The Next day Harry, Hermione, and Anna left the dormitory in the morning and headed down towards Hagrid's hut for Care of Magical Creatures. Ron was still in the hospital wing, they would visit him after their classes.

As they marched out the front oak door they saw a far away brown speck in the air that was holding something and spinning in circles. As they drew nearer they noticed that is was actually a very small owl holding a letter that was way to large and bulky for it.

"Oh!" Hermione exclaimed, "It's Ron's owl!"

"Pigwidgeon." Anna said. Harry and Hermione stared at her, simply amazed.

"How did you know that?" They chorused.

"Oh.uh.Ron told me." She simply stated.

"Go on Pig! Ron's in the hospital wing!" Harry shooed the owl away. Then it flew crookedly towards the castle and out of sight.

When they reached the hut, most of the class was already gathered there. Hagrid, for some reason, appeared extremely excited.

As they approached, he announced, "Were dun with Billywings!"

It seemed the class had mixed feelings about this. Some looked disappointed but others looked overjoyed.

"Terday we'll be studyin' Ashwinders!" He added.

The class looked puzzled.

"Haven't you ever heard of an Ashwinder?" Charlie Weasly asked them. "Everybody should have."

Hermione raised her hand and when she was called on she said, "An Ashwinder is a pale-gray snake that is created when a magical fire is allowed to burn for too long."

"Show off." Malfoy said just loud enough for the class to hear him, but not the teachers. Anna and Harry gave him a dirty look.

"That's right 'Ermione." Said Hagrid. "And terday we're gonna make one!" He was practically jumping up and down now.

"The Ashwinder is actually quite dangerous and we need to know a little background before we begin." Charlie said. "Now open your books to page twenty-one and follow along:

"The Ashwinder, a thin pale-gray snake, is created when a magical fire is allowed to burn for too long. When the fire is reduced to just embers this snake will emerge from it and slither to the nearest, dark place, leaving and ashy trail behind it. The Ashwinder only lives for one hour, which during this time it will lay it's egg in the darkest place it can find. These eggs can ignite a house within minutes and must be found and frozen immediately."

Are you all ready? It will take about an hour for it to be created so until then you can do home work or whatever you want." He paused and looked around. "OK then. Flamaraey Incantartum!" A spurt of fire flew from the tip of his wand into a circle of rocks he formed.

The rest of the period was spent making up Divination predictions or doing arithmancy homework if you were Hermione. But all too soon the fire reduced to embers and an odd sort of spitting sound came from it. They all turned to look at the origin of this noise to find a pair of ruby red eyes gleaming at them from inside the ashes. Then the pale-gray snake slithered out. And began wandering around.

"Back away now, they're burnin' hot they are. Don't want ter be touched." Hagrid cautioned them. Everyone stepped back a few paces.

As soon as the snake emerged from the ashes it automatically slithered under the nearest tree. And as it found the darkest spot there, it stayed put for five minutes. At last it moved to reveal a small pile of ruby-red spheres, the same color as it's eyes.

"These are the Ashwinder's eggs." Charlie informed them. "They, as I said before, can ignite a house (or a tree in our case) within minutes. So it's best to freeze them as soon as you can." He pointed his wand at the eggs, "Shivium!" A blue light came out of his wand and when it touched the eggs they turned a sapphire blue.

"After yeh freeze 'em you can use 'em in love potions and to heal some injuries." Hagrid added. Then he looked at his gigantic wrist watch, "Alrigh' then, it's time fer yeh all ter go, bye! Harry would yeh come 'ere fer a minute? Here," He handed the eggs to Harry, "Take these to Madam Pomfrey on yer way ter visit Ron, would yeh?"

"Sure Hagrid, see you." He smiled then headed off with Hermione and Anna back towards the castle to visit Ron before Divination.

Ten minutes later Hermione knocked on the door to the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey opened it. She was rather reluctant to let them in until Harry showed her the Ashwinder eggs.

"Hey Ron!" Harry said as they entered. Ron was just staring at the ceiling.

"How are you feeling?" Hermione asked. He continued to stare.

"Um.are you okay?" Anna said looking a little puzzled.

"I never thought I could be so bored! There is absolutely nothing to do here! And my arm is still numb." He now rolled over in his bed and faced them.

"Well Mr. Weasly your in luck! Potter here has brought some Ashwinder eggs!" Madam Pomfrey sounded very excited.

"Whatever those are." He moaned.

Madam Pomfrey began bustling about, she powdered the eggs then added some kind of potion she had, and lastly let them simmer for five minutes.

"Here drink this." She handed the potion to Ron.

Ron took it and drank it in one gulp. When he had finished his eyes slowly brightened up. "I can feel my arm now!" He flexed his fingers and rotated his elbow.

"You're now free to go as soon as you get changed." She drew the curtains around Ron's bed and one minute later he emerged fully dressed.

"Wonderful. Just in time for Divination." Anna said.

"We better get going or we'll be late." Harry added.

Harry, Ron, and Anna left Hermione on their way to Divination. When they entered the muggy tower and all three took their seat at the same table, Professor Trelawny mysteriously glided out of the shadows.

"Good day class." She said in her mysterious voice. "We are now done with our review on the Crystal ball. And today we will be starting on Tarot Cards."

Lavender and Parvati let out a long 'Oooo' at this and Anna gave them a disapproving look.

"This," She motioned to a large portrait of a lady wearing a black hooded cloak, purple earrings, and gold rimmed glasses. Under the hood, short, purple hair could be seen. "Is my idol. Aimee Dier. She is the most famous Tarot Card reader of all! Not one prediction that she made was incorrect!" Trelawny beamed up at the portrait. "Anyway," She said, coming back to earth. "You now must form groups and one of you please go to the shelf and grab a deck of cards. Also please open to page one hundred and four. There it gives an explanation of how to interpret the cards."

Anna, being the closest to the shelf, got up and took a deck of cards. They were to take turns doing a reading for each other. Anna went first doing Harry's. He shuffled the cards then gave them back to her and she laid them out in the correct format. She flipped cards over one by one then consulted her book.

"Lets see here.you'll find great happiness. That's a classic.um.. joy.. Isn't that the same thing?"

Ron snickered.

"Anyway." She started again but was quickly interrupted by Professor Trelawny's gasp from behind her.

"My dear! The card of death!" She said.

None of the class reacted they were used to this by now.

"Oh Harry! This is very unfortunate!" Anna said sarcastically. But she winked at Harry.

"Oh well.." Harry started but then Ron cut him short.

"Excuse me Professor," He said in a mock, polite voice " But it says here in the book that common meanings would be an end to something, could be an end that was a bad sort of end or a conclusion type of end where you get what you earned. Not necessarily death itself."

At that Anna lost it and quickly ducked under the table to hide the fact that she was laughing.

Fortunately Professor Trelawny mistook this for crying for she said, "Oh cheer up Anna. Perhaps it'll be a fast, painless death." Anna roared with laughter. "Tsk tsk, poor girl." She said sympathetically and walked to the next table.

Anna emerged from under the table her whole face now bright pink from laughing. "Ok Harry, you do Ron now." She handed him the deck and Ron shuffled it.

"Ok then. You've got happiness too. You're going to find something that was lost. Oh my what's this one?" He looked in the book. "It says here this is the card of strength." He began to read directly out of the book. "This is a hot card, referring to hot topics like...RON! Looks like you've got a lot on your mind." Harry started cracking up and turned the book towards them. Ron and Anna then read where Harry stopped. Ron's face turned the color of his hair and Anna started laughing her head off.

"Ok, ok that's enough of that." Ron cleared up all the cards and handed then to Anna to shuffle. "I'll do Anna now." But Harry and Anna continued to laugh.

Ron flipped over some cards and laid them out. "Ok.looks like you can join the happy club with me and Harry. Um.you've got a deep dark secret that you're dying to tell someone. And.ew.what's this one?" He read from the book, "The Hanged Man card looks somewhat disturbing. Surely, madness and absurdity are part of this card, but there is much more to it." Ron paused to laugh. "Oh! That is phrased so WRONG!"

The three immediately started laughing again but had to suddenly put a stop to it as Professor Trelawny passed by their table.

Five minutes later she dismissed the class and they made their way back towards Gryffindor tower. As they entered they saw a large crowd that included Hermione gathered around the bulletin board.

She pushed her way out through the mass of people and hurried up to tell them what was going on.

"Professor Mcgonagall just posted a notice!" She began.

"Well I figured that." Ron said.

"What does it say, Hermione?" Harry asked her.

"They're going to hold tryouts for the position of keeper a week from tomorrow!"

But Professor Mcgonagall interrupted them from further conversation as she stepped portrait hole and made her way over towards them.

"Potter? Could I see you for a moment outside?" She asked Harry.

"Er.sure." He said. And he followed her back outside the common room.