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== Overview ==
'''''Divination''''' is presented as the ability to predict the future. While it is taught as a subject at Hogwarts, there are very few wizards or witches who can actually predict the future.
== Extended Description ==
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From watching the antics of the Divination teacher [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sybill 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 textbooks laying out instructions for tea
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. We should note in passing that, while it is never stated that we are seeing the results of Divination, the Centaur comments regarding astronomy in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 15|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']] are almost certainly the result of Divination. Firenze speaks of this sort of interpretation of the heavens, and how it differs from Trelawney's, in his Divination classes.
== 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: Professor Trelawney does produce, in the span of seventeen years, two completely valid predictions. This seems to be completely separate from her teachings in Divination, and in fact she does not seem to remember having made either Prophecy.
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.
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# What is the method of reading tea leaves? How is it meant to work?
# What is the meaning of the Centaur comment that Mars is bright, in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 15|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']]?
== Greater Picture ==
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