Chapter 184 Divination is a practical knowledge

"Divination?"

Old Tom's pale eyebrows twitched and he looked at Tang Sen again.

"This is the first time I have met a diviner. I mean, of course I have met Trelawney, but she is obviously not a diviner..."

Old Tom explained thoughtfully: "Trelawney is the divination professor at Hogwarts. She is the great-great-granddaughter of the prophet Cassandra Trelawney. Obviously she did not inherit any prophetic talent, but was just a person who relied on

A liar left behind by our ancestors."

Tang Sen nodded slightly and signaled the other party to continue speaking.

"I admit that Trelawney made some predictions by mistake, the most famous of which was about the Boy Who Lived... But everyone who has seen her knows that everything she told was a lie.

She is an alcoholic and a liar, and she deceived Dumbledore's sympathy."

Old Tom emphasized: "If there is one thing that Umbridge did at Hogwarts that can be considered a good thing, it must be that she investigated Trelawney and allowed her to stay on duty for inspection."

"I heard that the Ministry of Magic is ready to approve her expulsion.

Tang Sen's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Expelled?"

Before I finished speaking, the door of the Leaky Cauldron was pushed open. I mistakenly said it was the small door leading to London, but the front door, the door leading to Diagon Alley.

"Divination is accurate and certain, and of course it cannot be used to predict major events in daily life!" Old Tang Sen grabbed the topic and said, "You can definitely predict even major daily events. How can I predict the small events that I predict?

Uh, are you insinuating someone?"

"Fainted!"

Old Tang Sen ignored me, but looked at Shen Dai blankly, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Tom finally managed to interject and said with a smile: "Very few people have no misunderstandings about divination. They think that divination is illusory and difficult to understand."

I was obviously willing to evaluate Trelawney, but I looked at Tom and said, "Have you ever studied divination, but have you ever heard that divination can be used to do that kind of thing... You

I think soothsayers often make it their mission to predict small events in the future..."

Seeing Professor Shen Demao reminding me with gestures again, I gave up my intention of complaining about Special Lawney again and said: "Tang, have you introduced to him yet? That is Professor Dumbledore of Shen Demao. I am Lao Ni."

The dean of Winclaw College, he is also responsible for teaching the Charms class."

"He finally noticed you. You almost thought you were cast by a disillusionment spell." The short witch named Professor Shen Daimao said angrily: "You prepared a bunch of gifts, only to find that your owl has seen you. You must have seen him."

These naughty Gryffindors... Anyway, you have to come to Diagon Alley to buy another owl, so that I can receive your gift tomorrow."

"Oh, Professor Dumbledore." Old Townsend finally noticed the guest and greeted instinctively: "Old friend, should he stay at Fliwitz on a day like today?"

"You hope to change that concept. You believe that divination is a practical knowledge, and predicting the future is not something that is too low and something that can be achieved."

"You really hope that he can do the same thing with divination, even if it's just the first step."

"Hey!" The witch had to remind Old Townsend again: "Is anyone willing to give you a glass of butterbeer?"

In order to show whether he was operating behind the scenes, Tom did not catch the gold coin with his hands, but let it fall under the bar. The gold coin rolled and rotated under the bar, and finally got stuck in the gap under the bar.

Stand outside.

"Of course, there are probably only a few days left. Letting her spend Christmas at Hogwarts is considered a kindness, isn't it?" Old Tom said matter-of-factly.

"What about the divination course?" Tang Sen asked.

Tom smiled and shook his head: "You can't evaluate the Professor Extra Lawney he mentioned. After all, you have never met you, but as a true fortune teller, you must clarify something."

"Soothsayer is a profession that cannot prove itself."

I stroked the owl in my arms and glanced at Tom beside me: "Huh? An Oriental?"

Old Tang Sen's eyes were immediately attracted, and he saw something suddenly flying back from the door, hovering in the spacious space of the bar, and its panicked wings swept over several kerosene lamps.

Then, I waved my wand again and chanted the spell:

"That also led to tragedies rarely caused by silence."

I can't wait to tell you what happened just now.

I made a joke: "But no one has ever said you are a liar."

"Oh, that's not embarrassing." Old Townsend said: "Maybe what he divined was a witch who turned into a wizard... Or the other way around, that's bad, that joke was not a bad smile, but because you didn't care.

I don’t question his divination ability, but there is always no chance of success in divination, right?”

I didn't poke the opponent, but took out a gold galleung and said: "That's a very complicated divination method. If the coin lands, it will definitely be heads. If the coin falls back, it will be a witch. I have tails."

, the one who retreats like this will be a wizard."

"Of course Dumbledore will choose the next candidate." Old Townsend paused, raised his voice, and muttered: "It is also impossible to be appointed by the Ministry of Magic. According to the so-called Education Act No. 22,

The headmaster must be able to provide a suitable candidate for a teaching position, which will be appointed by the Ministry of Magic... That is not how Umm Waikiki appointed Schendemauzi."

"Hey." The witch jumped down, stood under the bar stool, and patted the table: "His expression was like seeing a giant dragon appear outside the bar!"

"Soothsayer!" Old Tang Sen lowered his voice and said in a weak tone: "That's a real fortune teller!"

"You mean, a new divination professor?"

Tom smiled. I could see that the owner of the Leaky Cauldron obviously didn't take that matter seriously, just treating it as a big trick.

He didn't have much impression of such a detailed plot.

Tom said confidently: "Divination cannot be accurate and certain, and it cannot predict any major events in daily life... Mr. Shendai, do you want to do a divination?"

The fragments of kerosene lamps on the ground and these disrupted decorations seemed to go back in time and slowly returned to the way they looked after the owls wreaked havoc.

"Bad." Tom nodded, showing a thoughtful expression: "In fact, you are wondering whether Shen Demaoz should recruit people."

I thought about it and said: "I'm sure he can divine whether the last person who retreated into the Leaky Cauldron was a witch or a wizard. Just treat him to a glass of the worst Scotch whiskey."

The color and shape of the pie were not suspicious at all, but the smell was indeed wrong. After flying for a long time on the dragon, Tom was indeed hungry, but I did not intend to end the topic, but seriously said: "Why do you think that

How many years does it take to confirm a prophecy?"

"It seems that you did choose a very bad time." Shen Dai said regretfully.

Then, a very short witch walked back. I looked at the people in the bar and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, it obviously hasn't adapted to the environment in the cage. You were talking to me just now."

Buy me in Corner Alley."

It's an owl.

"This is another divination method. It's so intuitive, isn't it?" Tom smiled, recited it silently in his mind, and threw out the gold coin.

"Your divination will help me." Tom smiled, and was not angry because of the joke, but explained: "Obviously, the divination results showed that the last person who retreated into the Leaky Cauldron was a witch and a wizard

possibilities."

"Owl? An owl?" I muttered: "He is both a witch and a wizard, so his divination results were confirmed. Merlin's beard——"

It was as if Lao Shen Dai had woken up from a dream.

"Mr. Tangson, he obviously has no stereotype about divination. He thinks that fortune tellers will say some magical words, and then wait for one of the words to hit the bad luck... Yes, Mr. Tangson, then

It’s divination.”

"Professor Lawney is your colleague, old Shende." Professor Dumbledore reminded: "Maybe you can't use some more violent words."

"You seem to be a decent gentleman." Old Townsend said: "I'm sorry for your offense, but you are really not interested in things like divination or prophecy. You are too lazy to wait for several years just to confirm a prophecy...His

The fish and potato pie is here, please dine, guests."

"I'm sure he's charging a fee." Lao Shendai shrugged her shoulders: "Anyway, if you're idle, you're idle."

The sound of a curse was heard in front of the door, a flash of light flashed, and the owl fell to the ground.

Professor Shen Daimao showed a surprised expression, and I said sternly: "His idea is not pioneering."

Old Townsend spread his hands: "Even if Special Lawney has not been expelled, I'm afraid there will be some bad communication between him and you. You will only go crazy and say that he will definitely die."

After all, even if the guess is correct, it can't be luck.

Having said that, I chuckled: "If I were the kind of prophecy, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to be a fortune teller... After all, everyone will die."

"It's just some random things." Dumbledore glared at old Shenda and said, "Young Master Hogwart will handle those things badly."

"It's a boring divination method." Old Townsend laughed: "You think he needs to look at the distribution of foam under the wine glass, or look at palmistry... That's not what Special Lawney does."

"Restored as good as new!"

"Magic requires pioneering, and that is also Fliwitz's philosophy. In ancient times, few people, even some who did not have wizard blood, believed that learning magic was something that I could control.

, we feel that magic is ethereal and difficult to understand."

Tom nodded and said: "That is exactly the purpose of your coming to England. You want to visit Fliwitz Magic School to communicate and learn British divination."

"What could this be? Muggles can retreat to the Leaky Cauldron." Old Townsend said: "You just strengthened the confusion spell today——"

"It's regrettable." Shen Dai showed a disappointed expression: "Is it because of the low-level investigators? You heard Mr. Tangsen say that the professor of divination class is even about to be fired."

"But through generations of wizards, today's spells have become both dangerous and practical."

Finally came to the conclusion: "You can't be sure that Don and Trelawney are completely the same. As I just said, will anyone regard me as a madman?"

After doing all that, the witch picked up my owl and walked to the bar: "Old Shendai, the same old thing."

"Master Hogwart will definitely welcome a scholar like him." Dumbledore paused and showed a simple expression: "Unfortunately, the timing of his arrival is too bad. Something happened to Shendemoz recently...

Don't worry, things will be solved, but he may need to wait for a while...maybe in the first half of the year."

I saw feedback from many book friends that this volume is a bit watery.

Ahem, of course this is due to the fact that I haven’t updated regularly recently, and the more important reason is that I have slowed down my pace.

Harry Potter is my favorite work, so the process of writing this volume, I hope, is not a fast-paced main line about how the protagonist completes the purchase, but also spends some pen and ink to describe the world and flesh out the story.

The details of the world, such as magic, such as Hogwarts.

It is not like the first three dungeons, which only focus on the protagonist and the portrayal of a specific character. Some energy will be allocated to make other characters less flat and facial makeup.
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