Kassandra Bauer and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)

Chapter 6: My New Best Friend.

Hermione STILL hadn't stopped complaining about Divinations. Even at our lunch break.

"Harry." Ron said in a nervous tone. "You haven't seen a great black dog anywhere, have you?" He asked. "And I'm not talking about Anubis here." 

"I'm a Jekyll. Ron. There's a difference." Anubis corrected.   

"I have." Harry answered. "I saw one the night I left the Dursleys." 

Ron's fork fell from his hand and right onto Ryan's hand. "Ow!" Ryan shouted.

"Sorry, Ryan." Ron apologized. 

"It was probably a stray." Hermione said calmly, sending Harry that look she gives us when she knew we were being stupid. 

Ron looked at Hermione as if she was mad. 

"Hermione, if Harry saw a Grim, that's- that's bad. My Uncle Bilius saw one and-and he died twenty four hours later." 

"Coincidence." Hermione replied in all denial as she tried to drink her pumpkin juice.

"I think not!" Ryan interrupted standing up.

"Denial." The Gods of Egypt both said. 

"Hermione, you should be more careful with grims. They scare all the courage out of Witches and Wizards." I advised. 

"There you all go again." Hermione had a superior tone on her. "They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim's not an omen, it's the cause of death! And Harry is still with us because he's not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I'd better pop my clogs then!" 

"If I had a nickel for every time I heard that." Anubis heckled.

Ron was wordless. But Hermione was looking into her bag to take out her Arithmancy book. "Divinations seems very woolly." She said. "A lot of guesswork, if you ask me." 

"You know what I think? I think you're just mad because Divinations is the one thing you can't read in a book and get ahead of everyone else." Ron commented. 

"Hermione... it's all about having the right aura. Not everyone has it. It's not that big a deal to be rubbish at something at first. Isn't that what we're trying to learn at school? To get better?" I asked trying to bring down the tension. 

But I think I accidentally escalated it more. Because Hermione slammed her Arithmancy book down on the table, so much so that bits of meat and carrots flew everywhere. And fell on me.

"If being good at Divinations means I have to pretend to see death omens in a lump of tea leaves, I'm not sure I'll be studying  it much longer! That lesson was absolute rubbish compared to my Arithmancy class!" She then turned to me. "I'm sorry I yelled at you, Kassie." She said before snatched her bag and stormed away.

"She's aware at there's more to Divinations then just Tea Leaves, right?" Ryan asked. 

"She's just a little upset now." Harry said. "I'm pretty sure once we have Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid, she'll calm down." And there was a pretty eagerness style of speech when he said Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid. That was a class I was looking forward to as well. 

"Hold on a second. Where did Hermione say she was going?" I asked. "Arithmancy class hasn't happened yet." 

Finally we got out of the castle after lunch. The weather was beautiful, and the sky was clear. 

Hermione didn't speak at all, but I was not going to let that mood kill what was going to be awesome. Especially to Ron.