The Juliantina Hogwarts AU AKA Juliana Valdés and the Goblet of Fire
Juliana should be at Ilvermorny. Instead, she's at Hogwarts. But with the Tri-Wizard tournament coming, she has the opportunity of a lifetime. She didn't anticipate a pretty Beauxb...
During the hour-long lunch break, Juliana went to the Gryffindor dorm. She shrunk her huge textbooks and placed them in her bag every morning, but she forgot her Charms textbook on her bedside table. She finished her lunch and hauled herself up all seven flights of stairs to Gryffindor tower, ready to end the day already.
It was so routine that she almost didn't notice the difference in her dorm at first. She paused just as her foot stepped into her room. The back of her neck tickled in awareness.
Something was different.
She looked around and gasped.
A letter sat on top of her end table, propped against an earthen pot overflowing with sunflowers. It was simply addressed Juliana, with small hearts magically moving and popping like bubbles on the parchment.
Juliana peered closer at the sunflowers. They were bright yellow with their signature orange-brown center. She touched the long petals, feeling the smooth texture underneath her fingertips. No one had ever gotten her flowers before. Well, Lucho had - his apology roses - but those didn't count.
After the letter warning her about Alacrán, she half dreaded letters, but she knew the girly, bubbly writing on the envelope. A smile broke across her face.
She slipped the crisp white note out of the envelope:
Dear Juliana,
Sorpresa! Please, meet me outside the astronomy tower at eleven o'clock tonight. I know you just saw me at lunch, but I miss you already.
Love, V
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Juliana grinned.
Juliana tucked the card inside her charms textbook. Valentina was her usual antsy self at lunch, but she didn't realize Valentina was planning something - the sneak.
She returned downstairs to her Charms class. The diminutive professor started a lecture on something, but her mind was still on the beautiful flowers and precious note. She played with the dog-eared edge of the textbook. It felt like a first date all over again. Butterflies filled her stomach as a strange mixture of fear and excitement welling up inside her. A pressing question hit her, and her stomach plummeted to her toes:
What was she supposed to wear?
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Val was engaged in an intense conversation with Kat, an underclassman at the Gryffindor table. She hadn't noticed Juliana when she entered the great hall for dinner and Juliana felt uncharacteristically playful. She tiptoed up the aisle moving behind her.
