A/N: Harry Potter is owned by the talented J. K. Rowling.
However if you don't remember it, then I own it.
Here is another lovely update. And just a little view into the beginning of Serenity's Hogwarts Hell.
Let's see what awaits for the poor girl around the corner with Care of Magical Creatures.
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When the young witch's eyes fluttered open she was not blinking into blinding sunlight as she had expected. The light that filtered through the window that she was turned towards was a misty sort of blue colour. She slowly sat up as she peered out the window, watching as a bird flew through the over cast sky that was greeting her good morning. A small sigh escaped her mouth as she slowly slide out of bed and donned the forest green robes of Slytherin. Scampering about the room to fill her bag with the books she would need for the day. She peered down at the timetable that told her the classes she had and with whom she shared them with.
The time table for her first day deemed that she had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs first. Then Divination with the Gryffindors. Lunch followed after this and then Care of Magical Creatures with the Gryffindors. A sigh escaped her lips agains as she hurrilied shoved the Monster book of Monsters into her school bag as her eyes slid down the list again. After Care of Magical Creatures was Defense Against the Dark Arts with the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws. Then dinner and after that she had History of Magic with the Ravenclaws and then Astronomy with the Hufflepuffs. It seemed that her day would be a full and packed one. She stood and slung her bag over her shoulder as she finished packing.
Before the young witchling left the girl's dormitory she looked over the still sleeping forms of her fellow third year girls. She quickly disappeared down the steps and left the Common Room with little more then a word or two to a boy that was seated reading on the leather couch near the fireplace. She was eager to get to breakfast to greet her friends before beginning their first day at Hogwarts.
Serenity had had the most wonderful breakfast with her friends from Gryffindor, though they had been given funny looks at first due to her Slytherin green robes that had been surrounded by the crimson robes of Gryffindor. Some of the Gryffindors had even been weary of her at first, that was until the Slytherins began to poke fun at her for sitting there. They had called her such cruel names. Blood traitor was just one of them. It had taken all that she had not to cry and give them the satisfaction. It was at this point that several Gryffindors jumped to her aid, launching insults back across the room at the Slytherins. Breakfast had been a real brawl for the first day.
That had not even been the worst part of Serenity's day. On her way to Herbology some pug-faced girl, which she found out later was named Pansy Parkinson, had tripped her. This had caused her papers and books to scatter everywhere and her to end up covered in mud. The other Slytherins had laughed at her, as did most of the Hufflepuffs aside from those that helped her up and gather her things. Steadily it had gotten worst. The worst of her bullies was Draco Malfoy. He would launch random insults at her. He even tampered with her Herbology project which caused the odd plant to begin throwing up putrid smelling ooze. "Oooh look! The blood traitor's plant can't stand the sight of her either!" Pansy had shrieked in delight.
Serenity was more then thankful when Herbology ended. She even gathered her things up quicker than the other students and departed before she could be tormented anymore by the other Slytherins. This had been her first mistake, for she had quickly gotten herself lost and before she knew it she could here the sound of the bell chiming through the corridors of the school signaling to all that second period was beginning. Serenity had been wandering the third floor when she was lucky enough to come across a Ravenclaw that happily pointed her into the right direction for Divination.
When Serenity had finally found the class she had arrived just in time to pick up part of what the Professor had begun saying, "we'll be focusing on Tasseomancy, the art of reading tea leaves." It was at this point that the professor seemed to noticed her awkwardly standing in the door way. She offered her hand towards Serenity, "Hello. my child. And who might you be?" There was a sudden pause as all eyes shifted to look at her, "Ah...um...I'm Serenity Monroe. I apologize for being late, Professor. I...er...got lost." Her voice shrank as the class bust out into laughter. She felt her cheeks burn with embarrassment, "No need to worry my dear. We all get lost at some point in our lives. Welcome to the noble art of Divination. Why don't you go take a seat with Mister Nott over there?"
Serenity nodded quickly before making her way to the back of the classroom where a Slytherin boy sat at a table alone. When she looked more closely at him she realized it had been the boy that had been reading on the couch. The one that had greeted her earlier that morning. The boy had fair skin with bright brown eyes and dark hair that was almost black. The boy was relatively attractive. He gave her a quick smile as she took the seat next to him. She flashed him a smile back before quickly turned to pay attention to what was going on in the class.
Professor Trelawney was moving about the room examining the various students as they attempted to read each other's tea leaves. At this point Serenity was hurriedly trying to down her cup of tea so that the boy across from her, who's name was Theodore, would be able to read what they said. She was half done when the Professor made a funny gasping sound as she passed by Ron. "Your aura is pulsing, dear. Are you in the beyond? I think you are." Serenity had to suppress the small snorting laugh that came from her as she heard Ron replied sure with a nod. Who was he kidding? He was no where near the great beyond.
"Look at the cup. Tell me what you see." Professor Trelawney continued. "Oh, yeah...um..." Ron opened his text book and began looking at it as he looked at Harry's tea leaves, "Well. Harry's got sort of a wonky cross. That's trials and suffering." Hermione looked to be laughing at Ron as he flipped through reading what he though he saw. Serenity couldn't blame her it was rather entertaining to watch. Serenity handed her cup over to Theodore absentmindedly as she took hold of his cup and peered down at it for a moment. What she saw in Theodore's cup nearly made her sick. She didn't need to read the book to know that the pattern his tea leaves made meant that the boy was suffering from something very dark and she wondered just what it was.
"And, uh, that there could be the sun and that's happiness," she heard Ron continue, "So...uh...you're gonna suffer, but you're gonna be happy about it." Serenity turned her head to see what was going on down by her friends just as Trelawney asked to see the cup. She gave a shriek and half threw the cup back down on the table before them as she backed up away from it as if it had burned her. Harry looked at her in wide eyed shock, as did most people, aside from Hermione who looked at her with puzzlement. "Oh, my dear boy. My dear...you have the grim." she hissed out.
"The grin? What's the grin?" she heard another Gryffindor asked after the class had all gasped in stunned shock, "Not the grin, you idiot. The grim." someone else answered, they had their book open and was reading from it, "taking the form of a giant spectral dog. It's among the darkest omens in our world. It's an omen...of death." The room erupted into whispers about the grim and Harry's tea leaves. It was not long after that class was dismissed. Serenity hurriedly thanked Theodore before gathering her things and running out the door to catch up with Hermione, Ron and Harry.
Harry had a look of worry on his face when Serenity finally caught up with them. "What a load of rubbish Harry, don't listen to her." Hermione was telling him. "Hermione is right Harry. Don't worry about it." The sound of Serenity's voice seemed to startle Harry since he jumped and turned to look at her in alarm. He relaxed when he realized who it was, "Let's just head to lunch. We have Care of Magical Creatures after. With Hagrid!" she smiled brightly. Harry sighed softly and smiled, "Yeah you're right." Though he only sounded half convinced himself as they continued down to the Great Hall for lunch.