When you arrived in the entrance hall, you found yourselvesunable to proceed owing to the large crowd of students congregated there, all milling around a large sign that had been erected at the foot of the marble staircase. Fred and George, the tallest of the four, stood on tiptoe to see over the heads in front of them and read the sign aloud for you and Lee.
TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT
The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving at 6 o’clock
on Friday the 30th of October. Lessons will
end half an hour early —
"That's brilliant!" said Lee. "It’s Potions last thing on Friday! Snape
won’t have time to poison us all!"
Students will return their bags and books
to their dormitories and assemble in front
of the castle to greet our guests before
the Welcoming Feast.
"Only a week away!" said a fourth year Hufflepuff, emerging from the crowd, his eyes gleaming. "I wonder if Cedric knows? Think I’ll go and tell him..."
"Cedric?" said Lee blankly as the young Hufflepuff hurried off.
"Diggory," George said "He must be entering the tournament."
"That idiot, Hogwarts champion?" said Fred as you all pushed your way through the chattering crowd toward the staircase.
"He’s not an idiot. You just don’t like him because he beat Gryffindor at Quidditch. I’ve heard he’s a really good student — and he’s a prefect." You spoke as though this settled the matter.
"You only like him because he’s handsome." said Fred scathingly and scoffed.
"Excuse me, I don’t like people just because they’re handsome!" You said indignantly.
—
When you went down to breakfast on the morning of the thirtieth of October, the Great Hall had been decorated overnight. Enormous silk banners hung from the walls, each of them representing a Hogwarts House: red with a gold lion for Gryffindor, blue with a bronze eagle for Ravenclaw, yellow with a black badger for Hufflepuff, and green with a silver serpent for
Slytherin. Behind the teachers’ table, the largest banner of all bore the Hogwarts coat of arms: lion, eagle, badger, and snake united
around a large letter H. You sat beside Fred and George and Lee opposite you when Harry, Ron and Hermione sat down beside you at
the Gryffindor table. Once again, and most unusually, you were sitting apart from everyone else and conversing in low voices. Ron led the way over to you all.
"It’s a bummer, all right," George was saying gloomily to Fred.
"But if he won’t talk to us in person, we’ll have to send him the
letter after all. Or we’ll stuff it into his hand. He can’t avoid us
forever."
"Who’s avoiding you?" said Ron, sitting down next to them.
"Wish you would..." said Fred, looking irritated at the interruption. You chuckled.
"What’s a bummer?" Ron asked George.
"Having a nosy git like you for a brother," said George.
"You two got any ideas on the Triwizard Tournament yet?" Harry asked. "Thought any more about trying to enter?"
"Aging potion." Lee and the twins said.
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One Of A Kind ||A Fred Weasley Fanfiction||
Fanfiction(Y/n) Black, the daughter of Sirius Black, was nurtured by the Weasley family, forming strong bonds with all of its members. However, her affection ran particularly deep for Fred Weasley, the older twin. As time went on and their lives became intert...
