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Kami woke up early the next morning. Six o'clock by the clock which she kept beside her bed. She stood up, opened her trunk and pulled out her wand. She aimed her wand at her trunk and said "Lumos". After trying for about an hour the day before, she decided to give it one more try, this time she could actually use the light. To her surprise, it lit up just enough so that she was able to read the Slytherin badge that she could have sworn was not there the day before. She pulled on a skirt, knee high socks, a tank top, and pulled her robes on over top, pinning her new badge carefully to the front. She examined her reflexion in the full-length mirror hanging along the opposite wall. 'They must have meant that you needed to need the light to make it work or something…' She thought. She pulled out Reading the Signs: A Guide to Dream Interpretation and sat on her bed. She remembered how drawn she had been to it back in Flourish and Blotts. Kami opened to the table of contents.
Introduction
Types of dreams
Daydreams
Lucid dreams
Nightmares
Recurring Dreams
Prophetic Dreams
Epic Dreams
Remembering Your Dreams
A-Z Dream Dictionary
Kami, now intrigued, turned to the introduction. 'I'll go down to the common room after the introduction' she thought.
Dreams are defined as a sequence of sensations, images, and thoughts which pass through the mind as a person is sleeping. When we dream, we can be anybody, anywhere, doing anything, and are unable to affect the outcome. (Except for during lucid dreams. See page 3) Dreaming serves as an outlet for thoughts and impulses felt throughout the day. Some people may even be able to pick up on the things the world itself is telling us everyday, which are represented as their dreams. In this book, are lists of things and occurrences that will help you to interpret what your dreams are telling you, whether it is about yourself, or the world around us. To fully understand what these are telling you, you may also need look at analyzing your daydreams, which sometimes depict futuristic events of your life.
Kami set the book down. 'Wow. That's really interesting… I'll have to look more into my dreams sometime…' She thought. She grabbed her wand and walked down the stairs to meet Draco, who was just descending the stairs when she sat down to wait. "Let's go get breakfast, shall we?"
"Of course. We can't expect to go through a whole day without anything to eat" The two walked side by side back through the hallway outside their common room, and up the steps into the large entrance hall. Draco opened the door to the great hall and Kami walked through, thanking him as she was raised to do. A few minutes later, the majority of the students entered and Professor McGonagall took this as her cue to begin passing out timetables to students. As Professor McGonagall came to the Slytherin table, Kami thought she almost seemed saddened when they looked at each other. Professor McGonagall just handed them their timetables and continued in silence. They examined their schedules. They only had one class with the Gryffindors, and it was double Potions on Fridays.
"We've got Herbology and Transfiguration first" Kami pointed out. "I've got to go back to the dormitory and get my things, do you need to get anything?"
"Yes. I need to grab my bag"
Kami packed her Herbology and Transfiguration books in her bag, along with her dragon hide gloves and walked down to the greenhouses with Draco, where some of the Ravenclaws had already gathered. They waited in silence for class to start.
A plump witch with short brown hair and green robes emerged from the greenhouse, and proceeded to give the class a quick lecture about Herbology, before instructing them to open their books and read the first chapter for the remainder of the class. After the hour Kami stood up, placing her book in her bag, and followed the Ravenclaws along with the rest of the Slytherins up to the castle. All she knew was that Transfiguration classes were with Professor McGonagall on the first floor. Once they entered the classroom the bell rang for the start of class, and Professor McGonagall started off by lecturing about how Transfiguration was the most difficult and complex form of magic taught at Hogwarts, and anyone caught fooling around in said class would leave and not come back. She then transformed into a grey tabby and back, earning much applause from the students, who couldn't wait to get started. As it turns out, they wouldn't be transfiguring people and animals for a few years, and were each given a match to attempt to turn into a needle. By the end of class Kami had managed to turn hers silver and pointy, along with Draco, earning a total of ten points for Slytherin. For homework, they were to read and take notes on the first chapter of A Beginners Guide to Transfiguration.
Kami and Draco had a hurried lunch, and returned to the common room for their Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms textbooks. Kami didn't exactly love Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. The teacher, Professor Quirell , just couldn't stop stuttering, and his turban smelled somewhat of garlic. Charms class on the other hand, was one of her favorites. The small teacher Professor Flitwick had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. He started the class by taking role call, looking up after each name to see who was who. Like Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick set the first chapter of their text book as their homework for the following day.
As the week progressed, Kami realized a few things. One, History of magic was an extremely boring class. The most exiting part was when Professor Binns entered through the chalkboard, and after a while, that lost the excitement. Two, after studying the night skies you were almost always too exhausted to finish your homework afterwards. And three, she couldn't wait for her first potions class. Not only did it fascinate her, but it was also her only class with Ron.
She and Draco sat together at one of the many tables around the room, and waited for the rest of the class to arrive. Ron was one of the last to enter, along with Harry Potter. She caught his eye as he was looking around the class, presumably looking for a place to sit, and smiled. He turned away to sit down with harry at one of the tables. Just then, Professor Snape entered and began the typical lecture that almost every teacher had given about their subject. He flicked his wand towards the chalkboard. "Begin"
Everyone scrambled to take out their cauldrons and ingredients for their potion to cure boils. As she stewed her horned slugs and measured the crushed snake fangs, Professor Snape passed by her and Draco's table, looking in their cauldrons, and continued in silence. That is, until a loud hissing sound was emitted from the cauldron of one of the Gryffindors. She looked over in alarm. 'Is that supposed to happen!?' He had somehow managed to melt his cauldron and his potion was spilling onto the floor, where it was burning holes in the bottoms of people's shoes.
She felt bad for Harry then. The professor had rounded on him and deducted house points for not warning his classmate not to add the porcupine quills before taking the potion off the flame. She then realized that she had almost made that very same mistake and hurriedly took the cauldron off the flame before adding her porcupine quills.
At the end of the class she bottled a sample of her potion and brought it up to the professor, where she found herself waiting beside Ron. She stayed silent, yet when she returned to pack up her things, she told Draco to go ahead, and that she would meet up with him in the great hall for lunch.
Taking out a piece of parchment and a quill from her bag, she hurriedly wrote a note and, folding it and placing the quill back in her bag, slipped it into Ron's pocket as she passed by. He looked up at her with a confused expression on his face. She nodded towards his pocket and mouthed "Read it later" before hurrying to catch up to her friend.
A/N: I'm really sorry it took so long to update! Between summer camps and my friends' birthdays and such, i barely had any time to write! I'm about half way through chapter five, so hopefully that will be up soon too!! btw, if you're wondering about the note, it says in the next chapter :)