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Fire-omens (the technique being known as Pyromancy) were a concept in Divination.[1] They were presumably prophetic signs seen in flames.

History[]

At the start of 1993-1994 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Sybill Trelawney promised her third-year Divination students that they would begin to study crystal-gazing in the summer term, as long as they were done learning about fire-omens by that time.[1]

In 1996 at Hogwarts, Firenze taught his fifth-year Divination class to burn various herbs and spices such as sage and mallowsweet, and to try and see symbols in the smoke.[2] It is unknown if this would be considered a form of reading fire-omens.

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 6 (Talons and Tea Leaves)
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 27 (The Centaur and the Sneak)
Divination
Trelawney's first Divination lesson in the trio's third year
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