Chapter 330
An ominous sign
Chapter 330 An ominous sign
Wade looked around and found the name "Sybill Trelawney" in the corner.
The professor stood in the shadows where the light could not reach, and her whole body was covered with complicated and strange jewelry, which made her perfectly invisible in this messy room.
She wore a pair of large glasses with bulging eyeballs, and she had an obvious mysterious aura about her.
Vader suddenly felt that she was somewhat similar to Luna - not in appearance, but in the feeling of living in another world.
The students who didn't see the professor didn't sit down hastily. They looked around in surprise. Ron asked, "Where is she?"
"Welcome." A disembodied voice came, "It's great to finally see you in the physical world."
Trelawney came staggering out, the tulle shawl gleaming on her shoulders and the bracelets on her arms jingling as they clashed.
Vader had an indescribable expression.
Trelawney was obviously putting on airs, trying to intimidate these students who were taking their first divination class by portraying themselves as mysterious, powerful, and able to communicate with the gods.
But in fact, the way she stood in the dark and observed the students was exactly how she wanted to be. When she pretended, she looked vulgar and shallow.
Trelawney asked the students to sit down, straightened her shawl, sat in an armchair, and continued to boast -
"...the overly busy school life has made my third eye blurry..."
"This is the most difficult course in all the magical arts... If you do not have 'sight', then there is little I can teach you..."
"… Only a few people have the talent to see through the fog and into the future…"
Trelawney raised her chin slightly, indicating that she was one of the very few talented people, but her eyes were just fixed on a certain point in the air in front of her, not looking at anyone.
It has to be said that the naive students were almost all fooled. Vader saw Padma not far away looking at the professor with a critical eye, but as time went on, her expression became more and more convinced.
Wade flipped through his divination textbook boredly.
The cover of the book features a sun, a giant eye and a woman's back, and the author is Cassandra Vabrsky.
The main text also briefly introduces this famous prophet in the magic world - she was once a beautiful princess who received the Eye of Divine Vision from the sun god Apollo, which enabled her to see what would happen in the future.
But sadly, she offended Apollo and was cursed by the gods, cursing that no one would believe her words.
Cassandra saw the fate of her country and the death of her family and herself, but no one believed her.
When she was alive, people thought she was a lunatic; after she died, her predictions were verified one by one, and she was called the greatest prophet of all time.
Professor Trelawney was a descendant of this person, and strangely, she was pretentious among her students but did not mention her legendary bloodline.
Wade knew that although Trelawney always seemed to be pretending, she was actually a real prophet.
The prophecy she made once prompted Voldemort to hunt down Harry personally and affected the direction of the entire world - although she herself did not know it.
Just like what she said just now, "prophecy" is an innate talent that flows in her blood. It will inadvertently tear off the mask of peace and reveal the cruel and hideous face of fate.
Students without talent can only compare the contents of the textbooks and talk nonsense while looking at the tea leaves.
Trelawney predicted that around Easter, someone would leave everyone forever, and then she started pouring tea from the teapot as if what she said was nothing special.
Although Wade thought this matter was meaningless, he still took a teacup from the shelf and asked Professor Trelawney to pour a cup of hot tea. Sitting next to Wade was Neville, who accidentally broke a teacup and had to take the second one with a red face, and carefully returned to his seat with both hands as if he was holding a bomb.
The tea was boiling hot, and the students blew on it while drinking it. After finally finishing it, they shook it three times, turned it over and placed it on the teacup holder.
While waiting for the tea to flow out, Neville nervously opened the textbook. The yellowed pages were painted with simple strokes of various shapes of tea leaves, and the interpretations of different forms were written next to them.
Wade regarded him as Zhou Gong's interpretation of dreams. Although he didn't believe it, it was quite interesting to read it.
Soon the tea was gone, Wade opened the cup, glanced at it casually, and his expression paused slightly.
No matter how you look at it, the shape of tea leaves resembles a flying bat with its wings spread.
In textbooks, bats, like black dogs, are symbols of death, and bats are also associated with evil, vampires, etc.
Neville didn't pay attention to this side. The broken cup made him a little too nervous. He stared at his teacup and said:
"Ved, why are you already open? Uh... is my tea almost gone? Is it almost done?"
Neville looked up uncertainly, trying to see how others were doing it.
The moment he looked up, Wade also picked up the teacup and rubbed the edge of the cup lightly against the bottom of the cup holder.
"Students who have completed the course, please show your teacup to your companions for interpretation." Professor Trelawney said, "I will guide and help you. Of course, students without talent can give up early. I said that talent is the most important thing..."
Vader and Neville exchanged teacups.
"Uh, this..."
Neville flipped through the book, trying to interpret it: "Your tea leaves look like an umbrella... maybe it means it will rain tomorrow, and you should take an umbrella with you... but I know you don't need it, all you need is a wand..."
He turned the cup around.
"From this side, it looks a bit like a boat. Maybe you're going to go boating on the Black Lake, Wade... Of course, it could also mean that you're going on a long journey... Um, with an umbrella..."
Wade also gently shook Neville's tea leaves -
"It's a bit like a rabbit with its claws bared... yes, it means something good will happen to you; or like a big cabbage..."
As Wade was speaking, he suddenly felt as if his vision was blurry.
Neville waited a few seconds and asked, "Are you hungry, Vader?"
"No." Wade calmed down and said, "Uh... cabbage... symbolizes a good harvest..."
He casually read the words in the book, but there was an idea lingering in his mind -
In the previous moment, he felt that the shape of the tea leaves resembled a goat's head, and this idea became deeply rooted, the more he looked at it, the more it resembled a goat's head.
A goat's head, like a bat's, is not a good sign.
——But it’s just a few leftover tea leaves. It’s ridiculous to say that they can reveal a person’s destiny.
Wade thought so and casually mentioned some good signs, which made Neville very happy.
On the other side of the classroom, Professor Trelawney was staring at Harry and said loudly and sadly:
"An omen—the worst of all—an omen of death!"
(End of this chapter)