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- "A guide to all basic fortune-telling methods, including palmistry, crystal balls and bird entrails."
- —The advertisement at Flourish and Blotts[src]
Unfogging the Future is a book on divination, written by the celebrated Seer Cassandra Vablatsky and published by Rumiharts Books.[1] From at least 1993 onward, this book is a required textbook for students taking Divination Classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[2] A copy of this book costs two galleons at the Flourish and Blotts Bookshop in Diagon Alley.[3]
Description
It is a thick, black-bound book with a picture on the front cover depicting the full moon shrouded in fog.[3] There are at least five volumes[4]
Contents
Tea leaf symbols

Book as seen in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- An acorn represents a "windfall, unexpected gold".[5]
- The club represents "an attack".[5]
- A cross would mean "trials and suffering".[5]
- The falcon is symbolic of "a deadly enemy".[5]
- A five-leaf clover would be representative of "a horrible rash tomorrow morning, dear"[6]
- The Grim, a large dog, is a sure sign of "death".[5]
- A skull represents "danger in your path".[5]
- The sun is symbolic of "great happiness".[5]
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Pottermore
- The Art of Harry Potter Mini Book of Graphic Design
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Los Angeles Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Contemporary Set Exhibit Report from the Leaky Cauldron
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 4 (The Leaky Cauldron)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pottermore
- ↑ See this image
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 6 (Talons and Tea Leaves)
- ↑ Prisoner of Azkaban script at the Internet Movie Script Database (archived here via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
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Professors: Sybill Trelawney · Firenze | ||
Known Seers: Calchas · Cassandra Vablatsky · Cassandra Trelawney · Gellert Grindelwald · Inigo Imago · Johan Hoffman · Liz Tuttle's mother · Mopsus · Professor Mopsus · Susie Sooth · Tycho Dodonus · Unidentified Canadian Seer · Unidentified female Seer · Unidentified male Seer | ||
Textbooks: The Dream Oracle · Unfogging the Future | ||
Methods: Astrology · Bibliomancy · Cartomancy · Catoptromancy · Crystal-gazing · Crystal ball · Dream interpretation · Fire-omens · Heptomology · Ichthyomancy · Myomancy · Ornithomancy · Ovomancy · Palmistry · Scrying mirror · Tarot cards · Tessomancy · Xylomancy | ||
Divination at Hogwarts: Divination (class) · Divination Classroom · Divination staircase · Sybill Trelawney's office · Classroom 11 · Xylomancy (class) |