Reborn As A Squib In Harry potter

It was only natural for Harry's fame to spread once word of Voldemort's defeat became known and Dumbledore spread the story that Harry had been the one to beat the Dark Lord, despite being a baby. And he was the only person to ever survive the Killing Curse. That alone would have made Harry a curiosity to the magical folk of the world.

'I need to find out how well-known Harry is before we travel anywhere else in the future,' I thought to myself. 'I wonder how many people would recognize Harry without a disguise in America?'

"You are Harry Potter?" Fleur asked incredulously, looking down at the younger boy.

"Did you really ride a dragon?!" Gabrielle asked, still clinging to him.

"I should get cards printed," Harry sighed to himself. "They'll say 'Hello, I am indeed Harry Potter. No, nothing that was written about me is true. Please don't stare at my scar, and stop asking if I've actually ridden a dragon before. Have a nice day.'"

I snorted at that. "Yeah, why not, could be funny," I said. "Could make a good Birthday present."

"What are you doing here?" Gabrielle asked.

"Vacation," Harry replied, looking a bit uncomfortable with the young Veela's proximity.

Thankfully, Fleur noticed, and helped untangle her sister from Harry's arm. "Do not be rude, Gabrielle," Fleur said, scolding her sister as she pulled her back to her side.

"But Fleur! It's Harry Potter!" the little Veela whined.

"That is no excuse," Fleur tutted, and Gabrielle pouted but eventually nodded.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled to Harry, who accepted it graciously.

"It's fine. I'm still getting used to the whole 'being famous' thing," the Boy-Who-Lived chuckled weakly.

"Really?" Gabrielle asked, tilting her head to the side cutely like a baby bird.

"I was raised in the Muggle side by my relatives. I didn't know I was magical until I was ten," Harry admitted.

"I see. It must have been quite the surprise," Fleur guessed, and Harry nodded.

"So, why are you two here? Are you also enjoying the museum?" Harry asked.

"Non, Papa is a curator here," Fleur revealed. "In fact, a number of artifacts here were donated by him."

"Really?" Sam asked, and Fleur nodded.

"When he was younger, he used to be a Curse Breaker for Gringotts," she explained.

"Zats how he met Maman!" Gabrielle said with a wide smile.

"That's quite interesting. I have a friend who's also a Curse Breaker," I said, thinking about the eldest Weasley. "Small world."

"Do you go to Beauxbatons?" Harry asked curiously. "I mean, I don't want to assume, but…"

"I do indeed go to Beauxbatons," Fleur said. "I will be a fifth year in ze coming semester."

'Huh, so she's close to my real age,' I noted. 'Makes sense, then, since she was at least seventeen during the events of the Goblet of Fire.'

"I've heard a little bit about it from Ed, but what's it really like?" Harry wondered.

"At Beauxbatons, we follow ze curriculum style zat Hogwarts pioneered," Fleur explained. "Zat is to zay, we have seven years of schooling, starting at ze age of eleven, and our courses are about ze same, though I believe we have a few more classes to be taken in third year and beyond."

"Really?" Harry asked. "No Houses? How does that work? Do you still have points?"

"Oui! We do not have ze House System, but ze professors do assign students points for good work and behavior outside of classes. We can use ze points to check out extra books from the library, leave school grounds to visit family or stores, or spend time in ze private baths."

"You can't take as many books as you want from the library?" Harry asked. Under his breath, he muttered, "Hermione would hate that!"

"Non. You may only check out a single book at a time. But you may look at them as often as you like while you are in ze library. It is to encourage students to earn points, but also to teach zem how to take notes, as well as budget time and resources."

"That's actually an interesting idea," I mused. "I don't like it myself, too limiting, but it does seem like it would force students to try harder."

"At least it is better than Durmstrang," Fleur huffed. "There, you must earn points if you wish to eat or bathe at all!"

"Yeah, I've heard that," I muttered. The darkest of the Big Three magical schools of Europe had a lot of nasty rumors floating about. It only accepted 'Purebloods,' meaning muggle and halfborn in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe had to go elsewhere for their inevitably lesser education, and there were tales about students having to literally fight each other for basic necessities like beds.

"They actually do that?" Harry gasped. At his side, Sam and Gabrielle were just as surprised.

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