A/N: wow this is actually quite a long chapter, i thought i'd need to drag it out but i didnt it was 903 words by itself! sorry for any spelling or grammar errors but im doing this chapter on my phone cause my laptop charger has died and my mums laptop is not cooperating.
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Chapter 7 - Glass
The following morning at breakfast Professor Dumbledore got up to make a speech, which was rare for him to do in the mornings, he usually did them in the evening at dinner. But never the less, Dumbledore stood up, and started to talk,
'Students, I am sorry to inform you that Professor Vector has been taken ill, and will not be attending future classes this year. He will be back next year hopefully, but for now if you were taking Arithmacy, you must choose a different subject to take unless you are taking at least the minimum number of exams without it in seventh and fifth year.' Dumbledore finished, and there was silence in the Great Hall for a few moments, it seemed that everyone was contemplating the same idea in their heads.
Why couldn't Professor Vector be cured by magic? Or even if it would take longer with a potion, why did he need a whole year off?
As if all at once the whole hall exploded into chatter, the students all seemed eager to share their opinions of the matter with their friends.
'What subject are you going to take Lissa?' Harry asked Larissa after they had left the Great Hall, and were back in the Gryffindor common room about to get their books.
Larissa looked thoughtful for a moment, before turning to Amelia,
'Amelia?'
'Erm, Divination,' she decided,
Larissa turned back to her god brother, 'Divination,' she said,
Harry went up to his dormitory to get his books, while as Larissa and Amelia didn't have theirs, they made their way to the Divination classroom.
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Once everyone had arrived, and were all seated comfortably, and nearly passing out from the heat even though it was a cold day, and raining, Professor Trelawney spoke.
'I see we have a few new faces here today,' she said, her eyes focusing on Larissa, Amelia, and two Ravenclaw boys in turn.
'Very unfortunate about Professor Vector yes... Of course I told him to stay away from the forrest, but would he listen?'
It seemed as she was making this up as she went along, and Larissa knew what Harry and Ron had gone on about after their Divination lessons.
'Now please open your books to page 143,'
Larissa, Amelia, and the two Ravenclaw boys went over to the cupboard to get a copy of 'Unfogging the Future' out each.
They sat back down and opened their books, it was about reading tea leaves. Professor Trelawney made them each a cup of tea and they drank it, leaving the leaves in the bottom of the cup.
Larissa and Amelia swapped cups and Trelawney came over to them,
'What do you see?' She asked Amelia,
'Well, that looks like a circle in a rectangle, kind of like a door. And then that up their seems to be a bottle of some sort, and that squiggly thing could be a snake.'
Trelawney took the cup, and looked inside of it before grimacing. 'My dear,' she said, now addressing Larissa, 'Do you know what this means?'
'No,' Larissa said,
'You have to think about these things before you fully understand them when you are young and inexperienced like yourself. That there, is a door. And that is a bottle. Now a bottle is either made of glass, or you pour the drink into a glass, so the bottle means glass. Then the door, well, normally doors and windows are classed in the same category so really they all mean glass.'
'And the snake?' Larissa asked doubtfully,
Trelawney looked back into the cup, 'The snake... Ah yes... How unfortunate... So young... So pretty...' Trelawney took a lock of Larissas tied back hair into her hand and then dropped it, 'Pity... Yes...'
'Whats a pity?' Larissa really knew what Harry had meant now,
'Oh I wouldn't want to tell you such a thing dear, but I will say this, beware of glass objects.'
Larissa bit her lip slightly, in the exact same way her mother did when she was nervous, or unsure of something.
She laughed about it quietly with Amelia after they had left the lesson,
'Glass things? What like your mirror?' Amelia laughed,
'How would I do my hair without a mirror? Or how would I drink, I dont think there are any cups made of anything else but glass here, you'd think she was trying to kill me,'
'Humiliate you, because of the whole not being able to see how you look thing, and then make you die of thirst more like,'
They laughed all the way to their next lesson, but Larissa couldn't help but have a nagging feeling in the back of her mind; something that she'd forgotten, tossed aside in her mind as nothing of importance that would help this all make sense. Something, anything! But to no avail, she couldn't think of anything at all that would help her understand any better, not that she needed to of course, this was Trelawney, why was she even thinking about it anyway?
A/N: Believe it or not that chapter was actually important it want just a filler chapter, ah but which part was important you ask? Well, I'm not saying, its very important for my suprise at the end of s&l4, so *Bellatrix evil cackle*
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-Livvy xxx