(Aside): Hogwarts curriculum

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No: HPFGUIDX 112263

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> 
> (Just for fun, some of the more unusual ones are:
> 
> Name                Divination by...  
> Rhapsodomancy       Picking a passage of poetry at random
> Podomancy           Signs derived from inspection of the feet
> Xenomancy           Studying the first stranger that appears
> Omphalomancy        The navel
> Dririmancy          Dripping blood
> Cromnyomancy        Onions (?!)
> Coscinomancy        The turning of a sieve held on a pair of 
>                     shears (whatever that's supposed to mean...)
> Ailuromancy         The way a cat jumps
> Aichomancy          Sharply pointed objects
> And my personal favourite (which _is_ in my Chambers English 
> Dictionary):
> Tyromancy           Watching cheese coagulate)


And, of course, strictly speaking necromancy is prophecying by 
summoning the dead.

Which is what Harry will be performing if he glues that magic 
mirror together.

Kneasy