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Abandoned chapter 16
When Monday morning came around, Harry got dressed as quickly as possible and almost skipped down to the dining room where Sirius was constructing a make shift classroom. "Wow. With that attitude people will confuse you with Hermione!" Sirius exclaimed as Harry entered the room.
I took a moment for Harry to work out what Sirius meant. He then stopped dead in his tracks and blushed furiously.
"Hey it's ok. I was only teasing."
Harry smiled mischievously and sat down in the chair that Sirius was about to move.
"So when is professor Lupin coming?"
"Any minute now I reckon." Sirius said. He pointed his wand at the chair that Harry was sat in and levitated it. Harry jumped off with a cry of alarm as Sirius (and one of the house elves who was cleaning the windows) chuckled.
Harry glared at them causing the house elf to scuttle away from Harry anxiously.
Sirius turned to the elf "Star, I have told you a hundred times, it's perfectly fine to have a sense of humour. If you want to laugh at us go ahead." The house elf smiled nervously before continuing to clean the windows.
An alarm rang out through the house, indicating that somebody was about to arrive by floo powder. Sirius spun around and pointed his wand at the fireplace (just in case). Remus fell face first into the room. Sirius dropped his wand and caught his friend.
"Thanks Padfoot. Hi Harry." Remus gave Harry a little wave as he righted himself.
"Hello."
"Where is everyone?" Remus asked
"They are due to begin arriving in about three minutes." Sirius replied
"How many in the class?"
"Uh, eight I think. All of the Griffindor fifth years whose parents gave permission."
Where have they been learning on the two days that they are now going to spend here each week?" Harry asked
"The Burrow." Remus said
"Oh." Harry said as Star came bustling into the room with a large slice of toast for Harry, "I'm not Hungry. Thanks anyway."
"Master Black is saying that Harry Potter must have at least three meals a day." Then as though the topic was closed, she strode purposefully from the room.
"At least three?!" Harry exclaimed at Sirius
"Padfoot has always had a huge appetite. He seemed to eat as much as the rest of us marauders combined. He can't understand why not everyone eats like him."
"Look, I just think the boy needs some meat on his bones. James was far too skinny as well."
Thanks for the advice, Aunt Marge." Harry muttered
"What?"
"Nevermind." Harry said in exasperation as Remus snorted.
"Sirius, leave the boy alone. Besides, look in the mirror, you're like a rake."
"I have a fast metabolism!" just then the alarm rang out again, signalling the arrival of the first student.
Ron stepped into the living room, greeted the two adults and bounded up to Harry.
"Hi mate! How are you?"
"fine. You?" Harry replied quickly
"yeah. I'm really glad we can finally come here. mum was having a nervous breakdown about having six extra teenagers in the house three days a week!"
"I can imagine." Harry knew only too well how cramped the Weasley house could get.
Ron started looking around the room in wonder. "So, this is your new house?!"
"yeah. I'll give you a tour later if you like."
Just then, out of the corned of his eye he saw something large launching itself at him.
Hermoine threw her arms around the shocked Harry, and began a tirade about how desperate she had been to see him for herself since he had moved.
"Ahem." Ron coughed pointedly.
Hermione released Harry and faced Ron.
"Hermione, you're my girlfriend. I don't appreciate you throwing yourself at other men!"
"What?" Harry asked, having recovered from the shock of being smothered by Hermione
"We are going out." Hermione announced proudly
"Finally!" Harry exclaimed
Ron and Hermione smiled sheepishly
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"We're not allowed to send you owls in case they're followed."
"Right." Harry said looking at Sirius who had neglected to mention this.
When everyone had finally arrived Remus stood at the 'front' of the room
"Welcome to Silvermoon Manor." He glared at Sirius who promptly left the room, traces of amusement on his face.
The lesson was again about the various demons that were prone to take advantage of war, by making people think that it's victims had been killed as a result of the battle. Mostly, it was a 'copy out of books' type of lesson.
By the lunchtime Harry's wrist was aching from writing. Hermione left immediately after the class to go to another house for arithmancy, as the others were due to have divination. Lavender and Pervati began rearranging the furniture to appear more mystical and closed the curtains. Neville, Dean and Seamus immediately began to tuck into enormous plates of sandwiches bought in by the houselves.
Harry and Ron grabbed a few themselves and sloped off upstairs with them. Harry showed Ron his room and they sat listening to the wireless. Some time later the other boys turned up to see the room too.
"My Gran would never let me have one of those in my room" Neville complained gesturing to the radio "I think she thinks I'll blow it up or something."
"Harry, you should get a chudley cannons poster!" Ron said suddenly. "I'll buy you one for your birthday!"
"Cool" Harry said trying to think of a quidditch team that would actually match the walls.
"Nah. Get a football poster Harry." Dean interjected. "Chelsea wear blue. It would look really cool in here."
The door opened and Sirius stuck his head into the room "Trelawney's here. You'd better go downstairs."
When the boys entered the dining (class) room they flopped down in their seats and Professor Trelawney began to talk in her usual misty voice. "Today, we will be doing work with tarot cards. Although these are often used in muggle carnivals and the like, if you have a true gift for divination they ace as an excellent tool. Open your textbooks to page 634 which has a set of interpretations for the cards which I myself find to be the most accurate."
Ron and Harry, Dean, Neville and Seamus who were sitting in a row along one side of the dining room table, appeared quite comical as their eyebrows rose simultaneously. Over half of the interpretations on this page resulted in a death or horrible injury of some description. No wonder professor Trelawney preferred this interpretation. Harry would have bet a limb that these were mot the usual tarot interpretations.
The class then divided up into small groups. Harry and Ron were partners. By halfway through the class Harry and Ron had predicted each other's deaths about twenty times. Professor Trelawney sat down with them and upon seeing their cards suggested gently that they begin constructing their wills.
With that she stood up and sniffed as though holding back tears. On her way past she patted Harry on the shoulder supportively. Ron began to shake hard with silent laughter, and soon tears of mirth were escaping his eyes.
However, Harry, who had also been trying hard not to laugh as the professor made her grim suggestion, froze as Trelawney touched his shoulder. A nagging feeling that had been tugging at the edges of his consciousness since divination had begun shaped itself into a coherent thought.
He couldn't sense anything from her. It was like she was an inanimate object, with no more soul than the chair he was sitting on.
Ron, upon noticing the look on Harry's face sobered immediately. "What's up?"
"Huh?" Harry said as he was pulled from has reverie "oh uh, nothing. I'll tell you later." He added catching the look of disbelief he was given by Ron on the mention of 'nothing'.
When the class did at last draw to a close, everyone queued up at the fireplace to return home. Ron was staying at the manor for dinner with Harry, Sirius and Remus.
Once everyone had gone, Ron and Harry went into the kitchen to join the two marauders around the table. The houselves rushed forwards and places a dish of biscuits on the table and cups of tea.
"Well?" Ron asked impatiently "What was the 'nothing' that got you so spooked?"
"What?" Sirius and Remus said together
"In divination, after declaring that Ron and I should write our wills due to the very unpleasant deaths predicted in the lesson, Trelawney touched my shoulder."
"So? She likes predicting death. It's what she does. Usually to people who don't like divination" Sirius said
"Yeah, well, when she touched my shoulder I suddenly realised something really strange about her."
"Suddenly?" Ron asked incredulously "You mean you didn't think she was really strange within 10 seconds of meeting her?"
"Of course I did, but that's not what I mean. I couldn't sense any emotion in her. It's like she was, you know, just a thing. Like a table. I can see her but I don't feel anything."
"Hmmm.." Lupin said thoughtfully. Sirius and Ron looked at each other, also in thought.
"Could be she's just immune." Sirius suggested.
"No, I've felt things from her before."
"Maybe Voldemort did something to her." Lupin suggested "I did wonder why he didn't just kill her."
"I thought you tried not to feel other people's emotions." Ron said looking a bit self-conscious.
"I do. But I always have some sense of peoples or animals that are near me, even if I am trying not to think about what their feelings are at that moment."
"Oh."
"Look" Remus said "I'm seeing Dumbledore in the morning to discuss arrangements for the exams. I'll ask him then. In the mean time there's a week until next divination class so try not to worry too much. Dumbledore will sort out her other classes this week if he thinks there might be a problem."
Feeling a bit better Harry gave Ron a proper tour of the house and they hung around watching another quidditch match on the wireless before dinner.
A/N Sorry it's taken so long to update. Homework, essays etc etc (long suffering sigh). Sorry if the gaps between chapters are a bit longer for a while. That goes for my other fic (muggle experience) too.
THANK YOU FOR REVIEWS (didn't have time to write the names down while in internet café, sorry)
Abandoned chapter 16
When Monday morning came around, Harry got dressed as quickly as possible and almost skipped down to the dining room where Sirius was constructing a make shift classroom. "Wow. With that attitude people will confuse you with Hermione!" Sirius exclaimed as Harry entered the room.
I took a moment for Harry to work out what Sirius meant. He then stopped dead in his tracks and blushed furiously.
"Hey it's ok. I was only teasing."
Harry smiled mischievously and sat down in the chair that Sirius was about to move.
"So when is professor Lupin coming?"
"Any minute now I reckon." Sirius said. He pointed his wand at the chair that Harry was sat in and levitated it. Harry jumped off with a cry of alarm as Sirius (and one of the house elves who was cleaning the windows) chuckled.
Harry glared at them causing the house elf to scuttle away from Harry anxiously.
Sirius turned to the elf "Star, I have told you a hundred times, it's perfectly fine to have a sense of humour. If you want to laugh at us go ahead." The house elf smiled nervously before continuing to clean the windows.
An alarm rang out through the house, indicating that somebody was about to arrive by floo powder. Sirius spun around and pointed his wand at the fireplace (just in case). Remus fell face first into the room. Sirius dropped his wand and caught his friend.
"Thanks Padfoot. Hi Harry." Remus gave Harry a little wave as he righted himself.
"Hello."
"Where is everyone?" Remus asked
"They are due to begin arriving in about three minutes." Sirius replied
"How many in the class?"
"Uh, eight I think. All of the Griffindor fifth years whose parents gave permission."
Where have they been learning on the two days that they are now going to spend here each week?" Harry asked
"The Burrow." Remus said
"Oh." Harry said as Star came bustling into the room with a large slice of toast for Harry, "I'm not Hungry. Thanks anyway."
"Master Black is saying that Harry Potter must have at least three meals a day." Then as though the topic was closed, she strode purposefully from the room.
"At least three?!" Harry exclaimed at Sirius
"Padfoot has always had a huge appetite. He seemed to eat as much as the rest of us marauders combined. He can't understand why not everyone eats like him."
"Look, I just think the boy needs some meat on his bones. James was far too skinny as well."
Thanks for the advice, Aunt Marge." Harry muttered
"What?"
"Nevermind." Harry said in exasperation as Remus snorted.
"Sirius, leave the boy alone. Besides, look in the mirror, you're like a rake."
"I have a fast metabolism!" just then the alarm rang out again, signalling the arrival of the first student.
Ron stepped into the living room, greeted the two adults and bounded up to Harry.
"Hi mate! How are you?"
"fine. You?" Harry replied quickly
"yeah. I'm really glad we can finally come here. mum was having a nervous breakdown about having six extra teenagers in the house three days a week!"
"I can imagine." Harry knew only too well how cramped the Weasley house could get.
Ron started looking around the room in wonder. "So, this is your new house?!"
"yeah. I'll give you a tour later if you like."
Just then, out of the corned of his eye he saw something large launching itself at him.
Hermoine threw her arms around the shocked Harry, and began a tirade about how desperate she had been to see him for herself since he had moved.
"Ahem." Ron coughed pointedly.
Hermione released Harry and faced Ron.
"Hermione, you're my girlfriend. I don't appreciate you throwing yourself at other men!"
"What?" Harry asked, having recovered from the shock of being smothered by Hermione
"We are going out." Hermione announced proudly
"Finally!" Harry exclaimed
Ron and Hermione smiled sheepishly
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"We're not allowed to send you owls in case they're followed."
"Right." Harry said looking at Sirius who had neglected to mention this.
When everyone had finally arrived Remus stood at the 'front' of the room
"Welcome to Silvermoon Manor." He glared at Sirius who promptly left the room, traces of amusement on his face.
The lesson was again about the various demons that were prone to take advantage of war, by making people think that it's victims had been killed as a result of the battle. Mostly, it was a 'copy out of books' type of lesson.
By the lunchtime Harry's wrist was aching from writing. Hermione left immediately after the class to go to another house for arithmancy, as the others were due to have divination. Lavender and Pervati began rearranging the furniture to appear more mystical and closed the curtains. Neville, Dean and Seamus immediately began to tuck into enormous plates of sandwiches bought in by the houselves.
Harry and Ron grabbed a few themselves and sloped off upstairs with them. Harry showed Ron his room and they sat listening to the wireless. Some time later the other boys turned up to see the room too.
"My Gran would never let me have one of those in my room" Neville complained gesturing to the radio "I think she thinks I'll blow it up or something."
"Harry, you should get a chudley cannons poster!" Ron said suddenly. "I'll buy you one for your birthday!"
"Cool" Harry said trying to think of a quidditch team that would actually match the walls.
"Nah. Get a football poster Harry." Dean interjected. "Chelsea wear blue. It would look really cool in here."
The door opened and Sirius stuck his head into the room "Trelawney's here. You'd better go downstairs."
When the boys entered the dining (class) room they flopped down in their seats and Professor Trelawney began to talk in her usual misty voice. "Today, we will be doing work with tarot cards. Although these are often used in muggle carnivals and the like, if you have a true gift for divination they ace as an excellent tool. Open your textbooks to page 634 which has a set of interpretations for the cards which I myself find to be the most accurate."
Ron and Harry, Dean, Neville and Seamus who were sitting in a row along one side of the dining room table, appeared quite comical as their eyebrows rose simultaneously. Over half of the interpretations on this page resulted in a death or horrible injury of some description. No wonder professor Trelawney preferred this interpretation. Harry would have bet a limb that these were mot the usual tarot interpretations.
The class then divided up into small groups. Harry and Ron were partners. By halfway through the class Harry and Ron had predicted each other's deaths about twenty times. Professor Trelawney sat down with them and upon seeing their cards suggested gently that they begin constructing their wills.
With that she stood up and sniffed as though holding back tears. On her way past she patted Harry on the shoulder supportively. Ron began to shake hard with silent laughter, and soon tears of mirth were escaping his eyes.
However, Harry, who had also been trying hard not to laugh as the professor made her grim suggestion, froze as Trelawney touched his shoulder. A nagging feeling that had been tugging at the edges of his consciousness since divination had begun shaped itself into a coherent thought.
He couldn't sense anything from her. It was like she was an inanimate object, with no more soul than the chair he was sitting on.
Ron, upon noticing the look on Harry's face sobered immediately. "What's up?"
"Huh?" Harry said as he was pulled from has reverie "oh uh, nothing. I'll tell you later." He added catching the look of disbelief he was given by Ron on the mention of 'nothing'.
When the class did at last draw to a close, everyone queued up at the fireplace to return home. Ron was staying at the manor for dinner with Harry, Sirius and Remus.
Once everyone had gone, Ron and Harry went into the kitchen to join the two marauders around the table. The houselves rushed forwards and places a dish of biscuits on the table and cups of tea.
"Well?" Ron asked impatiently "What was the 'nothing' that got you so spooked?"
"What?" Sirius and Remus said together
"In divination, after declaring that Ron and I should write our wills due to the very unpleasant deaths predicted in the lesson, Trelawney touched my shoulder."
"So? She likes predicting death. It's what she does. Usually to people who don't like divination" Sirius said
"Yeah, well, when she touched my shoulder I suddenly realised something really strange about her."
"Suddenly?" Ron asked incredulously "You mean you didn't think she was really strange within 10 seconds of meeting her?"
"Of course I did, but that's not what I mean. I couldn't sense any emotion in her. It's like she was, you know, just a thing. Like a table. I can see her but I don't feel anything."
"Hmmm.." Lupin said thoughtfully. Sirius and Ron looked at each other, also in thought.
"Could be she's just immune." Sirius suggested.
"No, I've felt things from her before."
"Maybe Voldemort did something to her." Lupin suggested "I did wonder why he didn't just kill her."
"I thought you tried not to feel other people's emotions." Ron said looking a bit self-conscious.
"I do. But I always have some sense of peoples or animals that are near me, even if I am trying not to think about what their feelings are at that moment."
"Oh."
"Look" Remus said "I'm seeing Dumbledore in the morning to discuss arrangements for the exams. I'll ask him then. In the mean time there's a week until next divination class so try not to worry too much. Dumbledore will sort out her other classes this week if he thinks there might be a problem."
Feeling a bit better Harry gave Ron a proper tour of the house and they hung around watching another quidditch match on the wireless before dinner.
A/N Sorry it's taken so long to update. Homework, essays etc etc (long suffering sigh). Sorry if the gaps between chapters are a bit longer for a while. That goes for my other fic (muggle experience) too.