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St. Toussaint 
"Good answers, ladies!" She said taking a pinch of her tea and tossing it into her cup. "It's important to note the differences between the suffixes. Tasseomancy has to do with foretelling the future with the use of tea leaves, while Tasseography is the reading of tea leaves and Tassology is the study of tea leaves. Five points for each of you."
"Okay, ladies, we're going to start brewing the tea now. I want each of you to take about a pinch of tea and put it in your cups. Then, very carefully, pour the hot water into your cups and let it steep for a few minutes while we carry on with the lesson." She made sure to emphasize 'very carefully'. Clara Belle was a witch of such admirable taste and style, in St. Toussaint's opinion. It would not do to have the young ladies of her namesaked school going around splashing hot-water on themselves. Ugh! Tacky much?!
"As one of you mentioned, sediments of wine are also lumped together in this category of Divination. Where did this practice orginate? And, what other specific substances may be in this category?"
ooc: Don't worry if I missed you, I always go back and check the thread before tallying the points. Will return later.
Rapunzel carefully followed the Professor's instructions, pouring just enough hot water into her Asian-style teacup till it was full.
"Tasseomancy independently originated in the Middle Ages in the Middle East, Asia, and Ancient Greece," Rapunzel answered as her tea seeped.
"In the 17th century, the West Dutch Indies merchants introduced tea from the Orient, and in the 18th century, Italians claimed to have invented the coffee-ground form of tesseomancy, although now you can read wine sediments too."
Punzel hoped she could earn another five points for Hufflepuff...if she didn't sound too much like a book. Oh well, she'd studied hard after getting a bum grade on their first homework assignment....