Wizarding Royalty

Chapter 23: Morning

Heads of Houses passed out the schedules right before breakfast ended. Snape walked along the Slytherin table. He gave looks to new students that warned them not to disappoint and represent the house badly. Even though from what both Thalia and Nico had seen there was already a negative bias between the student body about the Slytherin House. 

The first class of the day was labeled as Divination B, which meant that the group would be going to be in Classroom Eleven with Firenze. Sally had gone over the list of electives with the three before the school year started. She had patiently explained what each elective was. 

Ancient Runes was the study of runes and languages from long ago. Muggles Studies was learning Muggle culture.  Care of Magical Creatures was learning about the creatures of the Wizard World.  Arithmancy was basically fancy math. Last but not least Divination was the art of telling the future. 

When it came down to it the Little Greek Big Three choose Divination and Care of Magical Creatures. The first class of the day was Divination then the Slytherins would move onto Charms with the Hufflepuffs. 

When they entered Classroom Eleven they were amazed to see it had been made into a replica of a forest. The floor which should have been stone as throughout the rest of the castle was replaced by green grass. Throughout the room, trees grew up from the ground. Convenient rocks, tree stumps, and logs were laid out for children to sit upon or lounge against. 

Thalia sat down and leaned against a tree. Her eyes were darting around the room as if expecting danger. Nico hid himself in a shadow almost instinctively. He was propped up on a wall. His right foot is on the wall. 

When a familiar mop of raven hair that seemed to run in the family appeared his eyes scoured the area looking to spot his friends. Percy's eyes landed on Thalia first and he slid into a spot next to her. He did gather some weird looks from Gryffindors, however. 

"Hey," said Percy he looked a little tired. 

"What's wrong?" asked Thalia with no preamble. 

"Dreams," replied Percy. 

"Same." 

"What about Nico?" 

"I had one too," replied the younger boy in question. 

Their conversation got no further as Firenze walked in and started the class. 

"In this class," the centaur began, "you will be learning how to tell the future based on planetary movements. Our first lesson will start with learning what each of the planets mean. Can anyone tell me what figures the planets were named after?" 

Thalia raised her hand and Firenze studied her for a moment before saying, "Yes, Ms..." 

"Thalia. My name is Thalia." Firenze nodded motioning for her to answer the question, "The planets are named after the Roman gods and goddesses." 

"That is correct ten points to Slytherin," Firenze said. "Yes the planets were named after the Ancient Roman gods and that can help us to determine what each planet means." 

A projection of the planets was placed onto the roof. 

"Would anyone be able to tell me what Saturn could mean?" 

Percy sent a glare toward Saturn and whispered to the other two, "There's grandfather." 

Thalia and Nico snickered. They tried to hide the movement unsuccessfully. 

Percy had said his words just quietly only Thalia and Nico had heard him so the small snorts of laughter from Thalia and Nico gathered some weird looks.