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This chapter was actually inserted, I was meant to post the suicidal chapter then I thought, no wait, too much on Draco and Hermione. Need other characters…so this chapter was inserted (I'm sorry those people who want suicide) This chapter is kind of not interesting. SORRY! The next chapter however… *cough*
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++Chapter Four- A Lesson in Love++
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The sky was a moderate cloudless blue. Being early in the morning, there was still dew in the air, it felt cool and relaxing. Harry sighed with glee as he walked between Ron and Hermione down to Hagrid's hut. He was really happy that both of his best friends chose to do Care of Magical Creatures, and more happier because Hagrid was teaching it.
But most of all he thanked God that he had at least one period today without the Slytherins.
When they got there they saw the back of a huge man wearing a light brown jacket, he looked like a rock, obviously trying to pick up something heavy, grunting.
"Hagrid?" Ron asked.
"OW!" Hagrid shouted as he dropped the box on his toe, yelling in pain and attempting to clutch it.
Harry ran over to him, "Hagrid are you alright?"
"Nuffin' to worry 'bout Harry," Hagrid grimaced, "boy Amolitas are 'eavy. " (a/n: Excuse my attempting at writing Hagrid speech)
Ron and Hermione had now ran up to him as well and were examining his foot, which he seemed unable to move, they would ask questions later. Hagrid bounced over to a tree and leant against it, resting his foot on its heel with his toes turned up. Hagrid looked quite ridiculous.
Harry was glad Draco wasn't here.
By now the rest of the class was starting to appear, the usual bustle of crowds as they walked towards Hagrid's hut, Ron turned his head immediately and tried to look for signs of Lavender, seeing her stand over with Parvati and some Ravenclaw girls, he turned beetroot red.
Hermione pretended she didn't see anything, "Hagrid are you sure you're all right?"
"Ahh, don't worry 'bout me," Hagrid tried to smile, "just a bruise, ye know how fast I 'eal." He winked at her and turned to the class.
"Good morning Ravenclaws and Gryffindeers," Hagrid motioned all of them to come closer, "this year we –er- have a new system. We are gonna be –ah- studying a new course designed 'specially by the Ministry." He frowned a little.
"The –er- Ministry banned some ov' the creatures that I planned on showing yer," Hagrid continued, "due to –umm- risks. But I got ya'll somethin' I'm sure ya'll like." He forced another smile. Harry pitied him, he knew of Hagrid's love for anything with fangs, he thought they were "cute". Look at "Fluffy" for example.
Hagrid walked over to the wooden crate and opened the lid carefully, everyone stood on tippytoes trying to peep over other's shoulders, trying to get a glimpse of what was in the box, Hagrid reached his hand inside the box and a soft purr could be heard, the girls all awed as he pulled out a small furry purple creature that resembled a rabbit but with a long tail and large beady eyes.
The boys all sighed and looked away but the girls started calling out.
"Omigod how cute!"
"What are they called?"
"I'm glad we finally get something cute!"
Hagrid, however still looked discouraged as he explained to the class that they were Amolitas, and came from northern Ireland, the girls of course listening intently while the guys moped about, but secretly finding them fascinating.
"So what do we do Hagrid?" asked Hermione intently after he finished talking.
"Eer- that's the thing," Hagrid whispered to them, "I don't know. I've never dealt with creatures like these before."
"Hagrid?!" Hermione yelled, getting looks from the rest of the class she whispered, "what's going to happen?"
Harry watched Hermione trying to reason with Hagrid and the rest of the class staring before talking, he couldn't help but feel worried. More worried than he was about her yesterday when she stormed off. He knew Hermione too well, something was wrong. And she was clearly hiding it.
"Oi Harry? Shouldn't we…" Ron broke his train of thought, motioning towards Hagrid and Hermione.
"Nah, they'll work it out sooner or later," Harry took his eyes off her and turned to his red-haired friend.
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As it turned out, Hagrid never worked out what they did, but not wanting to lose his face, he took Hermione's advice.
"Get inter two's," Hagrid bellowed to the class, who shut up immediately, "I think' there's enuff for that. But –um- just try and work out what yer meant to do with them. The first pair to work it out will –ah- get 25 points to their house, each."
The class hurried into pairs and taking out the Amolitas. Harry and Hermione ended up together and went towards the crate, among the messy wave of hands, attempting to get one.
"What about Ron?" Harry asked, being a three some was a pain sometimes.
"He's already got a partner," Hermione said, turning her head away and grabbing one that looked a lot fatter than the rest.
Harry scanned the grounds for Ron and saw him standing next to Lavender.
It was clear who was the happier one. Lavender was chatting with her friends still and when Ron tapped her, she turned with a look of annoyance. Harry couldn't hear what they were saying but he was sure it was something about getting an Amolita, as Ron was making his way towards him.
"Hey Ron!" Harry exclaimed, patting Ron on the back.
"Hey Harry," Ron staggered as he held one in his hand, "Okay, talk to you later okay?" And with that he rushed off to Lavender, who was now fixing up her hair.
"Strange nowadays isn't he?" Harry asked Hermione, who was now sitting down on the grass, stroking the Amolita.
"I mean only because he likes her," Harry sat down next to her, "if you ask me, I think she's a slut."
Hermione stopped stroking the Amolita and stared at him. Harry looked down at her, surprised, what the hell was wrong with her?
"Umm Hermione?" he asked, waving his hand in front of her.
"Huh what?" Hermione jerked her head, "Sorry Harry."
She smiled. Someone else felt the way she did.
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"So… umm… Lavender…?" Ron muttered, more to himself than to her.
"What?" Lavender jerked her head around and looked at him, "what do you want?"
"I- er," Ron staggered on his words, his ears turning an embarrassing shade of red while he fed the Amolita some cashew nuts which it ate in contentment. It purred and rubbed against Ron and suddenly its eyes turned red and it started screeching.
It was a loud, horrible sound. A sound that didn't match the cute face of the Amolita. It was like a shriek of a baby the first time it breathes. Except a lot LOT more louder.
The rest of the class turned its head towards the pair, seeing what had caused this sudden upraise. Hagrid hurried away from Neville who appeared to have been bitten by one of them and hurried to Ron.
"What did yer do to him eh?" Hagrid breathed heavily, looking at it intently.
"I-" Ron stuttered, avoiding looks from Lavender and her crowd who were now observing.
"Did yer provoke 'im?" Hagrid asked again and looked at the Amolita, who had now calmed down and looking around with its beady eyes in amazement, as if nothing happened. It continued eating the cashew nuts from the small pile and purred in contentment.
Hagrid laughed his hearty laugh, "Well Ron, sorry 'bout that."
And with that he walked off.
Lavender now joined Ron, "So what did you do to it?"
Ron looked up Lavender and gazed into her deep brown eyes, her symmetrical face and cute blush to her cheeks, God, he thought. Please freeze this moment forever.
"Huh? What?" Lavender shook her head away from him then laughed, "I've seen those looks on guys many times before." She leaned in closer to him, her fair hair touching his cheek, his face immediately reddened as he smelt the sweet smell of cinnamon on her and her warm breath.
"Admit it Weasley," she whispered to him, "You want me."
Ron's scream could be heard miles away.
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Professor Trelawney peered over her crystal ball and gazed at the class, being 6th year, a lot of her students had quit Divination and taken up another subject, she wasn't happy with the small class of 11, her used to be full classroom occupied by 30 students was now beginning to bare. There were several empty tables and seats at the back of the room, while everyone crowded around the middle section. Well everyone except for Lavender and Parvati who were sitting right in front of her, eyes gleaming.
"Lavender, Parvati darlings," she motioned for her two top students to the front of the class, they stood up hastily and stood at the front of the class. Professor Trelawney now faced both of them, "Can you please hand out a set of tarot cards between every table?"
Draco sat by himself at the far corner, as far away from her as possible, staring out the window at the green lawn. He yawned loudly before getting glances from Professor Trelawney, Lavender and Parvati, he faced the class again, "Well sorry." He muttered under his breath.
He was surprised he was the only Slytherin doing Divination. Even Pansy, who he thought would join, for any sight of him she could possibly get, refused to join. Maybe people were really starting to think about futures now. Even Crabbe and Goyle, who took up Arithmetic. But they were way too dumb to even get a T. (a/n: t is terrible. Quote from book!)
Well it's better this way, he thought, I don't need more things screwing up my life. Enough to worry about now. With no one in this class, it could be a total bludge for him. He didn't need to worry about his future, his father had it all planned for him, graduate and then become a death eater. Against his mother's will of course.
He stopped himself. Why the hell was he thinking about his bastard of a father and his mother now? Man he was depressing himself more than he needed to.
The dream team, or two thirds of it, (a/n: Hermione quit. For those of you who forget like me) were chatting in the corner busily about Quidditch (surprise surprise), they were clearly the only other ones who kept this subject up for bludging.
The tarot cards now reached his table, he mumbled and picked up the set held together with a fine red ribbon. He undid the bow and looked at the cards. They were decorated well and the pictures were moving.
"Now, get into partners," Professor Trelawney said, "or threes." She said looking over at Neville.
"And read your futures and write them down and hand them in at the end of the lesson."
The class scurried into the groups, leaving Draco alone and by himself. He didn't care, he knew very well what Professor Trelawney thought of his father, and how she would rather make him do nothing and give him a pass than tell him off.
Yeah this was how everything worked, because of his father.
Well couldn't hurt to pretend to be doing something, it was going to be his last Divination class.
He set out the tarot cards in a pile and pulled off three, turning them over.
They were a A king of Swords, The Knight of Cups and and The Number 13 Major Acarna card. (a/n: Okay before you read on let me warn you that I researched a little of this on the internet but I'm not accurate and made up most of it. I'm sorry to anyone who gets offended by this)
A strong wind blew in through the window, flapping his hair into his face, he wiped it away as he grabbed for his "Tarot Cards and Meanings Edition VII". He flipped open the big hardcover book and scrambled through the pages. He reached the Knight of Cups first.
The Knight of Cups along with the King of Cups, The Queen of Cups and the Page of cups suggests fullfilness and love.
Yeah right, whatever, he turned the page and came across the King of Swords.
The king of swords, along with the Queen of Swords, the Knight of Swords, and the Page of Swords suggests conflict of the mind and body.
One more to go, he thought as he wrote that down on a piece of parchment. He kept on turning the pages, hoping for The Number 13 card, but he couldn't find it. He kept on turning the page, but it wasn't there.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, he looked up alerted as the rest of the class looked up. They were rarely disrupted.
The door creaked open and a bushy head stuck in.
"Umm, a message from Dumbledore," she walked over to Professor Trelawney and smiled and handed her a note.
"Hey Herm!" Ron whispered to her, or more like, tried to whisper.
She forced a smile as Professor Trelawney wrote down something on a scrap piece of parchment. As the old woman handed it over to her she touched her hand and then suddenly pulled away. She looked at her with her eyes bigger than usual making her look more like a bug than usual.
Hermione just stared at her.
"Miss. Granger is it?" she asked. Pulling her sleeve towards her.
"Umm.. yes, but I gotta go back to-" she started.
"WAIT! My dear, I sense horrible happening in your future, please don't go anywhere tonight and stay in the company of your friends." Professor Trelawney was not just talking to her but the whole class now.
"Why?"
"Someone is going to try to kill you tonight."
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A/N: Omigod, bad "cliffhanger" if that is what you call it. This chapter took me like two weeks to write. Omigod really didn't know what to put on it. I'm so happy I'm done. YAY. One more note, even if you hate this chapter please read on. The next chapter involves BLOOD!!!
Okay please R+R!
~sophia~