Interesting points. I like how you pointed out that the desired outcome between Muggle fortune telling and Divination are different--we're looking for advice, wizards are looking for portents. But with the way Divination was handled in the books, it still seemed like they were just making educated guesses based on the patterns in the tea leaves or whatever else they were doing, things that I think Muggles would find easy to try and do.
Do you think having magical abilities makes it easier, then, for wizards to look at the same clump of tea leaves and see more easily what future it paints, where Muggles would look at it and try to bend the future to what they want it to be?
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Date: 2011-12-18 02:23 pm (UTC)Do you think having magical abilities makes it easier, then, for wizards to look at the same clump of tea leaves and see more easily what future it paints, where Muggles would look at it and try to bend the future to what they want it to be?
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