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[[File:Tea_leaves_1.jpg|thumb|250px|The Grim in Harry Potter's cup.]]
  
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{{Dialogue a-b|Ronald Weasley|Right. What can you see in mine?|Harry Potter|A load of soggy brown stuff.|Harry Potter's first attempt at tessomancy.|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
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'''Tessomancy'''<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)]]''</ref> is the art of reading [[tea]] leaves to [[divination|predict events in the future]]. Tessomancy is taught as part of the [[Divination (class)|Divination]] course at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]].
   
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==Known readings==
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{{Quote|Well, [[Harry Potter|Harry]]'s got a wonky sort of cross -- that's trials and suffering. But this here could be the sun -- that's happiness. So... you're going to suffer but you're going to be happy about it.|[[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] reading Harry Potter's tea leaves}}
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{{Quote|Well, [[Harry Potter|Harry]]'s got a wonky sort of cross -- that's trials and suffering. But this here could be the sun -- that's happiness. So... you're going to suffer but you're going to be happy about it.|[[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] reading Harry Potter's tea leaves.|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)}}
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*In [[1993–1994 school year|third year]], during one of the Divination lessons, [[Sybill Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]] read the tea leaves in [[Harry Potter]]'s cup and saw four things: the falcon, a deadly enemy; The club, an attack; The skull, danger in your path and the [[Grim]], a spectral dog which is an omen of [[death]].
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*In the same year, during the same Divination lesson Trelawney read the tea leaves in [[Neville Longbottom]]'s cup and commented that it was not good. After she asked if [[Augusta Longbottom|his grandmother]] was well.
   
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==Tea leaf symbols==
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'''Tessomancy''' is the art of reading tea leaves to predict events in the future. Tessomancy is taught as part of the [[Divination]] course at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. In [[Harry Potter]]'s [[1993–1994 school year|third year]], during one of his Divination lessons, [[Sybill Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]] read the tea leaves in Harry's cup and saw four things: the falcon, a deadly enemy; The club, an attack; The skull, danger in your path and the [[Grim]], a spectral dog which is an omen of [[death]].
  
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From [[Unfogging the Future]], pages five and six:
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* Acorn - "windfall, unexpected gold"
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* Club - "an attack"
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* Cross - "trials and suffering"
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== Fortune Telling Tea Cups ==
  
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* Falcon - "a deadly enemy"
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* The [[Grim]] - "[[death]]"
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* Skull - "danger in your path"
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* Sun - "great happiness"
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*'''Zodiac cups''' - These sets contain zodiacal&nbsp; and planetary symbols. Typically the interior of the cup contains the planetary symbols, while the saucer has the astrological sign symbols, but there are many variations and exceptions to this common pattern. The placement of these symbols allows the reader to combine astrology with tasseography.
  
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*'''Symbol cups''' - These sets are decorated with between a dozen and fifty of the most common visual cues that can be found in tea leaves, often numbered for easy reference and supplied with an explanatory booklet. The symbols are generally displayed inside the cups, but there are also sets in which they decorate the outside or appear in the cups and on the saucers.
  
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*'''Playing card cups''' - These cups carry within their interiors tiny images of a deck of scattered cards, either 52 cards plus a joker, as in a poker deck, or 32 cards, as in a euchre deck. Some sets also have a few cards imprinted on the saucers, or the saucers may contain brief written card interpretations. The playing cards permit the reader to creatively relate cartomancy&nbsp; to tasseography.
  
   
 
==Etymology==
  
==Etymology==
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The terms "Tessomancy", "Tasseomancy" and "tassology" derive from the [[France|French]] word for teacup; "tasse", and the [[Greece|Greek]] suffixes, "-graph", "-logy", and "-mancy".
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The terms "Tessomancy", "Tasseomancy" and "tassology" derive from the [[France|French]] word for teacup; "tasse", and the [[Greece|Greek]] suffixes, "-graph", "-logy", and "-mancy".
   
 
==Appearances==
  
==Appearances==
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' {{1st}}
  
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' {{1st}}
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)]]''
  
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)]]''
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)]]'' {{comment|GBA version only}}
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)]]'' {{C|GBA version only}}
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' {{mention}}
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' {{Mention}}
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*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4]]''
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*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World]]'' {{Mention}}
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*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World]]'' {{Mention}}
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*''[[LEGO Harry Potter|Harry Potter LEGO Sets]]''
   
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==Notes and references==
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{{Reflist}}
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography Tessomancy on Wikipedia]
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*[[wikipedia:Tasseography|Tessomancy (Tasseography) on Wikipedia]]
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Tea leaves 1

The Grim in Harry Potter's cup.

Ronald Weasley: "Right. What can you see in mine?"
Harry Potter: "A load of soggy brown stuff."
— Harry Potter's first attempt at tessomancy.[src]

Tessomancy[1] is the art of reading tea leaves to predict events in the future. Tessomancy is taught as part of the Divination course at Hogwarts.

Known readings

"Well, Harry's got a wonky sort of cross -- that's trials and suffering. But this here could be the sun -- that's happiness. So... you're going to suffer but you're going to be happy about it."
— Ron Weasley reading Harry Potter's tea leaves.[src]
  • In third year, during one of the Divination lessons, Professor Trelawney read the tea leaves in Harry Potter's cup and saw four things: the falcon, a deadly enemy; The club, an attack; The skull, danger in your path and the Grim, a spectral dog which is an omen of death.
  • In the same year, during the same Divination lesson Trelawney read the tea leaves in Neville Longbottom's cup and commented that it was not good. After she asked if his grandmother was well.

Tea leaf symbols

From Unfogging the Future, pages five and six:

  • Acorn - "windfall, unexpected gold"
  • Club - "an attack"
  • Cross - "trials and suffering"
  • Falcon - "a deadly enemy"
  • The Grim - "death"
  • Skull - "danger in your path"
  • Sun - "great happiness"

Etymology

The terms "Tessomancy", "Tasseomancy" and "tassology" derive from the French word for teacup; "tasse", and the Greek suffixes, "-graph", "-logy", and "-mancy".

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)

External links

Divination
Trelawney's first Divination lesson in the trio's third year
Professors: Percival Rackham · Mudiwa Onai · Sybill Trelawney · Firenze
Known Seers: Calchas · Cassandra Vablatsky · Cassandra Trelawney · Gellert Grindelwald · Inigo Imago · Johan Hoffman · Liz Tuttle's mother · Mopsus · Professor Mopsus · Susie Sooth · Tycho Dodonus · Unidentified Canadian Seer · Unidentified female Seer · Unidentified male Seer
Textbooks: The Dream Oracle · Unfogging the Future
Methods: Astrology · Bibliomancy · Capnomancy · Cartomancy · Catoptromancy · Crystal-gazing · Crystal ball · Dream interpretation · Fire-omens · Heptomology · Horoscope · Ichthyomancy · Lithomancy · Myomancy · Ornithomancy · Orrery · Ovomancy · Palmistry · Personal chart · Phyllomancy · Prophecy · Rune stone · Scrying mirror · Tarot cards · Tessomancy · Xylomancy
Divination at Hogwarts: Divination (class) · Divination Classroom · Divination staircase · Sybill Trelawney's office · Classroom Eleven · Xylomancy (class)
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