Chapter 13

Divination turned out to be Zack, Summer, Freddy and Katie's least favorite subject. It started out with Professor Trelawny eying them very closely, perhaps too closely. She had long wild hair and wore glasses that magnified her eyes.

"Hello," she finally welcomed. The welcome was neutral; it was neither warm nor cold. "Sit wherever you wish on these cushions." Summer, Katie, Freddy and Zack exchanged perplexed glances but sat on the cushions anyway. Katie, Lavender and Parvati were one group, Freddy, Zack and Seamus were another group, and Harry, Ron and Summer were another group. Neville sat with some other Gryffindors. The rest of the class also sat down on the cushions.

"Welcome, for those of you that joined Hogwarts last night," Professor Trelawny greeted. "I'm Professor Trelawny, your Divination teacher. I will be teaching you the different methods of predicting the future. As you will only be here for about 6 months, you will learn Palmistry and Tea Leaf Predictions." Professor Trelawny looked at the class. "Well, first we will be doing review with Tea Leaves so please collect some tea cups, some leaves, and I'll get some tea brewing."

Parvati and Lavender showed Katie everything there was to know about Tea Leaf Predictions. They showed her the proper way of getting your leaf at the bottom of the cup and the number of times she had to rotate her cup and how to do it properly. They finally showed her how to correctly drain the water from the cup.

"Okay, you get the prediction depending on the shape of the leaf," Lavender explained.

"Cool, so where do I get the definition things?" Katie asked.

"This is where our textbook comes in," Parvati said, pulling out her own copy of Unfogging the Future. "You look in pages 64 to 69," Parvati recited.

Katie predicted Lavender's future with the Tea Leaves, predicting that Lavender would "lose a cherished pet."

"I don't have a pet," Lavender said, raising an eyebrow. The girls laughed. Parvati then explained that Divination was not very accurate. She said that she used to be very enthused by Divination, but went to a Divination Convention with Lavender and figured that it definitely decided that it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.

"Alright, class! This class has unfortunately ended!" Professor Trelawny announced in her misty, dreamy voice. "You will have a report to write for next Monday about when tea leaf reading was used in the Renaissance. You are all dismissed."

"I predicted that Seamus was going to die in seven days after watching a certain video," Zack said while he stepped into the corridor. "It sounds like a certain movie I've watched." Zack was referring to the Ring.

"Maybe the writer was a wizard and got the idea to make it from Divination," Freddy thought aloud.

"I'm sorry to hear that you're going to die, Seamus," Parvati said playfully.

"Yeah, whatever," Seamus said. "Divination is all bull anyway."

"That's why I left it," Hermione said from behind him. "I just got back from Arithmancy."

"Go tell the whole world then," Summer mocked.

"What's our next subject?" Parvarti asked, changing the next subject.

"Charms with Flitwick," Neville answered. The group hurried to the fifth floor of Hogwarts, not wanting to be late. They sat down as soon as they entered the classroom.

"Where's Professor Flitwick?" Freddy asked.

"Right here, Mr. Jones!" Flitwick squealed at the front.

Freddy flipped around to see his new teacher. "Holy crap!" He exclaimed when he saw Flitwick. The class laughed. Professor Flitwick was much shorter than the staff and students at Hogwarts. He would probably come up to only Freddy's waist. Freddy cleared his throat. "I mean... uh, good afternoon Professor Flitwick."

"Smooth move, Freddy," Katie whispered to Freddy.

He smiled at her mischievously. "Thanks," he whispered back.

"Alright," squeaked Professor Flitwick. "I will be teaching the charm of summoning a large fire as opposed to the small fire that we leaned last year. It is Incendio Granday." As soon as Parvati heard about fire, she tied her hair up into a quick pony tail. She didn't want her hair to become burnt again. "Say it with me, Incendio Granday. Good, good. Now, for the School of Rock group," Professor Flitwick said, referring to Freddy, Zack, Summer and Katie. "Will you please form a group so that I can show you the proper way of-"

"I'm sorry to interrupt Professor, but Professor McGonagall has already taught us the proper way of conducting spells," Summer interrupted.

"Oh, very well then. Better for me. Everybody form a line in front of any of the five fireplaces provided." Katie, Zack, Summer and Freddy teamed up for this class, since it was their first try.

"Incen-dio Gr-anday!" Zack exclaimed, but nothing happened.

"You're saying it wrong, Zack!" Freddy explained. "Incendi-o Gr-an-day!" He exclaimed, but still nothing happened.

"You're both saying it wrong!" Summer exclaimed. "Incendio Gra-nday" Some smoke came out of her wand tip, but nothing else happened.

"Here, let me try," Katie said. "Incendio Granday!" She exclaimed. Katie conjured a beautiful soft fire at her very first try. She was the first, after Hermione, to get the spell right. The class clapped.

"Well done, dear!" Flitwick exclaimed very proudly. "You must be very talented to get this at your first try! Professor McGonagall told me that you also got your transformation spell Fereverto at the first try as well. I think we have a witch in the making here, class!" A while later, Flitwick called out, "Alright, now class dismissed. Ms. Miller, may I see you please?" Katie nervously came up to Professor Flitwick, who was sitting on four or five stacked books. He spoke when the final student was out.

"Ms. Miller, I just wanted to say how impressed I was with you," Flitwick squealed pleased. "I can tell that you will be quite a student and a very accomplished witch when you finish your time at Hogwarts."

"Wow, really?" Katie asked, astonished. "Thank you!" Katie left the class.

Summer was obviously very jealous of Katie. She hadn't done as well as her in charms. The last class of the day was Potions.

"Is this the class you told me last night that was the worst?" Katie asked Lavender.

"Yup, this is it," Lavender replied. "We better go get our Potion cauldrons and ingredients." They all went to the Gryffindor dormitories to retrieve their things and headed to the dungeons.

They ran into Dewey on the first floor. "Hey guys!" He shouted. "Don't expect me to be in my office today. I have a MEETING!" Dewey said excitedly. "A REAL meeting!"

"Way to go, Dewey," Katie encouraged. "You show them at that meeting!"

"Oh yeah!" With that, Dewey went back into his classroom and the group continued on their journey down to the Dungeons.

They finally arrived at Professor Snape's dungeon, and began to set up their cauldrons. "We have Double Potions," Ron mumbled.

"What's Double Potions?" Freddy asked.

"It's when we have class with another House of our year," Ron explained unhappily. "We're going to be with the Slytherins." Just then a pack of Slytherin 6th years came into the dungeons. They sat on the opposite side the Gryffindors."

Professor Snape stormed into the room. "Please copy down this note," Snape said, tapping a white board at the front that had a note with calculations and formulas magically appear. The class scurried around finding parchment and quills. Katie thought it was rude that he didn't even introduce himself, but she started to copy down the note.

Professor Snape was most of the students' least favorite teacher. He had chin length, black, greasy hair and had a crooked nose. What Katie noticed about him right away was his icy eyes.

Exactly after two minutes Snape interrupted the class. "Quills down. Now, Miss Granger! 5 points off Gryffindor for not listening. Now, we are learning a very complex potion today. I'd like you to pair up with someone from the opposite House." Snape snarled, watching all of his students gasp with terror, but they did what they were told anyway.

"Hey, gorgeous. Remember me?" A voice behind Katie called. She turned around to find Draco Malfoy leaning against her table. "I guess we're partners?"

"Sure," Katie said, trying to hide her anger. She really didn't like Draco at the moment because he seemed very arrogant before class.

"Splendid, I'll get my things." Malfoy ran to the other side of the room to gather his cauldron and other things. He was whispering to Crabbe and Goyle and some other Slytherin boys. Then Draco was pointing at Katie, and they all high-fived each other. Draco made his way to Katie. "I'm back. Did you miss me?"

"Of course I did," Katie said sarcastically. "Because I just LOVE being around you."

Draco didn't note the sarcasm at all. "Really? Well then we should get together babe. You still up for the trip around the lake?"

"No, sorry, I'm busy," Katie lied.

"I was planning on us to, well, get to know each other, if you know what I mean." Draco winked. "What are you busy with anyway?" Draco asked.

"Uh, I have to tune my bass," Katie fibbed. She started to panic, because she had a slight idea about the "you know what I mean" part.

"But I overheard Dewey tell Flitwick about how all the instruments were ready," Draco said smoothly.

"I also have homework though," Katie said, racking her brain for ideas. "What a lame excuse," she thought to herself.

"You don't have the lesson you have today until Wednesday," Draco replied,

"I... um..."

Freddy had been watching from afar what was happening and listening in on the conversation. "Hey Katie?"

"Yeah?" Katie answered.

"Dewey said that we have a band meeting after our lessons," Freddy said hoping that Draco was listening. "Yeah, it – uh – might be going on all night because we have to plan our first gig and decide where we're, um, going to put our equipment and stuff."

Katie squinted her eyes trying to figure out what Freddy was talking about. They had all just been with Dewey, and he didn't say anything about a meeting for... Katie's mind finally clicked. Freddy was saving her from a horrible evening with Draco Malfoy!

"Oh, okay!" Katie called. "Here that, Draco?" I can't go so... let's just work on our potion thing." Draco was definitely disappointed with not being able to score a date for tonight but he worked on the potion with Katie anyway. They hardly talked to each other, and Katie was grateful.

"Class, gather a flask of your potion and hand it into me," Snape ordered. Draco gathered some potion while Katie cleaned up the cauldrons and the work area. Then she practically ran out of the classroom with her friends following her. Classes were completed for the day and students were piling into the Great Entrance.

Katie found Freddy and pulled his hand to stop him from continuing ascending the dungeon stairs. "Freddy! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for helping me in Potions!" Katie hugged Freddy, and he blushed. "You saved me from Malfoy!"

"Well, uh, you're welcome?" Freddy managed.

"How can I repay you?" Katie asked happily.

"Katie it's not that much of a big..."

"Yes it is!" Katie interrupted. "So how can I repay you? I'm not doing anything like taking my clothes off though!" Katie teased.

"Darn," Freddy joked. Katie's eyes widened, and Freddy took her hand. "I'm kidding, Katie! Honest!" Katie laughed. "Well, anyway, we could, um, oh I know! We'll walk around the lake outside!"

"Sure," Katie agreed. "After dinner?"

"Awesome, see you there!" Freddy looked around. "I better find Seamus, or McGonagall will kill me! We kind of strayed off together an hour ago and she got all pissed!"

"I better find Harry, too," Katie said. "I'll see you tonight!"