Chapter 63
The first Divination Class
When they made their way up to the Divination Tower, for their next class, they found that everyone was standing at the bottom of the tower, with a trap door above them with no apparent way to get up there. When they were all there, the trap door opened, and a ladder came down for them to climb up. "Come on up students, and welcome to third year Divination." They heard the ominous voice of their Divination teacher, Professor Trelawney.
They made their way up the ladder, and into the tower that held the class. They found that it was filled with a mild smelling smoke and crystal balls. "Ok everyone please take a seat, and we will start with your first class in looking into the future." Once they were all seated, they saw the diminutive professor Trelawney, with her multi-colored robes, and round glasses on her face. "You will find that Divination is a study into the facts and fiction of reading the future, predicting events, and seeing into the events that might happen to another person. I don't forsee that there are many of you that have the inner eye, but there are possibilities." She went from table to table talking to each student individually, and finding that there were things that she was able to predict, but they were all well known things. She had predicted that Lavender and Pavarti were going to be looking into new clothing within the week, and that Neville was going to blow up a cauldron in potions sometime this week. When she came to Harry tho, she thought that she saw something that made her faint. "Excuse me Mr. Weasley, but can you please let me see your palm to read please?"
Harry didn't think much of this, for the whole family were related through either blood or adoption to a well known seer, and she had already read their lifelines, telling them that they were going to be doing well, and not come to harm for some time yet. When the Professor took a hold of his hand, she let out a shriek, and looked him straight in the face. "You will die shortly Mr. Weasley, I see a very short lifeline, full of death and destruction." She looked at him funny when he was laughing in her face.
"Please Professor, but quite frankly I don't believe you. For you see, my family is related to Madame Deveau of Scotland, and as I'm sure you know, she is a well known seer and owner of the eye that you so nicely talk about. Well she did a reading for the whole family shortly before she died last year, and she told me that I will at least see my eighteenth birthday, and that I have no worries about dying in the near future. Now if you would care to look at my lifeline again, you will find that you are quite wrong in your prediction." Harry couldn't help but smile when he saw the look on her face when he said that. Of course she had heard of Madame Deveau, and she knew that she was at one time the most sought after Seer in the United Kingdom.
"I'm very sorry for my misinterpretation Mr. Weasley, I didn't know that you had already had a reading with such a well known person. Of course I was wrong in my prediction, and I see you living to a rips old age." She quickly went along checking on the other students, and completely ignoring Harry.
"That was bloody brilliant Harry. I had completely forgot about Great Aunt Deveau and her predictions she did last year. This class just might be more interesting now that you have told her that. Fred, George and Percy have all said that she was a fraud, but we still have to take the class." Ron was clapping him on the back for this, and Hermoine was just smiling at her boyfriend, even tho he had proved a teacher wrong. She never had believed in Divination, but she was happy that everything went well with this.
The rest of the class went by with no problems, they did some reading of the tea leaves, and found that Harry had found the Grim in his leaves, but he wasn't worried about it like some of the others were, for he knew that it was also the form that his godfather had taken in his Ani-Magi form. He didn't let the professor know this, but instead just let her have her fun with it. He didn't really care, he was just happy that he had known about him before this year started.
When the class bell rang, they found that they weren't given any homework that day, and went down to check on Lightning before lunch. When they got down to the stables, they were pleased to see her up and around, and prancing around the paddock.