Chap. 56 Divination N.E.W.T
After dinner Hermione went to her room to study...Divination was up the next day. She tried to look through her books, for nearly an hour. Nothing was making sense. She got up and went to the boys side of Gryffindor tower in search of Harry.
Harry and Ron were...yup...playing wizards chess.
'Your knight can't do that!' Harry shrieked, frustrated from his obvious losing streak.
'It can too! If your Queen isn't protected I can bloody hell take her...' Ron said as his knight killed Harry's Queen. 'Check...MATE.' He smiled.
'I hate this game...' Harry mumbled.
Ron just laughed, and then noticed Hermione standing there smiling.
'Oh, hey, 'Mione.' he smiled, placing his long arms behind his red head. He smirked at Harry as he leaned back in his chair.
'Faggot.' Harry said under his breath, just before kicking the leg of Ron's chair.
Ron's face turned to one of panic as he fell backwards, his legs flying behind him. Hermione couldn't help but laugh.
'HAHA! That's what you get you twit!' Harry exclaimed, clutching his gut in laughter.
'Stupid git.' Ron mumbled.
'Harry, I need help with divination.' Hermione stated, breaking up the little fight between her two best friends.
'Hermione, as i've told you before, all I do is make things up. Horrible things about my life, because I think that's what Trelawney likes to hear.' Harry smiled.
'Yeah, Hermione,' Ron added, 'Just make shit up, she'll give you an A then.'
'What if it's not just pouring tea leaves into a cup, what if there's more?' she asked.
'Then we fail along with you.' Harry stated.
Hermione sighed in aggravation.
'Fine.' she snapped. She then turned on her heel and left.
--- Hermione studied until one in the morning that night. She pretty much just memorized what shapes of tea leaves meant.
Hermione was sitting at her desk, head asleep on her 'Unfogging the Future' book. She was still in her clothes from the day before.
She was still asleep when someone walked into the room, the next morning at 11:00.
'Hermione...Hermione...always studying...' the voice sighed.
The person brushed Hermione's hair away from her face. She was sound asleep, drool even creeped from her slightly open mouth, onto her books.
'Haha, even Hermione Granger drools, who'd have thought...'
He (a/n: can u guess yet? Who else would it be...really...) leaned down and pressed his soft lips against her cheek. She just make a quiet moan and turned her face the other way.
'Fine...reject my kiss.' he muttered. He then smirked, having thought of her sleepy ness as an opportunity.
He went behind her and put his hands on her shoulders and then slid them down her chest, through her hanging open shirt neckline, his head lowered, kissing her neck. This woke her up all right... her head flew up, smacking right into his face.
'Oh shit!' he cried stumbling backwards, hand on his forehead and nose.
'Oh my god, Draco! I'm so sorry!' Hermione cried after turning around to see what had just happened.
She got off her stool and ran over to him. She tried to pull his hand away from his face.
'Let me see it.' she demanded.
'No.' he said pouting.
'C'mon quit acting like a baby, I said i'm sorry, now let me look at it.'
'No.' he repeated.
'God damn it Draco, let me see!' she cried in frustration.
This angry Hermione totally threw Draco off, pulling his hands from his face he let her see.
She stepped on her tip toes to inspect his face.
'Draco, your such a wimp, there is nothing even on your face.'
'I don't care.' he muttered, 'It still hurts.'
She looked up at him lovingly.
'Oh...i'm sorry baby.' She said softly.
She put her hands up to his face and pulled it down gently. She then gave him light kisses around the area she hit.
'Feeling better?' she asked.
'No...but I think a quick roll in the sack might.'
She then hit him in the chest.
'Ow.' he winced as he grabbed his pecs.
‘What were you doing anyway?’
‘When?’
‘Right before my head smacked you.’
‘Taking advantage of you.’ He said seductively.
‘Ooh... bad boy.’
‘I should be punished...’ he said hopefully.
She smiled at him evilly and went into her bathroom.
‘Or not...’ he quietly said disappointed.
'I can't believe I fell asleep at my desk!' she called from the other room.
'I can't believe you actually studied for Divination.' he called back.
'You don't study either?' she asked loudly.
'No. What do you mean either? You obviously studied.'
'Oh, I meant Harry and Ron don't study either.' she yelled, 'It must be a guy thing.'
'No, it's an 'everyone in Divination' thing...except for Hermione Granger.' he mumbled. 'What was that?' she snapped, knowing what he said.
'Nothing dearest...' he said mockingly.
Hermione came out of the bathroom in a robe. Wiping her mouth, she obviously just brushed her teeth.
'Ooh..' Draco cooed, 'Whatcha wearing under there?'
She just gave him a 'your not getting anything' look.
'Nothing...I wanted to get out of those uncomfortable clothes from yesterday.'
'You want to get out of that uncomfortable robe?' he asked wishing and hoping.
'Yes,' she said, 'BUT I am going to only get out of THIS robe, to put on a new outfit.'
'Will you get dressed in front of me?' he asked innocently.
'Will you try to grope me or get me to have 'a roll in the sack'?' she laughed, mocking him.
'Makin' fun of me eh, Granger?'
She just shrugged and looked in her drawers for something to wear. She pulled out a pair of jeans and a rose colored beater, the rose looked great with her hair and eyes. She then went to a smaller drawer and Draco watched in angst as she pulled out a nude colored bra and a pink thong.
'Oh thank god...' he thought, '...she's going to change with me here.'
And then God opened the heavens to punish Draco for whatever sin he committed...and Hermione walked into the bathroom.
'Thanks...thanks alot.' he muttered to himself, hoping God could hear. 'Is this punishment for that Transfiguration question about wands?'
'Draco!' Hermione yelled, 'Who are you mumbling to?'
'No one woman! Mind your own business!' he yelled back.
At that, Hermione stepped out of the bathroom in jeans and her bra.
'Excuse me??' she asked demandingly, hands on her hips.
He smiled at the sight of her in her bra.
'I said, i'm just thinking aloud to myself, beautiful.' he lied, with a plastered smile. 'Come here so I can apologize properly.'
She smiled. 'You're such a hornball.' And went back inside the bathroom.
'Fuck.' Draco muttered. His morning erection going on with no satisfaction whatsoever.
'When is our Divination test?' Hermione asked coming out of the bathroom, hair straightened, make up applied..with magic.
'I don't know...three? two? one?'
'Your a lot of help Draco.' she said getting her books from her desk. She looked down and saw a small pool of liquid. 'What the heck is on my book?'
'Oh, you drool.' Draco replied.
She looked at him incredulously.
'No I don't.' she snapped.
'Umm...yes you do. I saw it this morning when I came in.'
'No I don't.' she said again putting her books in her bag.
'Yup you do.'
She shook her head.
'Whatever.'
'Is Hermione upset because her fiance found out she drooled in her sleep?' Draco asked annoyingly.
'Shut up, let's go to the library and study.'
'Fine fine let's go.' he sighed.
---
Two o'clock was the time of the Divination N.E.W.T, incase you all were wondering. Hermione sat nervously at her table. She looked at the items in front of her. A cup, class of water, tea leaves, a mini drainer, a crystal ball, and a chart with stars on it.
'Oh crap...' Hermione muttered. She looked over at Harry and Ron. They were talking about quidditch or something like that. She then looked over at Lavender and Parvati. They were talking about how great Trelawney is, and how much they are going to miss this class.
'I should have asked them for help!' Hermione scolded herself. She looked over at Draco. He was poking the crystal ball, his eyes were an inch away from it.
Then a skinny, woman with large classes on the end of her nose stood before the group.
'Good afternoon students.' Professor Trelawney said happily. 'I will explain tests briefly, then hand them out. You will see you have items need to read tea leaves, a crystal ball and astrology. The first part of your test is about tea leaves, answer the questions then read your future with the tea leaves and write what you see. Do the same for the other two parts of the test. Leave the items and tests on your desks. At four, you will be dismissed.'
Hermione threw her head into her hands and said a quick prayer. She then felt a hand on her folded ones. She looked up into bright blue eyes.
'Don't worry, Hermione.' Draco said leaning over from his table, 'You know you can do it.'
She smiled and he sat back at his table. A test then landed on her table.
'I should have quit this class when I had a chance.' she told herself.
Hermione looked down at the test.
#1: Name five possible tea leaf readings and their meanings.
Hermione wrote:
Dog a.k.a. Grim--Death ; Skull-- Danger; Acorn--unexpected riches; Falcon--deadly enemy; Clover--bad or good luck
She sighed.
She finished the questions for tea leaves in 20 minutes. Now the hard part.
She made tea with the tea leaves and water and then drained the cup and looked at the buttom.
'It looks like dirt...' she muttered quietly.
She thought of what Harry and Ron said.
'Make something up...' she told herself.
Then she remembered what Trelawney said.
"Leave your items on your desks." Hermione replayed this in her mind.
'That means leave the cup on the desk...' Hermione thought, 'She'll see what my leaves said, and no I lied...'
Hermione felt hopeless. She stared into the cup...seeing nothing.
Hermione put her head down on her desk.
Draco looked over and frowned.
'Stop thinking so hard...' he said to her...in his head. 'You're trying to hard, Hermione.'
At that moment he wished the tests didn't have anti-cheating spells. He knew it killed Hermione when she did badly on school-related things.
'Relax.' Hermione told herself. She rose her head and looked back into the cup. 'Well, that could be a leaf...'
She tilted her head as she looked into the cup, then put the cup upside down.
'A leaf doesn't mean anything.' she remembered from the books. 'An acorn maybe? Riches? Unexpected riches? That can't be right...'
She looked again. It did look like an acorn.
'Whatever...it's something.' she sighed and wrote down: An acorn. On her paper. She then went on to the Crystal Ball Gazing section of the quiz.
#1: What do you try to develop by looking into a Crystal Ball?
Hermione smiled and wrote: Your inner eye.
She continued.
It took her another 20 minutes for the questions. She was glad the test had fact questions, and wasn't just reading her future, she knew the questions from studying the books, but book studying couldn't tell her what the puff of smoke in her ball meant. Hermione looked into the ball.
'It looks like a blob.' she thought. 'Maybe a ball...or a circle. Does that mean anything?'
She wrote: A circle. She decided not to waste time like she did with the tea leaves. She went on to the last section of the test. Astrology.
#1: What are some characteristics of someone born under Saturn?
She wrote: Dark hair, mean attitude, and a tragic loss early in life.
'Almost describes Harry.' Hermione thought.
Hermione finished the rest of the questions, just as quickly as the others. She then picked up the star chart. At the top of the paper it said: Circle the North Star and write identify each planet and write the name under it.
Hermione grinned excitedly. She didn't have to predict anything. This was all science.
She quickly finished the chart in less than five minutes. She sighed happily when she closed her test booklet.
---
'How did you do, Hermione?' Draco asked her as they filed out of the Divination tower.
'Okay I think. I only had trouble on the tea leaf readings and the crystal ball reading.' she replied.
'What did you see?' he asked.
'The tea leaves looked like a leaf, so I put acorn. The ball fog looked like a blob so I put a circle.' she shrugged.
'Sounds good I guess.'
'What did you 'see'?'
'A clover and a basket.'
'A basket??'
'I think that's what it was. Maybe a cradle.'
'No.' Hermione said quickly, 'I don't think it's a cradle.'
'Me either.'
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