Rules of Divination

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> My thought is that there may be various media for "seeing", but 
there 
> also ought to be an innate talent for it.  I would think that if a 
> wizard has that talent, it might show itself in spurts before the 
> wizard has formal training.

Hmm.  I was going to say that the spurts of innate talent should also 
show up only within those "mediums", shouldn't they?--but then I 
thought about Hagrid's comment in PS/SS about whether Harry had ever 
made anything happen he couldn't explain, as though this is normal 
for wizard children.

The pre-trained wizard children seem to make things happen without any 
"medium" (unless you count emotions) and it's largely unfocused and 
partly subconcious.  The trained wizards always seem to have some kind 
of medium to focus their magic, though, like wands or incantations.

So I suppose Divination could be similar--potential is shown without 
necessarilly any medium, but is only developed by using some 
medium--but I'm still not 100% sold.  Especially since everytime 
Trelawney tells a student that they have Seer potential it is after 
they have been using some medium or other.

At least that explains why many people consider these little intuitive 
comments proof, though.  Thanks.

Any more thoughts, anybody?

-Luke