Professor, I Want to Learn This!

The curiosity in Harry's eyes sank in an instant. After the initial rush came an even more extreme sense of disappointment.

Just like all those strange people and bizarre tales connected to divination throughout history, they never gave the entire prophecy outright. Obscuring things with half-truths and vague riddles was what they liked best. After all, if they spoke vaguely and happened to get it right, they could claim their divination was incredible—for example, "A friend with a two-character name will betray you."

There were countless friends with two-character names: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Youda... all of them had two-character names. Of course, if surnames were included...

"A friend with a four-character name will betray you."

There was no playing this game!

In Harry's eyes, Professor Trelawney was exactly this sort of absurd divination fraud. Perhaps Dumbledore was getting old and had been fooled by someone like her, even giving her a professor's position.

But Harry had fought his way out of the Dursley Household through countless verbal battles. Ever since leaving the Dursley Household, everywhere else had felt like a beginner's village. How could he possibly be fooled by a divination fraud?

As for Lupin beside him, who knew what was going on with him? Maybe he was getting old and becoming superstitious. Kane, meanwhile, was simply young and inexperienced. So when it came to this...

Before Harry could finish his thought, Dumbledore seemed to remember something. "Oh, Harry, weren't you curious about who gave you the broom? Perhaps Professor Trelawney could try divining it?"

Unlike Kane and Lupin, who did not know Professor Trelawney at all, Hagrid stared at Dumbledore in utter bewilderment. Though he had not been a professor before, he was still staff and had been Professor Trelawney's colleague for quite some time.

So they were