My Cheating Heart

Odd Dreams and Weird Behavior

My Cheating Heart Book 2

By: tweety-src-clt9

Odd Dreams and Weird Behavior

Fifteen-year-old Hermione Granger woke up with a very confused look on her face. She could never recall a dream that's so vivid and so realistic that it honestly felt real to her. It's so strange that even the healing spells and potions that she saw herself doing in the dream seemed to be stuck in her head. Grabbing her wand by her nightstand, she wanted to test how vivid her dreams actually were. Deciding to try something, she tried to do a diagnostic spell – something that she honestly didn't know how to perform. She gasped when her wand emitted a bright light after she performed the correct wand movements and thought about the spell in her mind. Non-verbal casting! Wow! I've never done this before, her jaw dropped as she saw a summary of her health condition and vital signs floating in front of her. This is super weird...

In her very detailed dream last night, it showed her a version of herself at around her thirties and she was an extremely talented healer. In fact, she seemed to be world-class since she held a high position in some sort of research facility. To her, this dream was so strange because she always fancied herself to pursue a career in law, maybe even be the Minister for Magic someday, no matter how far-fetched it sounded because of the pureblood ideology. And so, to see herself even if it's just a dream, to be thriving as a healer was indeed very odd.

The dream was actually quite scary given the responsibility she witnessed herself doing in those operations and meetings in that research facility. And now, waking up to actually be able to perform one of the complex spells she saw in her dream, made it even more alarming. It could only mean that the dream must be telling her something. The question that needed to be answered now was – what could it possibly mean? Will the dream have an impact on her? Or was the dream just a prophecy? Or what if it's a glimpse of her future? Whatever it was, she needed to solve the mystery behind them.

Stretching like a cat to bring herself to be fully awakened, she rolled her eyes as she saw the closed curtains from her roommates' beds. From her position on her mattress, she could easily hear the snoring from Lavender and Parvati. I should teach them how to cast silencing charms on their beds, she thought as she headed for the showers.

When she entered the common ladies' bath, there's no one else around. Since she always woke up first, it's normal for her to find herself with the luxury of having the entire bath to herself. As she took off her nightclothes, she started singing to pass the time.

"I wanted you back, I'm so true with that. 'Coz honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had... I bet it sucks to be you right now... What goes around, comes back around... Hey, my baby! What goes around comes back around... I bet it sucks to be you right now," she belted out to the soulful song. She's never heard this song before in as much as she loved music, but the odd thing was that the song seemed very familiar. It's as if the song was like a soundtrack of sorts for her. In fact, along with the dream of becoming a world-class healer, this mysterious dramatic song was related to the dream. After all, along with the dream of curing various people, there seemed to be a man, most likely a wizard, who had hurt her so much. The details about the man's face and identity were not depicted but she knew that this unknown person was one of the reasons why she became a healer.

When she turned from the clothes rack so she could walk to the showers, a symbol imprinted on her right breast caught her eye as she passed by the mirror. She walked closer to the mirror so she could get a better look at the mark on her breast. She gasped when she noticed that the mark looked like an outline of a fish but the tail is not closed together so it only seemed like a curve. She knew this mark, as a muggleborn who studied in a Catholic school, she could never forget what this symbol meant. It was an ichthus – a symbol of the divine. It's a symbol of blessing and favor from the Creator. What happened to me? What could this mean?