What does "genuine prediction" mean? (imported)

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" 
<foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Firenze said that "trivial hurts, tiny human accidents" are of no 
> > more significance to the wide universe than the scurryings of 
> > ants. (I guess he's not into chaos theory.) He says that the 
skies 
> > foretell only "great tides of evil or change." 
> 
> He's a centaur -- I am not convinced that he's right. Maybe only 
> humans can read human information in the stars. Or if the 
stars, so  vast and distant, only indicate vast events, that doesn't 
mean that  tea leaves, so close and trivial, don't foretell close 
and trivial  events.<<

What Firenze teaches must be the generally accepted precepts 
of divination in the WW, or Umbridge would have had him out on 
his ear. Since even Hermione has stopped saying divination is 
useless, I think we are supposed to accept what Firenze has to 
say.

Pippin