Taking Chances and Making Changes
Authors Note - This story is an AU. It follows canon events up until the end of Prisoner and beginning of Goblet.
Disclaimer - I own nothing except my OC's. Everything else belongs to JK Rowling. Basically, if you recognise it from the books/films then it is not mine.
Hayley POV
It had been around 3 months since I had, had strange dreams and nightmares. They were continuous for about two weeks before I relented and told my friends about them. It was now Saturday the 17th and we were all busy with last-minute revision and studying for our exams that would begin on Monday. Neville, Hermione, Blaise, Cyrus and I were all in the library together studying various subjects. We all had very similar exam schedules to each other. We all had the same exams for Monday-Wednesday. The differences were that on the Thursday of that week Neville, Blaise and Hermione had Care of Magical Creatures in the morning. Cyrus, Hermione and I then had Arithmancy after lunch. Then we had no exams on Friday which gave me chance to go over a variety of spells that I might need for the final task on Saturday evening. Then on the following Monday, we all had Potions in the morning and then had our second elective exam in the afternoon. For Neville, it was Divination while the rest of us had Ancient Runes. At the moment we were studying the subjects that we were having the most trouble with. For Neville and Cyrus, it was Potions, for Blaise it was Herbology, Hermione was studying Care of Magical Creatures and I was studying Arithmancy. I was slightly regretting my decision to actually take the exams rather than not having too but I wanted to prove to myself that I could do better and improve my grades. During the exam week we didn't have any other classes so after we finished our exams for the day we had the rest of the day off to allow us to use the extra time to study for our other exams.
Two days later I was putting my hair up in a messy bun and making sure that I had everything I would need for the Charms exam as I grabbed the notes I had made to read over while eating. Hermione, Neville and I headed downstairs from the common room and went to breakfast. As we sat down I glanced around the room and at least half of the room was sat reading either textbooks or notes while eating. For Charms, we all did the theory portion of the exam at the same time and then the practical portion was done individually and went alphabetically. When the Charms exam finished we had about an hour until our History of Magic exam which would take us up until lunch so the 5 of us headed out to the courtyard to refresh our minds ready for our next exam.
By the time Friday rolled around I was glad that I only had two more exams to go until I was done. As we had no classes or exams I stayed in bed later than I normally would and got up around 11 before getting dressed. After getting dressed I went down to the common room and spent some time with the twins and Neville until lunch. Hermione was already at the library doing some studying for Potions and Ancient Runes but would join us for lunch. After lunch Neville, Hermione, Cyrus, Blaise, Fred, George and I went outside and sat by the Black Lake as it was an unusually nice day. While outside in addition to talking and having fun we also went over the different spells that I knew that might be helpful in the final task. After spending the afternoon outside we headed back up to the common room for a bit until dinner.
I woke up around 10 the next day as the final task didn't start until around 8 in the evening. Despite being nervous about the final task I was looking forward to it ending. I was also happy that as it was the final task Ted and Andy were coming to watch. They were arriving a few hours before dinner so I would be able to spend some time with them before the task. I didn't feel like eating any breakfast so I stayed in the common room reading and recapping defensive and offensive spells.
Authors Note - Hey Guys I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I'm sorry that it is quite short but I needed a short filler chapter that briefly covered the exam week. I am so sorry that I haven't uploaded in a while. I wrote this chapter back in February, finished it and started writing the next and then completely forgot to post it. Then I got really busy with college and a really bad case of writer's block. But I will be getting back onto a more consistent schedule now. I will be posting the next chapter on the 22nd of April and the next one after that will be posted on either the 6th of May or on the 13th of May depending on how long it takes me to finish it.