Hermione’s Pros and Cons List for Divination

by · November 10, 2024

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!
     

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