- "A guide to all basic fortune-telling methods, including palmistry, crystal balls and bird entrails."
- — The advertisement at Flourish and Blotts[src]
Unfogging the Future is a book on the subject of divination, written by the celebrated Seer Cassandra Vablatsky and published by Rumiharts Books[1] From at least 1993 onward, this book was a required textbook for students taking Divination Classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A copy of this book costs two galleons at the Flourish and Blotts Bookshop in Diagon Alley[2].
Description
It is a thick, black-bound book with a picture on the front cover depicting the full moon shrouded in fog.[2] There are at least five volumes[3]
Contents
- Palmistry
- Tessomancy
- Crystal Balls
- Bird Entrails
Tea leaf symbols
- An acorn represents a "windfall, unexpected gold".
- The club represents "an attack"
- A cross would mean "trials and suffering"
- The falcon is symbolic of "a deadly enemy"
- A five-leaf clover would be representative of "a horrible rash tomorrow morning, dear"[4]
- The Grim, a large dog, is a sure sign of "death"
- A skull represents "danger in your path"
- The sun is symbolic of "great happiness"
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Pottermore
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Los Angeles Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Contemporary Set Exhibit Report from the Leaky Cauldron
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pottermore
- ↑ See this image
- ↑ Prisoner of Azkaban script at the Internet Movie Script Database (archived here via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
Divination | ||
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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) |