Did you notice 'these details' about Hermione in HARRY POTTER??

Did you notice "these details" about HERMIONE in HARRY POTTER??

[tessaritter]

Hermione believed everything she could learn from books.

[Joe-ikph]

It always surprises me how closed minded Hermione can be considering she grew up in the muggle world.

[gormold]

More specifically she thought that Professor Trelawney couldn’t see the future.

[thebluestig]

Did you notice how you never looked up what Arithmancy is? It's one of Hermione's classes, and it's *_just another form of Divination_* using NUMBERS as the predictors. She believes in statistical probabilities, not crystal gazing or tea leaf reading.

[brandonreed]

I think it was a bias she had because she wasn't gifted at it herself. She gets very defensive and hostile when someone is better in classes than her. Just look at how she was with Harry during the Half Blood Prince. I was surprised she didn't just light that book on fire, given how mad she was at Harry besting her in potions.

[callyjblack]

Hermione believes in statistical probabilities (Arithmancy). Also, she refuses any magic that has to do with emotion. Broom-riding requires an emotional connection with the broom, and Divination requires guessing, is up to interpretation, and you require the Inner Eye. She kept a person in a jar for a year so I'm not surprised.

Also, Hermione believes in evidence. Accidental magic is common for kids, so Hermione would've had her evidence there. However, everyone believes Trelawney was a fraud, and she'd never made any true predictions (according to Hermione).

[doglover]

Tbf no one really believed Trelawney was real, she has only made 2, 3 including dumbledores death at the astronomy tower, predictions that we know of at least, so was everyone really surprised hermione didn’t believe her?

[pineapple]

I think Hermione is the kind of character who only believes something is real if she sees/has evidence of its existence. For example as a muggleborn witch, she would’ve experienced accidental magic, so it wouldn’t have been too far fetched that she wasn’t the only one with that ability. Seeing into the future can’t be proved in the moment.

[anthonycory]

It's not that Hermione didn't believe that anyone could predict the future she had a lot of respect for the centaurs who are very capable of predicting the future

It was the fact that she thought professor trelawny, specifically was a crack

[lornadune]

Well divination is sort of like English/writing class irl, there's no hard and fast correct answer, a lot of it is up to interpretation. Hermione is more of an analytical person who wants to find the right answer, something that can be proven. Seeing magical creatures is a hard fact, believing Harry when he's hearing voices is trusting in her friend because she knows he wouldn't lie about that.
Most of the students in the class, I feel, were just in it for an easy elective, iirc Ron and Harry bullshitted a lot of their answers. But Hermione was probably very stressed that year because of all her extra classes she was taking, so she got fed up wasting her time with a "useless" class

[Snowfangandco]

And this is why she’s a gryffindor. Some people think she should’ve been a ravenclaw but she doesn’t think outside the box.

[asukach.]

To be fair, unlike most of these things, the future is an abstract unseeable concept.

[TachyonKing]

I think its more to do with the idea that its not really a class you can be *taught*- she thought Trelawney was a bit of a fraud using the same dirty tricks that ‘mystics’ use in the real world. The joke is that Trelawney is actually able to see the future but she’s totally oblivious when it happens. Its implied by Dumbledore and McGonagall that Divination is not taken that seriously as a legitimate, teachable magical discipline by most sensible wizards, but some people are born as genuine seers who can produce prophecies, which are collected and kept in the Department of Mysteries.

It would be a bit like teaching a class how to be a Metamorphagus (as in, transforming at will rather than using spells) its pointless to teach because only a handful of wizards are born as Metamorphagi.

[toudal]

When confronted by Ron and harry about this exact thing Hermione retorts that McGonagall herself says that divination is among the least precise practices in magic. I don’t remember word for word exactly what was said though.

[knobletosyt]

I’d assume many powerful magical figures also thought divination a dodgy subject. Like mcgonagal when she says she thinks it’s a load of nonsense

[BobJackJillZorroKoshekZuko]

Trelawney explains to her that since she didn’t have the ‘sight’ she can’t actually succeed in her class, saying she ‘desperately clings to her dusty books’. If a teacher said that to me, yeah I wouldn’t want to take her class either

[arhamjain]

Well I think her hatred of divination was more of a Sour Grapes thing. She was so used to being perfect that she couldn't accept her failure in divination.

[Alovatololo]

She also trusted in Lockhart so she's a mixed bag really when it comes to common sense. Sometimes with her it felt like Rowling was struggling where to place her sensibilities.

[ories]

Maybe it's because all of the stuff taught in the class is atleast similar or exactly the same as stuff that is used in the muggle world, like fortune tellers and palm readers, she doesn't believe in that, there for she doesn't believe in this.

[JTAGames]

In her defense almost no one in the wizarding world took divination seriously. It was about as accurate as weather predictions when it claimed to be as accurate as telling what time It be in 5 minutes.