the fabian and lunar eclipse.

chapter 24: the guests

hermione sighed as she took in the sight of all her guy friends staring at the beauxbatons students especially the girls, as they entered the great hall whilst doing their graceful routine that involved magically evolved butterflies and a deal of twirling in synchronicity among the girls and boys.

although she wouldn't agree but her heart definitely felt a tug upon viewing a certain red head drool over one of the prettiest girls of the lot that had just arrived.

whereas luna, who was sandwiched between hermione and george couldn't help but agree upon the fact that the beauxbaton students were indeed all gorgeous but a part of her worried over whether george found them pretty, she wondered how she would never have a chance against any of them but immediatly scolded herself for thinking such things. 

luna shrugged it off, visibly and focused upon madame maxime, who was quite possibly the tallest human she had ever seen but it actually somewhat amused her. she wondered how it'd be like if she played basketball, a sport she was sure most of her friends surrounding her at the moment had no idea about

george had somehow taken notice of the shrug luna had given before focusing on madame maxime, who was seen currently embracing professor dumbledore as a form of greeting ; a sight that weirdly made the students snicker amongst themselves.

"what's up?" george noticed luna's hair was let down, he loved it that way since he could fiddle with her locks and so he did

"nothing, what?" luna responded, looking over at george averting her gaze from madame maxime

"you just shrugged"

"huh?"

"yeah, you visibly shrugged lunz. did something happen?"

"oh well- no- not really-"

george simply raised his right eyebrow at her, with that signature look that definitely made luna feel things. surprisingly, this year it seemed to be affecting her a lot more than usual.

"its nothing! i was just looking at all the pretty students of beauxbatons. they're all so mesmerising to look at"

"hmm, i agree. they're a pretty lot"

luna internally screamed as she expected for george to continue but he didn't instead he copied the shrug luna gave previously and looked over at her,

"what?"

"no i was just- expecting more, i guess?"

"i mean, they're good looking! what else do i say? 

did you really expect me to drool over them? im a gentleman luna, ive been raised very poshly if you haven't noticed" mid way into the statement george switched to a fancier british accent to emphasise the word 'posh'

"unlike some others" he concluded loudly, clearly referring to ron who was yet to avert his gaze from the pretty blond who had just arrived.

the loud footsteps of the durmstrang students was what shook him up from his daze, only for him to freak out over viktor krum.

"please someone pinch me, there's no way its him!" ron shrieked in a voice that was eerily similar to myrtle's, the weird ghost that haunted the second floor girls' lavatory.

"oh ive been waiting" luna said and kneeled over and smacked the red head right across his head

"what the fu- LUNA? THAT HURT" 

"helped though, didn't it?" she replied with a sly smirk that made the rest of her friends burst out laughing. a part of that smack was due to the unhinged drooling he had previously been doing, in her head she knew he sort of deserved it.

the sight of krum and his lot sitting with the slytherins offended ron further, much to his friends' amusements.

"see! if i had maybe caught his attention enough, he might've sat with us! i might have been his best friend, oh my god."

"wow thanks, ron. you matter so much to me too" harry said in a sarcastic tone

"and what do you mean 'caught his attention enough'? you were literally up on your feet, the only one in the entire hall" hermione added

"if not for that smack-" george started

"you'd be flinging your underwear at him right about now" fred finished, which only made the red head grumble and focus on the love of his life, food.

the group indulged themselves into the food and conversations about the new guests, right as luna was about to take a humongous bite off of george's chicken piece that he was holding with his fork while facing the other way, conversing with angelina and alicia she heard a cough behind her head,

"who the hell just coughed into my hair- hi?" 

"hello? im so sorry, i was wondering if i could get the parsley mix. our table is all out of it"  an averagely tall, durmstrang student with dark brown hair that matched his eyes was stood.
he had taken off his hat that went with his uniform and luna noticed the small birth mark on the corner of his lips that was weirdly shaped like a heart.
she thought it was adorable.

"oh well the hufflepuff table-" luna began but stopped upon receiving a kick from who she assumed was hermione, reminding her to be polite.

"yes, ofcourse" she said kindly, handing over the bowl that was situated before her.

george seemed to have noticed the events unfolding. he gazed upon both luna and the durmstrang student's face to trace any sign of potential flirting.
he noticed the boy hesitating a bit with the bowl in his hand, as though contemplating whether or not to say something but instead he gave luna a bright smile and left for the slytherin table.

luna had gotten back to her meal but hermione and perhaps even george was noticing how the boy was quickly engulfed with conversation with his mates that involved slightly looking upon their table, specifically at luna and smiling amongst.
george somewhat hated it but hermione simply smiled to herself before focusing on her food.

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the great hall fell silent as dumbledore stood from his table and walked upfront, as per usual whenever he had to announce something to his students,

"well, now that we are all well fed. i must make a very important announcement, the exact reason behind the arrival of our new friends

the triwizard tournament!! "