Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

As third-year wizards, it was their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class and their first time experiencing Professor Lupin’s teaching style, and everyone felt very satisfied.

After the get out of class, the little wizards gathered together for a rare occasion to discuss what they had learned in class.

"Did you see how I took that bitch?" Seamus yelled.

"And that severed hand," said another classmate, Dean.

Neville straightened up this time and said loudly: "And Professor Snape dressed as my grandmother!"

"And my mummy? I managed to subdue it!"

Another little wizard asked curiously: "Why is Professor Lupin afraid of crystal balls? Aren't crystal balls very common items for wizards to assist?"

Lin Xia raised her eyebrows slightly. She also wanted to know this question.

In the wizarding world, crystal balls can be used as prophecy balls.

A wizard with foresight can project the future scenes he sees into a crystal ball.

In addition, the crystal ball also has the function of "seeing my true knowledge", that is, the ability to see through the essence of things.

As a wizard, Professor Lupin should not be afraid of the crystal ball.

Lin Xia wondered, could it be that he had been frightened by the allegorical scenes in the crystal ball, or... was he himself carrying a horrible allegory that he could not escape?

After the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, they immediately had Trelawney's class.

This is their second class.

They still observed the tea leaves in the cups, but they also learned many more things, such as some strange-shaped symbols and water stains.

Last time they poured out the water in the teacup and only observed the shape of the tea leaves in the cup.

This time, their focus was on observing the poured water and throwing the prepared teacup water out in a specific posture.

Then, before the liquid evaporates, quickly observe the shape of the water stain and compare it one by one in the book.

It’s strange to say, after pouring the water out of Lin Xia’s teacup, two circular water stains were formed on the table.

Others didn’t understand what the two circles represented, but Lin Xia could tell at a glance that the two circles actually represented a scale.

Maybe it's the nature of some people to be faithful to one thing.

When she observed the tea leaves before, she felt that the shape of the tea leaves at the bottom of the teacup was that of a balance. Now when she poured the water out, it was still in the shape of a balance.

From this, it can be seen that her life trajectory, as well as her subsequent good and bad fortune, are all firmly on the scale, which makes Lin Xia have more thoughts.

Uncertain power is not your own power after all.

A person poured out water from a teacup, and a water stain formed a rabbit, through which one could see two long ears.

Professor Trelawney deliberately observed the water in his cup and explained solemnly: "You have something related to rabbits. Something bad will happen to it in the near future. Considering my previous prediction, you should think about it carefully."

Hermione couldn't help but raise her hand at this time. She flipped through many pages but couldn't find the meaning of the shape of the rabbit water stains. She was very confused.

Trelawney ignored her.

Hermione simply stood up and asked, "Professor, are you making random assumptions about others? Why is there no corresponding explanation in the book?"

Trelawney had to answer: "Not everything can be found in textbooks, Hermione, your light is too weak to see what I see.

Prophecy requires great talent, and those without talent will think I am talking nonsense."

But to Hermione, Trelawney just sounded like she was trying to trick the little wizard.

When there is clearly no answer to a question, the little wizard is sent away with just one sentence: "You have no talent, you can't see."

Hermione was a very rational witch and she couldn't understand the way such energy worked.

Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from her ear, and Ron couldn't help but said loudly:
"Harry, the tea water you poured out has formed a dog's stain!"

The little wizard couldn't help but lean over.

In the last class, Trelawney said that Harry was accompanied by ominous signs and that the big black dog was a messenger sent by the god of death.

This time, the tea water poured out was also in the shape of a dog. Does it indicate something?
Harry kept flipping through his textbook, trying to find the meaning of water stains forming a dog.

But as Hermione said, the shapes of water stains described in the book are the most common ones, and there is no explanation for shapes like dogs, cats, or rabbits.

While he was looking through his textbooks, Professor Trelawney had already walked up to him. This time, she said nothing, but just stared at him silently with her watery eyes.

Harry felt that she looked at him with great pity, as if she was looking at a dying person.

Trelawney is devastated because she can't stop him from dying.

Harry was suddenly shocked and horrified by the thought that had occurred to him.

The other young wizards looked at Harry with some pity, as if they were looking at a dead person.

This made Hermione very dissatisfied, and she said loudly: "There is no explanation in the book about water stains forming dogs, Professor Trelawney, are you going to say that this is a sign of death? Can't you give any other information besides this sentence?"

Trelawney stared at Harry and said mysteriously, "He has been looking for you. He knows you are in Hogwarts. One day, he will come in to find you. That's when you make a choice.

Harry, do you want to die or be reborn? You have to make a choice. "

Harry couldn't help but say, "Professor, I don't understand a word you're saying."

Trelawney didn't even look at him, but went to another place to give instructions to other young wizards.

"Neville, you've been in a good mood lately. Look at your water stain, it looks like a flower."

Neville smiled sheepishly.

Ever since taking the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, his fear of Professor Snape has been reduced a lot. He feels that even if Snape were to stand in front of him in person, he would not be afraid.

However, the next second, Trelawney said: "Neville, you have to be careful of one thing, someone is targeting you.

He is not honest with you, but you regard him as a true friend. One day in the future, you will be betrayed by him. "

Neville tensed up and said tremblingly, "Professor, who is targeting me?"

Trelawney shook his head, put his hand to his mouth and shushed it, lowering his voice slightly.

Neville subconsciously breathed lighter.

"I don't know, and I can't tell you. Alas, I saw a very vague black shadow. I only know that he has been by your side for a long time and has been watching you."

Trelawney turned to the other little wizards, as if he had not said anything just now.

But Neville felt a deep sense of fear.

After the Divination class, Neville told Trelawney what he said to him, but Hermione questioned him back. "The shadow she was talking about, couldn't it be the night? We all have to live with the night every day!"

Hermione not only said it herself, but also specifically dragged Lin Xia into it.

"Lin Xia, what do you think? You couldn't find an explanation for your water stains in the divination class."

Lin Xia smiled and said, "Although I couldn't find it and the professor didn't help me interpret it, divination is originally a very subjective thing, so I have interpreted it myself."

Hermione asked curiously, "What do you think it means?"

She had seen Lin Xia's water character, which was two circles, parallel and symmetrical to each other.

It was hard to imagine how the tea she threw out could condense into such a shape. It was completely beyond her cognition.

In this magical world of wizardry, everything is possible!
Lin Xia said: "Don't you think those two circles look like two big gold coins?

So I think that what this tea means is that I will be very rich in the near future, and countless money will flow towards me. "

Draco, Ron and Harry were all surprised. Even Hermione found it strange and asked, "Can we understand the meaning of water stains from this perspective?"

Lin Xia said: "Of course, not all divination is bad, right?
I can predict that the future will be dangerous, but I can also predict that the future will be smooth sailing. It all depends on how I interpret it."

Hermione's eyes flickered slightly, as if she understood something.

Come evening.

The young wizards from each academy stayed in their own common rooms, either reading or working on their homework. Only a small number of them were busy with something else.

A little witch took out her usual water cup, poured all the water in the cup onto the ground, and then looked at Hermione cautiously.

"Hermione, can you see what this means?"

Hermione took a look and pretended to flip through the book, but when she saw that she couldn't find the corresponding shape in the book, she simply left the book and began to observe carefully.

"The upper left corner looks like a branch, and the lower right corner looks like a bird, which may indicate that... you will get a brand new pet recently. This pet is related to birds and she likes to live in trees very much."

The little witch left very satisfied.

Not to mention, she really wanted to change a pet recently, and the pet she had her eyes on was almost exactly like what Hermione described.

An owl is a bird that likes to live in trees.

When the little witch left, another little boy wizard quickly came up and threw the teacup in his hand out without any hesitation, without following the gestures at all.

He looked at Hermione eagerly, "Hermione, can you observe anything?"

Hermione observed it carefully, walking around the circle of water stains from left to right, and from right to left.

"I saw a lot of quills and a test paper. So many pens were surrounding the test paper...

By the way, your grades will improve dramatically recently, study hard, and you will definitely do better in the next exam!"

The little wizard's eyes lit up. "Really? I only got a C last semester, which is a failing grade. My parents complained about it for a long time during the summer vacation.

They said that if I got a C next time, I wouldn’t be able to go out during the holidays and would have to stay at home and read books.”

Hermione said: "Divination is just a kind of prediction. It doesn't mean it will happen 100%, but it has a certain probability of happening.

If you listen carefully in every class from now on, I can guarantee that you will get a B or above in the final exam.

But if you just rely on divination and think that you are sure to get a C, then it is very likely that the divination will not work. "

The little wizard nodded frantically: "Okay, okay, I'll go read a book now."

After the little wizard left, new wizards came forward, surrounded Hermione and asked her to tell fortunes.

Harry and Ron were watching on the sidelines, dumbfounded.

Ron whispered, "Harry, what's wrong with Hermione?
Didn't she always hate Professor Trelawney's divination class? Why was she now actively fortune-telling the shape of water stains for others...

No, what he was holding was a water cup. How could it be the same tool used in divination class?

Does the resulting pattern really have allegorical divination significance?

And Hermione's analysis, she doesn't read books at all, why do I feel that she is a bit..."

Ron thought hard and finally came up with a word: "Nonsense?"

Hermione has always thought that Professor Trelawney is a charlatan, but in Ron's eyes, Hermione now seems more like a charlatan.

If Lin Xia were here, she would know what Hermione is doing.

Fool, fool as much as you can, fool whoever you can!
Hermione used the "idealistic divination interpretation method" very clearly: I think this is a good thing, so it must be a good thing.

Even if the shape predicted by divination is horrible, as long as you think it is a good thing, it is a good thing, unless you actively think of it as a bad thing.

This kind of idealistic judgment method may lead to completely wrong divination results.

But the problem is that, apart from Trelawney, few wizards can predict the shape of their own water stains.

So this leaves a lot of room for imagination in fortune-telling. Anyway, everything turns out to be good, so isn't this another kind of spiritual victory?
Harry was stunned as he watched Hermione's analysis, and whispered, "At least Hermione is happy now, isn't she? And she seems to have a renewed passion for Divination."

Ron agreed, "Finally she's stopped saying bad things about Professor Trelawney!"

On the other side, in the Hufflepuff common room.

Lin Xia had just finished talking with Tom and came out of the golden wooden house. She transformed rows of long tables in the common room so that the little wizards from other grades could gather together to study.

Lin Xia is very good at transfiguration. The tables and chairs she transformed are very beautiful, which makes the young wizards in the lower grades feel envious.

A first-year wizard boldly asked, "Senior Lin Xia, when I reach the third year, will my Transfiguration skill be as powerful as yours?"

Lin Xia smiled lightly, her amber eyes like nectar, and she said with certainty: "As long as you work hard enough, you can definitely do it."

After leaving the young wizard, Draco came to her and said, "You've been coming here to fool the young wizards recently. I wonder if they will despair when they reach the third grade and find out how big the gap is between you and them."

Lin Xia did not comment: "Everyone has to plant a seed. Besides, hard work is useful."

An owl suddenly flew in, glanced at everyone, saw Lin Xia, and immediately changed direction, flying towards her accurately.

Lin Xia noticed that it had two letters in its mouth.

After opening the letter, Lin Xia's eyes sparkled with interest: "Draco, go find Dean Sprout. We will be busy again this weekend."

Draco was startled for a moment, then reacted and said excitedly, "All the journal submissions were approved?"

Lin Xia nodded: "It's approved. Let's prepare to hold a press conference this weekend."

She paused, "This time, let's do something big." (End of this chapter)