His Angel

Chapter 18

The entire Delacour family noticed something strange about Harry. Ever since the night after he got back from Grimmauld place, he'd seemed distracted about something. Fleur had no idea what was bothering him and try as she might, she couldn't get it out of him.

She wasn't able to stay at home all day either. True, summer felt like it had only just begun but she wanted to find something, a job...an apprenticeship...something to do when summer ended and he had to go back. So she had started leaving in the mornings with her father to the ministry to try and find something and get it settled early on.

Harry had been dissapointed because most of the time when she left she was only able to come back in the evening around 4 or 5. As much as she hated leaving him behind, she wanted to have something to do once summer ended. It would be more of a distraction if anything. The week after she'd come back from Hogwarts hadn't been pleasant, being cooped up in her room and thinking constantly about him.

Caroline and the others hadn't been able to make it as they had planned since all three of them like Fleur, were looking for what they wanted to do now. Apolline saw it as a good thing since Harry's exams were only a week away from today. He was now studying more seriously, making use of the time she wasn't there so he didn't have to bother with it when she got back. Gabrielle was delighted on the whole, Harry had taken to teaching her a few things here and there and she suspected Gabrielle would be more than a few steps ahead of her peers once she returned to Beauxbatons for her new term.

It had been Apolline who brought it to her attention that something was troubling Harry. He wasn't any different when they were together, but leave him alone and he seems to drift off into a world of his own and become oblivious to everyone around him.

"This is impressive, but I have to ask, why would you want to become a healer?" A voice asked, startling her from her thoughts as she looked up at Madame Bonnel, the woman that was interviewing her. She was at the Clinique Saint-Martin which was in Nantes. It was quite far away from home but with apparition, albeit unpleasant, it wasn't much of an issue. "Something on your mind?" Bonnel asked with a small smile.

"I'm sorry." She muttered, blushing slightly.

"It's alright, but..." Bonnel shifted her gaze back to the papers with her qualifications and rifled through them again. "You are more than qualified to get an apprenticeship here. I see here that you were one of the champions of the Triwizard tournament too...second place I belive?" She asked, looking up at her. Fleur nodded, her papers only said that she participated in it, it didn't give her position though.

Catching the look on her face Bonnel smiled. "I recognize your name from the papers Miss Delacour." She ginned back, she'd forgotten that the French papers had carried her name in the weeks after the tournament. "Back to the question though, why do you want to be a healer? I see here that you have multiple career paths open to you so..."

"It's something I am interested in, I still am searching though..." She said uncomfortably, this was the question she hated in interviews, it wasn't like they'd accept an answer like 'Because I like it'. To her relief Bonnel didn't pursue the answer.

"Unlike the majority, you do have a lot of choices available to you so I understand your difficulty in answering it." She laughed before adding. "I myself had a similar problem when I was around your age, couldn't decide what to do." She closed her file and gave it back to her. "We will be happy to take you in, but I daresay you will need more time to make your final decision?"