"Because a lot of the purebloods in the school are currently death eaters…" Harry finished, "But there have to be some protections, no?" He asked.
"Barely." Madame Maxime said, "From what I've heard, the house elves discretely patrol the halls regularly, making sure that no foul play is involved, but who knows if someone can get past those gremlins. When it comes to these dark lords and their followers, they always find a way to exercise evil." Her words made the atmosphere even more solemn.
"The so-called most prominent school of Europe is pretty much fucked, huh…" Harry commented.
"Language, young man." Madame Maxime glared at him, "You are not to use such disgraceful words to besmirch the honorable name of Beauxbatons in Hogwarts."
Her words brought a little smile to Harry and Fleur's faces, "Understood, ma'am." Harry nodded as the atmosphere got somewhat less oppressive.
"Anyway." Madame Maxime sighed with a tired smile, "You shouldn't worry too much, all of Beauxbatons' students are a part of a strategic diplomatic message to the world. Both Hogwarts and the ministry are going to try their best to prevent things from going downhill. We are also preparing for a worst-case scenario on our side, so you don't need to be too worried. Now get going. It's late." She waved them off.
"Um, headmistress…" Fleur wanted to ask something, "When do we leave for Hogwarts?"
"If you stopped flirting with your boyfriend for one minute, then you would've known, no Fleur?" She gave a sharp glare to Fleur who shrunk behind Harry.
"Ahem…" Harry coughed as the glare moved toward him, "We'll try to pay attention to you next time, headmistress…" He said.
"Get going. We'll leave at the end of this month, on the 30th." She said, "The shared classes will need some schedule adjustments with Hogwarts' faculty." She mumbled to herself as Harry and Fleur excused themselves.
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"We forgot to talk about Celine..." Fleur realized as she walked out of the office with Harry.
"We'll talk to the headmistress about her tomorrow." Harry shrugged casually, "What's the big deal? She already allowed us to bring Celine. We just need to talk about her arrangements."
"Still…" Fleur was concerned.
"Why do you care so much about bringing an assistant in the first place?" He asked, "Even with the necklace, she would be able to barely resist your allure. Unlike Gabi, you've already reached your mother's level." He said, "And the intensity is still increasing at the same pace…" He mumbled to himself, lamenting his future where he would have to deal with even more people who got charmed by Fleur. After all, unlike Apolline — Fleur's mother — Fleur hated suppressing her allure and expressed herself freely most of the time.
'Maybe it was my fault for not restraining her in a timely manner…' Harry felt that this was his mistake. He'd pampered Fleur too much in that she hated suppressing her allure, 'I won't make the same mistake with Gabi…' He looked at Gabrielle's peaceful expression with a determined look. Even though it would be slightly uncomfortable for now, it would be better if Gabrielle got used to suppressing her allure.
As they moved to the dorm section of the palace, instead of making their way to the general dorms for the students, they moved to the Delegues' dorms. They were the dorms specifically for the students were were able to bag a student authority role, being one of the main incentives for students to apply for the troublesome job of managing their peers. Not to mention that it was a nice thing to go on their resume when applying for a job.
"Hu… It gets cold at night…" Fleur whispered as her arms wrapped around herself.
"It's fine," Harry said before wrapping his one free arm around Fleur's shoulders and pulling her close.
They passed by the dorms for the head of the delegues and were about to approach their own dorm when they heard a disgruntled voice, "Potter!"
Harry almost groaned, "I'm not dealing with this… Can you fuck off, Faust?" He mumbled before casually turning his head around to identify the person.
"You've got some nerve getting one of my people in your disgusting—" That was all the delegue now identified as Faust was able to speak before he was petrified by Fleur's nonverbal spell.
"Let's go, 'Arry…" She hugged his waist and leaned on him before putting his wand in the hand that he was using to hold Gabrielle. She'd used his wand to cast that spell since she didn't want to move her arms away from his waist and his holster was easily accessible from her position.
"Send him back to his dorm." He said before handing his wand back to Fleur, "And can you put it back in the holster? It's difficult to put it back with Gabi."
Fleur took a moment to cast a levitation charm with Harry's wand and uncouthly threw the petrified student back to his dorm and put Harry's wand in its holster beside his hip.
As they entered their assigned special dorm, Fleur separated from Harry before casting a spell to light up the fireplace, "Finally…" She took a breath as the head from the lit fire started spreading through the dorm.
As for Harry, he went to one of the three bedrooms in the dorm and put Gabrielle in the bed, tucking her in before giving her a kiss on her forehead, "Sleep tight, Gabi…" He smiled before leaving.
Just as he closed Gabrielle's door, he was jumped by Fleur. Unlike Gabrielle, Fleur was much larger and Harry unceremoniously fell on the rug before grunting in pain as Fleur fell on top of him. She didn't feel anything since he cushioned her fall, but he was in pain. He coughed a few times to recover as Fleur looked at him with a sad pout, "I wanted you to catch me…"
"You sadistic woman…" Harry looked at her angrily, "Since you've made it so weird for me to spank you with your daddy analogy, I'm going to do something else…" His words made Fleur have an ominous premonition as she tried to get up, but Harry flipped over, bringing her under him.
"'Arry…" She whimpered with a cute and sultry tone, wanting to make him pity her and let her go.
"You've really grown unruly these days…" He said darkly before grabbing his wand and casting some spells to conjure some items.
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