[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter Character Sketch - Part 3 of 3

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 17261

naama_gat at hotmail.com wrote:

> Did V. hear of the prediction (that the last Potter will be his
> downfall?), and in the classic fatalistic train went to eliminate the
> danger only to fulfill the prediction? I doubt it. Why would he take
> Trelawney's prediction seriously, even if by some far off chance he
> had heard of it? She doesn't precisely inspire respect, does she? I
> can't see V. doing anything but laughing his "high, cold laugh" on
> hearing that that ridiculous woman predicted that a baby will be the
> downfall of the most powerfull dark wizard in a century.

Wow, good take. I hadn't thought of that. If it was her first accurate
prediction, how would anyone know it was an accurate prediction? Given
her usual manner, you'd have to be Lavender Brown to take her seriously.
Voldemort seems a bit more practical.

Also, you don't know a prediction is accurate until it happens, then
what she predicted must have happened already, no? So did she predict
Voldemort's downfall, or did she predict an attack on the Potters? Their
deaths? Snape's turning? What other seminal things that *actually
happened,* besides these, could it have been?

--Amanda


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