"It's over! We're going to be late for the first divination class!" Neville's face was ashen.
Jerry was still asking the portraits for directions, and it turned out that most of the portraits were asleep for most of the night. Only a few of them were woken up, and they didn't know whether they really didn't know, or they were disturbed and didn't want to tell them, so they all said they didn't know.
Ron... Ron burped. It smelled like chicken legs.
I fell asleep just after eating. I had indigestion!
Just when the three of them were desperate, a knight riding a horse, wearing armor and with a goatee on his chin, who looked very thin and extremely energetic, appeared in the frame.
"Oh, it turns out he is a traveler in need of help! Sir Cadogan is obligated! The divination class is in the north tower. Come with me! Charge~Charge~"
He mounted his thin horse, raised his lance and charged. Rushing from one portrait to the next. The portraits along the way were disturbed.
Many portraits are shouting: Cadogan, the old madman, has gone crazy again! Who released this old guy again? !
The three of them didn't care about this, someone was leading the way.
Neville: "Follow me quickly!" He picked up the hem of his robe and started running.
The three of them followed the portrait all the way to the north tower. Ron was panting from exhaustion, but the two friends didn't feel any strange at all.
Ron: No! Could it be that I haven't eaten enough and am a little weak? !
Suddenly, Sir Cadogan in the portrait suddenly stopped and knocked the fisherman by the river in the frame into the river.
He seemed to realize that he had gotten into trouble, and said quickly: "The top of the tower is the divination classroom. I suddenly remembered that something happened, so I won't go up with you. Goodbye!"
"Thank you! Thank you, Sir Cadogan!" Neville quickly thanked him.
"You're welcome, it's what knights like us do to hoe the strong and support the weak! Hahahaha! Charge~"
Before the fisherman climbed up, he rushed back all the way.
Those unfortunate portraits were messed with again.
"Fortunately, fortunately, we have this kind knight's help, otherwise we would have..." Neville quickly pushed open the classroom door.
Everyone had already arrived and looked at the three latecomers pushing the door open.
Neville, who was a little afraid of society, was struck by everyone's gaze. He immediately tensed up and quickly moved stiffly to sit next to Ted and Hermione.
At this moment, Ron behind him suddenly stopped. His breathing had not subsided, but he suddenly remembered something: "Wait! Cardo..."
Halfway through his words, a voice sounded from behind him. It was a female voice, ethereal, slow, a little hoarse, and a little mysterious.
"Classmate, please don't block the way. You can be late for class, but destiny will never be late~"
With that said, the lady who looked to be in her forties bypassed the three Rons and walked to the desk in the middle of the classroom.
The visitor is Divination Professor Sybill Trelawney.
The tawny hair is naturally curly and fluffy, making the head look big, but the face is small, with high cheekbones, or rather thin cheeks.
There is also a headband and headband on his forehead, and there are a lot of small odds and ends like beads and strings on his body.
She wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses with very thick lenses, which made her eyes appear a bit abnormally large. However, his eyes are a bit straight, which makes him quite scary when he looks at people.
Ron didn't dare to say anything, and the three of them quickly bent over and trotted over to sit next to Ted and the others.
This classroom is a semicircular staircase, with the professor's desk at the bottom and in the middle. There is a huge crystal ball on the table.
The classroom is surrounded by curtains, glassware and other things that create an atmosphere.
Apart from anything else, this old lady still has some knowledge about stage art, performance and marketing.
There should be a market for becoming an old expert on a TV station and doing something like "going against the ancestors' decision".
Ted took some time off during the holidays to investigate Sybill Trelawney.
After all, Salted Fish House is really helpful for intelligence gathering.
Her great-grandfather was the famous soothsayer Cassandra Trelawney.
She is half-blood and her mother is a Muggle.
She is a Ravenclaw graduate and a former member of the Slug Club.
After graduation, she got married once, but it was said that she was unwilling to change her surname, so she finally divorced.
In the original book, she made an appointment with Dumbledore in 1980 and wanted to apply for the position of professor of divination. She had changed jobs many times before, but eventually resigned.
Dumbledore's attitude towards prophecies and the like is very complicated. She originally wanted to cancel the course, but since her ancestors had a real fortune teller after all, she agreed to meet and made an appointment at the Pig's Head Bar.
The result of this conversation was not very good. Dumbledore felt that it was better to cancel the class. As a result, Trelawney suddenly entered "second vision" and predicted the birth of the Golden Boy and the defeat of Voldemort.
Snape overheard the first half of the prophecy on the other side of the wall, and then escaped after being discovered, and what happened next.
However, this old lady cannot control her abilities, so most of the time she cheats. Just kidding!
Soon, she was performing on her own.
First, he had a "face to face" and made several plausible "prophecies".
It's a very vague kind of fortune-telling on the streets.
Do you have a dog at home?
If you keep a dog, the dog will harm you and you must give the dog away.
If you don’t have one, then you should raise one to protect your house from disasters.
Commonly known as blocking at both ends!
But it is obvious that Professor Trelawney will not be satisfied with such a little performance, which cannot show her ability.
So she has other jobs~
Let’s start the tea fortune telling!
Ever since the British started trading with the East, drinking tea has become a top priority in their lives.
Therefore, there is this new skill of "tea divination". In fact, it only emerged in the seventeenth century.
It is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese method of burning tortoise shells to see the patterns.
After drinking the tea, look at the pattern of tea leaves remaining in the cup and start "guessing"!
The mural inside the tea bowl has symbols that help interpret the tea leaves, and there is this sentence printed on the edge: the fragrance of drinking tea, the gas phase of observing fate.
The students here all started to drink water after filling the automatic teapot, waiting for the shape of their tea leaves to appear.
Trelawney moved to Neville's table, and Ted and the others sat at two tables.
Trelawney stared at Neville with her big eyes behind her thick glasses: "Child, you have to be careful with the teacup."
She was so close that Neville leaned back in fright and his arm suddenly touched the teacup.
What she didn't expect was that Neville reacted extremely quickly. He picked up the dropped teacup and put it on the table.
Neville: "Wow! What a risk! The tea wasn't spilled!"
Trelawny: Uh...what's going on? What’s the next step?
…
"Ominous! It's ominous! Oh my god~"
Trelawney pointed at Neville's tea cup and stepped back, with a look of sadness and fear on her face, and she was already smiling in her heart.
The tea leaves in Neville's cup showed an abstract grimace, with horns on the head and fangs in the mouth.
But how to say it?
If Trelawny hadn't said it was ominous, most people would never have imagined that this thing could be seen as a grimace.
But it can be regarded as Trelawney seizing the opportunity!
Trelawney: Phew~ Finally back on track!
There was a tremor in Trelawney's voice, and her body movements were exaggerated, giving her a nonsensical performance style.
"Child! Child, you, you must be careful! This is an ominous sign, a sign of death! Be careful, be careful!"
…
Well, at breakfast the next day, the news spread throughout the school that "Neville is dying"!
Neville himself was scared!
You all say that I am going to die. Wouldn't it be rude if I continue to live?
The friends were a little nervous.
Although he has experienced a lot, he is still young after all and is easily influenced by the outside world.
Professors and a large number of classmates all have a "be careful" attitude, which inevitably makes them feel sad. Three people become a tiger!
Seeing this, Ted could only comfort them: "Okay, don't take it too seriously. As far as I know, Professor Trelawney predicts that a student will die every year."
At this time, the twins ran over happily: "Neville! Neville! Is it finally your turn to die this year? Two years ago, Lee Jordan was predicted by Professor Trelawney that he would not survive Christmas, and the result did not say which year. Christmas. Disappointing!”
Lee Jordan on the other side: Thank you so much! You are really my good friends!
Twins: You're welcome, we'll show off your tribute at your funeral!
Neville's face looked much better, at least he wasn't so worried anymore. After all, his friends still supported him to live.
Ted smiled and said: "Let's do this! Let me tell you a prediction that must be accurate!"
When the little wizards around him heard this, they all stared at Ted.
Ted: "I predict that anyone who drinks water will die!"
After two seconds, Jerry suddenly jumped up: "Ted, your language is so accurate!"
Everyone laughed!
As the saying goes: it is better to make your own decision than to seek divination from immortals, to practice one's own skills rather than to recite Buddha's name and chant sutras, and to make sticks and boxing better than to meditate and meditate.
When it comes to divination and prediction, it all depends on how you do it.
As the saying goes, 30% of destiny is determined by fate and 70% of it depends on hard work. How can there be a fixed future?
(End of chapter)
