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Curious Fleur opened it up and suddenly the letter exploded into a pink cloud out of which a cartoonish yellow bird flew out. It had giant blue eyes and two small feather-like wings that were flapping curiously like a hummingbird.
The muggleborn children recognized the bird from the Looney Toons cartoons, while the rest, Fleur included, just looked stumped.
"Heya pretty bird! Follow me!" Tweety bird called out as it circled around Fleur's head before flying out of the Great Hall. Curious, Fleur and a few of her friends and Hufflepuff students got up and followed the bird.
"Come on! You got to keep up!" it squeaked in a cute tone as it zoomed out of the castle doors to the outside.
They followed it down the beaten pathway towards the Black Lake where it flew by the side of the bank towards the same tree that she and Percy slept under after the First task.
"We're here!" the bird chirped before disappearing in a puff of smoke. The students that followed looked curious as to why there were here while Fleur quickly caught on.
Suddenly the leaves started to glow, like an eel in the dark depths of the oceans each and every leaf started to glow like a lightbulb.
The light made them all squint, and when their eyes finally adjusted to the brightness, they found someone standing before them under the tree.
"Hey Tweety bird," it was Percy's voice, though Fleur couldn't see his face as it was shadowed by the glowing tree behind him. He brought out a bouquet of flowers from behind his back, they were sunflowers, glowing bright yellow, similar to the tree.
The veela covered her gaping mouth with both hands and gasped, as Percy got down on one knee presenting the flowers and asked, "Fleur, would you go to the Yule ball with me?"
Only to be tackled into a hug by the french veela that sent him back into the tree. He chuckled as she kissed his cheeks and forehead, "I'm guessing that's a yes?"
"You bet it's a yes! Oh you stupid boy you didn't have to do all this! If you had just asked, it would have been enough!" she replied, making Percy chuckle.
"Holy shit!" Juan's jaw dropped, "this is amazing!"
"Should we like go?" Cedric asked in a whisper.
"Yez, let uz give t'em a moment," Camille agreed as they all quickly went back to the castle, leaving Fleur and Percy alone under their glowing tree.
The next day news of Percy and Fleur spread like wildfire. It only served to raise the standards for every other boy there when asking a girl to the dance.
Many grumbled and cursed Percy for that, but in the end there were so many romantic displays in Hogwarts it felt like Valentine's day had come early.
That night Percy and Fleur found an empty classroom and like Fleur had promised she had started to teach him how to dance.
It was little things at first, just how to hold her hands, where to hold and a few basic movements. But it seems Percy was something of a dancing prodigy as he picked up the basics quickly and soon went on to do his own thing, often allowing the music to guide his actions. Like always he followed his instincts first before anything else.
A week went by like this, Percy spent most his time dancing with Fleur, in classes or with his many pet projects.
Now that the cloak of levitation was done, Percy needed a new project to focus on. The Felix potion was coming along well, should be done at the end of the year if his calculations were correct.
The map thing….well that wasn't going anywhere fast, so for now Percy put that in the 'cool ideas I have no idea how to complete' pile.
He did however have something in mind. Last week in charms they were looking over certain powerful charms, and one of them was the unbreakable charm. A nifty little thing to be honest, makes anything it's cast on unbreakable, unless you got rid of the charm first.
And this got Percy thinking, the charm was basically the curse of Achilles, except for one mortal point, so maybe by using this charm he could get ride of his one weakness as well?
It was worth a short.
His mortal point was on his back, directly behind where his navel was. It was too high up for a belt of some kind, and not just that, a belt would have been too obvious. He needed the thing to be inconspicuous, so as to not draw attention to it.
Unfortunately there weren't any pieces of clothing that could do that, so Percy dropped the clothes idea.
Instead he took a piece of silk and carved several runes on it. He made it indestructible, and since he did it with runes one couldn't just infinte the charm.
He stuck the circular piece of cloth around his mortal spot, the runes made it permanent with Percy being the only one who could remove it.
He also charmed it to match his skin colour and also put in several notice-me-not charms. He wasn't sure the charms would stick, but he knew for a fact that the runes would work. So now he was technically indestructible, as far as anyone else knew.
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The weekend before Christmas:
A lot of time had passed, it was hard for Percy to believe he had been in the school for only a few months, it had honestly felt much longer, like he had know the castle and everyone in it for all his life.
Though he supposed that was because in a way he had. Camp Half-blood and Hogwarts was very similar and yet so different. He did love Hogwarts, but the memory of camp always kept him awake at night.
But he didn't let the past, no wait, future, no wait technically it's his past so...fuck it. He had a life now and he was going to live it.
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