What Did You Mean By Prediction, Dicey?

[lucky_kari]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> --- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> > Eileen:
> > 
> > (Me):
> > > > I've used 'Prophecy' to refer to Trelawney's first prediction,
> > > because the 
> > > > poster was talking about prophecy, but we already have a 
> prediction
> > > keyword, 
> > > > so perhaps I should re-classify?
> > > 
> > > Oh, I thought that 'prediction' meant someone's prediction about
> > > future books...........
> > > 
> > 
> > My point exactly! I knew there was some reason why I thought that 
> > was ambiguous!
> > But we *do* talk about Trelawney's first prediction don't we?
> > Could whoever put that one on the list tell us which it refers to?
> >
> It wasn't me!
> 
> But currently I'm using 'Prediction' for predictions by listies 
> and 'prophecy' for predictions by Trelawny. I suspect a lot more 
> posts will be about listies predictions of what happens than will be 
> about Trelawny's prophecies, so shall we leave the more difficult 
> spelling for the less frequent posts? [grin]

I'm all for it, as we've apparently both been doing it that way.
However, it's Dicey's baby, so what does she think?

Eileen