Believer

Chapter Sixteen

After finishing my Muggle Studies I made my way to the Divination room. Outside of the Diviation there was a huge line. Every time someone would climb down the silver ladder, the rest of the class hissed asking for answers.

"What did she say? What was she like?"

"She says the crystal balls told her if I tell you, I have a horrible accident!" Said, Neville, as he ran off.

"That's convenient," Ron snorted. "You know Hermione was right about her. She's a right old fraud!"

"That's for sure," I laughed as I was then called.

I climbed. The room was even more cramped when there was nobody in here. It was hotter than ever before; the curtains were closed, the fire was alight, and the usual sickly sent made me feel sick. I walked to the table Trelawney was sitting at.

"Good day," she said softly. "If you would kindly gaze into the orb... Take your time, now... And tell me what you see within it..."

I bent over the crystal ball. I stared hard and long trying to picture.

"Well? What do you see?" She asked.

"I-I can't make anything out yet," I muttered. There were blobs.

"I see blobs right now, like m-mice?" I muttered.

"Mice?" She said.

One of the figures transformed.

"One of them- he-he just Transfigured into a man!" I said not taking my eyes off of the orb, "h-he has his wand out toward me-"

"My dear, who is this man?"

"I-I don't know, Professor! There are two other men," I muttered.

"Your suitors!" She said.

"No! They- They have their wands pointed to the man!"

"My dear, perhaps they are fighting over your hand-"

"Professor! They aren't fighting over my hand! They are confronting him!"

"Enough, I think we'll have to leave it there... A little disappointed, but I am sure that is enough to pass. I see the orbs progressing in your future!"

I walked out of the room and down the ladder as everyone seemed to ask me what was wrong.

"We heard your screams," Ron said as I bit my lip.

"I-It's nothing," I said. Three men.. who were these men?
I waited for Harry to take his exam along with Ron. Harry was telling me about how Trelawney was being weird and told him something about how "The dark Lord Will rise again with his servants aide, greater and more terrible than before." We walked downstairs to the Great Hall to see Hermione with her hands on her face. She was crying. Surely she didn't fail her Exam.

" 'Mione?" I said as she looked up to us. She had been crying.

"Buckbeak- h-he lost, there's nothing we can do!"

"We've got to go," said Harry. "We can't just sit there on his own, waiting for the executioner!"

"Sunset, though," said Ron. "We'd never be allowed... Especially you two!"

"If only we had the Invisibility Cloak!" Said, Harry.

"And where is it?" I asked.

"It's at the one-eyed witch passage," he said.

"Whys that?" I screeched.

"Snape. He caught me after Malfoy caught me at Hogsmead, and I wasn't supposed to be there... if Snape sees me anywhere near there again, I'm in serious trouble."