Chapter 29: CHAPTER 29: THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER

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SHOULD I ACCEPT? OR DECLINE?

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Daphne was wandering back and forth in the hospital wing, her sister collapsed when she was trying a broom on the field in the morning, as soon as she heard that, she ran to the wing, asking Madame Pomfrey about it, the madame said that she was okay, but she should rest a bit.

“I think I will ask Professor Snape to exclude lessons that require physical activities from her schedule.” Said Madame Pomfrey.

“You can do that? Thank you Madame Pomfrey…” said Daphne in worry.

The woman nodded, “Here.” Said the madame while giving some kind of potion. “Ask her to drink this every morning, so her sickness will be a bit better during the day.”

Daphne took the bottle and put it in her bag, then Madame Pomfrey continued, “But still, don’t let her push herself in terms of stamina, we can’t keep bringing her here in this condition…”

Daphne sighed, “I know madam Pomfrey, but she’s really stubborn.”

“Just try Miss Greengrass, she needs company right now, I quite understand that her sickness caused her to be curious about everything, especially since she's already sick since she was a toddler, so at least just watch her carefully.” Commented Madam Pomfrey.

Daphne just nodded, and she sat beside her sister, looking at her with worry. Then, a couple of minutes later, her sister woke up, looking at her surroundings groggily.

“Astoria…” Daphne mumbled, “Why did you try on a broomstick this morning? You know you are sick, why are you pushing yourself?”

“Hello Daph,” said Astoria weakly, “Hey, I know I’m sick all right, but at least let me try everything once, let me enjoy my life for once.”

“Well,” said Daphne while giving her sister a glass of water, “You will have a short life if you’re still like this.”

“I’d rather have a short and happy life rather than a long but depressing life.” Countered Astoria.

Daphne just sighed helplessly on the comment and just sat there in silence, accompanying her sister.

Meanwhile in the Beauxbatons, Ed was practising with Fleur in the training room of the school, Ed was teaching her the Patronus charm.

“A Patronus charm is quite difficult in my opinion, especially to the ones that don't really have a happy memory, but that happy memory can be substituted by using a happy thought instead.” Ed explained.

“Happy thoughts?” Fleur asked in confusion, “What does that mean?”

“Okay, let me give you an example,” Ed continued, “Instead of thinking about your happy memories with your parents, you can make a scenario in your head that will make you happy, example… I don’t know, what did you like? Marriage? Yeah let’s go with that, you make a scenario in your head that you will marry the love of your life, and it should work as a substitute for the memory.”

Fleur nodded weakly, but she still looked a bit confused at the explanation, which Ed noticed.

“Merlin, I’m bad at teaching…” Mumbled Ed, “Okay, let’s try it, remember the happy memories and thoughts.” Ed then signals the girl to start.

The girl then pointed at a random wall, she looked focused, probably thinking about happy things in her head, and started casting the spell,

“Expecto Patronum!”

A silver light then was conjured from her wand, filling the room with positive energy.

“Good,” Ed said while clapping, “While it’s not corporeal, it can still somewhat protect you from a dementor, if you even encounter one.”

“Well, where’s my animal?” asked Fleur confusedly, “The one you have has an owl coming out of it.”

“Mine was a corporeal Patronus, yours was not.” Ed shook his head, “if you want to summon one, try focusing on happier thoughts. But that’s for later.” Ed then packed up his things and put it in his bag, “Let’s go eat, I’m quite hungry.”

Fleur nodded and followed to pack her things to her bag, she then exited the room with Ed and walked to the dining chamber.

“I never saw you attend a class, why is that?” asked Fleur suddenly.

“Because I didn’t have to.” Answered Ed casually, “I only have to attend Master Flamel’s private class here, but when I go to Hogwarts next year, I will have to catch up with homework.”

Fleur looked at Ed strangely, “Then why didn’t you do the homework here?”

Ed shrugged. “Well, it’ll be boring at Hogwarts if I don't do anything, and I want to focus on other things here, so I just decided to do the homework next year.”

Fleur just hummed. The two arrived at the dining chamber and sat at one of the round tables.

“You were amazing last night by the way; I didn’t know you could play musical instruments…” complimented Fleur casually while eating.

“Thank you, I have played since I was a little kid, my foster parents said that I’m quite talented in art, so yeah.” Ed said he then picked up the food on the table and ate it peacefully, but in the middle of his eating session, he noticed that a group of boys with hatred in their eyes started to approach him.

“Fleur, this is your fault…” mumbled Ed while looking at the approaching boys, making the girl giggles, “What are they going to do?” continued Ed.

Fleur then looked at the boy in front of the group, she noticed that the boy had a glove on his hand, and she instantly knew what he’s going to do.

“I know what he’s going to do.” Fleur said playfully to Ed, “I hope you accept; I want to see you in action~”

“What?” Ed panicked a little bit, “What’s he going to do? And accept what?”

“Just see.” Fleur giggled while still eating, her giggles made the boys flinch a little bit.

The group of boys then stood beside Ed, and a boy came forward. The boy then threw the glove in his hand to Ed’s feet and spoke in French.

“I challenged you to a duel English boy.” Said the boy, who was quite older than Ed, “You had no right sitting with Miss Delacour.”

Ed was surprised at the older boy’s gesture, he looked at Fleur and made a ‘Are you serious?’ face to her, which she just giggled.

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‘Only one day I befriended her, and I’m starting to regret it…’ Ed thought and sighed tiredly.

“Can I not accept this? I’m quite lazy dealing with this…” Ed said dismissively.

“Oh, look at that!” The older boy sneered at his friend, “The English boy is a coward.”, the crowd just laughed at the comment.

Ed just shook his head, “What a pathetic excuse of provocation Monsieur…?”

“You don’t have to know my name, English boy, just accept the duel.” The boy growled.

“Wow,” Ed acted scared in front of the boys, then he whispered loudly to Fleur, “Are Beauxbatons boys this rude? I thought your school was supposed to value elegance, but he won’t even tell me his name and growled at me!”, hearing this, Fleur just snorted in amusement.

The boy that Ed was talking about was in rage, his face was quite red, his dignity had just been poked by a little boy in front of the famed Miss Delacour, but before he could say anything, Ed stood up from his chair.

“Fine, no-name, I’ll accept the duel, let’s go now.” Ed said while walking hurriedly towards the exit of the Dining Chamber, he then noticed that the boy wasn’t following, and spoke.

“What are you doing? Are you scared now?” Ed raised his eyebrow, and his provocation worked, the older boy followed Ed in rage, and walked towards the duelling room.

Ed arrived at the room, he took his position on the duelling platform, in front of him was the older boy, and he saw a lot of Beauxbatons students watching the match.

Ed bowed at the older boy, and the older boy did the same. The two then pointed their wands at each other, and a random boy ‘refereed’ the match, although he’s just signalling the match to start.

“Let’s get this over with English boys.” The older boy sneered.

“You’re the one who challenged me and now you want to get this over with? That’s really bizarre don’t you think? Why waste your time in the first place?”

The older boy just stood there sneering, then the referee told the match to start. And as soon as it started, the older boy casted a spell loudly.

“Stupefy!” he shouted, a jet of red light came out of his wand, Ed then dodged the light quickly, he silently casted an Incarcerous spell and pointed it on the older boy’s leg, causing him to stumble. Then Ed aimed his wand at the boy again and whispered an incantation.

“Rictumsempra.”, a silver light appeared from Ed’s wand and shot to the older guy. The spell caused the no-name to laugh uncontrollably while his leg still tied up. Ed just watched the guy begging for the spell to stop, while the crowd watched in silence.

“Is this it?” taunted Ed to the crowd, “All that hatred in your eyes while looking at me, all that dirty looks, for this? This overconfident and weak boy in front of me?” he continued, causing the crowd to erupt.

“Don’t waste my time again.” Ed said coldly to the others, he used his ice magic to cool down the temperature around him, causing the students to shiver from the cold.

Ed then watched the older boy who was still laughing uncontrollably peed in his pants from all the tickling, Ed just grimaced watching this and exited the room, leaving the enraged and disgusted crowd alone. Ed walked to the dining chamber, planning to continue his eating, when suddenly a voice was heard behind him.

“That was quite entertaining.” Said a feminine voice, who is of course Fleur.

Ed snorted, “It’s your fault.” Accused Ed, “I Shouldn’t even be in this situation, but you just had to try to get close to me.”

Fleur giggled, “Well, I can’t help it since you’re quite interesting, being able to block my charm…”

“If an old man can block your charm, would you get close to him?” Ed questioned.

“Well, no, but still, you’re quite powerful as well, maybe I can learn a couple of things from you.” Fleur answered.

Ed signed to the girl, “You know what, I’m not in the mood for eating anymore, I’ll go back to my room, and you do you.” Ed waved goodbye to the girl lazily, but instead of walking to his room, he walked to Flamel’s office. He knocked at the door and entered the room, he saw Nicolas and Perenelle chatting casually with each other, which is quite rare in Ed’s opinion.

“Hello Ed,” greeted Perenelle, “Need something?”

“Um, actually, yes.” Ed answered timidly.

Nicolas nodded, “Ask away then.”

Ed then sat on the sofa and began to talk.

“I’m quite anxious about Lucius’s plot to kill my parents…” explained Ed, which the Flamels nodded, “I haven’t been able to find anything about the assassin, I can’t go to Lucius because I don’t know where his mansion is, and I heard that you two had a talent in divination… so I was wondering if you could help me find a solution? So, I can at least feel less anxious.”

Nicolas sighed, “Ed, we understand that you feel worried, but are you sure that what Lucius was talking about is you?”

Ed looked at Nicolas strangely, “Yes, who else is there? The only one that has beef with him is me, and Lucius was talking about me in the conversation, so yeah, I’m quite sure it’s me.”

Nicolas nodded, “Then you don’t have to worry, Albus has set up a lot of traps and wards in your mansion, you checked it yourself right?”

“Yeah, but I just got this bad feeling you know?” said Ed.

“Then if you still feel like this, why don’t you add your own wards to it, your library has quite a lot of ward knowledge as far as I’m concerned.”

Ed hummed, “Yeah, I’ll think I’ll study the wards spells now, I’ll try to put it in the holidays…”

Nicolas nodded, “Anything else?”

Ed sighed while massaging his forehead, “I just won a duel in front of all the Beauxbatons students, I’m quite sure that I’m public enemy number one now here.”

Perenelle chuckled, “The things boys do for a chance to woo a beautiful girl.”

Ed laughed, “I know, when you saw these boys when they were looking at Fleur, it’s like they don’t care about their surroundings anymore.”

Seeing this Nicolas just sighed, “Well Ed, just be careful next time, I don’t want my school’s dignity to be trampled again like this.”

“I will Master Flamel, but I won’t promise that I won’t accept another duel again.” Said Ed while grinning. “I mean, it’s their fault for challenging me right?”

Nicolas just shook his head in amusement, and then the three talked casually to each other, like grandparents talking to their grandchildren.

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