Chapter one: Divination
A/N: This is my first ever fanfiction, although I have read many. I really hope I did a good job, and constructive criticism is welcome. I'm not sure how fast I'll be able to update, as I'm still in high school and exams are coming up soon. But please don't let that discourage you, I do have a passion for writing and have always received good grades in English. But, enough about me, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot and will not make any money off this story; this amazing world belongs to miss Joanne K. Rowling.
"Ah, mister Potter, thank you for finally joining us," said the divination professor in her usual dreamy voice. "You may go join miss Evans in the front row."
Great. Just great. I groaned inwardly. Now I have to deal with the toerag James Potter all period.
James walked up to my table with his usual careless demeanor, wiggling his eyebrows in that insufferably annoying way at me. I may no longer by friends with Severus after he called me a you-know-what, but that doesn't mean I accept the way James and his fellow Marauders Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew treated him for all those years.
James eventually reached where I was sitting, and the professor continued rambling on about the effects of certain spells on Crystal Balls, and whatnot.
"Hey, Evans," I heard an annoyingly familiar voice in my ear.
"What?" I snapped back, probably a little too loudly, as a couple of heads turned in our direction. "What?" I repeated, more quietly.
"Can I borrow your answers for the Arithmancy homework, I forgot to do mine."
At this, I whipped my head around, letting a couple of strands of my wavy red hair to fall out of its messy bun in my face and gave the black haired boy my best glare. "I have told you before, Potter, and I will tell you again; I do not condone cheating!" I whispered back in a harsh tone, to which he simply rolled his hazel eyes.
"Whatever, Evans, just asking."
I continued to listen to Trelawney's lecture and redid my hair, and when I looked over at my partner I found that he was not paying an ounce of attention whatsoever.
Sucks for him, I thought. At least I will know what to do when we start trying to see into the future.
After a few more minutes of listening and two feet of parchment covered in notes in front of me, it was time to begin the lesson. Opening my copy of Unfogging the Future, I felt James tapping my shoulder.
"So, what is it we're doing?" He asked.
"Why don't you ever pay attention?" I retorted, but explained anyways with a sigh. "We have to cast these spells," I said, pointing to my textbook, "on that crystal ball," gesturing to the sphere in the middle of our table, "and then write an essay on the effects the spells have on the clarity of the image that appears."
"God, she took all that time to explain only that? I knew this class was a waste of time," he grumbled.
I was going to ask why he took it in that case, but decided against it, as it was probably either to stalk me or due to the fact that he lost a bet with his best friend and notorious bad boy, Sirius Black.
Today's assignment was fairly simple; I had mastered these incantations a long time ago, and got started on my essay within a few minutes while James seemed to think that it was below him to start working right away. Now, this normally wouldn't worry me, I have my own work to deal with, but I noticed that he had his wand out and pointed at the crystal ball, muttering incantations, one of which made the clouded sphere smoke a bit.
"Um, Potter, I don't think that's such a good idea…" I said with a worried tone in my voice.
"Relax, Evans, live a little! What's the worst that could happen?"
"You seriously need to learn how powerful magic can be when not used properly!" I said less worriedly and more exasperatedly.
I turned back to me essay only to hear more spells muttered under his breath, and then finally a louder one:
"Incendio!' James nearly shouted, causing all thirty-three heads in the room to turn towards him as flames erupted from the tip of his wand. The last thing I saw before my vision was only a mass of white clouds was the crystal ball covered in blue flames and James' shocked expression.
A/N: So there is my first ever fanfiction chapter! I'm sorry it was so short, but I needed to get the story going and couldn't think of another place to end it. I hope you enjoyed reading this and I will have the next chapter up ASAP, but don't be surprised if that isn't until next weekend.