Chapter 364 Honest Professor Trelawney
After breakfast, everyone went to the first divination class of school together.
The divination class classroom is on the top of the north tower. That place is far away from the castle. It takes at least ten minutes to walk. Walking up the spiral staircase is a test for the students going to the divination class.
It is worth mentioning that there are actually many students who choose Divination. This course is the first choice for students who choose to make up numbers, and is more popular than Muggle Studies.
No way, the homework in divination classes is usually relatively simple. You just need to make up some bad things, and you can easily fool them. It doesn't take much time and energy, let alone study hard, because most students don't know how to do it at all. If you can't learn divination, you can only learn some common sense about divination.
There is no other way, divination requires talent.
Few people can truly predict the future.
“Is there a shortcut? It’s really difficult.”
Lee Jordan asked breathlessly. It took them at least fifteen minutes to get to the small platform below the divination classroom. There were several people around who had arrived earlier than them.
"Unfortunately, there is no shortcut to get here directly." Fred took a big breath and said after calming down his breathing, "However, there is a secret passage, but don't expect it to be much faster."
“Where is the shortcut?” Angelina asked immediately.
"Behind the portrait of the nun on the third floor." Fred didn't hide it. "It can lead to the fifth floor, but you still have to climb the stairs here."
“I hate the stairs here,” Albert muttered. The stairs they came up from were very narrow and spiraled upwards. When they climbed up, he felt an inexplicable dizziness.
"This is my first class, what about you?" Albert noticed Katrina looking over, and took the initiative to say hello to her, saying something that others couldn't understand.
“I just came from the math divination place.” Katrina said anxiously, “It’s really annoying.”
“What are you talking about?” Fred asked with raised eyebrows. He felt that the conversation between these two guys was a bit incomprehensible.
“Where is the divination classroom?” George looked around and asked with a frown.
“Redheads are indeed a bunch of idiots.” Graham Montague’s sarcastic voice came from the side.
The relationship between Gryffindor and Slytherin has always been very bad, especially among the Quidditch players. The relationship is even worse. They never forget to ridicule each other every chance they get.
"When did a gorilla have the right to call others stupid?" The twins looked at Graham Montague and said seriously.
Montague did not refute, because someone cast a spell and his tongue was stuck to the roof of his mouth. He could not speak for a moment, let alone refute the twins' words.
He pointed at his tongue and gestured towards his partner. His cheeks turned red from the frustration, and he almost punched the twins, but his partner stopped him.
Before Fred could continue to taunt the other party, the trap door above suddenly opened, and a silver ladder was lowered. Seeing this, the others stopped watching the fun and climbed up one after another.
“Great job!” George winked at Albert, feeling very happy.
Albert pretended not to hear and looked at the divination classroom. It's less like a classroom and more like a cross between an attic and an old-fashioned teahouse.
The classroom was very warm, surrounded by a bunch of small round tables. There were several armchairs and soft little cushions around each table. There was a fire burning in the fireplace next to it, and a large copper kettle was burning on the fire. The curtains were closed, and the surrounding lamps were covered with dark red lampshades, creating a strange atmosphere.
The circular walls are surrounded by shelves filled with dusty feather ornaments, candle holders, old playing cards, countless crystal **** for divination and a large number of tea sets.
“Welcome to Divination,” Professor Trelawney said to all the students. “I am Professor Trelawney. You may not have seen me before.”
"Divination is the most difficult course among all magical arts." Professor Trelawney said in a soft and fuzzy voice: "So, I must remind you at the beginning: If you don't have 'sight', then I There is very little that can be taught to you, and books can only take you so far in this regard..."
After hearing these words, everyone looked at each other, and most of them failed to understand the meaning of Professor Trelawney's words.
“She means this book isn’t of much use?” Katrina asked Albert with a frown.
“What she means is that divination classes require talent, and it’s just like that if you don’t have talent.” Albert explained in a low voice, “There are actually very few wizards who can truly predict the future.”
"Mr. Anderson is right," Professor Trelawney walked up to Albert at some point and said to him with a smile, "I'm glad you can come to my class."
Many people looked at Albert, leaving him wondering what to say.
“Sit down, everyone, please sit down first!”
Professor Trelawney sat in an armchair in front of the fireplace and continued: "This year we will learn various basic methods of divination. In the first semester, we will learn how to read tea leaves. Next semester we should learn palmistry. By the way, I don’t expect to be able to teach you how to predict the future, as Mr. Anderson said, there are actually very few wizards who can truly predict the future, but I can let you understand the most basic common sense and basic usage of divination.”
The students began to whisper.
"In the summer semester," Professor Trelawney continued, pretending not to hear, "we will learn to see the crystal ball. This is also the most important thing we learn. If you have 'sight', the crystal ball will take you on a journey." Entering a whole new realm.”
“I remember that Albert seemed to be able to see things from the crystal ball?” Lee Jordan muttered in a low voice, not knowing whether it was intentional or not.
"Oh, it seems that Mr. Anderson already has the 'sight'." Professor Trelawney looked at Albert up and down and suddenly said, "Then, why don't we let him show it to us?"
Professor Trelawney placed a crystal ball in front of Albert.
At this moment, all the students gathered around, seeming to want to see how Albert predicted the future.
Albert stared at the crystal ball and reached out to brush it over it. The silver mist began to rotate, and there were faint shadows moving inside.
He stared at the fog in the crystal ball seriously, thinking about what he wanted to know in his mind.
With the experience last time, Albert did not doubt that he would fail.
"What do you see?"
Professor Trelawney's voice seemed to float from a far away place.
“A pool of silver liquid.”
“A pool of silver liquid?” Professor Trelawney repeated doubtfully.
"I was predicting the possible danger just now." Albert said softly, "I saw a pool of silver liquid."
“What do you think that is?” asked Professor Trelawney.
"The blood of unicorns." Albert said with certainty, "As far as I know, the blood of unicorns is silver."
“Is there a unicorn corpse next to the blood?”
"No." Albert said firmly, "I only saw a pool of silver blood."
“What do you think this means?” Professor Trelawney continued.
"It's very dangerous in the Forbidden Forest." Albert said cooperatively.
At this moment, everyone was excited and started whispering.
"Everyone knows that the Forbidden Forest is very dangerous." Several Slytherin students couldn't help but sneered.
"I think you can organize Slytherin students to go for a walk in the Forbidden Forest." Fred sarcastically said, "Maybe you will have incredible adventures."
"Quiet!"
Professor Trelawney had to raise her voice to suppress all the commotion, "Mr. Anderson, continue."
"As far as I know, unicorns are magical creatures with strong magic power. Few things in the Forbidden Forest can harm them. This is a bad omen." Albert said calmly.
Professor Trelawney looked at the crystal ball on the table, and then at Albert.
To be honest, she was not sure whether Albert could use a crystal ball to make predictions.
During her time teaching at Hogwarts, Professor Trelawney had never met a student who truly had the gift of prophecy, but she did see a momentary change in Albert's face just now. Maybe he really saw it from the crystal ball. Something arrived.
In fact, Professor Trelawney really guessed it right.
Albert had really predicted the possible dangers in Hogwarts just now, and he also predicted that in the blur of fog, Albert saw a scarf on the crystal ball.
He realized what it was at the first moment: that ridiculous scarf wrapped around Quirrell's head.
It was impossible for Albert to tell the story, so he could only make up a true prophecy to keep several of his roommates who liked to commit suicide away from the Forbidden Forest.
"Professor Trelawney," Albert said suddenly, "I have a question."
“What’s the problem?” Professor Trelawney said.
“Why can’t I see my predictions clearly?” Albert said. “As far as I know, real prophets can make themselves and others see what they see in the crystal ball.”
"Yes, yes, many people think that is the case." Professor Trelawney looked at Albert with a complex expression and replied softly, "However, few people know that this kind of talent can only be achieved by extremely talented people. Only a few people have it.”
"But having talent doesn't mean you can do it right away. You need training, you need to try, and you also need this part of the knowledge." She continued, "I suggest you read "Looking Through the Fog to See the Future" first. This book The book will take you into the world of fortune-tellers, but you don’t have to pay too much attention to it, because it can only serve so much.”
"Okay, go back to your seat, we are going to start class." Professor Trelawney added, "Twenty points for Gryffindor. You are indeed very talented in this area."
Perhaps because of Albert's stimulation, everyone worked extra hard in class. They all hoped to have the ability to predict the future like Albert.
No one will think that they are not good enough.
"Did you really see it?" Lee Jordan finally couldn't help asking when Professor Trelawney was teaching everyone how to use tea leaves to divine.
“What do you think?” Albert asked expressionlessly.
Katrina next to her was very crazy. She was not sure whether Albert could really use the crystal ball to make predictions, but with just a few words, she was able to get twenty points from Professor Trelawney. It really made her happy. Can not accept.
(End of this chapter)