All 12 Uses
divine
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Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
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- Perfect deliberation, divination, and desperation
Chpt 21 *divination = the act of predicting something by magic
- Ordinary Wizarding Level Results Pass Grades: Outstanding (O) Exceeds Expectations (E) Acceptable (A) Fail Grades: Poor (P) Dreadful (D) Troll (T) Harry James Potter has achieved: Astronomy A Care of Magical Creatures E Charms E Defense Against the Dark Arts O Divination P Herbology E History of Magic D Potions E Transfiguration E Harry read the parchment through several times, his breathing becoming easier with each reading.†
Chpt 5
- It was all right: He had always known that he would fail Divination, and he had had no chance of passing History of Magic, given that he had collapsed halfway through the examination, but he had passed everything else!†
Chpt 5
- "Only failed Divination and History of Magic, and who cares about them?" he said happily to Harry.†
Chpt 5
- Harry was surprised to see the Divination teacher, Professor Trelawney, sitting on Hagrid's other side; she rarely left her tower room, and he had never seen her at the start-of-term feast before.†
Chpt 8
- The knowledge made him even less eager to find himself in her company, thankfully, this year he would be dropping Divination.†
Chpt 8
- Professor McGonagall turned next to Parvati Patil, whose first question was whether Firenze, the handsome centaur, was still teaching Divination.†
Chpt 9
- "He and Professor Trelawney are dividing classes between them this year," said Professor McGonagall, a hint of disapproval in her voice; it was common knowledge that she despised the subject of Divination.†
Chpt 9
- Parvati set off for Divination five minutes later looking slightly crestfallen.†
Chpt 9
- Of course, I have known for a very long time......The omens were never good, Harry....But why have you not returned to Divination?†
Chpt 15
- "No," said Dumbledore, "Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.†
Chpt 20
- He questioned me ...I must confess that, at first, I thought he seemed ill-disposed towards Divination ...and I remember I was starting to feel a little odd, I had not eaten much that day ...but then ...'†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(2)
(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to discover or predict something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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(3)
(divine as in: divined through intuition) to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the time of Shakespeare, divine was sometimes used as a noun to reference a priest or a person of the church.
Divinity typically refers to a god or to a school of religion, but on rare occasions, it refers to the name of a kind of soft white candy. To remember that sense, you might think of it as tasting divine/wonderful.