Harry Potter characters are not mine. It would be AWESOME if they were, but they're not. They belong to the brilliant J.K. Rowling.
Ron, Harry, and Hermione trudged up the steps to Divination, not really looking forward to the class much at all.
But then again, this was probably the last real class they'd have before testing began, and then summer.
They sat at the chairs lazily. Harry was slouching and folding his arms, as if he was prepared to be in this position for the next few hours, Ron already had his head slumped into his hand and was drifting in and out of sleep, and Hermione was there, her ever-perfect posture slowly slouching into what both Ron and Harry would find "normal" and chewing anxiously on the end of her quill.
"Today," said Trelawney majestically, suddenly appearing from behind one of her many curtains, a purple satin shawl wrapped around her cloak, though the room was already comfortably warm, "We are going to be looking into the crystal balls."
Many people uttered low groans, Ron and Harry gave each other identical disgruntled faces and Hermione let out a small giggle.
"Today," she said, as they all gazed into their own separate crystal balls, "You are looking to try and find yourselves in the crystal balls. Look to find yourself, and what you will become." She faded noiselessly back behind the curtains and Harry heard a muffled clanking sound that reminded him vaguely of sherry bottles.
"What do you expect you'll find?" Harry muttered to Ron.
"Dunno- I'm not really sure what I'm planning on doing after this…" Ron sort of trailed off after that. "You?"
"I wanna be an Auror…but who knows?" said Harry finally.
"And you, Hermi-" Ron started, then glanced at his friend. Hermione was already staring deeply into the crystal ball on her side of the table.
"I guess she's actually starting to like this class," whispered Ron to Harry.
They both gazed into their crystal balls, expecting to find nothing but a grey haze.
Instead, they felt a hard tugging and felt themselves being flung forward into the vision inside the crystal ball.