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Brent's guess left Laurel momentarily silent before she realized what the boy was trying to get at. When she understood she flashed a smile over at the young snake. "Oh, you mean like fishing with a fishing rod? Well that's how the muggles catch their fish by dropping fishing lines with a hook and bait into water to entice fish. We can't use fishing rods to interpret the future."
Wait...what? Brent had never claimed to be really skilled at Divination, but he could usually at least follow the lesson. How had they ended up talking about fishing poles? He, too, was momentarily silent, before he realized where the confusion had come from.
"Oh, no, Professor. Not fishing poles," he said, commenting on what she'd said to him.
"Dowsing rods. It's what a dowser uses when using the dowsing Divination method, right?" Text Cut: Nordic Witch
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Nordic Witch When the last student had offered up her guess and it seemed that nobody else wanted to speak Professor Vance deemed that it was high time to continue. "You've all offered up good guesses and most of you have even touched on the method of Divination called Hydromancy that we are going to learn about and practice with the aid of our beautiful lake for the remainder of our lesson." Here she paused to let her glance run over Timila and Isa.
"Hydromancy is a very ancient practice that has been around for thousands upon thousands of years and from it our popular modern tea leaf reading as some of you brought up has been derived. Hydromancy comes from the greek words hydro and manteia and is the art and practice of divining the past, present and future with the aid of water."
"There are numerous ways in which you can perform a hydromatic reading, but before we get in to those and what the ancient germanic wise women preferred to use for their water interpretations I wonder can anyone guess what factors can affect the accuracy of a water reading?"
Putting aside all the talk about fishing poles and dowsing rods, Brent turned his focus to what the lesson ended up actually being about--Hydromancy. Since he really had no idea what that was and how it was done, he listened to the professor share what she knew. It sounded pretty easy...using water to tell the future, which would explain why they were having class at the lake today.
So...what could affect the readings in the water?
"What about the weather?" he asked, his hand in the air.
"Rain's still water, but if it's beating down in the lake, it can probably mess things up." Brent hated the rain. He'd played many Quodpot games in storms, but he really hated to. He could imagine Divination in the water would result in many of the same feelings.