[HPforGrownups] Divination

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 189541

Quoting wildirishrose <wildirishrose at fiber.net>:

> Was divination a class that every student has to take?  Or perhaps   
> an optional class.
>
> Since Hermione left the class it seems nobody tried to get her to   
> return.  Or maybe because she was traveling between time zones   
> Professor McGonagall doesn't push the matter.
>
> Ron and Harry don't want to be there.  Couldn't they go to Professor  
>  McGonagall and ask for a different class?
>
> If I had my choice of divination as an optional class, it wouldn't   
> have been my choice.
>
> When finals came around, and Hermione was so overworked trying to   
> study for all the classes, why didn't she jump back and forth   
> between time zones to do her studying.  How could she take all those  
>  exams?  Would she use the time turner?

Divination was pretty clearly optional; I don't remember Malfoy & Co.  
there.  Hermione only took it because she wanted to take _everything,_  
and they had bent the rules very severely to allow her to do so.

Ron and Harry had to take a certain number of electives, and I think  
Ron chose Divination because he saw it as a soft option, and Harry  
signed up for everything Ron did.  If they had dropped Divination or  
asked for something different, they might have wound up somewhere  
where they *oh, horrors!* had to _study_ and _learn something._

I wouldn't have taken it either, but I'd have probably gone with  
Ancient Runes.

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