Grim.

[alt_harry]

Well Tuesday we have our very last day of tea leaves. We aren't even doing a full class, just one cup of tea, then moving on.

I know I'm going to get the grim again and then I'm going to fail. Professor Carpenter doesn't think that it really is. Only it is. I mean I suppose it makes sense. That I would get the grim. And nothing else looks like a grim really. Even she can't say what else it is. Only that it's not a grim. But it is. So she's going to fail me for this whole section I just know it.

Father is going to kill me.

Comments

[alt_pansy]

Well, that would explain the Grim.

Joking! Joking!

[alt_harry]

It does, doesn't it!!

I hadn't even thought of that. Heh.

[alt_seamus]

It's bloody unfair Professor Carpenter insists it's not a Grim.

I mean, for Merlin's sake, she did say in her beginning lecture that you have to pay attention to your own instincts as well -- all that rot about training the Inner Eye -- but then she doesn't believe what YOU see in your OWN teacup.

Just because you should look FIRST for the nice explanation doesn't mean the nasty one is NEVER right. I don't mean to say I think you're doomed but it's a valid interpretation. It seems like.

[alt_padma]

Well, just because he has a Grim doesn't mean he's going to pop his clogs, either, right?

I mean, it's a sign, but it doesn't mean certain death. Just that someone's trying to come after him. And we know someone's coming after him - someone's always coming after him. But that's why Professor Lestrange is here, and the Dementors, to keep him safe. So it makes sense he's seeing the Grim, but not that it means he's in for it.

Maybe he is in danger, but Hogwarts is probably about the safest place in the world, next to someplace like Buckingham.

[alt_seamus]

Well, exactly.

Which is why I don't see why Professor Carpenter is so convinced it CAN'T be a Grim.

[alt_harry]

Well, Buckingham isn't that safe, I mean, think of all the times they've seen people skulking about. But I don't think it's really a problem. I mean just like you said somebody's always after me but I'm always actually safe or anyway I can take care of myself.

[alt_blaise]

Well, surely it means more that you're in the thick of it in Dark Arts. Professor Carrow seems pleased enough. And you're not having trouble in Arithmancy, are you? And Creatures is a lark, so don't let this Divination thing get you down. It's probably just that you're doing yourself to death writing homework parchments for them all. Stop that and you'll quit seeing the Grim in your leaves!

[alt_harry]

I don't know. I suppose it might mean more than that.

Also Carrow is creepy an odd bird.

[alt_blaise]

Well. If it is, we've got your back. You know that, right?

True enough, but I guess I've met a fair few even odder. It's about knowing how to get on, isn't it? Regardless.

Private message to Harry Marvolo

[alt_draco]

Harry,
I was talking to Daphne at her party last night and I got the impression that Professor Carpenter NEVER thinks anyone's tea leaves are bad, and that everything is always "auspicious." Is that true?

Re: Private message to Harry Marvolo

[alt_harry]

I think so.

I mean what else can a grim BE???

Re: Private message to Harry Marvolo

[alt_draco]

I don't know, since I'm not taking divination. Maybe you should poke around in the leaves when she's not looking and try to make a new shape out of them.
Anyway, it sounds like Professor Carpenter is either a bizarre optimist or she doesn't want to be held responsible for you getting the grim in her class.