Violet had been hoping the teacher would explain what the bee had actually been doing, but all she said was 'it might be a sign of something.' Everything in divination might be a sign of something, usually, that was the trouble with it; why couldn't things have a clear cause and effect, like in potions? Violet sighed and went to get one of the papers, then walked back to her mat reading it (and nearly stepping on a few of her fellow students in the process).

Bees--there was nothing here about dancing bees at all! Hmm..."a flight of bees is an ill omen....The humming of bees foretells good news, but if their humming sounds angry, trouble is coming." Well, if a flight of bees suddenly swarms around you head, that is definitely an ill omen, and one that doesn't need explaining! And their humming did sound angry, which means trouble is coming. Violet felt that the main trouble was that someone kicked up a swarm of bees behind her and she got caught in the crossfire. Then the bees swarmed off again after the dancing bee--Violet didn't believe that was a sign of anything, at least not for her. She thought the bee's dance was some sort of communication to the other bees, and that they had gotten the message and gone off after it. At least that made sense--more sense than divination did.

Violet wrote these observations down (minus the unflattering comments about divination, of course).