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From watching the antics of the Divination teacher [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sibyll_Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]], one rapidly gets the impression that divination in the Wizarding world is no more a science than fortune-telling in the Muggle world. Formalized as it is, with its tea leaves, palmistry, crystal balls, and dream interpretation, it still seems to be as deeply buried in nonsensical mysticism as any gypsy fortune-teller on a Muggle fairground. However, Professor Trelawney does produce, in the span of seventeen years (so far), two completely valid predictions.
 
The alternate Divination teacher, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Firenze|Firenze]], seems to be more interested in teaching the methods of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Centaur/|Centaur]] divination, and emphasizing that not all things '''can''' be determined completely.
 
== Analysis ==
 
We must be careful to separate Divination from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Prophecy/|Prophecy]]. Divination can be taught; Prophecy is apparently a very rare gift, inborn and apparently uncontrollable. It would appear that prophets quite often fall into Divination as a career.
 
It is particularly interesting that Divination can be taught and tested, but does not seem to involve any particular magic. We can see quite clearly, as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] does, that what Professor Trelawney is doing is little more than a fraud; she is using all the non-magical tricks that Muggle fortune-tellers use, including the foggy and mystical pronouncements. Yet she seems to be teaching out of approved textbooks, and there is evidently some testable technique involved, because there is an OWL exam (and presumably a NEWT exam as well) covering the subject. One wonders whether the purpose of the course is to codify a set of fraudulent techniques, and if so, for what reason.