Divination is an elective, right?

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No: HPFGUIDX 43705

2nd year students get to choose some classes to be added to their 
3rd year schedules, Divination being one of those options. After an 
admittedly cursory search of the archives, I found no glaring 
reference to what I'm about to bring up. So here it goes.

How is it that at least 80% of Gryffindors in Harry's year end up in 
Divination? In PoA (US, hb, pp. 102-108) Harry, Ron, Dean, Neville, 
Seamus, Hermione, Lavender, and Parvati are mentioned. If this 
initial popularity is consistant throughout the other houses, I 
think that Trelawny's workload is almost as bad as Snape's appears 
to be.


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