My Slytherin Prince

Chapter Twenty Two

Iris’s P.O.V
It was the next day and the first day of classes and I had gotten ready for the day and took a moment to myself to think about what had happened the night before and as it felt off to me and as it felt like that won’t be the only time something like that would happen to Both Harry and myself as I made it to the Great Hall for Breakfast and sat next to Draco, “how are you feeling?” He asked me, “I’m alright.” I said to him as the both of us continued to talk throughout the rest of Breakfast before we had gone to our first classes of the day and I had made it to Divination and sat down next to Seamus and once everyone was there, Professor Trelawney began the class, “Welcome my children, in this room, you shall explore the Noble Art of Divination. In this room, you shall discover if you possess the sight. I am Professor Trelawney, together we shall cast ourselves into the Future. This term we shall be focusing on Tasseography, which is the Art of reading Tea Leaves so please, take the cup of the person sitting opposite you.” She said to everyone and I took Seamus’s cup and started looking at what was inside, “The truth lies buried like a sentence deep within a book waiting to be read. But first, you must broaden your mind. First, you must look beyond. You boy, is your grandmother quite well?” she said as she eventually looked at Neville and asked him the question, “I think so” Neville told her, “I wouldn’t be so sure of that. Give me the cup?” she said to them as she looked at the cup and I continued to try and figure out what was in Seamus’s cup, “Broaden your minds. Your Ora is passing dear, are you in the beyond? I think you are.” she said to Ron, “sure” he told her, “look at the cup. Tell me what you see.” she said to him, “well, Harry’s got sort of a wonky cross, that’s trials and suffering. And that there could be the sun, that’s happiness. So you’re going to suffer but you're going to be happy about it.” Ron said, “Give me the cup?” she asked him and he gave it to her and as soon as she looked at it, she freaked out, “my dear, you have the Grim” she said to Harry, “the Grin? What’s the Grin?” Seamus asked, “not the Grin you Idiot, the Grim. taking the form of a giant spectral Dog, it’s among the darkest Omens of our world. It’s an Omen of death.” one of them read out and I grabbed my cup from Seamus to look and see that I might have gotten the same thing, “is this what it’s supposed to look like?” I asked before Professor Trelawney came over to look, “yes dear, that’s the Grim you have there.” she said and I looked at Harry before looking back down at the Cup as questions began running through my head hoping that this might just be a trick before she eventually continued with the class.

Once Divination was over, everyone left the room and the Grim was the only thing that was on my mind as I made my way to my next class before hearing Draco speak up, “Iris, Iris wait up” he said to me as he walked up beside me, “what’s wrong? Something happened, didn't it?” he asked and  sighed a little, “I don’t want to talk about it right now. Can we talk about it later?” I said to him, “alright then, are you alright though?” he asked me, “yeah, I’m fine.” I said to him before we finally made it to Hagrid’s class, “I got a real treat for you today, a great Lesson so follow me.” Hagrid said to everyone before we started following him into a clearing in a wooded area, “alright you lot, less chattering and form a group over there and open your books to pag 49” Hagrid said to everyone, “exactly how do we do that?” Draco asked him, “well just stroke the spine of course.” Hagrid told him before we had done what he said and started stroking the spine before I managed to get my book open as we went to where Hagrid told us to go before Draco spoke up, “oh yeah, terribly funny. Really witty. God this place has gone to the dogs. Wait until my father hears that Dumbledore’s got this oaf teaching classes.” he said to Hermione and the others, “shut up Malfoy.” Harry said to him, “Dementor. Dementor.” Draco said, causing the others to turn around, “Draco, leave them alone.” I said to him, “I’ll try.” he said to me and I sighed a little, “you’re stubborn.” I said to him before Hagrid spoke up, “isn’t he beautiful. Say hello to Buckbeak.” he said to us after getting everyone’s attention, “Hagrid, exactly what is that?” Ron asked him, “that Ron, is a Hippogriff. First thing you want to know about Hippogriffs is that they’re very proud Creatures, Very easily offended. You do not want to insult a Hippogriff, it may just be the last thing you ever do. Now, who’d like to come and say hello?” Hagrid said as I had gotten closer and stood next to Harry before Hagrid spoke up again, “well done Harry and Iris, well done.” he said to us before the both of us looked at each other before looking behind us and saw that everyone had moved back before we looked back at Hagrid, “come on now.” he said to us before Ron nudged Harry and I forward, “now, you have to let him make the first move. It’s only polite. So, step up and give him a nice bow then you wait and see if he bows back and if he does, the both of you can go and touch him. If not, well, we’ll get to that later.” Hagrid said to us as we slowly walked up before the both of us bowed before he started flapping his wings and just as we took a few steps away, Harry stepped on something causing it to snap, causing us to suddenly stop before we looked to see that Buckbeak bowed back, “well done Harry and Iris, well done.” Hagrid said before he threw something to Buckbeak, “right, I think the both of you can go and pet him now.” Hagrid said to us before Harry and I slowly walked up to Buckbeak before the both of us raised our hands towards Buckbeak, “now let him come to you.” Hagrid said to us before we stopped walking before Buckbeak came towards Harry and I before the Hippogriff let us touch him and I smiled a little, “well done. Well done Harry and Iris.” Hagrid said before everyone started clapping, “I think he may let the both of you rid him now” Hagrid said to us, “what?” Harry and I questioned before Hagrid picked the both of us up and put us on Buckbeak, “don’t pull out any of his feathers because he won’t thank you for that.” Hagrid said to us before hitting the back end of Buckbeak causing Buckbeak to take off and start flying and after a few moments had passed, I began to calm down a little as I looked at what was going on around me and I began to smile a little before I sat up a little, “Harry, look” I said to him before he slowly sat up before raising his arms and shouted and the both of us laughed a little.