Chapter 439: Birthday Date (Edited)

The matter of the cat falling asleep can be put aside for the moment, but Harry will be punished for being distracted.

And Professor Trelawney's punishment came in the form of a tragic prophecy of his fate....

"At the time of your birth, Saturn must have reigned in the sky ... your black hair ... your slender body ... and the loss of your parents in infancy ... May I state, my dear, that you were born in winter?"

"No," said Harry, "My birthday is in July."

Trelawney: "..."

After two seconds of awkward silence, Professor Trelawney changed the subject as if nothing had happened, giving Harry a tragic prophecy that hung in the balance while she went about her astrology.

For Harry it was an awe-inspiring sight, and it also helped to take his mind off it.....

How could such an ancient fraud make the "true prophecy," as Dumbledore called it?

Professor Dumbledore was too old to be fooled by such a charlatan.

Harry grimaced in disdain.

If Voldemort really did come back to life as Trelawney had predicted.... Him! Harry Potter! On the spot! He would eat this round table in front of him!

...

Half an hour later, Professor Trelawney handed each of them a complicated circular table on which they were to fill in the position of the planet on which they had been born.

Fish, who had been sleeping soundly, was awakened by Neville beside him.

"Nya~!"

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Fish rubbed his eyes and asked in a slurred voice, "Is class over yet?"

"Class isn't over yet, the teacher wants us to fill out a chart, you need to..."

Neville handed his the chart and explained the situation quietly.

"Nya... why do we have to draw a star chart in divination class nya..."

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If History of Magic was Fish's least favorite class, Astronomy was Fish's second most hated class.

Although Fish likes to listen to constellation stories and look at the stars, he hates drawing star charts. It was a painful task for Fish, who had very little patience when it came to homework because, compared to other assignments, star charts had to be drawn very carefully and without mistakes.

And while Professor Trelawney's requirements did not involve drawing star charts, they were no less tedious, requiring a lot of tedious calculations of times and angles based on her birthdays.

"Huh?"

∑(ΦΦ)

Fish suddenly remembered something...

"Sybil, Fish doesn't know her real birthday nya!"

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Fish got up and said to Professor Trelawney, "Fish's birthday was randomly decided, so can I not fill out this form nya?"

Professor Trelawney: "..."

Although she had already let Fish fall asleep in class, this time she wasn't going to let Fish off the hook, after all, Trelawney was trying to persuade Fish to become a Fortune Teller, so she could skip class, but she couldn't skip homework!

"Then you could try guessing other people, like Miss Granger, who's gone." said Professor Trelawney casually.

"Alright nya..."

Fish sat back in the chair, disappointed, and then actually filled in the chart in his hand with Hermione's birthday date, as Professor Trelawney had suggested.

Fish had thought about using Professor McGonagall's birthday, but then he thought that Professor McGonagall had never been very friendly with Professor Trelawney, and that she wouldn't be too amused if he showed her the chart after filling it in.

Hermione, on the other hand, was no longer here, but when she had been, she had always taken her divinations seriously, and when Professor Trelawney had given her some predictions, Hermione had seemed very pleased.

Not to mention that Hermione was now studying another subject called Arithmancy, so if he showed her the table he'd filled in, she'd be happy ...

The cat's ears, high on its head, twitched from time to time, and its tail wagged slightly behind it, showing the feline's cheerful mood.

Beside the cat, Harry and the others were refilling their tablets and arguing among themselves; Ron imitated Professor Trelawney's tone of voice and told a joke that made Seamus and Dean laugh out loud.

But their laughter was soon silenced by Lavender's shouts.

"Oh, Professor, look! I have a planet whose position is not exact. Why, what star is it, Professor?"

She shouted at Professor Trelawney as she excitedly held up the chart in her hands....

As a great admirer of Professor Trelawney, Lavender was very animated in every Divination class.

"It's Uranus, dear." Professor Trelawney looked at the chart and said.

"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?"

Ron, who didn't know how to fill in his chart, looked over his shoulder to see what the top Divination student had done.

Lavender's complexion changed, and she stared at him, then turned her head and sat back down in her seat with her own chart.

Ron, who had stood outside, was confused by what had happened, and not only Lavender, but also Professor Trelawney and the girls standing nearby, were giving him scornful looks....

The scene was familiar to Ron, it had been similar to his when Harry had been exposed to Kora the Centaur by Fish.

"Ron, that's very rude of you nya."

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As Ron was confused, Fish looked beside him and said with a serious countenance, "Minerva once told Fish that there are many places between opposite sexes that cannot reveal themselves to each other, buttocks being one of them."

"Buttocks, bottom?"

Ron froze for a moment and instantly understood why everyone had reacted like that.....

"I didn't mean the anus! Uranus! I was trying to get Lavender to show me where the Uranus she just filled is."

He grunted out loud in embarrassment, his face was flushed and even the freckles on his face were covered.

"That so nya?"

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Fish scratched his cat's head and apologized, "Sorry, it was probably Fish's mistake."

Seamus and the others burst out laughing, Harry couldn't help but turn his head and shrug frantically, even the girls let out a low chuckle and the whole classroom filled with a cheerful air.

Lavender blushed, but now that she knew it had been a misunderstanding, she didn't get angry with Ron, but politely handed him the tablet and kindly pointed out the location of Uranus.

"This is the sky... Well, use star..."

He paused and said this to Ron.

"Thank you, thank you..."

Ron responded enthusiastically, took a nonchalant glance at the chart and ran back to his seat.

After everyone laughed for a while, they gradually calmed down, by the time everyone had finished filling out the board, it was almost time to end class.

"When you return, you may consult your respective charts and analyze the orbits of the planets that will affect you next month," Professor Trelawney said in her ethereal voice. "When I have class next week, I will draw and explain and analyze the charts of various classmates, and you can compare them at that time."

As usual, after giving the class a flexible assignment, Professor Trelawney called the class to a close.

As they left the north wing and headed to the Great Hall for dinner, they passed Hermione, who had finished her Arithmancy class.

"Hermione!"

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Fish immediately jumped on her, hugged her and rubbed up against her twice, then pulled out the chart he had just filled out.

"Sybil asked us to fill in the chart with our birthdays in Divination class, and Fish used yours."

He handed the chart to Hermione as if it were a treasure.

Hermione was so pleased that she didn't let go of the tablet.

The two walked together, shoulder to shoulder, intimately toward the Great Hall.

"Isn't it about time we got a girlfriend?"

Dean sighed with a bit of enthusiasm as he watched the two walk away.

Harry instantly thought of Cho Chang, and then thought of the ball Fish had mentioned earlier, and was lost in thought again.

...

Trelawney's prophecy had, once again, come true.

When she said Harry was born in winter, she was actually referring to the fragment of Voldemort's soul in Harry's scar.

...

The English word for Uranus is Uranus, pronounced as youranus in English.

In the original, Trelawney was so stern in her assignments that Harry assumed she had heard what Ron had said to Lavender and had done it on purpose.

When I first read the original, I didn't understand why it was written that way, but I found out after I started writing the book by looking in....

And that Lavender really did fall in love with Ron later.... Maybe that's what cleared up the misunderstanding?

Actually, Uranus is named after the first god of Greek mythology, Uranus, the god of the sky, who was overthrown by his youngest son, Cronus (the second king of the gods and father of the third, Zeus), after the latter cut off his dingus with a knife.