"Fighting aliens?"
Luna's eyes lit up instantly. She leaned closer to Hermione, her voice tinged with excitement and anticipation:
"Really? I want to go too!"
"What do aliens look like? Do they have a spinning horn on their heads, like a Crumple-Horned Snorkack?"
Hermione couldn't help laughing at Luna's innocent expression.
She knew Luna would believe her no matter how outlandish her story was, let alone when it was actually true.
"If we need you, I'll definitely take you along."
Hermione ruffled Luna's soft silver hair.
Luna happily narrowed her eyes, like a kitten being stroked.
They chatted for a while longer before Luna reluctantly said goodbye and skipped away.
The next day, on the third floor of Hogwarts Castle.
The Divination Classroom.
The air was thick with incense, and the dim lighting gave the room a mysterious, oppressive feel.
Professor Sybill Trelawney stood at the front. Her bulging, hyperthyroid-looking eyes flickered behind thick lenses, and her voice drifted erratically, as though she were talking in her sleep.
She was the very picture of mystical mumbo jumbo.
She utterly shattered every fantasy Hermione had ever had about girls with glasses.
"Children, today we will study tea leaf divination, an ancient and sacred method of predicting the future."
"By observing the traces left by tea leaves at the bottom of a cup, we can glimpse the mysteries of fate..."
Trelawney's voice echoed through the classroom as the students grew drowsy.
This class was all about being mysterious and vague.
"Now, please drink all the tea in your cups, then turn them upside down on their saucers and gently rotate them three times..."
The students mechanically did as instructed.
Hermione picked up her teacup and drained it in one go.
She had no interest in Divination.
Mostly because it wasn't in