Hermione's Rude Comment

[Trish]

No: HPFGUIDX 74690

Could her comment have more to do with her dislike of things 
proclaiming to see the future? It seems that JKR is going a little 
out of her way to show Hermione as having no respect for Divination 
in general. Could it be her insistence to find everything in a book? 
Does she believe that the future can not be prophesized? Did she hear 
a prophesy that she does not want to believe or is afraid to believe? 
Does her muggle background make her believe that you must find 
answers not from fortune tellers? Why is she so accepting of other 
forms of magic, if fact every other form accept this one? Can you 
link this to her insistence that everything Luna talks about is not 
FACT but FABLE? She really has no patience for that either, does she? 
I honestly think that there is less to the racism theory and more to 
the idea that she has no patience for this type of magic. It could be 
read, I guess that she has no patience for Lavender and Parvati but I 
always read it this way. I would also like to know ......why?

Trish. Who is trying to get the hang of this whilst the two little 
ones pull on her shirt.