
Once again bent over her Runes translation, “it creates all this bad “That’s the trouble with Quidditch,” said Hermione absent-mindedly,

So this Ancient Runes book (as identified in the first paragraph) is about the Hieroglyphs and Logograms used in the magical world. “Has Ron saved a goal yet?” asked Hermione, peering over the top ofĪccording to Wikipedia, “A logogram, or logograph, is a grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language).” Likewise, a hieroglyph is just a method of writing. “Oh,” said George, looking mildly impressed. Looking,” said Hermione from behind her tottering pile of Ancient Rune Of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren’t “She’s been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age No one is claiming tea leaves can be used to cast powerful magic it’s just a way of making random shapes, or in the case of runes, letters. Whatever the case, runes as an ancient form of writing still works fine in this instance. What a rune stone is, or if they are any relation to study of ancient runes, is unclear. Students’ answers before they gave them and demanding that sheĭemonstrate her skill at the crystal ball, the tea leaves and the runeĭivination can apparently involve ‘rune stone’. Trelawney’s increasingly hysterical talks with difficult questionsĪbout ornithomancy and heptomology, insisting that she predicted The fire in the heavily perfumed tower room, interrupting Professor The article is called ‘Secrets of the Ancient Runes Revealed’.Įvery single Divination and Care of Magical Creatures lesson was nowĬonducted in the presence of Umbridge and her clipboard. Admittedly, in this case, upside down and in the Quibbler. This is just another example of reading runes. Suggestion that Sirius might really be the lead singer of The Inįact, compared to the rest of the articles in The Quibbler, the Revealed a spell to make your enemy’s ears turn into kumquats. Moon frogs to prove it and an article on ancient runes which at leastĮxplained why Luna had been reading The Quibbler upside-down.Īccording to the magazine, if you turned the runes on their heads they Have flown to the moon on a Cleansweep Six and brought back a bag of Winning the Quidditch League by a combination of blackmail, illegalīroom-tampering and torture an interview with a wizard who claimed to Pausing everyįew pages, he read: an accusation that the Tutshill Tornados were He flicked through the rest of the magazine. Fudge might have many faults but Harryįound it extremely hard to imagine him ordering goblins to be cooked Hand, flew across the room, and Harry caught it.īook 5 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix said:

“Accio Dictionary!” The heavy book soared out of Hermione’s

Said, throwing a rune dictionary back to Hermione, so he could tryĪgain, “threaten me with a dragon. “Well, now we know what to do next time I can’t manage a spell,” Harry Lying on top of the weird, spiky shapes wereīook 4 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire said: Ron threw something down onto Hermione’s rune translation. Her lifting books as she searched for her rune dictionary. “Why don’t you just drop a couple of subjects?” Harry asked, watching Translation Hermione was now poring over. Studies essay (‘Explain Why Muggles Need Electricity’) and at the rune “Harry looked around at the cluttered table, at the long ArithmancyĮssay on which the ink was still glistening, at the even longer Muggle “Every night, without fail, Hermione was to be seen in a corner of theĬommon room, several tables spread with books, Arithmancy charts, runeĭictionaries, diagrams of Muggles lifting heavy objects, and file uponįile of extensive notes she barely spoke to anybody and snapped when We can see this from the numerous if disperse references to it throughout canon.īook 3 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban said: Ancient Runes is purely a language course.
