Chapter 10:
Prisoner of Azkaban Part 3
Soon he was back to when he and Terry had been walking to Care of Magical Creatures. He carefully made sure to remain out of sight until they passed by and he began to head to the Divination tower. He got to the class moments before it started and took a seat next to Luna who had taken the class a year early even though it added on to her homework load. Harry put it up as one more reason to admire her. Her eyes brightened as he came into the room. He took the other seat at the small round table she occupied.
As far as he could see he wasn't late at all. The teacher wasn't even in the room and as far as he could tell a divination teacher didn't need to be an animagus like Professor McGonagall (he found this out when Terry came in late to class and was scolded when she transformed back from cat to human before his eyes.) Finally he saw a frizzy haired nervous looking woman step out from a door adorned with gypsy beads. She wore glasses completely different form Harry's. She seemed to let he class do whatever they wanted once they had made up a plausible prediction form whatever mode of divination they were using. So, Harry chatted with Luna about the classes he had already taken that day (excluding of course Care of Magical Creatures, since he didn't want her to find out that he was using a time turner.)She then told him about her classes.
The class was going generally well until his sister noticed that he was taking the class. Soon she called Professor Trelawney over to her table. She made a big deal about the formation of the grains in the bottom of her tea cup. No doubt she was trying to get a prediction about her brother's death. Suddenly a pall of fear came over Trelawney's face as she looked into the cup. "It looks like you are going to meet a horrible demise…That's a black dog a symbol of ensuing tragedy. You must be careful girl! I repeat you must be careful!" The class suddenly quieted down. Thankfully the awkward moment was broken when it became time to move to the next class. Harry quickly left behind Luna in his hurry to get back to Terry at just the right moment.
He went into the lobby of the castle and waited behind the staircase for Terry to come in and then went out a side door and walked back in the front door. "Hey, Harry, that didn't take you too long." Terry said as he caught sight of him. They began to walk to Potions class. Harry hoped that Luna wouldn't mention Divination in the proximity of Terry's hearing.
Soon they came upon the entrance into Snape's classroom. Harry personally had no beef with the man but the seemed to heave a problem with Harry. Harry had heard he was even worse to his sister, but didn't think too hard about that thinking she probably deserved it. Though he couldn't figure out why Snape didn't like him. Regardless of Harry's hard work he still never got a perfect grade it was always a couple points shy.
The two walked in and sat at one of the tables near the middle of the classroom. Not long after the class began and once again even though Harry had his hand up for nearly every question he was never called on. Then when they had to brew a healing potion his and Terry's wasn't quite strong enough even though it would have brought someone back from the dead in Harry's opinion. Once the class was over Harry was almost fuming but tried to keep it in check since next class was Defense against the Dark Arts one of his favorites.
The teacher this year was twice as competent as Lockhart. Harry enjoyed most of Lupin's classes immensely. He knew that he had been friends with his father but hadn't yet asked him about Sirius. He was waiting until he could trust him to not rat the man out. Besides, Lupin might believe that Sirius had really killed all those people in cold blood. In the mean time he intended to learn as much from the class as he could. He had already had two run in with Voldemort already and figured he would find away back to get another crack at Kayla somehow. Even though he had come out alive from both encounters he still thought it had been touch and go at moments.
Naturally Harry knew every answer to the questions the professor asked and was called on many times throughout the class. Terry himself was called on a couple times. At the end of the lesson Lupin announced that next week they would begin some hands-on courses. Most of the class was ecstatic being Ravenclaws and wanting more action than just a boring textbook.
Once dinner came around Harry had almost forgot that he had to keep it a secret that he was going to two classes to his friend and almost talked about Divination to Terry but caught himself. Thankfully Terry was too busy eating to care and Luna was conversing with another girl in her year. Harry went to sleep that night dreaming of whirling time turners and tea cups…