Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays, everyone! In honor of the Holidays, here is a chapter! :) Random Muggle and I still don't own Harry Potter. As a Christmas present, would everyone who reads this chapter leave a review? It would be really nice. Enjoy.
Tea Leaves
Early November 1991
Third Year
Leilani sat beside Jo in divination, staring into her teacup. She turned it-and her head-this way and that way but all she could see was a backwards 'L'. She shrugged and handed the cup to Jo who gave Leili a cup in return. The girls looked in each other's cups and consulted their textbooks. Leili squinted at Jo's cup and examined the list of meanings in the book. Before she had decided what it could be, Jo gave a guess as to Leilani's own, "I think yours could be an ax, Leili."
Leili looked up and frowned, "How?" she asked before returning to Jo's cup.
"Well, if you turn it this way," she turned the cup so the L looked like half a T, "it looks like it's either half of a forked line, which the book doesn't have or it looks like an ax." Jo explained, she liked divination better than Leili did, partly because Leili wasn't big on knowing the future, it freaked her out. "An ax means… difficulties."
"That's descriptive," Leili snorted. "Yours looks kinda… octopus-ey at this angle, missing most of its legs, making it more of a… duo…pus, and then from this angle," she turned the cup so the tentacles of the tea leaf octo/duopus pointed up, "it looks a little like an open bag… So, the octopus is danger and the open bag is escape from a trap," she said, consulting her Divination textbook.
Jo blinked at her friend, "Our teacups are depressing!"