Chapter 55: Ch. 61
Fleur found herself wandering the large hall decorated by Kalina for the Wedding Celebration. Traditionally for the Ancient and Noble Houses, these were held in the wizard's ancestral home. However, Sirius refused to do so and instead hired out a ballroom in a posh London hotel. Muggle repelling charms kept the non-magical from seeing things they shouldn't. The guests had been brought by Portkey from the ceremony to keep the magicals from wandering the hotel's halls.
A small smile crossed Fleur's lips. She wondered if Sirius or Potter had placed a magical-repelling ward up to keep the witches and wizards from wandering out to where they shouldn't go. It wouldn't surprise her after all she had seen here.
The hall was filled with an amazing assortment of witches and wizards in attendance. Standing in one corner were the Pureblood society members that attended due to the importance of the Black Family. Another corner consisted of a number of Veela friends and family of the bride. In between was the wedding party itself along with Potter's friends, their parents, and the Tonks family.
Fleur was particularly impressed to meet Andromeda Tonks. Here was a Pureblood witch that rejected high society's role for women to pursue her own career as a barrister, marry the man she loved even though he was Muggle-born so completely unacceptable by society's standards, and was completely successful as a wife and mother. It undoubtedly took great courage to give up her place in society but it could be done. Fleur hoped for a private conversation with the older witch some time during the night.
"I would be offended about my date losing me so often if you weren't my cousin." Fleur turned to see Alfonso approaching with a grin. "Fortunately, I am not that much a Pureblood."
"Just when I have some hope for you, Alfonso, you turn around and display yet some more of your uncouth American manners."
"Yes, so much better to act the haughty, uptight bitch débutante that treats everyone around them as the dirt beneath their shoes."
Fleur gave a mocking sigh. "So, we all have our roles to play. Just some of us are better in those roles than others." Al gave up and started to laugh at Fleur's ironic-toned response.
"Oh well done," he congratulated her. "Sirius set up another room for the 'younger' set to have their own party without the old farts butting in." He offered her his arm. "Care to check it out with me?"
Fleur would have to admit that Kalina's wedding reception was one of the better parties she had ever attended. Not only had she been able to speak with Andromeda Tonks, but she received an invitation to use Mrs Tonks as a reference if Fleur chose to pursue her own dream of applying to Gringots as an apprentice Curse-Breaker after completing school. Mrs. Tonks also introduced her to William Weasley. She'd been thrilled to learn the older wizard was already a Curse-breaker and just returned from an assignment in Egypt.
Fleur had also danced a bit with the tall, red-haired man with a rakish, bad-boy smile and a dragon-tooth piercing his ear. While not a great dancer, the wizard had shown a high-resistance to her Veela aura. William's intelligence and quick wit were also a pleasant surprise. Fleur decided that she could work with a wizard such as William Weasley. When she informed Kalina of this the bride smirked and suggested Fleur was looking to acquire an Englishman of her own. Which was patently absurd. English wizards were just too… uncultured. (Even if William was rather impressive to look at.)
Fleur wandered into the 'kiddie room' as the Potter boy dubbed it. It was time to make her exit and it was expected for her escort to accompany her from the reception. The sight that she found made her stop in shock.
Fred and George Weasley were known to the students of Beauxbatons. The Sixth year pranksters were responsible for charming away the knickers of all the French witches as they exited their carriage one morning in November. Another morning they found them speaking in Pig Latin every time they tried to speak in French. No one could prove they were responsible so they went unpunished but it was commonly known they were responsible.
Now the pranksters were passed out on the floor with a pair of empty firewhisky bottles between them.
"Ron, go ask Tonks to come in here," Potter directed his friend. Fleur was a bit startled to realize Potter's friend and these pranksters were probably related to William in some way as they did have the same last name. She found herself hoping it was a distant relation.
"What are you going to do?" a petite red-haired girl asked Potter.
'There seems to be many redheads here in England,' Fleur thought.
"Well, I considered just handing them off to your mum," Potter answered the girl. This caused a number of the others to wince. "But I have something better in mind - it will last longer."
"What's up, little cuz?" a pink-haired witch asked as she walked in.
"Help with a prank. You up for it or is the big auror-trainee to responsible for that?"
"We need to get you away from Sirius, Harry. You are starting to sound way to much like him," the witch answered with a smirk. "What did you have in mind?"
"I'm thinking of pictures posted around Hogwarts of the twins kissing Snape on the cheeks. Then we can go from there." Fleur didn't understand as the group started to laugh until the witch mophed into the shape of the greasy Potions Master.
"A metamorphamagus," she whispered quietly in her shock. They were so incredibly rare - only a dozen or so in any generation. It amazed her the group of unique and powerful individuals that surrounded Harry Potter.
To her own surprise, Fleur found herself stepping forward. "I think some pictures of the twins in Beauxbatons uniforms would be appropriate as well." Seeing the surprised looks she was receiving, she added, "Witches' uniforms. I am quite good with clothing transfiguration."
Where the others looked even more surprised, Potter just smiled in a disturbingly predatory way.
"Welcome to the team, Fleur."
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