Brave

Durmstrang

A few moments later, a giant ship somehow came out from under the water from the lake near Hogwarts and traveled to the shore. Soon after the ship stopped, a large group of burly looking men- or boys?- stormed towards the Hogwarts students, led by a tall, slender man. The group of Durmstrang students- and the headmaster- were wearing large, furry coats, which reminded Aurora of a bear.

The tall man (who Aurora assumed was the school's headmaster), sauntered up to Professor Dumbledore and the two had a conversation, which mostly sounded like a bunch of grunting to Aurora. 

After their discussion, the Durmrstang students followed their headmaster inside, and it was then that the Gryffinfour noticed that Viktor Krum was amongst the foreign school's students.

Ron audibly squealed, sounding almost like a young girl. "Bloody hell, it's Viktor Krum!" he loudly announced, as if the rest of them couldn't see, "Oh shoot, I don't have a quill on me. If I can find someone's lipstick, do you think he'll write with it?"

Aurora sighed, grabbing a bottle of lipstick out of her pocket. She handed it to Ron, and the red-headed boy quickly thanked her, chasing after the famous Quidditch player.

The remainder of the friend group followed the rest of the school inside.

* * *

About an hour later, Ron came running towards the group, hair disheveled with a name scribbled with lipstick on his forehead. 

Hermione tutted and raised an eyebrow, while Aurora and Harry tried not to laugh.

"I'm assuming you got his autograph then," Aurora asked in between giggles. Ron muttered something about how he didn't intend it to be on his face in reply.

After Ron managed to wipe the makeup off his face- however only after Aurora reassured him that he could somehow get his idols autograph later on a piece of parchment- the Gryffinfour walked to the Owlery, since Aurora and Harry had letters to send to Sirius.

As the group nearly reached the Owlery, they heard voices coming from inside.

"Maybe if we threaten him..."

"We'll be bankrupt..."

As the friends entered the tower, they realized that the voices -that could only faintly be heard over the hooting of the owls- were Fred and George.

"Gred, Forge," Aurora greeted, nodding at each of them in a professional manner. The Weasley twins abruptly attempted to hide their letters behind their backs, sharing sly grins on their faces. 

"What are you doing?" Ron and George asked at the same time. The moment was extremely awkward for both groups, as each didn't want to tell the other what they were up to.

"Nothing." Fred and Harry said in unison.

"We won't ask you if you don't ask us," the twins told the fourth years, strutting off. Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Aurora quickly scrambled to find an owl to use to sent the letters to Sirius, forgetting about the conversation that just occurred.

* * *

That evening at dinner, Hermione was rambling about the house elves and her plans of action to help them. She was suggesting that they were brainwashed, however Fred and George claimed something different.

"Go to the kitchens, Granger," George told Hermione. He and Fred guessed that if she went to the Hogwarts kitchens, she would learn that the house elves enjoy working.

Since Hermione wanted to prove them wrong, her and the rest of the Gryffinfour walked to the kitchens.

When they got there after tickling the pear, which the red-headed twins instructed them to do, they took note of the large number of house elves running around the kitchen. 

One of them ran up to the students, offering some food and drinks. As Ron was about to say yes, Hermione scolded him, saying that they just ate dinner.

The group stayed for the rest of the evening watching the creatures.

I don't own Harry Potter. The series belongs to J.K. Rowling. I only own Aurora and anything you don't recognize from the books or movies.