"Beware of a red-haired man!"
"What you fear most will happen on Friday, October 16th!"
"Oh, this is a very bad omen. You need to prepare yourself and stay alert."
"This is a very poor situation. I think you should know what this means."
"Terrible things will happen one after another. You must be careful."
Trelawney continued to speak terrifying prophecies to various people, frightening some students who didn't know her true nature into a state of panic, their faces pale, some even trembling with endless fear of the terrible unknown future.
Trelawney was obviously not satisfied with just these few frightening omens. She searched around for her next target and happened to come to Harry and Ron's side, crouching by their table and looking at the tea leaves in their cups. Trelawney was preparing to follow her previous approach and continue fabricating some terrifying prophecies to frighten Harry and Ron.
But just as she saw the teacup in Harry's hand and the tea leaves inside, her body suddenly trembled slightly. Then Trelawney's expression became vacant and dull, her pupils dilated, and her head slowly tilted back as if looking at the void above.
"A great black dog... a werewolf under the full moon... an enemy... an absolute enemy, his hands bathed in your parents' blood, this is betrayal... death... you will personally greet death..."
At this point, Trelawney suddenly snapped back to consciousness. The teacup in her hand suddenly fell, shattering on the ground, and the tea inside, carrying the tea leaves, flowed onto the floor. From Sean's angle, the tea and leaves looked very much like a black dog's head, or perhaps a werewolf's skull. When Sean stood up, the tea slowly flowed, and strangely, looking at those tea leaves, it also resembled a rat.
He naturally knew the subsequent plot, so when he saw the black dog, werewolf, and rat, he immediately knew that Trelawney wasn't frightening Harry this time. She had truly prophesied the future. However, Sean didn't remember seeing this particular prophecy of Trelawney's in his previous life. Of course, it was also possible that his memory of the previous plot wasn't deep, as there had been many things he couldn't remember clearly before. This might be another such case.
Turning to look at the somewhat bewildered Trelawney, who didn't even know what had just happened, Sean's face showed an interested expression. He hadn't expected Trelawney to actually have some real ability, though it seemed she couldn't control her own talent.
When Sean was at Beauxbatons, he had read a book that said many magics in the modern magical world had made considerable progress compared to ancient times. Many spells had become more concise and efficient with the development of the times, and many potion formulas didn't exist in ancient times. Generally speaking, the modern magical world was progressing.
Take the Petrification Curse. The current Petrification Curse wasn't even considered high-level magic, but in ancient times, wizards wanting to use this magic had to spend several minutes preparing various gestures and incantations. Not just the Petrification Curse, but many magics were like this.
However, many things had also disappeared into the river of time with the development of the magical world and changing eras, including parts of alchemy and prophetic magic cultivation.
Present-day prophetic wizards all relied on their own talents.
Those with strong talents had more accurate prophecies, while those with weak talents, like Trelawney, lived like those fraudulent fortune-tellers in circuses outside. The Bulstrode family's Spiritual Vision ability was obviously in this category too, except unlike Trelawney's family, the Bulstrode family's Spiritual Vision ability would often remain hidden and not appear, but once it did appear, it was very powerful, even causing individuals with this ability to develop the dominant trait of pale gray pupils.
This inheritance method had obvious advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was that once this ability was awakened, one could inevitably grow to become a very great wizard. The disadvantage was that this bloodline could easily go several generations, or even dozens of generations, without awakening. Then the bloodline would easily decline, and once the bloodline was severed, this ability would completely disappear.
The Divination class ended.
Sean and Blaise walked down from the North Tower.
From the first Divination class, Sean proved one point: with his Spiritual Vision talent, he also had some talent in prophecy. If he could receive detailed professional training, he might not be unable to master certain precognitive abilities.
Of course, relatively speaking, Sean wanted his Spiritual Vision ability to be activated more. That way, there would be no need to learn prophetic magic. His Spiritual Vision could completely replace these.
The Time-Turner was mainly used for attending elective courses.
In reality, the schedule for required courses was fixed, with no conflicts between them.
During lunch, Sean could clearly see that other young wizards who had attended Divination class were basically troubled by Trelawney's previous prophecies.
During this time, Malfoy continued to bring Goyle and Crabbe, endlessly mocking Harry about the Dementors causing him to faint.
Anyone with eyes could see that as Malfoy repeatedly used the same method to mock Harry, Harry's side was starting to become immune. Each time Malfoy mocked him, ultimately only Malfoy himself was laughing, at most with Goyle and Crabbe providing some fake laughter behind him. But Malfoy didn't feel embarrassed at all and seemed quite persistent about Harry.
The first afternoon class was Care of Magical Creatures.
Sean held the biting book The Monster Book of Monsters with a speechless expression.
Hagrid's enthusiasm for Care of Magical Creatures was commendable, but he really had no talent for teaching. He never knew that creatures that weren't dangerous to him as a half-giant were absolutely dangerous existences for these ordinary young wizards.
This book was the same. He thought it was interesting that the book could open its mouth and bite people, and that being bitten didn't hurt much. But for these young wizards, being bitten once would definitely require a trip to the hospital wing.
Standing at the door of Hagrid's hut, Sean waited boredly for the class to begin.
Amid the bickering between Malfoy and Harry, Hagrid brought a dozen hippogriffs before everyone. Seeing these magical creatures, Sean's first thought was, if he dueled with these hippogriffs, what skills would he gain?
After thinking it over, these hippogriffs didn't seem to have any special abilities. It might be better to duel with Hagrid. Perhaps he could obtain his half-giant abilities.