Chapter 9
To Predict and Betray
You're probably wondering why I said "Just as Professor Trelawney predicted!" huh.
Well, it all starts something like this:
Ivy and I were walking towards Divination, following some knight portrait that called himself "Sir Cadogen". The three of us walked up many flights of stairs, me starting to worry about being late for class.
I started panicking, saying to Ivy "We're going to get detention! We're going to be in so much trouble!" until Sir Cadogen pointed us to a large ladder that lead to a trapdoor that said:
SYBILL TRELAWNEY
DIVINATION
I said thank you to Cadogen and climbed up the ladder just as the bell rang.
The room seemed like a mixture of someone's attic and a coffee house, with plush chairs everywhere, fumes coming from the fireplace making me a little sluggish.
I sat with Ivy, Harry, Ron and Hermione when a misty voice rang out to begin the lesson.
"Hello, children." the woman's voice said "I'm glad to see you in the physical world at last."
A figure stood up and faced us all. She instantly reminded me of a large bug. With large eyes magnified by her spectacles. There were lots of shawls around her body, topped off with many a necklace dangling from her neck as she addressed the class.
"Welcome to Divination." the woman said "I am Professor Trelawney, and I am going to be your guide to the Inner Eye. Divination is one of the most complicated forms of magic that can be mastered, for a witch or wizard must be born with the Inner Eye, if you aren't born with the Eye, then there is not a lot that I can do. For books will not help you much in this class."
I smirked at Hermione, who seemed to be shocked at the information that books won't help her much in that class.
"Oh, dear," Professor Trelawney said to Lavender Brown "That thing you're dreading the most, it will happen on the sixteenth of October."
I turned around to face Lavender, who had blanched at the prediction.
"And you," Professor Trelawney said to Parvati Patil "Beware the red haired boy."
Parvati moved a ways away from Ron before Trelawney returned to the lesson plan for the year. We were going to start with tea leaves, and maybe move on to the crystal ball, if we can manage around an apparent flu bug that will go around. And then she said that around Easter, one of us would be leaving forever.
I looked around everyone. Draco told me he was taking that class…but Trelawney said that around Easter one of us would be leaving. Draco was only in the hospital wing, so I shook that thought out of my head.
"Now, I want each table to take a teacup and a pot of tea. You will drink, then examine the leaves. And dear." she added, pointing towards Neville "Take a blue cup, you're going to break a cup and I'd rather you didn't break the pink ones. They're personal favourites of mine."
I grabbed a blue cup, and a pot of tea for our table. Trelawney passed from table to table, correcting predictions and making some of her own. It all changed when she got to our table as I was reading Ivy's tea leaves.
"So…you have like, something that looks like a cheetah, so the book says that you are someone's enemy…?" I told Ivy.
"Dear…" Trelawney said, cutting Ivy off when she started telling me about a sheep. "I see something fantastic in store for you. That thing…that you are hoping most for, will happen this coming Friday!"
I looked at Trelawney as she took my cup from Ivy's hand, and Harry's cup from Ron's.
"The falcon…you both have a great enemy."
"Duh!" Hermione and Ivy said together "It's obvious that they're You-Know-Who's enemies!"
Trelawney looked over the cups some more, ignoring Mione and V until she screamed and dropped the cup, causing Neville to drop his.
"The Grim!" Trelawney gasped, sinking into a chair "I never thought…two students in a class with the same fate!"
"What?" I asked, a large pit in my stomach.
"It's the worst omen…Death!"
I gulped. This class wasn't going to be all that fun as I thought it was going to be.
Anyways, on Saturday morning I woke up still in the Forest, but with two big differences.
One: Draco was sleeping this time, his arm still around my shoulder.
And two: There was another blanket around the two of us.
CRAP! I thought, coming to my senses Pansy's gonna kill me!
But then again, I really liked being in that position, so…I stayed in it until Draco woke up.
Draco grunted and took his arm off me when he woke up.
"Holy crap." I said, rolling my eyes and sitting up "You're a deep sleeper."
"I know, it's a Malfoy thing." Draco explained, smirking as I picked up my books "What time is it?"
I checked my watch "HOLY SKINNER!" I shouted, slinging my book bag over my shoulder "It's after eleven thirty!"
"Damn!" Draco spat, sending the blankets and bowl back to the castle with a flick of his wand "We missed breakfast."
"More importantly, Harry and Pansy are gonna wonder where we are." I said, terrified "Come on, we gotta get back to the dungeons."
Draco and I broke into a run for the dungeons, thankfully no one asked where we were heading in such a hurry. I burst into the common room, Draco on my tail. I scanned the common room for Pansy, thankfully, she wasn't there.
"Good, she's not here." I said, turning to Draco "I'll be back, I'm going to change."
Draco nodded as I climbed up the stairs to my dorms. My look of terror came back when Pansy was sitting by the window towards the Forest, glaring at me.
"I saw you." Pansy growled standing up "You and Draco were running out of the Forest…and you look like you just woke up."
My eyes widened in shock "And?" I squeaked, taking a step back as Pansy took a step forwards.
"And I saw Draco go into the Forest last night before I went to bed. And he didn't come out until now."
"Oh, I was asleep by then and-" I started, cutting myself off "Oops." I said, ducking behind my bed as Pansy jumped at me.
"YOU WERE SLEEPING WITH MY BOYFRIEND!" Pansy screamed, trying to hit me with a pillow that I cleverly avoided. "HOW COULD YOU!"
"Pansy, we're just friends!" I shouted, ducking as she tried to punch me "And I was just helping him with some schoolwork!"
"And it ended with you falling asleep with him!" Pansy demanded, gaining composure and crossing her arms.
"I was tired!" I yelled defensively "And it…I can't really describe it. And is it my fault that I liked him before you?"
"No, but you should just leave well enough alone. You and Draco isn't going to happen!"
"You said first year that you'd help me get him!" I shouted, trying hard not to blow up.
"Yeah, you could've used the help, Draco wouldn't date you because you're too ugly." Pansy sneered.
"YOU LITTLE PUG FACED BITCH!" I shouted, a fireball bursting into my hand as Scar walked in with a falcon.
"What's going on?" Scar asked, keeping the falcon at a distance, which was trying to fly into the room "Masquerade, calm down!"
"Hey, Scar. Please tell Hannah that Draco wouldn't date her if she switched faces with me." Pansy said, turning to Scar with a smirk on her face.
"The only reason you and Draco are going out is because you were so bitchy and wouldn't break it off with him even when you knew that Ivy asked you to ask him out!" I shouted, clenching my fist and dousing the fireball.
"Jealous!" Pansy shouted, taking a step towards me.
"Pug!" I retorted, taking another step towards her.
"Wimp!" Pansy growled, taking yet another step towards me
"Bitch!" I shouted, taking another step towards her, glaring into her eyes.
"Brat!" Pansy hissed through her teeth.
"Stalker." I growled, another fireball forming in my hands, that I doused with a water ball.
Pansy gasped "You take that back!" she ordered.
"No, it's wrong to tell lies." I snapped, dumping the water ball on her head before stalking out of the dorm, Scar following me.
"You know, Han," Scar said, jogging to keep up with me "if you want, you can change in my dorms. I can get your clothes."
"Thanks, Scar." I said, smiling at her as she lead me up to her dorm.
"Stay here," Scar said, pointing me to her bed "I'm going to get you a clean change in robes. Then we'll go see Ivy, Sheila and Ramona."
I sat on the bed as Scar went to get my clean robes. I picked up an issue of Witch Weekly and flipped to the first page I felt like reading:
Man Stealing Friends: Do They Mean Well, or Are They Trying to Ruin Your Life?
I laughed as Scar came back with some clean robes, telling me that she was on my side in the argument as I changed.
After Scar brushed my hair and pulled it into a black ribbon, we left the dungeons to find Sheila, Ivy and She-Cat.
