"We are going to girl talk"
y/n pov
I felt something jump on my stomach and I slowly opened my eyes to see Crookshanks, Hermiones cat, sitting there. I pet him and crawled out of bed to get ready.
After showering, fixing my hair, and putting my uniform on I walked back to my dorm.
"Morning y/n"
"Morning hermione" Hermione was gathering her millions of books together on her bed.
I sat across from her. "Are you exited for your first day at Hogwarts?" she asked me.
"I am but Im not exited for divination" I responded while looking over my schedule.
"At least you have Harry, Ron, and I with you in that class."
"Yea.." now was the perfect time to ask her about what Malfoy was talking about "Hey, um what happened on the train yesterday?" I tried to bring up as casually as possible.
She sighed "A dementor flew into our compartment and started to suck harrys soul out so he fainted. Malfoy made far too big a deal of it." as she waved it off.
"Wells hes a git so what did you expect?" I asked. We both laughed and headed down to breakfast.
When we got to the great hall I plopped down next to Harry and Ron. "Morning boys".
"Morning" they both tiredly replied.
Hermione sat down across from us and looked at them disapprovingly. She had told me last night about how she always made it a point to look her best for class and she thought everyone else should too.
"You took look awful" she said after taking one look at the boys.
Despite her rather rude way of putting it she was right, both of their ties were lazily thrown on and their robes were left undone. Harrys glasses were crooked and Rons hair was a mess.
"What did you two do last night, rob gringotts?" I asked
Ron groggily said "We were up with Seamus, Dean, and Neville trying out some of Fred and George's prank candy."
Harry simply nodded too tired to contribute to the conversation. Hermione shook her head in disappointment. I passed them both some coffee which they gladly accepted.
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After breakfast we all walked to divanation together and I sat between Harry and Hermione, or where Hermione should be sitting. Where did she go?
Our professor walked in and the talking came to a halt. She accidentally knocked into a small table and me along with a few other students had to contain our laughter
"Welcome my children, In this room you shall explore the noble art of divination. In this room you shall discover if you posess the sight!"
I had to do a double take to try and process whatever she was trying to say and by the looks of it so did everyone else.
"I am Professor Trelawny and together we shall cast ourselves into the future!" she shouted while raising her hands above her head. Oh Merlin this womans a nut job.
"This term we will focus on Tasseomancy; the reading of tea leaves so please read the cup of the person oppisite you". I heard someone scoff from beside me and turned to see Hermione.
Ron looked over at me seemingly as confused as I was. "When did she get here?" he mouthed and I just shrugged before picking up Harrys teacup.
"Alright what do you see in my magical teacup harry?" emphasizing on magical. He laughed then looked down at my teacup.
He twisted it around looking confused than a few moments later finally answered. "It says that you have a soulmate but should be warned of them?" he stated although it sounded more like a question.
"What does that mean?" I asked, but before he could answer Trelawny loudly started a conversation with Neville from across the room
"You boy! Is your grandmother well?"
I hadnt personally met neville yet but from what I could tell he wasnt the most confident kid. "uh I-I think s-so" he stuttered. "I woudnt be so sure" she said before starting to walk towards me.
My eyes went wide and I turned around to face Harry trying to avoid what ever it was she was about to say to me.
Harry saw her coming and smirked at me getting ready to sit back and watch the trainwreck.
"You dear!" I slowly turned around to face her.
"Your aura is pulsing. Are you in the beyond?" I looked back at Harry for assistance but he was to busy trying not to laugh to be helpful.
I turned back around "um...yes?" She clasped her hands together
"Wonderful! What do you see in your partners teacup dear?" I flipped through the pages in my book before answering
"Theres a kind of cross and a sun which is trials and suffering along with happiness so..."
I smirked before looking Harry dead in the eye and saying "Your going to suffer but be happy about it" He along with the rest of the class tried to contain their laughter.
She looked confused for a miniute before saying "Just let me see the cup".
I handed her the cup but the second she took it she screamed and it smashed on to the ground.
"My boy you have the grim!" she screamed.
Hermione, Ron, and I exchanged worried glances. "The grim? Whats the grim?" Seamus Finnegan asked.
Bem, another kid in our year, flipped to the page in his book and started reading.
"The grim, taking form of a giant spectral dog, is its one of the darkest omens in our world. It is an omen of death."
As certain erieness fell over the room as everyone looked at Harry with concerned etched across their faces. I was worried for him but I couldnt stop wondering why would my tea leaves say that?
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harry pov
For the rest of the day all Hermione talked about was how much she disliked divination.
"Now ancient runes thats a facinating subject" she went on as we walked back from dinner. Ron stopped in his tracks.
"Wait a minute" he said. "Ancient Runes and Divanation are at the same time!"
Hermione scoffed "Honestly Ronald how can I be in two places at once?" she asked before going up to the girls dorm.
I expected y/n to be trailing right behind her but I looked back and saw that she had started walking the other direction.
"Ill be back" I said to Ron and ran off after y/n before he could respond.
"y/n!" I shouted after her. She just kept walking forward with her head slightly down.
I finally caught up to her and grabbed her arm. She turned towards me looking a little shaken up.
"Oh sorry I was just thinking."
I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion at her sad expression. "Are you ok?" I asked.
She thought about it for a moment before sighing. "To be honest I dont know"
I thought for a second before a genius idea came to my head. "Come on" I said before grabbing her hand and leading her to the astronomy tower.
We walked in and I sat down patting the ground next to me. "We are going to girl talk" I said.
I'd always hear Hermione talking about how her and Ginny's girl talks were very productive so why not try it.
She laughed. I gave her a very serious expression before patting the ground again. "Girl talk" I said sternly.
She gave in and sat down next to me waiting for me to say something. "Ok so I dont actually know how to girl talk" I admitted to which she laughed at.
She looked away from me and at the stars. "Its beautiful" she said after a moment of admiring all the stars.
"Yeah.." I replied but I hadnt even looked at the stars yet because I was so busy admiring her.
She turned back towards me. Her e/c eyes glistened in the moonlight. "Harry?" she said
"Hm?" I responded coming back to reality. "Im worried about my tea leaves prophecy."
"What do you mean?" I asked her.
"Why would I need to be warned of my soulmate if they are the person Im supposed to fall in love with?"
I looked at the ground in thought for a minute. "Im not sure but there is no point in dwelling on it. Whatever is meant to happen will happen."
To be honest I was a little suprised with myself for my sudden wisdom.
She sighed before agreeing "You're right". It was silent for a few miniutes as we both looked at the starry sky just lost in our own little worlds. She broke the silence by laughing.
"Whats so funny?" I smiled at her. I couldnt help it. Shes one of those people whos happiness is just contagious.
"Your tea leave prediction is a kink" she said laughing harder than before.
I shook my head and looked back at the sky trying to ignore the fact I was also laughing. It was once again silent, not a bad silence though it was comforting to just be in each others presence. She yawned before laying her head on my shoulder.
I blushed and I smiled down at her. I absentmindedly wrapped my arm around her and leaned on her too just watching the stars.
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(1581 words - Published November 3, 2020)
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