High school AU Harry Potter is the star player on his hockey team despite being a junior. He has a lot of promise and several colleges are interested in his talents. He's a party animal, ladies man, delinquent and is barely passing his classes. He's a bad boy with a dark past and a heart of gold, someone who is just as likely to stand up to a bully for a stranger or shake someone down for money.
Fleur Delacour is a senior at the same school and a prodigy ice skater. She too is being scouted for her talent. She's poised, composed, meticulous and top of her class. An Ice Queen in more way than one. Boys desire her, girls envy and despise her. She doesn't have a single friend and is constantly bullied or messed with in and out of school.
One fateful day the two bump into the other at the rink, and honor roll Fleur Delacour is smitten with the local bad boy Harry Potter. But she knows that her strict parents will not approve of her dating such a troublesome boy from a different social class.
So she goes to him with an offer; she'd tutor him in his classes if he were to keep the local thugs and bullies off of her. All under the guise of wanting to learn more about and get closer to him.
Deciding that he could use the help and he didn't mind getting to know such a beautiful girl, he agreed.
So their mutually beneficial 'friendship' began.
And it didn't even take a few days for the bullies to come around to Fleur again. Or for Harry to step in, knocking them on their asses and fulfilling his agreement.
He didn't think anything of it when she gazed up to him with that awed expression. And she didn't think she'd fall for him so fast.
Several study sessions take place and finally the two decide to hang out outside of the library for the first time and go to the rink where they first met. And it was during this time that Fleur learned about his past, and he learned about her troublesome home life.
And where they became friends.