HP:[" the Illithid Inquisition"]

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Snape seemed to think Harry loved attention, had an overly high opinion of himself, and thought rules applied to other people. So he took it as his responsibility to give Harry as much bad attention as possible, prick his ego at any chance, and bring the rulebook down on him whenever the opportunity presented itself. It was especially infuriating because Harry hated being a celebrity found it embarrassing, didn't think he was anything special and only ever broke those rules that stood in the way of him helping his friends.

His performance in the class did improve. Two minds were better at keeping track of what to do next than one was. Plus whenever Professor Snape loomed too close and tried to get under Harry's skin he just let Esharry take over management of his limbs so his body could divide his attention between Snape and the potion. The first time his arms kept moving back and forth while he verbally sparred with his professor Snape had worn such a sneer, certain Harry had messed his potion up but it turned out near perfect.

"It seems your work improves when you leave it to random chance Potter." Snape declared after that project worked out well enough.

"Or perhaps it's that if you weren't here I could ace this class with my eyes closed." Harry shot back.

"Five points from Gryffindor." Snape condemned. "And I better not see you adding ingredients without paying the closest attention to what you're doing again. I don't need my whole classroom destroyed by your arrogance."

So pretty much the same as ever if Harry was honest.

This year Harry had three new classes. His first was Divination, which Harry had taken because it seemed easy from what he had heard. Even just finding the classroom was difficult though. Harry, Ron and Hermione had to ask a portrait of an irascible knight called Sir Cadogan for directions. The man was obviously a little bit crazy but he got them to the classroom on time.

The Divination classroom was laid out like a comfortable living room. The chairs were large recliners, there was a roaring fireplace with a tea kettle over it, one wall held a collection of china cups, and there were side tables scattered about the room with doilies on them. Also the air was heavy with the smell of burning incense. Professor Trelawney was certainly an eccentric woman. She swept into the room like she was flouncing on stage, she moved with exaggerated grace and spoke like she was proclaiming dark secrets.

"One of our numbers will leave us before the end of the year." She pronounced.

"Our second term will be delayed when I come down with a bad flu in January."

"That thing you are dreading will happen in October." She said to one girl.

"When you have broken your first tea cup please take your replacements from the blue ones." She said to Nevil.

Their first lesson was on reading tea leaves. Take a cup of tea, hold it for a few minutes, drink it quickly and then hand the cup to a partner to interpret it based on the common shapes laid out in the book. Simple enough. Although between the hot tea, too warm room, thick atmosphere and comfy chairs it was very difficult to remain awake.

Unfogging the future was Esharry's least favorite textbook and he held the opinion that this class was a waste of Harry's time. It wasn't that Esharry didn't believe the future could be predicted. Quite the opposite really. But everything in the book seemed vague to him. Too open to interpretation. But his opinion changed after class had begun.

Look at his hands. Esharry told him, and when Harry looked with his psychic sight there did seem to be some small amount of power leaking from Ron's hand into the cup. Something from Ron was affecting the tea leaves.

When they finished their cups they switched, flipped their cups over onto their saucers and let the remaining tea drain away, then they could study the leaves. At first it looked to Harry like a load of soggy brown stuff. But with his psychic sight his eyes were drawn to two spots that did actually look like things. One was kind of like a bent cross, or maybe like a person sneaking up behind someone else. The other like a large dot, maybe the sun?

"Let's see." He said. "According to the book this could be a bent cross which means you're going to suffer. But this looks like the sun which means you're going to have good fortune. So things are going to start out bad then get better later."

Shouldn't the sun be related to revelation or new beginnings? Esharry wondered. Good fortune is what the book says, Harry responded in his head. The book makes little sense to me. It assigns definite values to things that should be open to interpretation while being vague about methods and techniques. Personally I think this means someone is going to betray him, or he's about to discover something long hidden from him.

Ron's predictions of Harry's leaves didn't make much sense either. But they did attract the attention of Professor Tralawney who saw something else entirely in Harry's leaves.

"My dear!" She exclaimed, "The Falcon! You have a deadly enemy."

Which was true as Hermione pointed out. Lord Voldemort wanted him dead at least. So that prediction was as safe a bet as that Nevil would do something clumsy.

"The club! You are going to be attacked, this is not a happy cup." The professor continued ignoring Hermione. "And this last, it's almost too terrible to mention. The cup has a grimm in it, a great black dog that haunts churchyards. An omen of death and a terrible one at that!"

Hermione thought this was all ridiculous and Tralawney didn't appreciate her doubting attitude. Ron said that grimm were serious business, one of his uncles had died after seeing one. Harry was inclined to perhaps agree. He had seen a large black dog just before the Illithids nabbed him. So maybe they did indicate that bad things were about to happen.

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