Tessomancy

The Grim in Harry Potter's cup.

"Well, Harry's got a wonky sort of cross -- that's trials and suffering. But this here could be the sun -- that's happiness. So... you're going to suffer but you're going to be happy about it."

— Ron Weasley reading Harry Potter's tea leaves

Tessomancy is the art of reading tea leaves to predict events in the future. Tessomancy is taught as part of the Divination course at Hogwarts.

Known Readings

In Harry Potter's third year, during one of his Divination lessons, Professor Trelawney read the tea leaves in Harry's cup and saw four things: the falcon, a deadly enemy; The club, an attack; The skull, danger in your path and the Grim, a spectral dog which is an omen of death.

Tea leaf symbols

From Unfogging the Future, pages five and six:

• Acorn - "windfall, unexpected gold"
• Club - "an attack"
• Cross - "trials and suffering"
• Falcon - "a deadly enemy"
• The Grim - "death"
• Skull - "danger in your path"
• Sun - "great happiness"

Etymology

The terms "Tessomancy", "Tasseomancy" and "tassology" derive from the French word for teacup; "tasse", and the Greek suffixes, "-graph", "-logy", and "-mancy".

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (GBA version only)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)

External links

Tessomancy (Tasseography) on Wikipedia

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