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Chapter 198 Lies are also part of divination
"It's over so soon?"

Snape asked reflexively, "Who is this man?"

Townsend moved the crystal ball to one side of the table, leaned back slightly, leaned against the back of the chair, and said, "I have already said, Professor Snape, I am just a fortune-teller who has nothing to do with the world. "

"All I can do is to show you some fragments of the future. I'm not interested in knowing who this person is."

Snape frowned tightly, and said, "Is the Resurrection Stone really in this person's hands?"

Tang Sen spread his hands, "At least in the future I saw before, this person does have the resurrection stone. Of course, the day I saw was in the very distant future."

Snape was silent, his lips were drawn into a line, and he kept looking at the crystal ball on the table and Tang Sen in front of him.

Snape had already been tempted when the other party proposed the price of the resurrection stone at noon, but he restrained his impulse and went to Dumbledore immediately.

He remembered Dumbledore's uncharacteristically solemn words.

"Professor Tang obviously has abilities that are different from ordinary people. Although I still doubt that the miracles he accomplished in the open class are not based on pure divination ability, what is certain is that he can indeed see the future."

"He seems to be a friendly and well-behaved person. He is impeccable in terms of ability and conversation. I heard that Hagrid and Felius have a good impression of him, and even Minerva thinks At least he'll make a good divination professor."

"But I don't know why, but my heart is always instinctively uneasy. I know it's groundless and irresponsible to say so, Severus. Every time I see him, I will think of some wrong things I have done."

"I even thought about using Legilimency but the feeling of uneasiness got stronger maybe because I've been so tired lately, Tom is threatening the safety of the entire wizarding world, and Hogwarts is getting caught up in some silly political shenanigans .”

"In short, Severus, Professor Tang is very likely to hide some secret purpose. For those who can see the future, he will never mention the resurrection stone for no reason, and he just happened to tell you."

"Maybe you can try to get in touch with him. Of course, you must be careful not to be tempted by anything."

Snape remembered that the last time Dumbledore mentioned someone so solemnly was Voldemort in his heyday.

He didn't think the young Divination professor in front of him was any more of a threat than Voldemort. Voldemort wasn't bothered by stomach problems.

But he naturally listened to Dumbledore's suggestion.

"What about the time?" Snape asked, "How do I know when he will appear in the picture?"

"Recently." Tang Sen replied, "Within a week."

"That's too broad." Snape said coldly, "I still have classes, so I don't have time to stay in Knockturn Alley all the time."

Tang Sen showed a helpless look, and said, "Professor Snape, I just asked for a bottle of potion. Divination is not a wasteless thing."

A small bottle of potion was placed on Tang Sen's table.

"This is Felicia." Snape said bluntly, "Is it enough to make up for your consumption?"

"Ahem——" Tang Sen put the potion into his arms, and smiled: "Professor Snape, you are too out of touch, we are all colleagues, so there is no need to be so strange."

"Let me think about it, maybe I can use pendulum divination to find out when that picture will appear."

He raised his hand, showing a crystal pendant hanging on his hand, and said softly: "Professor Snape will gain something by going to Knockturn Alley tomorrow."

"Professor Snape's trip to Knockturn Alley tomorrow will be rewarding."

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Say it silently seven times, and the pendant starts to rotate counterclockwise.

"The pendulum method is a simple and practical method of divination. Usually, counterclockwise rotation represents opposition and mistakes. Of course, in some special cases, counterclockwise rotation can express more meanings. This is the same as The words of the fortune-teller are related to, for example—”

"Get to the point." Snape interrupted Townsend.

"Sorry, professional habits." Tang Sen said: "So, the omen of the pendulum means that you don't need to go to Knockturn Alley tomorrow."

Snape frowned: "Are you sure? With the pendant from this play?"

Compared with the gorgeous and real effect of crystal ball divination, the pendulum method seems too simple.

Townsend became serious: "This is divination, Professor Snape, if you don't believe in divination, there is no need to continue."

"...please continue." Snape gritted his teeth.

Townsend used the pendulum method to divination a few more times, and finally confirmed: "Professor Snape, you can go to Knockturn Alley at noon the day after tomorrow, and I think you will gain something."

"I hope so." Snape didn't stop, and turned around quickly, the long black robe was raised due to the hurried steps, making Snape's leaving figure look like a low-flying bird Huge bat.

"Help me close the door, thank you." Tang Sen reminded, and then heard the office door shut heavily.

Obviously, it was not pleasant for Snape to pay the price of a bottle of Felix Elixir for a piece of information that had no beginning or end and could not be determined to be true or false.

To be honest, if it wasn't for Dumbledore's order and his desire for the Resurrection Stone, Snape would not have wanted to have any contact with this fortune-teller at all.

It wasn't until the sound of Snape's footsteps gone that Tang Sen restrained his smile and narrowed his eyes.

He stood up, brushed the crystal ball lightly with his finger, and murmured in a low voice: "Divination, it's really a good thing."

Although I didn't really use the ability of divination just now, but used another ability.

Create hallucinations.

But for those who don't understand divination, it makes no difference.

Anyway, the picture presented on the crystal ball will indeed come true.

Thinking of this, Tang Sen laughed again.

"Even if I can't really do divination, maybe I can be a good fortune teller."

The process of submitting the textbook list went smoothly. According to the Hogwarts tradition, the school would not interfere with the professor's decision unless there were dangerous or illegal contents in the textbook list.

In fact, professors have great autonomy over their own subjects. For example, the previous Professor Lockhart even included the entire set of books he wrote in the textbook list, giving himself a hard time. Even if Bohuo behaved like this, he was allowed by Hogwarts.

All that was left to do was to wait for the official Ministry of Magic induction process to be completed, and obviously, neither Umbridge nor Minister Fudge would delay in this regard.

In fact, it was the same. When Townsend spent the first night comfortably at Hogwarts and walked out of the office, Professor McGonagall was already waiting at the door.

She had brought official papers from the Ministry of Magic, as well as class schedules.

The course arrangement is easier than Tang Sen imagined. Tang Sen only needs to work 7 class hours a week, and the rest of the time can be freely arranged.

Divination is a non-main course, and students only need to take it once a week. In the first and second grades, divination is a compulsory course. The four colleges will be divided into two small classes, which add up to 4 class hours a week.

And in the third grade, the divination course became an elective course, so the students who had taken the divination course in the four colleges combined to take the class together, until the fifth grade ended the divination course exam, these three ages added up to 3 class hours a week.

The last one is the refresher classes for the sixth and seventh grades. In fact, it has been a long time since Hogwarts has no students in the sixth and seventh grades who have chosen to continue their studies in divination, so the schedule has not been arranged for the time being.

Of course, there is also the salary, and the salary of Hogwarts professors is very generous.

Tang Sen sighed, after all, this was the first time he made money after being hit by a dump truck.
"Anyway, it looks like I've got plenty of time to do my own thing."

Tang Sen thought happily.

"Learn magic knowledge, study the materials left by witches, and of course, most importantly—"

"Secretly become the Dark Lord!"

(End of this chapter)