"Divination?"

Old Tom's pale eyebrows twitched, and he looked at Townsend again.

"It's the first time I've seen a soothsayer, I mean, of course I've seen Trelawney, but she's clearly not a soothsayer."

Old Tom thoughtfully explained: "Trelawney is the professor of divination at Hogwarts, she is the great-great-granddaughter of the Prophet Kassandra Trelawney, and it is clear that she has not inherited any prophetic talents, but is just a liar who relies on the shadow of her ancestors. ”

Tang Sen nodded lightly and motioned for the other party to continue.

"I'll admit that Trelawney mistakenly got some prophecies right, the most famous of which is about the boy who never dies. But everyone who saw her with their own eyes knew that everything about her was a lie, that she was an alcoholic, that she was a liar, that she had deceived Dumbledore's sympathy. ”

Old Tom emphasized, "If there's one good thing Umbridge did at Hogwarts, it's that Trelawney was investigated and kept on duty." ”

"I've heard that the Ministry of Magic is ready to approve her dismissal.

Tang Sen's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Expulsion?"

He didn't have much impression of such a detailed plot.

"Of course, it shouldn't be a few days, and it's kind enough to let her spend Christmas at Hogwarts, isn't it?" Old Tom said as a matter of course.

"What about the divination course?" Townsend asked.

"Of course Dumbledore will choose the next one." Old Tom paused, lowered his voice, and muttered, "It is also possible that the Ministry of Magic has assigned Umbridge to Hogwarts in this way if the Headmaster cannot provide a suitable candidate for a particular teaching position, according to the so-called Education Decree No. 22." ”

"It looks like I did pick a not-so-good time." Townsend said regretfully.

Old Tom spread his hands: "Even if Trelawney is not expelled, I am afraid that you will not have much to communicate with her, she will only go crazy and say that you will definitely die." ”

Speaking of this, he burst out laughing: "If this is the kind of prophecy, I'm afraid I can also be a soothsayer, after all, everyone will die." ”

Tang Sen smiled and shook his head: "I can't judge Professor Trelawney in your mouth, after all, I have never met her, but as a true soothsayer, I must clarify one point. ”

"A soothsayer is a profession that can be self-proven."

He made a joke: "But no one ever said I was a liar." ”

"You look like a decent gentleman." Old Tom said, "Forgive my offense, I'm really not interested in divination or prophecy, I don't bother to wait years for a fish and potato pie to confirm a prophecy about you, please dine guests." ”

The color and shape of the pie were a little suspicious, but it smelled good, and after flying on the dragon for most of the day, Townsend was indeed hungry, but he did not intend to stop the topic, but said seriously: "Why do you think that it takes years to confirm a prophecy? ”

"Mr. Tom, you obviously have a stereotype of divination, that soothsayers will say something god-like, and then wait for one of them to hit the luck that happens. No, Mr. Tom, it's not divination. ”

Townsend affirmed: "Divination can be precise and definite, can divination any little thing in daily life, Mr. Tom, want to do a divination?" ”

"If you don't charge." Old Tom shrugged his shoulders: "Idle is idle anyway." ”

He thought for a moment and said, "If you can tell if the next person to enter the Leaky Cauldron is a witch or a witch, I'll treat you to a glass of the best Scotch whisky." ”

Townsend smiled, and he could tell that the owner of the Leaky Cauldron was obviously not taking this seriously, but was just taking it as a little trick.

After all, this kind of guess with half and half probability, even if you guess correctly, it may be luck.

He didn't poke the other party, but took out a gold galleon, and said: "This is a very simple divination method, if the coin falls, if it is heads, then it will be a witch who comes in, and if it is tails, then it will be a witch who comes in." ”

"Interesting method of divination." Old Tom laughed, "I thought you needed to see the distribution of the foam on the top of the glass, or look at the palmistry. That's what Trelawney did. ”

"That's another method of divination, it's not that intuitive, is it?" Tang Sen smiled, silently recited it in his mind seven times, and threw out the gold coin.

In order to show that he was not operating in the dark, Townsend did not catch the gold coin with his hand, but let it fall on the bar, and the gold coin rolled and rotated on the bar, and finally got stuck in the gap above the bar, standing there.

"Oh, that's kind of embarrassing." Old Tom said: "Maybe you're divining a witch or vice versa, well, this joke isn't funny, don't worry, I don't question your divination ability, it's just that there is always a chance that divination fails, isn't it?" ”

"My divination will not fail." Townsend smiled, not angry at the joke, but explained, "Obviously, the results of the divination show that the next person to enter the Leaky Cauldron Bar is a possibility other than the wizard and the witch. ”

"What could that be? Muggles can't get into the Leaky Cauldron. Old Tom said, "I just reinforced the Confusion Charm today—"

Before he could finish his sentence, the door of the Leaky Cauldron was pushed open, not the door to London, to be exact, but the back door, the door that led to Diagon Alley.

Old Tom's eyes were immediately drawn to the door, and suddenly something flew in through the door, hovering in the narrow space of the bar, and his flustered wings swept over several kerosene lamps.

It's an owl.

"Faint!"

There was a chanting sound from behind the door, and a flash of light flashed, and the owl fell to the ground.

Then, a very small wizard walked in, he looked at the people in the bar, and said apologetically: "Sorry, it obviously hasn't adapted to the environment outside the cage, I just bought him in Diagon Alley." ”

With that, he waved his wand again and uttered the incantation:

"Fix it as new!"

The shards of kerosene lamps on the ground and the disrupted decorations seemed to go back in time, and soon returned to the way they were before the owls wreaked havoc.

After all this, the wizard picked up his owl and walked to the bar: "Old Tom, old way." ”

Old Tom ignored him, but looked at Townsend in a daze, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"Hey." The wizard jumped up dissatisfied, stood on the stool at the bar, and patted the countertop: "Your expression looks like you see a dragon appear in the bar!" ”

Old Tom just woke up from a dream.

"Owls? An owl? He muttered, "Neither a witch nor a witch, so your divination has been confirmed, Merlin's beard—"

"Hey!" The wizard had to remind Old Tom again, "Doesn't anyone want to serve me a butterbeer?" ”

"Oh, Professor Flitwick." Old Tom finally noticed the guest, and instinctively greeted, "Old friend, shouldn't you stay at Hogwarts on a day like today?" ”

"You've finally noticed me, I almost thought I had been cast a disillusionment spell." The little wizard named Professor Flitwick huffed and said, "I prepared a bunch of presents, only to find that my owl was missing, it must be those mischievous Gryffindors. Anyway, I'll have to come to Diagon Alley to buy another owl, or you won't get my gift tomorrow. ”

He stroked the owl in his arms and glanced at Townsend on the side: "Huh? An Oriental? ”

"Fortune teller!" Old Tom raised his voice and emphasized, "This is a real soothsayer!" ”

He couldn't wait to tell what had just happened.

Finally, he concluded: "I can be sure that Don and Trelawney are completely different, and as he just said, no one will take him for a madman." ”

"Professor Trelawney is my colleague, Old Tom." Professor Flitwick cautioned: "Maybe we could use something milder. ”

Apparently unwilling to comment on Trelawney, he looked at Townsend and said, "I have never studied divination, but I have certainly not heard that divination can be used for such a thing. I thought that soothsayers often made it their mission to predict future events."

"Divination is precise and deterministic, and of course it can be used to divinate the little things of daily life!" Old Tom grabbed the conversation: "If you can't even predict the little things of everyday life, how can you believe the big events that he predicts?" Uh, I'm not insinuating anyone. ”

Seeing Professor Flitwick reminding him with a gesture again, he gave up his intention to complain about Trelawney again, and said, "Don, I haven't introduced you yet, this is Professor Flitwick from Hogwarts, he is the head of Ravenclaw House, and he is also in charge of teaching Charms class. ”

Tang Sen finally interjected and said with a smile: "Many people have misunderstandings about divination, thinking that divination is illusory and incomprehensible. ”

"I hope to change this perception, I think that divination is a practical science, and predicting the future is not such an unattainable thing."

Professor Flitwick looked surprised, and he said, "Your idea is groundbreaking. ”

"Magic needs to be pioneering, and that's what Hogwarts is all about, and in ancient times, many people, even some with wizarding blood, thought that learning magic was a dangerous and uncontrollable thing, and they felt that magic was ethereal and incomprehensible."

"This has also led to a lot of tragedies that have been caused by silence."

"But through generations of wizards, today's spells are safe and useful."

"I'm looking forward to you being able to do the same thing in divination, even if it's just the first step."

Townsend nodded and said, "This is exactly the purpose of my coming to England, I want to visit Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to exchange and learn English divination." ”

"Dumbledore would welcome scholars like you." Flitwick paused, revealing a complicated look: "It's a pity that the timing of your arrival is not good, don't worry about some things that have happened at Hogwarts recently, things will be resolved, but you may need to wait for a while. Maybe by the second half of the year. ”

"It's a pity." Tang Sen showed a disappointed expression: "Is it because of the senior investigator?" I heard from Mr. Tom that the professor of the divination class was even being fired. ”

"It's just something to catch the wind." Flitwick glared at Old Tom and said, "Dumbledore will take care of these things." ”

"Okay." Townsend nodded, with a thoughtful expression: "Actually, I'm wondering if Hogwarts is still hiring. ”

"I mean, a new divination professor?"

I saw the feedback of many book friends, saying that this volume is a bit watery.

Ahem, of course, this is due to the fact that I have been less frequent lately, but the more important reason is that I have slowed down the pace.

Harry Potter is something I really like, so I hope that the process of writing this volume will not be a fast-paced main line about how the protagonist completes the procurement, but also spend some pen and ink to describe the world, to flesh out some details about the world, such as magic, such as Hogwarts.

It's not like the first three copies, which only focus on the portrayal of the protagonist and a specific character, and will dedicate some energy to make the other characters less flat and face-painted.

Of course, the core of this volume will not change, and Townsend will always be able to use money and various manipulations to achieve his own goals and become the rightful Dark Lord~

(End of chapter)