Unfogging the Future

"A guide to all basic fortune-telling methods, including palmistry, crystal balls and bird entrails."

- The advertisement at Flourish and Blotts

Unfogging the Future is a book on the subject of divination, written by the celebrated Seer Cassandra Vablatsky and published by Rumiharts Books

From at least 1993 onward, this book was a required textbook for students taking Divination Classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

It is a thick, black-bound book with a picture on the front cover depicting the full moon shrouded in fog. There are at least five volumes.

A copy of this book costs two galleons at the Flourish and Blotts Bookshop in Diagon Alley.

Contents

 * Palmistry
 * Tessomancy
 * Crystal Balls
 * Bird Entrails

Tea leaf symbols

 * An acorn represents a "windfall, unexpected gold".
 * The club represents "an attack"
 * A cross would mean "trials and suffering"
 * The falcon is symbolic of "a deadly enemy"
 * A five-leaf clover would be representative of "a horrible rash tomorrow morning, dear"
 * The Grim, a large dog, is a sure sign of "death"
 * A skull represents "danger in your path"
 * The sun is symbolic of "great happiness"

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Pottermore