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Monochromatic Ursine
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The school of Divination has always been the art of finding out things you don't know.
Spells in Silence (Harry Potter)
- Thread starter Silently Watches
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- Deep inside the sand
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- He/Him/His
Yes. But normally in fics its always the future that or the future this. It's not often places, people or even 'hint to what I actually seek.' Do Divination to find places that hints towards her actual goal. Then gather those hints and make it easier for her to find her actual goal.
This is the same school where Harry fought a giant snake, nearly died, and only lived by phoenix intervention. All he really got was a pat on the back. He was twelve.
Any sane school board would have closed the school down until all of its security measures were updated at this point, but the plot necessitated that it take place within Hogwarts, so they couldn't close it down.
I remember this fic where basically any spell that gave you information was a divination spell. This was more than half of all medical spell, basically all detection spells and a ton of other stuff.
MultipleChoice
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So this is what any reasonable person would interpret divination to be, but . . . in canon divination is only for telling the future. This may be due to Sybil being a terrible teacher, but it's the only exposure to divination we get in the series.
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Monochromatic Ursine
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There was also that class where they tried to find out the meaning of their dreams. I don't think that one was just the future.
The remembral can reasonably be called a divination tool along with the foe glass and the pensive.
McG missing a chance to put Hazel in more detention, after fuming in the previous chapter?
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
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- Right behind you
1) There was a whole scene about Sprout taking her to task for that.
2) Even if she did, would Hazel go?
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Monochromatic Ursine
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She would have also had to punish Sally-Anne, they went missing together into the mirror before her class ever started.
I remember. But on the issue of Hazel, I think McG only agreed to go through Sprout, not to drop it? Therefore, I'd expect Hazel would still get lectured, and maybe questioned.
Under guard, like in the chapter 40? I'd think so.
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Don't worry, neither is Rowling, she just created Quidditch to screw with the minds of sports fans going over the rules after a fight with her boyfriend.
This is barely an exageration.
JK Rowling invented Quidditch to ‘annoy men’ after row with her ex
The Harry Potter author is such a badasswww.stylist.co.uk
Well done on that summary. The article you linked has exactly the same amount of useful information as your post, and is about ten times longer.
How could hags support the protection? It requires blood relatives, I think. Silently Watches used a common idea that the protection on Privet Drive vanishes once Harry (Hazel here) decides to leave and never return (chapter 3). I think Hazel's personal protection is not dependent on that.
Did you mean to write "was not worth my time"?
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Not_Interesting
The Munchkin of Megastructures
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- In your walls(the walls between realities)
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Voldemort not being a Saturday Cartoon villain for once? Using the charisma that won him so many followers? Using his brain for once? This is great! I do wonder...does she not have the Potter forture, did nobody inform her about her inheritance?
TFC!
TFC!
yacov
Lurking and sometimes blurting
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- Clogging a drain
Of course they didn't. Why? Because screw this small child that saved all of our lives!
Er I mean. Character building yada yada. Blah blah money corrupts at such a young age blah blah. Really even having a trust with a monthly stipend and saying it is from her parents wouldn't be too much, even if they don't give Hazel everything.
0th Law
The Promethean Rose
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- 5 Minutes into the Future
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- They/Them
She clearly has money, right? Therefore, she clearly got the money from her family's vault, using the key given to her by [McGonagle/Hagrid/Dumbledore]. Stealing from a renowned person such as Gilderoy Lockhart? Preposterous, I say. Preposterous.
I was not expecting Voldemort to become one of the most endearing characters in the story. And it's kind of hilarious that after all the stuff she's seen with magic and fae and spirits and the like, the explanation she comes up with for why Quirrel is acting weird is something she saw in a daytime soap opera.
Tom, smirking as he observes Hogwart's staff and students.
"Turn her? I'll just have to open the door, at most put some lights up. They're doing all the turning needed for me."
I've just thought that since Hazel didn't detect McG lying about Hogwarts, and McG didn't conceal her thoughts (Hazel heard about delivering her to the Dursleys, which McG would rather keep secret), that means that McG did not think.
Isn't that awful to have such a Deputy Headmistress, who has got a closed mind, and don't you confuse her with your facts?
Isn't that awful to have such a Deputy Headmistress, who has got a closed mind, and don't you confuse her with your facts?
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Now I wonder how that stone, the missing druids and the Haggs, are all connected.
Especially if you add in elfs and house elves.
Next we see Quirell/Marvolo saving Hazel, while ordering her to fuse that stone too her staff, in order to keep it save.
I also wonder if using a ceiling candle crone hanger, could be used to fuse several different brooms together, thus getting speed & high turning ability, by having multiply broom ends on the end.
Add in a staff holder, underslung staff holder, on the forwards broom stick.
Then add in searchlight like headlights, for night flying and.....
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When talking about Divination reading the future realize that even if you can't change what is prophecized to come, you know what is coming and can thus prepare for what comes after. Does prophecy state you'll either kill your personal nemesis, or die by his hand? Fine, then keep a record of everything you've learned about them in a place where your allies know to find it if you die, go into battle against them with some sort of deadman's switch so even if you die there's a chance you'll take them out with you immediately after, and finally prepare a contract with a third party to have everything you own sold and all of your assets put down as the bounty on their head should you die. After all, once the prophecy has been fulfilled there's nothing stopping someone else coming along to off them.
That's not even getting into prophecies about things like an asteroid hitting the planet, the end of civilization, etc. the trap isn't the prophecy, it's the idea you can change what's coming rather than preparing for the results.
That's not even getting into prophecies about things like an asteroid hitting the planet, the end of civilization, etc. the trap isn't the prophecy, it's the idea you can change what's coming rather than preparing for the results.
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Gets worse, the way the canon HP one can be read, is a Gargoles Demona & MacBeth one.
As in, as long as one lives, both live.
So yeah and if you consider that thanks to the Three Brothers, they are family...
Then you get some weird happenings.
Could it be, that by killing Hazel/Harry's parents, Voldy made himself the most direct family connection and thus the backfire?
Did Lily Potter use her own death, to create a horcrux, betting on Voldy wanting to make one when killing her Child?
Did they wrap their child in the Cloak Hallow(?) and is this why Dumbeldore actually had it?
Lots of options, for why a child of one year old, could not have offed Voldy.
As in, as long as one lives, both live.
So yeah and if you consider that thanks to the Three Brothers, they are family...
Then you get some weird happenings.
Could it be, that by killing Hazel/Harry's parents, Voldy made himself the most direct family connection and thus the backfire?
Did Lily Potter use her own death, to create a horcrux, betting on Voldy wanting to make one when killing her Child?
Did they wrap their child in the Cloak Hallow(?) and is this why Dumbeldore actually had it?
Lots of options, for why a child of one year old, could not have offed Voldy.
dragonx99
Actually Satan
I admit, I always thought it was cause Voldemort accidentally set Lily up so she uniquely could sacrifice herself unlike basically anyone else he ever ran into.
Any other time Voldemort went into a place where his enemies were, his goal was to just kill them all. No mercy for anyone, if they opposed him then it was time to die regardless of anything else about them. Lily though, almost on a whim, he was actually willing to spare like Snape begged him to. If she just got out of the way. Unlike anyone else who ever stood before him, if she had done one 'simple' thing, then she could have walked away with her life.
So when she refused and tried to give her life to preserve her child's, she was actually giving up something that she could have kept. And her magic was willing to take that deal.
That honestly has to be the reason why Lily was able to use sacrificial protection and not every other person who sacrificed themselves for another.
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Monochromatic Ursine
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Or something like the theory she carved a runic ritual array under the carpet in the nursery.
Or the one where it had something to do with the unfinished Horcrux ritual in particular.