Head line

"Even by Harry's low standards in Divination, the exam went very badly. He might as well have tried to see moving pictures on the desktop as in the stubbornly blank crystal ball; he lost his head completely during tea-leaf reading, saying it looked to him as though Professor Marchbanks would shortly be meeting a round, dark, soggy stranger, and rounded off the whole fiasco by mixing up the life and head lines on her palm and informing her that she ought to have died the previous Tuesday."

- Description.

The head line is a particular crease on the palm of a person's hand that serves as a Palmistry concept — this line is interpreted to represent the person's mind and the way it works, including learning style, communication style, intellectualism, and preference for creative or analytical approaches to information.

When Harry Potter sat his Divination O.W.L. exam in 1996, he mixed up this line and the life line, and told Professor Griselda Marchbanks, the examiner, that she ought to have died the previous Tuesday.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix