Divination

Divination in the Harry Potter universe is a controversial magical discipline focused on predicting the future through practices like tea leaf reading, crystal gazing, and astrology. Taught in the North Tower by Professor Sybill Trelawney and later by Firenze the centaur, the subject is famously dismissed by Hermione Granger as imprecise and unreliable. Despite this academic skepticism, profound and genuine prophecies ultimately drive major turning points in the fates of characters like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.