco being unable to insult anyone ever again or lose his magic." Hope answered with a light smile, "Although it would be amusing to watch Draco in the No-Maj world."

Daphne's face screwed up as she regarded Hope. "No-Maj? Really?"

Hope shrugged before smiling again. "Yeah. I was born in America and I prefer the term No-Maj over Muggle."

"Where did you even hear that term?" Daphne questioned with a shake of her head.

"In the Double Competition. Remember the last two competitors we versed? Nathan Redwood and Jason Smith?" Hope recalled to Daphne who nodded slightly before sighing.

"Right. Those two were from Ilvermorny in America." The blonde responded as she stood up with Tracey when they felt the train come to a stop.

"We have to go. See you all in the Great Hall." The blonde said her goodbyes before leaving.

"Bye Daph/ne." Come the mixed replies. "Bye Tracey."

Tracey awkwardly stood in the door before waving her goodbye and mumbling, "Uh, yeah, bye guys."

Hope was sitting with the new 1st year students for the Welcoming Feast, since none of the kids knew who she was or that she was the outcast of Slytherin House. The kids stared in shock as they watched the older girl happily pile towers of food onto her plate before Dumbledore would read out the announcements for this year.

An argument broke out a couple of tables over from the Golden Trio as Hope watched as Hermione was waving her arms around in distraught as she was explaining something to the other Gryffindor students. The light auburn haired girl turned her hearing towards the other table, to find out what had made the book-worm so angry that she was throwing such a terrible fuss.

Apparently it was about the topic of House Elves and how badly they were treated. Hope sighed to herself as she ate some roasted potatoes covered in gravy before she heard Ron's obnoxious voice and tuned the red headed boy out before continuing with her meal.

Dumbledore had stood up from the long table at the head of the Great Hall and walked slowly around the table to the podium to make his announcements for this year. As he made his way from the end of the table to the stage, the food on the tables disappeared causing some of the students around Hope to groan as they had empty forks in their hands that were moving towards their mouths for another bite. Hope smiled slightly at the table in amusement as she recalled this happening to her during her first year.

The sound of a throat clearing brought everyone's attention to the podium and all the students went silent as they peered up at the Headmaster.

"Welcome all to another year of Hogwarts or for some of you welcome to your first year of magic." Dumbledore's grandfatherly voice called out and the students gave a polite round of applause.

"Yes. Yes. Thank you. However I have some very important announcements to make. First off there will be no Quidditch this year."

An eruption of angry voices roared out at the news, the loudest coming from the dismayed Weasley twins, "Boo!", "That's rubbish!, "This is outrageous!" "How dare you good Sir!"

Hope snorted at the last one as Dumbledore spent the next 5 minutes trying to calm down the upset crowd.

Hope felt the spell that Dumbledore cast silently on himself and her eyes went wide as she cast her own silent and wandless spell around herself, silencing the area around her as a booming, "QUIET!" Was shouted out by Dumbledore with the help of a soronus charm.

Hope shut off her own spell and removed her hands from over her ears as she didn't want a repeat of bleeding ears from busted eardrums.

A crack of thunder boomed from above her as the magical sky became dark and stormy, Hope groaned as she replaced her hands over her ears and glared at the ceiling. Moments later, a purple-ish coloured spell hit the magical ceiling, turning the atmosphere back to being calm and starry.

Hope looked over to the door located next to the Professors to see 'Mad Eye' Moody. Hope narrowed her eyes at the imposter, she glared at the man as he staggered his way to the head of the faculty table, his prosthetic leg clattering as with each second step with a loud wooden thunking noise.

Faux-Moody shook Dumbledore's hand and clapped him on the shoulder.

"It's good to see you again, old friend." The elderly white haired wizard greeted with a kind smile.

Barty Crouch Jr returned the greeting with a snarky quip. "Stupid ceiling, right?"

Crouch only stayed standing for a moment as he made his way back to the table, there were silent murmurs from the kids as they made quiet comments about 'Mad Eye' Moody. The Professor's eyes followed their new colleague as the one-legged man moved to the table to sit down next to Hagrid, who shuffled slightly to the side to give room to the other man.

Dumbledore called out. "This is Alastor Moody. Our new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. I hope you will all give him a warm welcome."

The crowd clapped cautiously, some more than others, like the Slytherins.

When Hope noticed 'Moody's' gaze on Harry she frowned uncomfortably as she wrapped her magic subconsciously around the invisible rings on her fingers. Hope's magic also stretched out to Myrddin, Alexandria, Cassandra and most importantly, her magic covered Daphne's rings.

Daphne gave a light shudder as she felt Hope's magic flow over her, 'What's wrong?' The blonde asked in skepticism in Hope's mind.

'I forgot about the magical eye… I don't trust it.' Hope pointed out with cautionary vigilance as Daphne could literally feel Hope's paranoia nearly overtaking the blonde's own emotions.

"Now. As I was saying, the reason we have cancelled the Quidditch Cup this year is because we are to have the honour of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event that has not been held for over a century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Tri-Wizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year." Dumbledore announced with a cheerful grin on his face as the students started murmuring to one another in excitement.

"We will be hosting two schools, one from France, the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and the other is the Durmstrang Institute from Germany. These schools will be arriving on the 30th of October, just one day before we will be announcing the competitors of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. I will also give another announcement during the Welcoming Feast to inform everyone how the competitors enter their name into the Tournament." Dumbledore explained.

As he turned to walk back to the table, Dumbledore put up a finger and walked back to the stage. "Oh, I almost forgot. Only students who are as of age from the 31st of October, will be able to compete in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, due to the numerous amount of deaths in previous Tournaments."

There was another roar of angry grumbling at the indignity of not including any students under the age of 17 as they thought that it was unfair, once again the loudest complainers were Fred and George Weasley.

In the meantime Professor Flitwick made his way to the podium and conjured some books to act as steps, Hope shook her head slightly as she watched Flitwick walk up the books. Hope really despised when people disrespected books.

So Hope had discussed this with Flitwick in the past, but Flitwick had mentioned in confidence that the books were blank and that the image of him standing on the books made him seem more intelligent somehow. Hope tried to come back with a response but she had none causing the half Goblin to chuckle at her.

The little Professor shot off a cannon sound from his wand drawing the attention of the student body, causing them to stop speaking.

"I apologise for the interruption but I have some good news to share about a couple of our students." Came the happy voice from the Charms Professor while Hope groaned quietly under her breath and Daphne closed her eyes in impending embarrassment.

'Remind me to kick his ass during Duelling class.' Daphne remarked in annoyance to Hope. An answering hum came from the Tribrid as she agreed completely with the blonde's threat.

"I wish to call both Daphne Greengrass and Hope Mikaelson up to the stage." The squeaky voice requested as the girls begrudgingly stood up and walked to the podium to join Flitwick. Hope stood to the right of Flitwick facing towards the Hufflepuff and Gryffindor students, Daphne stayed on the Slytherin side with the Ravenclaw's.

The girl's remained quiet and stared stoically straight ahead, ignoring the cheerful Professor as he continued. "Hopefully, as some of you may know. I had taken on a couple of students last year to mentor in Duelling. These students are Miss Mikaelson and Miss Greengrass."

The crowd remained silent but some of the students had proud looks on their faces, majorly the Hufflepuff's as they looked at Hope.

The Ravenclaws stayed mainly neutral but there were many students who felt ripped off, since their Head of House spent more time with the two Slytherin girls. Red-trimmed students were indifferent to the whole thing, except a few like Harry, Neville and Pravati who were smiling. Hope didn't know who had the bigger sneer on their face Ronald Weasley or the Slytherins but the green robed kids had mixed expressions of either contempt or polite clapping.

Flitwick cleared his throat.

"Anyhow, I would like to introduce our under 16's Duelling Champion Hope Mikaelson, as well as our own Youth Doubles Duelling Champions, Daphne Greengrass and Hope Mikaelson." The Charms Professor announced proudly as he began to clap his hands.

Surprisingly all the students were all clapping but the Slytherins took a moment as they looked to their Head of House for guidance and Snape started a very slow clap, like very slow almost as slow as a snail.

Hope shared a glance with Daphne who returned the look with annoyance in her eyes before turning back to the crowd with twin stoic expressions. Thankfully Flitwick didn't keep them up on stage for long and sent them back to their table.

As Hope rejoined the table the 1st years were looking at her with awe in their eyes. Hope suddenly felt self conscious as the stares of hero worship sent her way, the light auburn haired girl gulped as the students were released to go to their common rooms for the night.

Hope stood up quickly and walked off ahead of the rest of the Slytherins to join the Hufflepuffs as she felt safer with Susan and Hannah than the 1st year green and silver robed students.

"Hey Hope. How are you feeling?" Susan asked with a kind smile.

Hope grunted as she banged her head against Susan's shoulder, the red-headed girl let out an 'oof' as Hope's head landed solidly on her upper arm.

The Bones Heiress patted Hope's head gently, "Poor thing. Did Professor Flitwick embarrass you?" She teased the Tribrid.

Hope lifted her head and glared at the girl weakly. "Shut up."

Susan laughed at the Tribrid's displeasure as they made their way down to the Dungeons to join their housemates before they separated into their own common rooms.