Hermione’s Pros and Cons List for Divination
Pros and Cons List for Divination
By: Hermione Granger
Pros
- The Divination room is fragrant and smells okay most of the time – better than the fertilizer in Herbology.
- During class, Professor Trelawney makes comedic statements. It feels like a character rambling in a sitcom.
- Ron and Harry attend Divination, so I’ll be with my friends.
- I get to drink tea during tea-leaf reading, and I love tea. The scent is sometimes intense and makes me lightheaded, but the tea helps keep me grounded.
Cons
- There is no scientific method or mathematics used in Divination, or even simple words – it’s all utter balderdash.
- Professor Trelawney has no environmental awareness and insults everyone.
- Divination as a practice preys on other people’s gullibility and stupidity.
- Ron and Harry attend Divination – which means they expect me to pay attention.
- On the other hand, cuppa tea? Who am I, the Queen of England?
- Almost all “Seers” are frauds and cons.
- The art of divining is just a mumbo jumbo of guesses and conjectures.
- I would have to “broaden my mind” and look “beyond the future” – whatever that means.
- I cannot stand Professor Trelawney.
- Divination is not Arithmancy.
- Professor Vector teaches Arithmancy better, which makes her class a better use of my time.
- True predictions have odds of mere coincidences only.
- Everything is a bad omen to Professor Trelawney – even this list!
- Divination seems like more of a failed hobby than something to be studied seriously.
- Crystals are a sack of poppycock, as they are nothing but quartz or mineralized silica. How can they heal someone?
- Tarot cards are not cards of fate but cards of bait. Divination uses them to trap foolish people into believing anything.
- All the fancy things in the classroom are only for decoration to help us pretend that divination is doing anything.
- No science or maths, just throwing flukes. I think I want to puke!