❝MOST PEOPLE WANT TO BE CIRCLED BY SAFETY, NOT BY THE UNEXPECTED. THE UNEXPECTED CAN TAKE YOU OUT. BUT THE UNEXPECTED CAN ALSO TAKE YOU OVER AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE. PUT A HEART IN YOUR BODY WHERE A STONE USED TO
BE.❞
QUOTE IS BY RON HALL
Plot by the...
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JOSIE HAD THE WORST SUMMER YET AGAIN, first she had to work five days a week at the ministry with no pay with her mother, she also left her mother's special edition Divination book in the rain, which resulted in her mother ignoring her for the rest of the summer. Josie felt more alone than she had ever been in her whole life.
Josie's mother was absolutely devastated to find that her daughter ruined the first edition she herself had received in her third year, she called Josie a dimwit. Parks still hadn't felt better about it as her father kept bringing it up throughout the holidays because his wife had a tough time saying it out loud herself. So, Josie at the end of August already had her bag packed and was in a car heading to London before her mother got out of bed.
Hogwarts was a school like a safe haven, it was dangerous place that somehow stayed open each year and deemed safe even when someone either ends up dead or almost, or even the Dark Lord ends up here one way or another by chance every single year. Under everyone's oblivious noses. But Josie loved Hogwarts, no matter its faults, because it was better than being a huge waste at home. At Hogwarts, Josie Parks had purpose. And that was to succeed and get out of her home life, and start a life of her own where nothing would involve a lot of magic and people.
Divination was her least favourite subject, as it was everyone else's who didn't want such an easy grade, while knowing how fake the whole art was. It was one of the only things she and Hermione agreed on wholeheartedly, and Josie sometimes wished she could skip out on this class, by asking Professor Flitwick to let her change classes, but her mother was a prodigy and Josie was always expected to succeed in it.
"Now you will go first Ms. Parks. Look into your cup and reveal to us, what will become of you," Professor Trelawney hands cupped several times around Josie and her teacup, in a way acting out the shivers of eeriness that was supposed to shake up Josie's sleeves as she spoke the contents of what's inside. But she already knew what it was, she had the memory of owl, because her mother pushed the art onto her, she gladly picked it up. If it made the unbearable class easier, she'd do anything and remember anything, this class was such a breeze for Josie Parks.
"I have a skull and a sun," Josie said, the room coming to a hush as she was the best in the class, while Hermione Granger crossed her arms unimpressed, and slid down in her seat not bearing to look Josie in the eye. This was one of the only times people noticed Josie Parks as more than a filler in the cast of a musical. "Meaning, I will undergo immense danger, yet happiness will still find its way."
"Very good, Ms. Parks, indeed." Professor Trelawney smirked at how Josie was performing in her class, and slowly walked over to Neville, definitely not expecting something better than Josie's observations and reading. She came up to Neville who was hunched over his chair with his chin in his cup, snoring like a possessed man. She promptly woke him with a loud yell, making him tip out of his chair. "DEAR! Now, now we mustn't fall asleep in the world of Divination, we must all drink our tea, so I can get a proper reading of your cups!"
