Chapter 88 - 88- the levels of divination and dreading a wizard

Harry's POV

It was breakfast the next time Harry saw Luna, and if he wasn't controlling his strength, her ribs would have been crushed from the hug he gave her.

After which they sat down, eating while chatting, waiting for the other person to breach the subject that both of them wanted to talk about.

In the end, as much patient as she had, Luna was the first to crack.

"Are we going to talk about it or not?"

"About what?" Harry said, trying to make it sound like he has no idea what she was talking about.

"About how I reached Hogwarts? Or, how about the fact that you managed to do a patronus?"

Harry's eyes grew a little heating the second part, while he knew she would ask about her sudden appearance in Hogwarts, he never expected her to remember about his patronus, after all, this is a powerful magic that demands strong magical energy, so it is supposed to be covered by the Fidelius.

"How did you... never mind." He said, knowing that talking about it in the grand hall would just increase the possibility someone else would find out, especially as he now knew the Fidelius Charm didn't work right.

"Can we talk about it later today in the ROR?"

After a second of looking directly in his eyes, Luna nodded, making Harry letting out a small sigh of relief.

For the rest of the meal, until their schedules arrived, Harry and Luna talked about their expectations of them selfs for the year.

As the first class was electives it was all the four houses in every class, except the one Harry went to, as non of the other Slytherin would go to Divination, nor would most of the Ravenclaws.

So while most hard working students would curse their past selfs about their choise to take Divination, Harry would never do it, why? Because he knows in fifth year he would have the chance to learns from one of the few Divination's masters alive, and certainly the only one who is willing to teach Humans, Firenze- as by the end of fifth year he was sure to reach the third transformation of magical energy, he was willing to use the lesson in the next two years to learn his muggle subjects and see if he can find Scientific explanation to the future seeing miracles.

For the next two hours, while listening to the professor predicting deaths and explaining all wrong how the shapes of the tea leaves show the future, Harry was reading his books on quantum physics, while wondering to himself how did the knowledge about interpreting the future from man made objects, a skill that is basic in the divination studies that Anastasia said is the first skill you need to learn after reaching the necessary requirements, was twisted to such extent.

There are three levels in divination according to the knowledge he found so far.

The first is interpreting the future from man made objects, in this state you cannot watch your own future, nor can you know the world's future, but predicting a person's future? Possible. At the point you managed to succeed in that you are considered as a devinist.

The second level is predicting the state of the world, from the clouds, stars, trees and rocks, by predicting the future from nature you are able to foresee the trans of the world. When you are at that stage, you can consider yourself a divination master. It is also the state in which the ability is being able to be passed to your descendants with small or big rituals, so they can do minor predictions based on objects and stars.

The third level, which Harry couldn't understand the meaning of, is abandoning the nature and objects, to interpret your magic and let magic interpret you, creating unshakable prophecies, at this point you are called a prophet or oracle, and it is a point in which Divination magic becomes part of yourself, and even without any ritual your descendants will inherit this power.

The problem is that in both the rituals and the magical inheritance of prophets/oracles, you only have 50% chance to inherit the ability, which make it interesting to see if the reason why it was possible all the Centaurs has the ability is that both their parents have the sight.

Anyhow, as soon as the lesson was finished, Harry left the class and went to the ROR, where he traveled two hours backward and did his magical control and energy exhaustion training for an hour before working on his new computer program for another before having His second meal, which Dobby brought, and going to his second class - herbiology.

traveling in time two hours after that lesson, learning more about runes and healing spells before having his third meal, this time in the grand hall with Luna.

And finally came the legendary first care of magical creatures lesson, the lesson in which Malfoy get scratched, the lesson that will make Hagrid lose his confidence, and Harry was planing on changing it.

Not because he cared about Malfoy, nor about Hagrid. Hell, he didn't even care about Buckbick the hippogriff.

No, what he cared about was the teaching of the half-giant not becoming shitty, as he won't let Luna's favorite subject be destroyed by an idiotic blond Slytherin, and the self-doubt of of a professor, more then Hogwarts's own headmaster did by hiring Hagrid as the teacher instead of someone who truly understand the subject- someone like Newt Scamander.

Seriously, if you are friends with the number one authority in the world on the subject of magical creatures, one who published the basic book people learn from about the subject, why would you hire someone whose only expertise is the magical creatures of the forbidden forest? Even if the number one authority doesn't want to teach, he must know more qualified people than someone who two years prior locked a Cerberus in a room for a year!

There are only four options as to why do it.

1) After seeing how magical creatures helped defeat Grindelwald, Dumbledore is truly afraid of people having this kind of knowledge. So by making someone who is incompetent in teaching, teach it. He makes people uninterested.

2) Newt Scamander is dead and Dumbledore doesn't know about any other competent expert on the subject who is willing to teach it.

3) Dumbledore is a fool who sees only the best in people.

4) The subject isn't one Dumbledore place much importance on, and letting Hagrid teach it gives Dumbledore a loyal man who is willing to die for him, no matter what.

And as much as Harry would have liked it to be the third, or even the second, he wasn't native. As the most famous wizard alive, the one who finished the grand war, who led the resistance against the death eaters, and the teacher and headmaster of more the three generations, he can't be a fool, nor can he be unknowing if anyone who is capable and willing to teach.

And if he had to choose between believing the first speculation and the forth, Harry was gravitating to the latter one, which means, if its true, that Dumbledore is the greatest chess pieces creator in the game of world domination, as while Grindelwald might have been stronger, while Voldemort pushed the boundaries of morality farther, and while Harry could become much better wizard, Dumbledore will always be the person who can convince people is willing to die for.

Not that Harry wanted people to die for him, it is just that having someone like that as an opponent is extremely scary.

With those morbid thoughts, Harry finally started listening to the lesson.