Here you go, another chap.
A True Seer?NOTE: Harry is not gay, he likes girls! Just thought you should know.
Harry was impressed with Ron's ability to stay calm for the rest of the week after having had a mad escaped convict standing over him with a knife, whilst he was sleeping.
Ron, had to both Harry's and Hermione's surprise, played the hole incident of as Sirius suffering from a bout of temporary madness after being coped up in Azkaban for such a long time.
"I mean for all we know, holding a knife over somebody's head in the middle of the night might be the usual way to wake up a friend…" Hermione had groaned when Ron had tried to explain away the fact that Sirius had held a knife, whilst waking him.
"And besides, he is giving me a pet." Ron had added as an after thought making Harry groan. Ron was pestering him even more about the pet now, than before. He seemed to think that it had to be something special. "Yes, not only will you be the only one who can say that they've gotten an animal from an escaped convict, but just imagine what it could be. I mean look how Hagrid turned out after his visit there. Let's just hope that whatever you get doesn't have teeth." Ron had steadily gotten paler and paler as Hermione ranted. Harry on the other hand scowled.
"Hagrid liked monsters before he went to Azkaban, I mean he was sentenced because of Aragog." Ron lost what little colour he had had at the mention of Hagrid's pet spider in the forbidden forest. "Don't talk about it, Harry." he whispered."He's not giving me a s..s..spider is he?" he stuttered after some silence, making Harry roll his eyes. "No, Ron! He's not giving you a spider." Harry said patting his shaking arm.
Ron had been extremely confused when Hagrid had walked them down to his hut telling them about Buckbeak's upcoming execution. "I thought you said everything would work out?" Ron whispered to Harry, when Hagrid blew his nose for the tenth time. "There is still the appeal." Hermione tried to comfort the huge man. "Yeah. Have a little faith." Ron said patting Hagrid's arm uncomfortably. He blushed at the look Hermione was giving him. Hagrid followed them up to the castle before heading back home.
The trio caught sight of Malfoy and his goons, laughing whilst looking at Hagrid. Harry suddenly had a great idea. They easily caught up with the Slytherins, Malfoy sending glares at Harry. He had finally stopped going up to the Gryffindor table during meal times after a good chat with Snape about proper Slytherin behaviour. Nevertheless, the glare seemed to be there all the time. Malfoy was just about to be smacked by a furious Hermione, when Harry out of nowhere, grabbed her arm inches away from the blonds face.
"Come with me Draco. Let's take a walk." Malfoy looked to be shocked at Hermione's attempt to hit him and Harry's successful rescue. "Are you coming or what?" Harry asked over his shoulder slowing down so that the blond could catch up. Ron and Hermione looked just as shocked as Crabbe and Goyle when Malfoy walked towards Harry, muttering about being under some kind of a curse. "What do you want?" he asked sulkily, knowing that Harry had saved him from being hit by a girl. "I have a proposition to make." Harry answered, smirking at Malfoy's obvious discomfort. "You're not going to do another reading of my future are you?" The blond asked suspiciously hiding his hands behind his back. "No…" Harry looked around to make sure that nobody was listening in on their conversation. He could still see Ron, Hermione, Crabbe and Goyle huddle in a strange looking group waiting for him and Malfoy to return. "This is what I propose…"
Harry entered the Charms classroom before Ron and Hermione smiling. They were still eyeing him bewildered. Ron was silently muttering the name Draco to himself in distaste, when Flitwick harrumphed and started his lesson. They were practising Cheering charms.
Harry who suddenly had realised that the next lesson was Divination seemed to be immune to the effect of the charm, much to Flitwick's amusement. He was taking notes on how many charms Harry was being hit with, as he'd never seen anyone stand unaffected for such a long time.
In the end, Ron had to drag Harry out of the charms classroom as Flitwick wanted to continue to cast cheering charms and Harry was more than willing to miss the next lesson, they were a couple of minutes late but being with Harry they just got waved of to a table by a smiling Trelawney. Harry felt as if he'd been dragged to his never ending doom, but Hermione who had heard him muttering offered him no compation.
"Should have thought of that before you opened your mouth near her, in the first place." Was all she had to say about it. "But, but... I was sick." Hermione rolled her eyes at his excuse whilst Ron enjoyed seeing someone else suffer. "Damn. Not Crystal balls." Harry whispered having noticed the misty balls on the table. "Ah, Harry my boy. How are you?"Trelawney had somehow sneaked up on him from behind and was now beaming at him through her big bug eyes. Hermione who was seated next to Harry eyed her in disgust.
"Fine." Harry answered snappishly. "Good, good." she fluttered away to Lavender and Parvati before calling for everyone's attention. She started to explain about the Crystal balls to the class, excluding Harry of course as he was above them all in the subject of Divination.
Harry grumbled under his breath about teachers singling out innocent, unknowing students unfairly, whilst glaring hatefully at the misty Crystal ball.
A ray of light had somehow managed to find its way in through the heavily draped windows and was now a small glowing dot inside Harry's crystal ball. Harry let his eyes rest upon the white dot hovering inside the swirling grey mist. He slid down in his chair and slowly leaned forward to follow the dot that now was floating around on the ever-swirling mist that slowly had started to clear. His eyes lids grew heavier and his pupils dilated making his eyes darker. Harry could see a dark ring emerging around the edge of the ball getting deeper and deeper, the longer he looked. Soon he could see that it was the rim of a goblet filled with what looked to be boiling water. The water was slowly simmering until soon becoming still and translucent. He had a vague thought that the water was going to be sweet smelling, and just as he was about to take a sniff, something hard hit him in the head.
"Bloody hell mate! You were completely gone there, like under a spell!" Ron exclaimed putting the heavy book on Crystal gazing, that he had hit Harry on the head with, down on the table.
"HOW DARE YOU?" Trelawney's sudden shriek of rage made Harry jump high in his seat. "YOU NEVER, EVER DISTURB A SEER IN THE MIDDLE OF A VISION!" Harry looked around the room to see the students eyeing him expectantly, as if wanting to know what he'd seen this time.
"My dear boy. What did you see on your voyage to the land beyond?" Trelawney asked in her best I-am-mysterious voice. "I…um…" it was then that he realised it. He had actually seen something. "A goblet! It was filled with water." Trelawney nodded as if to encourage him to continue. "Um… and that's it. Well that's where Ron, um…" Harry looked sorry for Ron as Trelawney once again turned angrily on Ron.
"Disturbing a seer, why you should be expelled." she said coldly to the blushing Ron who was eyeing the table in shame. "You have no right to criticize Ron, just because you're a bad teacher." Hermione was furious. "You have never said anything to us about any dangers in disturbing a seer." She was standing now, screaming at the surprised teacher."Why, I think that you're the worst teacher there is." she added.
"You are free to leave my class whenever you want Ms Granger." Trelawney huffed insulted. The other students in the class could only gape in shock when Hermione gathered her things and left the class through the trapdoor.
Harry sighed, guess something's don't change he thought. "Wow." Ron sighed, looking at the trapdoor in awe. Harry hummed in agreement absentmindly. "She's great when she screams at other people, isn't she?" Ron asked wistfully, making Harry snort quietly. The horrible truth was slowly sinking in. he had seen something in that crystal ball and it was freaking him out. He had disliked the excuse of being a seer in the first place and now the thought of actually possessing some kind of ability made him shudder in fright.
"Sorry for disturbing you mate." Ron suddenly whispered besides him. "It's just…you were in a Trans or something. I even kicked you, and you didn't bat an eye. It was bloody scary." Harry looked at Ron's honest face.
"It's all right Ron. Don't think about it. It was just some water." Harry whispered back, not really knowing if he meant it or not. He felt strange knowing that he'd had a vision in the crystal ball. For the first time in his life, he opened one of the books on the table, trying to find any information on Crystal balls and see if there were any references to water goblets.
Harry spent the entire Easter holiday studying his divination books and helping Hermione with her potions essays, whilst Ron had taken upon himself to save Buckbeak to Hermione's great surprise. Ron was treating Hermione with silk gloves, he seemed to still be in a state of awe at her defending him. Hermione on the other hand just blushed whenever the subject was spoken of.
Harry was having quite a calm holiday as Wood was in a good mood. "We're leading with two hundred and twenty three points so we have nothing to worry about. Harry is after all not going to let Slytherin catch the snitch." Wood was giving him fond looks and congratulated Ron on his success as a personal coach. "I'm s…thirteen, you know." He had almost said seventeen, which would have made his life worse for ware. But as both Wood and Ron were ignoring him, he doubted that it would make a difference if he had.
The morning of the game couldn't have come faster, Wood who had been smiling the entire holiday was by now a nervous wreck.
"You will catch the snitch wont you? I mean the rumours about you and Malfoy…" Harry who had been taking a large gulp of pumpkin juice spit it out on the table. "WHAT?" he yelled making the Great Hall hush down to look at him. Harry took a breath and sat down blushing at the stares he was receiving. "What rumours?" He asked after calming him self down. Wood gave him a smirk. "We're not stupid you know. But if you like Malfoy then we support you." Harry felt himself go red. He was speechless, Wood thought he and Malfoy…
"I LIKE GIRLS!" Harry yelled after a moment, making Wood pat him on the arm. "It's alright. We all experiment at some point." Harry stared at him as if he was mad. "I'm going to the pitch." was all he said before running out of the hall with Hermione and Ron close on his heel. "Harry." Hermione grabbed his arm to make him stop. "I don't like Malfoy." Harry exclaimed angrily. "Of course you don't." Hermione said leading him towards the changing room. "You are just friends." Ron said in a disgusted voice. Harry eyed him surprised. "You don't mind?" he asked shocked. Ron just shrugged. "Well you obviously know something we don't." Hermione said, slowly. "I'm just…" Fred and George burst in through the door walking up to Harry smiling. Harry did not feel at ease at the sight.
"How is our little Gryffindor pouf? You want us to transfigurate your Quidditch robe pink?" They gulped however when Hermione turned on them with a murderous glare.
"One more word and I'll transfigurate something for you." she hissed brandishing her wand. They backed of to one of the corners muttering about fierce women. Hermione soon left blushing as the twins stripped down to their underwear ignoring her presence.
It was soon time for the game to begin and Ron left the changing room to find Hermione. Wood and Flint seemed to want to crush each other's hands when shaking hands.
"And they're of!" Lee started commenting on every Gryffindor player's strength and every Slytherin's weakness, earning many boo's from the Slytherin stands and a threatening glare from McGonagall. "You alright Potter? You looked very weaslyish when you ran out from breakfast! Had a fight over Granger? Or is it Weasley you want." Malfoy screamed like a girl when Harry spun him around in a circle before pulling him down in a dive. "I don't like guys." Harry growled in Malfoy's ear before letting go of the other boys' broom. Fred and George sent him an approving look when they passed by hitting a stray bludger.
"Keep at it Harriet!" he heard Fred shout much to Malfoy's amusement. Harry growled diving towards the ground in death defying speed before pulling up at the last possible moment making the crowd gasp. Malfoy was following him in a slower pace trying to keep an eye on him. When Harry went into a spin however, Malfoy didn't seem to be able to hold him self from looking on in awe at Harry's fling skill together with the other students. He should have looked around himself some more as Harry spotted the snitch sitting on Malfoy's shoulder when he came out of the spin.
Malfoy seemed to be forcing himself to not move when Harry's broom pointed straight at him. He quickly ducked when Harry's hand shot out and grabbed the struggling snitch from his shoulder.
"What?" Harry grinned smugly at the confused blond as he lifted his hand in victory. The Slytherins on the stands groaned in defeat before nothing else but a deafening roar could be heard. The Gryffindor supporters all cheered as Wood crashed into a happy Harry. Harry could even see some Slytherins cheering between Wood's arms, which were around Harry's neck as the captain cried in joy. Wood was sobbing so hard that Dumbledore had to give the Quidditch cup to an equally sobbing McGonagall for safekeeping until he'd calmed down enough to hold it. Wood looked as if all of his dreams had come true and he turned to Harry with a beaming face, kissing him right on the mouth in front of all the students.
"I LIKE GIRLS!" Harry screamed as soon as Wood backed of, making the twins behind him laugh before they to kissed him on ether cheek. "You keep on saying that." they laughed, making him fume.