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]
Notes and sources[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 4
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 6
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 15
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 16