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Chapter nine: Trelawney trouble

Renee tried not to get obvious about the extra lessons she's having with professor Snape. It was already known that Gryffindors despised him, telling about it was not a good idea.

She glanced at the teachers table and spotted the potions master at lunch. He still has those poisonous expressions even if he's eating. Snape noticed her and raised an eyebrow; she returned her gaze on the plate, feeling flushed.

Why in Merlin I'm flushing?

She glanced back and saw him talking to professor Trelawney. The divination professor was very giddy telling her story that Renee could even see far from here. The professors noticed her gaze and Trelawney waved at her and saw Snape smirked.

Renee bowed slightly at them and resumed to her meal, cursing herself for gazing at the teacher's table. She tried her best not to look at them again.

Please don't tell me they were talking about me.

Just then, the owls arrived with mails and packages on their beak. An owl approached Renee and gave her an envelope. She gave the owl some bread on her plate and the owl flew away.

"Who's that?" Hermione asked, eating while reading a book on her hand.

"Mother" Renee said not even looked at the letter. Who would send me a letter except for her, right? She opened the letter; sure enough, it was from her.

Renee,

It's nice to hear that you already made friends there. And to think that includes Harry. Is it really Harry Potter? I would like to meet him personally, if that's okay.

I've always known that you liked potions. I'm impressed that you managed to get extra lessons from Snape. He was always grumpy from the last time I saw him.

I may go there, but still can't decide when; I still have many things to do here. Maybe I'll just pop up there anytime, Can't wait to see you.

Yours,

Mum

Renee put down the letter and grinned. So she knew about Professor Snape, which made her smile more for some reason.

"You looked so happy" Hermione stated as Renee resumed on eating.

"She said she'll go here to visit me" She announced, can't even hide the excitement on her voice.

"That's great, you seemed to missed her"

"Yeah" Renee flushed. I think they thought I was like a 5 year old kid who misses her mum. She looked at them and saw them smiling at her, She grinned back.

It's nice to have friends.

"She also said she wanted to meet Harry"

"Oh, okay" he blushed at her statement, still wasn't used to the attention people giving him.

After eating, the four started their way to the grounds since they still have free afternoon period. Just then, professor Trelawney blocked the way.

"There you are Miss Matte! I've been waiting for you!" she beamed at the shocked teen.

"Professor" I had a very bad feeling about this.

"I hope you didn't forget our meeting today, come! We still have many things to discuss!" Trelawney started too dragged her on the opposite way. Renee looked at the trio, desperately asking for help.

"Actually professor, we still have classes after lunch" Harry lied secretly winked at her.

"I believe you have free time on this time Mister Potter. Professor Trelawney borrow Miss Matte for a while, they seem to have many things to discuss" Renee can't help but glared at Professor Snape, who seems to finished his lunch.

"Come! We still have many things to tackle! This is going to be exciting. Thank you Professor Snape" Trelawney squealed, dragging the poor girl on her side. She glanced at the trio on defeat and glared at the potions master, smirking in triumph.

So now I'm here at professor Trelawney's office…again.

Renee signed heavily as she looked at the divination professor gather her things. Please tell me we won't be using them, she groaned to the thought.

That Snape really enjoys seeing his students suffer, she signed again. That made her thought why did she want to have extra lessons from such a bastard like him.

Maybe this is his type of revenge for my extra lessons.

"Now, Miss Matte; I tried to research about your dream, consulted the constellations and cards. But I still nothing to find" Trelawney took a magic ball on her shelves and put it in her desk.

"Now we will try to find the answers to your past life, now look at the crystal ball and concentrate" she told her. Renee never felt as stupid as she gazed at the crystal ball. The crystal ball was so black on the inside, like a black smoke.

It not like something will come up here, this is stupid.

Then Renee saw a flicker of light on the crystal. It was blurred but she could see many things at a time, her room at their house, potions lab, people running, forest, Quidditch area, flying snitch, black robes flying brooms. Renee looked closer on it to see it more clearly. But as she gotten nearer, Renee just saw her reflection.

"What do you see?"

"I saw… my reflection" said Renee, not leaving her eyes on the crystal. Of course I will see my reflection here. Am I just hallucinating again? Before she could think again she saw the color of her eyes changed, it became silver.

How did it turn out to be silver? She gasped on her reflection.

"Tell me, what do you saw?" Trelawney urged her. Renee didn't spoke; instead she looked at the ordinary mirror hanging on the wall. Her eyes were still green.

That was weird.

Renee looked at the crystal ball again and surprised to see her eyes were green again.

Am I having delusion?

"I just saw my reflection. That's all" her statement was more like convincing herself than the divination professor. The professor looked at her, thinking that she was not telling the truth.

I'm not totally lying about it.

"Don't you have disturbing dreams yet?"

"Not in last few weeks. The dreamless potions was a great help for me"

"I see" the divination professor looked disappointed about it.

The next hour seems to be a blur. Trelawney asked again to concentrate on the crystal, thinking that the student would see more than the last time. After obvious failure, she began to talk about premonitions using different methods like stars, tarot cards and yes even tea leaves. She keeps on babbling about while Renee was thinking how to escape from crap she was into.

"I don't want to offend you professor, but I think this isn't connected to my dream anymore" Renee interrupted her while Trelawney was preparing their tea cups for demonstration of predicting by using tea leaves.

She stop for her work and looked at her.

"I'm so sorry professor for disturbing you about my dreams last time. But I think that was already resolved by drinking dreamless potion" Renee tried to be polite in every way that she can, so she can't offend the poor professor.

"I see" Trelawney finally said after long silence and signed.

"But I could hear some of your lectures some other time…if you want" Renee quickly said, trying to cheer her up.

It seems to cheer her up, but Renee seems to regret what she had said. Trelawney's face brightened again and her usual smile appeared on her face.

"Of course my dear, you're most welcome in my office" She smiled back at the student after she came back to her usual self.

I may not totally like her, but she's still a nice professor; minus those usual predictions about our deaths.

"I think I need to go now professor, they were waiting for me at the grounds" Renee smiled sweetly at her, using her usual sweet smile strategy to her teachers on her previous school.

"Of course, of course. Feel free to come back here dear, anytime" said Renee, seemed to be dazed.

Renee grabbed my bag and exited the room, as she wasted no second to stay on the office.

No more crystal gazing for me, she declared to herself.

Renee quickly went to the grounds to look for her friends. Luckily, she spotted them easily under the big tree near the black lake, enjoying the sun.

"Hey guys" She called them.

"You already escaped from Trelawney?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, finally" said Renee and sat next to him, careful not to touch him.

"What did you guys do, Tea leaf reading?" Ron asked.

"Nearly, we went crystal gazing" she rolled my eyes in irritation.

"What did you saw?"

"Well, I did saw a few things but it was really blurred. And then I saw my reflection, my eyes turned silver for some reason" she explained and shrugged.

"Well, crystal usually gives the weirdest impressions" Harry said, Renee thought he was thinking about the last class in divination, when they went crystal gazing.

"Yeah, I'm beginning to hate divination. Not that I liked it before" she signed and looked at the sky, there are few clouds and it revealed the clear blue sky.

I just wasted my time there.