Chapter 11

Predictions and Boggarts

The Monday after that, I was still not talking to Pansy. And Pansy was being a total bitch now. Like…I liked Draco longer than her, and you all probably know that, and Pansy was asked to asked Draco out, damn it!

This little argument was ruining friendships in the dorms, splitting us all up. Monique was on Pansy's side, and so were the Greengrass sisters, Daphne and Astoria, who were a year below me. What a pity, we were pretty good friends with them both before this.

But the rest of my dorm was on my side. I could actually see a pattern in who was on Pansy's side and who was on mine.

The girls on Team Pansy as I called them…all had crushes on Draco. And the girls on my side, either wanted me with him, or just weren't happy with how bitchy Pansy became.

Ivy, Rose, Tinkerbelle (Amelia, she's pretty handy with her hands like Tinkerbelle) and I went down to double Divination that Monday after the fight and saw that She-Cat, Sheila and Fireball were in Trelawney's room. Sheila was sitting at one of the tables, reading the course book, and She-Cat was sitting at a crystal ball, looking deeply into it, with Professor Trelawney's supervision.

"I'm so glad that you came up to Divination, Ms Capodebt." Trelawney said, beaming.

"Me too, Professor." She-Cat said before stiffening "I see…I see Snape…and…he's…" She-Cat burst into a fit of laughter.

"What do you see, She-Cat?" I asked, walking up to the ball.

"I…I think I saw Snape…" She-Cat snickered "in a…in a…bikini!"

I laughed myself and plopped myself next to her. "Snape…as in the Potion's Master Snape…in a bikini?"

She-Cat nodded, then looked into the ball again "The bikini's…pink…with…" a snicker "PONIES!"

I laughed my guts out "That's something to see!" I said, clutching a stitch in my side "Here's hoping whoever's there takes pictures."

"Hannah!" Mione said, gesturing over to the empty spot in between her and Ivy "Come sit here!"

Sheila got up from that same table and moved She-Cat out of the way to look into the ball.

"Oh, I see you and Malfoy…and you're-hey!" Sheila yelled, jumping back from the ball as She-Cat took hold of her bag "Hannah Potter, that is not appropriate activity to be doing in a closet with Pansy's boyfriend!"

I blanched "I hope you don't mean-" I started.

"No, nothing like that, get your mind out of the gutter!" Sheila said, glaring evilly at me. "I meant I saw you and Malfoy snogging in a closet." She added, getting back to her seat

I smiled and got up. "See you at lunch, She-Cat." I said, walking over to the table as She-Cat began to pack up.

"Yeah, Han." She-Cat said, starting out the door as I turned around "See you then."

I smiled and started back for V's and Sheila's table and…I ran into Draco. Want to know what made it worse?

I knocked his books out of his hands and onto the floor!

"Sorry!" I said, my face burning with embarrassment as I bent down and started picking up the dropped books "I'm such a klutz!" I hissed to myself.

Stupid, stupid. I thought standing back up and handing Draco back his books. "Sorry again." I said, starting back to my seat.

"It's ok." Draco said to my back "Shit happens. It's nobody's fault."

I blushed a deep red and turned back to him "Ok…talk to you later." I muttered as I turned back and sat down.

"Smooth, Han." Ivy whispered sarcastically as Trelawney started the lesson.

"Shut up." I whispered, glaring at Ivy "Don't make me feel worse."

All I could do was cover my still blushing face as Trelawney started on Harry's and mine's Grim until that blissful sound of the bell ringing to dismiss us all to Defence Against the Dark Arts.

…

Professor Lupin's lessons were always pretty good, we were on the fast track of learning about Dark creatures that we should know how to defend ourselves against them.

That day, we were onto Boggarts.

"Boggarts," Lupin started, writing the creature's name on the board "who can tell me what they are?"

Hermione's Ivy's and my own hands flew up into the air.

"Hmmm…such eager girls." Lupin commented before calling on Hermione.

"Boggarts are shape shifting creatures that reside in dark places, such as cupboards and under a bed."

Ivy put up her hand when Hermione finished. Lupin pointed to her, smiling.

"And they normally attack the person's mind." Ivy added, smiling to Hermione, who smiled back.

My hand shot up into the air faster than the other two of my friends. Lupin looked at me.

"Hannah, is there something that Hermione and Ivy are missing?" Lupin asked me, smiling slightly.

I nodded "Ivy and Hermione forgot to mention how the Boggart attacks the mind. It shape shifts into whatever the person that sees it is the most scared of."

"Excellent, excellent. Take five points to your respective houses, ladies. Now, we will be going on a little field trip to the staff room. There's a Boggart in the wardrobe and Professor Dumbledore has given this class permission to get rid of it. Now, the only way to get rid of a Boggart is with laughter. There is only one spell that can defeat the Boggart's shape shifting ability, and that spell is 'Riddikulous'. Now, say it with me, wands down please."

"Riddikulous." the class chorused together.

"This class is ridiculous." Draco said beside me as we stood up and filed out of the classroom.

…

Once we got to the staff room, everyone crowded together on Professor Lupin's orders.

"Who knows why we must stay together and go after the Boggart one at a time?"

Harry raised his hand timidly in the air. Lupin called on him immediately.

"So…the Boggart doesn't get confused and shape shift into multiple things at once?" Harry said, unsure.

"Excellent, another five points to Gryffindor." Lupin said, before turning to Neville Longbottom, who looked as pale as ever. "Neville, will you go first?"

Neville stepped up and whispered something into Lupin's ear.

"Ah, so you're scared of Professor Snape?" Lupin said, smiling sympathetically at Neville "Now, am I to understand that you live with your grandmother?"

Neville nodded.

"Does she wear a dress?"

Neville nodded again, his eyebrows creased in confusion.

"Then when you do the spell, imagine Snape in your grandmother's dress. All right?" Lupin asked before turning to the class "Ok, everyone stand back, I'm letting the Boggart out."

I took a few large steps back before Lupin let out the Boggart, which came out looking like…Professor Snape.

Neville raised his wand timidly and whimpered "Riddikulous!"

At that moment, the black robes Snape was wearing disappeared and turned into a woman's falcon dress.

I laughed. Sure, it was no bikini, but it was still pretty funny.

Neville stepped back and Ron stepped forward, the Boggart became a spider the size of a minivan!

I shrieked as Ron held up his wand and shouted the spell. The spider was suddenly wearing roller skates.

Ron laughed and stepped back, letting Parvati Patil step forward.

Everyone in the class stepped up and took on the Boggart. Well, everyone but Ivy and Harry.

Finally it was my turn, right after Drosie (Who, just so you can laugh at her, her biggest fear is…garlic.) I turned to the tap dancing clove and it turned into what I had expected it to turn into.

Not Voldemort. Not a Dementor. Something that scared the living crap out of me from the second I first saw it.

A Hippogriff.

Drosie snickered, then burst into a fit of laughter "Potter's…scared…of…HIPPOGRIFFS!" she yelled in between mindless cackles of laughter. I turned back to the Hippogriff and raised my wand.

"RIDDIKULOUS!" I bellowed, flicking my wand in the Hippogriff's face.

Suddenly the Hippogriff wasn't a Hippogriff anymore, and everyone in the room was laughing.

It was Snape. And as She-Cat said, he was in a pink bikini with ponies.

I saw the flash of a camera as Bikini-Snape blew up with a large POOF!

I smirked as Lupin awarded me a point to Slytherin for getting a large group of laughs.

I made a mental note to tell Ramona that her prediction came true…and get a copy of that picture.