Hogwarts School Years: Year 3

Mind Reading, Hobbies and Avoidance

Natalie’s POV 

“Did your Divination reading make any sense?” I ask Joey and Zoey. 

“Not really, it just said that I’m going to be really lucky and happy.” says Zoey. “Hasn’t happened.”

“Same,” replies Joey. “Though I did find a sickle on the floor after it predicted that I would have ‘unexpected riches’.

“My cup predicted surprises, a mysterious past and death.” I say.

“Well we’re not Seer’s, we could be wrong.” says Zoey. “But apparently Joey’s the best Seer.”

I laugh. “So what are we studying next?”

“Charms?” asks Joey.

We take a couple minutes studying as we always do; a couple Ravenclaws come in and out. That’s when Zoey huffs out a breath. “Gosh. We seriously need a life....”

Joey laughs. “We? Why you do this all day?”

“You get what I mean.” she says, rolling her eyes a bit. Then she points at me. “I mean look at Natalie. She has all the homework done for the past four months.”

I just stare at her blankly. She laughs and holds her hands up in classic surrender. “Okay. Okay. I might have exaggerated a bit. Okay maybe a lot. But seriously.” she shoves me lightly. “You need to take it easy. There’s no rush.”

“Actually there is.” Joey says with a smirk in the corner of his mouth.

Zoey blinks. “Huh?”

“If I don’t finish everything beforehand, Jennifer with seriously murder me.” I say, rolling my eyes. “She takes her rice krispies really seriously.”

“You should seriously stop feeding that girl....that’s not healthy....”

Joey chuckles. “Maybe Jennifer should be murdering you rather than Nat.” Zoey punches his arm. “Fine. Fine. I’ll shut up.”

Zoey turns back to me. “How much do you make her anyway?”

I sit there stunned for a bit. “If you're expecting me to count....oh gosh...it just hurts my head thinking about it....”

“Didn’t Jennifer say that she will find you some hobbies, or something?” Zoey points out as Joey obediently continues revising from his book. “What did she find you?”

I stay silent. Zoey lets out a breath. “Okay. That didn’t go anywhere...” Then her eyes suddenly brighten; she turns back to me and stares at me creepishly.

“Uh...what?” I say. Zoey just giggles. Why do I have a bad feeling about this....

Joey just looks at her for a moment, as if trying to figure out what she is thinking. He raises his eyes like Zoey had just sent him a mental message of her thoughts. Joey starts to gather his stuff. “I’m out.” he says, casually leaving.

“What’s going on?” I question hesitantly. Zoey looks to be having trouble keeping her laughs to a minimum. “Zoey, you’re scaring me right now....”

“Okay. Okay.” She exclaims between fits of laughter. I just sit there waiting patiently for her laughter to die down. Seriously, what can possibly be so funny? “I can’t remember..did I tell you yet?”

I raise my brow at her. “Tell me what?”

Do I even want to know?

Zoey rests her chin in the palm of her hand. “How you noticed anything off this year?”