Seers, was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Does Ron the Seer needglasses?

[Jake Storm]

No: HPFGUIDX 37368

>From: Katze <jdumas at kingwoodcable.com>
>The thing I find interesting is that she
>criticizes Trelawney and her class, but when Hermione leaves, she
>doesn't leave Divination altogether. She just switches the type of
>Divination to Arithmancy. Isn't that prediction using numbers? I think
>Hermione will end up being quite spectacular in that subject. Should we
>be watching Hermione instead of Ron and/or Harry?

I don't think I'm alone in thinking that Arithmancy is, in JKR's world, just 
the magic of numbers, and not, as in our own world, divination by way of 
numerology. If that were the case, then I'd think that Hermione was being 
not just foolish, but downright ignorant, when she called Divination 'wooly' 
but still talked up Arithmancy.

I think JKR just liked that it sounded like 'arithmatic' and that it would, 
therefore, be a plausible subject in a wizarding school. If Arithmancy turns 
out to be numerology, I'll be sorely upset.

J

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