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"Alright, Ladies. Moving on." St. Toussaint announced as she took a drink from her cup at last, savouring the taste of it. The Catnip tea that the Slytherin Prefect had given her her first day on the job. "Before we begin the reading their is one more step. Take your teaspoons and stir the tea, remembering to do so left to right and turn your teacup over onto the saucer to drain the last of the liquid. Most of your tea leaves will stick to the bottom of your cup and form their cryptic shapes." The Professor took another drink from her cup and drained all but about a teaspoon of her tea, then gave the remains three quick little stirrings before plopping the cup upide down onto it's saucer.
"While we're waiting for the tea to drain, who can explain how we measure time in tea leaf readings?"
Melinda did what the professor indicated them to do. She stirred the tea, carefullly from left to right, then turned her cup over to the saucer, to drain the liquid. As soon as she turned the tea cup to see if there were cryptic forms on the bottom of it. She saw
a heart? was it a heart? When she heard the question from the professor, she turned the page right on time to read and raise her hand. She had not memorized it well but yet closed her book to train her memory this time.
"The time frame can be told this way, the closer to the rim, the more immediate the event. The handle often represents 'home' or proximity and nearness. A symbol opposite the handle would be more distant to the seeker than one close by." She said, nodding to herself, since she remembered, something else.