Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Divination  From Wikibooks,
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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic Type Course Features
Techniques of predicting the future First Appearance Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   Divination is presented as
the ability to predict the future. While it is taught as a
subject at Hogwarts, there are very few wizards or witches who
can actually predict the future. As a subject, it is an
elective, taught in years three, four, and five; those with
sufficiently high O.W.L. marks in the course can then go on to
N.E.W.T.-level study in years 6 and 7.  Extended
Description[edit]   From watching the antics of the Divination
teacher Professor Trelawney, one rapidly gets the impression
that divination in the Wizarding world is no more a science than
fortune-telling in the Muggle world. Formalized as it is, with
its textbooks laying out instructions for tea leaf reading,
palmistry, crystal balls, and dream interpretation, it st