Harry Potter Fans discussion

A discussion on Professor Trelawney herself and her predictions. Do you think all her predictions were ultimately correct?
There has been a theory, which JK Rowling herself confirmed, that Ron has a secret divination talent and that his predictions that he makes in the lessons and in his homework have a lot more merit than he realises. Which of his predictions do you notice now which turned out to be accurate?
Why do you think Divination was the one type of magic that Hermione didn't like/take seriously?

Well, the reason Hermione disliked it was because you coulden't improve by reading books (as Trelawney herself stated), and it was so fuzzy. And no, I still think it's a load of rubbish. For example, Harry never actually sees anything in the crystal balls except, as he so cleverly stated, 'there's going to be a load of fog tonight.' The rest were made up quite shamlessly. Another case in point: Although Trelawnley's speculations that Harry would die eventually came true, Professor Mcgonagall said that she predicted a student would die every year and so far none had yet. So yeah.

Musicbox wrote: "Well, the reason Hermione disliked it was because you coulden't improve by reading books (as Trelawney herself stated), and it was so fuzzy. And no, I still think it's a load of rubbish. For exampl..."

You'd probably find she was predicting their death of old age in 80 years time or something, knowing her.

Masi wrote: "I think Hermione doesn't like Divination and the author is trying to brain wash kids into thinking natural ways are bad. Using the moons and stars is where we came from so of course they must deter..."

Okaay.... though I think 'brainwash' isn't the word I would use....