Trelawney's first class is a shock for the dreamer girls like Parvati and Lavender.

"Divination is what?, anyone?"

'err, seeing the future?"

"No, anyone else?"

"reading fortunes?

"No, but we will discuss that, Anyone else?"

Harry; "finding out the details of any object, place, thing or person"

"Is that a question or a statement?"

"It is a statement, Professor"

"Good, 5 points Mr Potter"

Divination is the art of seeing and logging useful information from unseen attributes, so, in a way, Miss Brown was correct, one can tell a person's fortune, up to a point..if a person eats horribly, doesn't exercise, and abuses potions, or tickles dragons, well their future is likely short, and therin one can discern their 'fortune, which is actually just common sense, cause and effect. What we are going to learn in this class is HOW to look at anything and find out it's secrets, using magical, visual and or muggle scientific method "..and before you protest Mr Malfoy this is a required course for those on the auror training course, it is NOT as some assume, an 'Easy O'. Now open your copies of 'Unfogging theFuture' by Gil Grissom to page 17."