Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 364 Honest Professor Trelawney

  After breakfast, everyone went to the first divination class at the beginning of school.

  The classroom for divination class is on the top of the north tower. That place is far away from the castle, and it takes at least ten minutes to walk. Going up the spiral staircase is a test for the students who go to the divination class.

   It is worth mentioning that there are actually quite a few students who choose Divination. This course is the first choice for students who choose to make up numbers, and it is more popular than Muggle Studies.

No way, the homework of divination classes is usually relatively simple, you can easily fool them as long as you make up some bad things, it doesn't take much time and energy, let alone study hard, because most students have no If you can't learn divination, you can only learn some common sense of divination at most.

  No way, divination requires talent.

   There are very few people who can really predict the future.

   "Is there a shortcut? It's really embarrassing."

  Lee Jordan asked pantingly. It took them at least fifteen minutes to reach the small platform below the divination classroom. There were already several people around who had arrived earlier than them.

   "Unfortunately, there is no direct shortcut to get here." Fred took a big breath and spoke after breathing steadily, "However, there is a secret passage, but don't expect 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 the stairs here still have to be climbed."

   "I hate the stairs here." Albert grumbled. The stairs they came up were very narrow, and they were spiraling upwards. When they climbed up, he felt an inexplicable sense of dizziness.

   "This is my first class, what about you?" Albert noticed that Katrina looked over, and he took the initiative to greet her and said something that others could not understand.

   "I just came from the math divination." Katrina said anxiously, "It's really horrible."

   "What are you talking about?" Fred raised his eyebrows and asked, he felt that the conversation between these two guys was a bit inexplicable.

   "Where is the divination classroom?" George looked around and asked with a frown.

   "The redheads are really a bunch of idiots." Graham Montague's sarcasm came from the side.

   The relationship between Gryffindor and Slytherin has always been very bad, especially the Quidditch players, the relationship is even worse, and they never forget to ridicule each other whenever they have the opportunity.

   "Since when, even a gorilla has the right to call others stupid?" the twins said solemnly, looking at Graham Montague.

   Montague didn’t refute, because he was cursed, his tongue was glued to the palate, and he couldn’t speak for a while, let alone refute the twins’ words.

  He pointed to his tongue, gestured towards his partner again, his cheeks flushed from frustration, and finally almost punched the twins directly, but was held back by his partner.

   Before Fred could continue to taunt the other party, the trapdoor above suddenly opened, and a silver ladder was lowered. Seeing this, the others stopped watching the fun and climbed up one after another.

   "Nice 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 mixture of an attic and an old-fashioned teahouse.

   It was warm in the classroom, surrounded by a pile of small round tables, each surrounded by a few armchairs and small soft cushions, and a fire burning in the adjacent fireplace, on which a large copper kettle burned. The curtains were drawn and the surrounding lamps were cast with crimson shades, creating an eerie atmosphere.

  Round around the circular wall are shelves filled with dusty plumes, candle stubs, old playing cards, countless divination crystal balls, and a large collection of tea sets.

   "Welcome to the divination class," Professor Trelawney said to all the students, "I am Professor Trelawney, and you may not have seen me before."

"Divination is the most difficult course in all magical arts." Professor Trelawney said in a soft and fuzzy voice: "So, I must remind you from the beginning: If you don't have 'sight', then I There is very little that can teach you, and books can only take you so far in this respect..."

  After hearing these words, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and most of them failed to understand the meaning of Professor Trelawney's words.

   "She means that this book is not very useful?" Katrina asked Albert with a frown.

   "What she means is that divination class requires talent, and it's just like that without talent." Albert explained in a low voice, "There are actually very few wizards who can really predict the future."

   "Mr. Anderson is right," Professor Trelawney walked to Albert's side at some point, and said to him with a smile, "I'm glad you can come to my class."

  Many people looked at Albert, so that he didn't know what to say.

   "Sit down, everyone sit down first!"

Professor Trelawney, seated in an armchair in front of the fire, went on: "This year we learn all the basics of divination. First term we learn how to read tea leaves. Next term we are supposed to 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 started whispering.

"In the summer term," Professor Trelawney continued, pretending not to hear, "we will learn to look at the crystal ball, which is the main thing we will learn. If you have the 'sight', the crystal ball will take you into a whole new field.”

   "I remember that Albert seems to be able to see things from the crystal ball?" Lee Jordan didn't know if it was intentional, and murmured softly.

   "Oh, it seems that Mr. Anderson already has 'sight'." Professor Trelawney looked Albert up and down, and said suddenly, "Then, why don't we let him show us?"

   Albert gave Lee Jordan a hard look, and then, under the urging of Professor Trelawney, sat down in the seat next to Professor Trelawney under the watchful eyes of countless students.

  Professor Trelawney placed a crystal ball in front of Albert.

  At this moment, all the students gathered around, as if they wanted to see how Albert predicted the future.

   Albert stared at the crystal ball, stretched out his hand to brush over it, the silver mist began to swirl, and there were faint shadows moving inside.

  He stared at the mist in the crystal ball seriously, recalling what he wanted to know in his mind.

  With the experience of last time, Albert did not doubt that he would fail.

"What do you see?"

  Professor Trelawney's voice seemed to come from far away.

   "A puddle of silvery liquid."

   "A puddle of silver liquid?" Professor Trelawney repeated suspiciously.

   "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 affirmatively, "As far as I know, the blood of unicorns is silver."

   "Is there a dead unicorn next to the blood?"

   "No." Albert said affirmatively, "I only saw a pool of silver blood."

   "What do you think this means?" Professor Trelawney continued to guide.

   "The Forbidden Forest is very dangerous." Albert said cooperatively.

  At this moment, everyone exploded and started whispering.

   "Everyone knows that the Forbidden Forest is dangerous." Several Slytherin students couldn't help but sneered.

   "I think you can organize the Slytherin students to take a stroll in the Forbidden Forest." Fred sneered, "Perhaps, you will have incredible adventures."

"Quiet!"

  Professor Trelawney had to raise his voice to suppress all the commotion, "Mr. Anderson, continue talking."

   "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, then at Albert.

  To be honest, she was not sure whether Albert could use the crystal ball to make predictions.

During her teaching at Hogwarts, Professor Trelawney never met a student who truly possessed the talent for prophecy, but she did see a momentary change on Albert's face just now, maybe he really saw it from the crystal ball Got something.

  Actually, Professor Trelawney guessed right.

  Albert really predicted the possible danger of Hogwarts just now, and he also predicted that in the blurred fog, Albert saw a scarf from the crystal ball.

  He knew right away what it was: that ridiculous scarf wrapped around Quirrell's head.

  It was impossible for Albert to tell this matter, so he could only fabricate a true prophecy, and by the way let several of his dormmates who like to die stay away from the Forbidden Forest.

   "Professor Trelawney." Albert said suddenly, "I have a question."

   "What's the problem." Professor Trelawney said.

   "Why I can't see my prophecy so clearly." Albert said, "As far as I know, a real prophet can let himself and others see what is presented in the crystal ball."

"Yes, yes, many people think so." Professor Trelawney looked at Albert with a complicated expression, and replied softly, "However, few people know that this kind of talent can only Few have it."

"But having talent doesn't mean you can do it right away. You need training, you need to try, and you need this part of knowledge." She continued, "I suggest you read "Seeing the Future Through the Fog" first. The book will take you into the world of a fortuneteller, but you don't have to pay too much attention to it, because that's all there is to it."

   "Okay, go back to your seat, we are about to start class." Professor Trelawney said again, "20 points for Gryffindor, you really have the talent in this area."

  Perhaps because of Albert's stimulation, everyone is very attentive in class, and they all hope to have the ability to predict the future like Albert.

  No one will feel that they can't do it.

   "Did you really see it?" Lee Jordan finally couldn't help asking when Professor Trelawney taught everyone how to use tea divination.

   "What do you think?" Albert asked blankly.

Katrina next to her was crazy. She couldn't be sure whether Albert could really use the crystal ball to make predictions, but with just a few simple words, she got 20 points from Professor Trelawney, which really made her Can not accept.

  (end of this chapter)