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Unfogging the Future is a divination book by Cassandra Vablatsky. It is a schoolbook every Divination student has to bring to Hogwarts in their third-year.[1] It appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

About[]

The book is a basic guide to fortune-telling including palmistry, crystal balls and bird entails. It is a thick, black-bound book sold at Flourish and Blotts.[1]

Pages 5 and 6 has guidance for interpreting tea leaves[2]:

  • Acorn - "windfall, unexpected gold"
  • Club - "an attack"
  • Cross - "trials and suffering"
  • Falcon - "a deadly enemy"
  • The Grim - "death"
  • Skull - "danger in your path"
  • Sun - "great happiness"

History[]

In April 1994, Hermione Granger angrily stuffed Unfogging the Future into her bag when she and her Professor had an argument in Divination and she gave it up for good.[3] In June, Neville Longbottom used the book to prepare for the third-year examination.[4]

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