Fervor [George Weasley]

Chapter Seven

Following Divination, George walks out of the class with Fred and Lee.

"Do you think she's actually a seer or just making shit up?" was the first thing that Fred said to his twin, referring to the way the Ramos girl acted when she was crystal-gazing. 

"I think she's a seer" responds George.

"She could be a seer, or she could just be a very good actress since you know that everyone makes shit up to pass Trelawney's class," adds Lee. 

"Well like I said, I think she's a seer. Almost as soon as Florence started crystal-gazing Trelawney came over to watch her," George informed the two. "It was kind of scary watching her. She looked like she was in some sort of trance. Her eyes, they flashed this yellow colour before she fell frozen into her trance," George explained. 

"That has to mean she's a seer then" Fred concluded.

"Yeah," Lee agreed. 

A thought suddenly crosses through Fred's mind. "If Ramos is actually a seer, do you think if we ask nicely she'll give us the results of the Gryffindor matches?" 

Lee bursts out laughing. "Mate that would be amazing, but then there wouldn't be a thrill in you both playing and me commentating if we know the results right off the bat" reasons the Jordan boy. 

"Good idea though" adds George as the group of three continues to make their way through the halls of Hogwarts. 

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As soon as the bell rings to signal that the class is over, Florence is quick to collect her things so that she can rush out of the class. With the majority of the Gryffindor students in her divination class being a part of the Gryffindor quidditch team, she didn't want anyone to question her further on whether she saw who won the game. Florence did see who won the game — the Hufflepuff seeker caught the golden snitch —  but the Ramos girl does not want to be pestered. 

Florence girl accepted a long time ago that with her eyes glowing gold whenever she casts spells, along with her visions, she would draw attention to herself, whether that attention was wanted or not she would still receive attention. 

She heard the Weasley twins and Lee discussing what she saw in the crystal ball, so she knew that the other students in class would talk about her visions too. The fifteen year old is grateful that she's able to take divination so that she can strengthen her inner-eye, but she just wishes that she didn't have to receive attention from her peers for having visions. If Florence had it her way, she would be known as the nice Hufflepuff girl that is top of her class who is also the girlfriend of the Hufflepuff Quidditch captain, rather than the Hufflepuff girl that occasionally has visions. 

Florence begins to make her way through the halls to walk to where the Black Lake is situated so that she can get started on some of her homework before needing to go to her defense against the dark arts class. 

While on her way to the Black Lake, Cedric sees his girlfriend and excuses himself from the students that he was talking to so that he could follow after her. 

"Hey love, how did divination go?" asks the dashing Hufflepuff prefect. Florence gives her boyfriend a small smile. 

"I have the class with the Gryffindors, George Weasley ended up sitting at a table with me. We used crystal balls in divination and well..I saw glimpses of a quidditch game that's going to be between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor." Florence begins, as she stares at her boyfriend she sees the look on his face when she mentions between who the quidditch game will be with. 

Florence lowers her voice so that only Cedric can hear, "Hufflepuff wins" and sends him a wink. Cedric chuckles and shakes his head, "you know me so well." 

As the pair continues to walk,  Cedric takes Florence's hand in his, bringing it up to his lips and leaving a tender kiss on her knuckles. He then proceeds to intertwine their fingers together. 

"After class ended I overheard the Weasleys and Lee talking about my vision," Florence randomly brings up after a couple of minutes of sitting by a tree near the Black Lake.

"Remember what I told you," begins the Diggory boy. "Just breathe," Cedric advises, knowing that sometimes hearing others talk about Florence's visions can bother her. 

Florence removes her gaze from her parchment and looks at Cedric. "You're too good for me."

"You're wrong there darling, you're too good for me" Cedric corrects, sending Florence a loving smile. 

Florence looks down to her assignment, her cheeks burning up.

A while later the Hufflepuff duo make their way back up to the castle so that they can head to their next class. 

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The Hufflepuff couple enter the defense against the dark arts classroom — their last class of the day — and walk over to where Logan and Elodie are waving at them from two tables . The couple separates so that Florence can sit beside Elodie and Cedric sits down at the table behind the two girls, next to Logan.

"How was divination?" Elodie asks softly to her Hufflepuff best friend.

"Like how it usually goes," Florence said. "We did crystal-gazing, I had a vision, and once class let out everyone was talking about me having a vision" recites the Hufflepuff. 

"Damn, you would think that with today being the first day of classes that it wouldn't be until later on that things would get complicated in divination," whispers the Slytherin girl.

"Yeah, but of course we just had to do crystal-gazing today," Florence complained, resting her chin on her hand.

Eventually professor Lupin begins the session. The DADA professor walks up to the front of the class and says "Good afternoon" with a warm smile on his face. 

There were murmurs of "Hi" and "Good afternoon" heard throughout the class.

"As I've come to understand, last year you all did not receive the level of education that you were supposed to due to your previous professor being discovered to be a hoax" Professor Lupin began.

Multiple scoffs could be heard as the students remembered their entertaining but dreadful lessons with their previous professor, Gilderoy Lockhart.

"Because of this, we will be starting out the school year by going over a couple of the things that you all should have gone over last year that could possibly appear on your O.W.L exams for this course." A couple of students groaned at the news. Some of the students wish for an easy DADA class this year while others are hoping that this new professor is better qualified than Lockhart because they do not want to have a repeat of the previous year.

Professor Lupin lets out a laugh as he hears the students groan. "Do not fret class, although we will have a lot of material to cover this year in preparation for your exams, I assure you that we will have fun!"

Florence raises her hand.

Professor Lupin turns to look at the student who raised their hand "Yes, mi-" Lupin freezes for a moment as he looks at Florence, as though a muggle had seen a ghost. "Yes, miss?"

"Florence Ramos" The Hufflepuff introduced herself. "What sort of things will we be going over this year?"

"Well you all will have to wait and see" Lupin composes himself and responds with a mischievous grin, hoping no one realized his hesitation when he first looked at the Ramos girl. 

Florence noticed.

Author's note

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