> The thing that gets me about the Potter books I've read is that Rowling doesn't always think about the real consequences of the funny things that happen.
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> Case in point: In the third Harry Potter book, we meet the witch who teaches Divination at Hogwarts. She's your typical 'psychic' who squints into a teacup or crystal ball and makes vague pronouncements that could mean anything. She hasn't a clue about real divination, wouldn't know a genuine vision if it walked up and bit her on the nose (and proves this last point not once but twice in the course of the book).

> Okay, it's kind of funny, but it also means that the cream of the next generation of wizardry is being taught totally bogus ideas about what divination is and how it works.

> And the headmaster knows this, and is allowing it to happen.

Sounds like she's got tenure.

-Faux "has seen this before" Pas