Finally, the Durmstrang Headmaster finished his gloating comments and the students were released to begin finding their seats for the banquet to begin. Fleur however had other plans.
"Come," she ordered Roger. "I have someone I must speak to." With her arm still linked into the Hogwart's wizard, Roger had little choice but to follow her guidance.
"Fleur, my dear! You look ravishing!" Kalina announced as Fleur approached. The Bulgarian Veela spread her arms and stepped forward to embrace the French witch. Fleur released Roger's to respond in kind; each Veela leaning forward to bestow the lightest of kisses to the other's cheek.
"Kalina, I had no idea you would be in attendance! I knew you were part of the unit sent to support your national Quidditch team but I didn't know you had returned here!"
Kalina gave a little laugh. "In truth I haven't left and now I am rather doubting that I will." Fleur looked intrigued at that.
"Really? The great Kalina- the "Terror of Bulgaria" - has been captured by a wizard at last?" Fleur asked with a wicked teasing smile. "I seem to remember someone that said no wizard would ever claim her heart." Kalina smirked in response.
"I did say that. However, the sex was so mind-blowing that I couldn't take that chance that someone else would get a claim into him. What's a horny Veela to do?" Fleur thought she was prepared for Kalina's blunt talk. However the heat from her flaming cheeks told otherwise. Poor Roger seemed to be losing what little control he had as his attention was torn between the two Veela. Kalina's wizard on the other hand simply smiled smugly.
"I had to deal with that for the last three weeks of summer. Thank Merlin for Silencing Charms," an unwelcome new voice contributed.
Fleur turned to glare down at the Hogwarts 'host'. "You are not needed here leetle boy. Leave now."
"Fleur!" Kalina admonished. "That is no way to speak to my favourite nephew! Harry, my love, come give me a hug, you naughty boy!"
Harry gave her the claimed hug while asking, "Favourite nephew?"
Fleur was shocked to see the boy acting… normally with the other Veela. And for Kalina to claim the uncouth English boy as her nephew?
"But of course, Harry!" Kalina exclaimed with a smile. Then she turned to the older wizard and scoldingly asked, "Sirius, didn't you tell him?"
The wizard, Sirius, smiled innocently back. "I guess it slipped my mind. As you told me to do."
"Hmm, I did, didn't I?" Kalina purred back. "So, Harry, will you stand with Sirius at the wedding? The poor man may need someone to help hold him up besides Remus." Kalina pretended to ponder. "Of course Remus may need some help standing also. He was a bit shocked when we asked him to be the Best Man yesterday after all."
Fleur was stunned at Kalina's cheerful comment. Apparently the Potter boy was equally stunned as single words came from his mouth as he tried to process what he'd just been told.
"Stand? Wedding? Remus as Best Man?"
"Well, it's only fair," Kalina said with a nonchalant wave of her hand. "After all, YOU'RE going to be the godfather to my daughter so it was only right to have the other Marauder as the Best Man." Now Fleur was really stunned. The Potter boy as godfather to Kalina's child, a female child at that. A normal human wizard as godfather to a Veela?! It was unheard of!
And apparently she wasn't the only one in shock, if for different reason as Potter yelled out the first coherent thought to make it through his simple mind.
"You're,,, you're going to let Padfoot reproduce?"
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Fleur found her seat next to Roger Davies and with Victor Krum on her other side with his date, which Fleur learnt was named Tracy Davis. Potter sat beside the blonde girl with his date next to him. Rounding out their table were Kalina and her new fiancé, Sirius Black.
Kalina obviously knew Victor Krum from the casual way they welcomed each other. Fleur assumed it was from her time as a 'mascot' for the Bulgarian Quidditch team. Lord Black was talking to the Potter boy. Krum's date was chatting with Potter's about Arithmancy, which was Fleur's favourite subject. But this was the Yule Ball, not a place for a classroom discussion!
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