True Prediction

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 24095

> ~Amber wrote:
> 
> > If it is a Gryffindor, I bet on Sprout dying
> > some gruesome death and Neville taking over 
> > Herbology.

Rita wrote:

> Why would she have to DIE? 

Because we're morbid?

> Hagridd wrote:
> 
> > I think that Trelawney's second prediction has 
> > indeed come to pass. Because of the Bone, Flesh 
> >and Blood spell, LV is ressurected and can now
> > touch Harry.   
> 
> But the point we're arguing over is whether the Prediction had 
ALREADY
> come true AT THE TIME that Dumbledore identified it as Trelawney's
> second true prediction. Dumbledore's statement was near the end of 
PoA
> and the BFB event was in GoF, therefore had not happened YET when
> Dumbledore spoke.

Well, Jonathan was saying that it hadn't fully happened even at the 
end of GoF.

> SO the FIRST true prediction might not have come true yet by GoF!

I still don't get how you can call a prediction true if it hasn't come 
true yet.  By that logic, every prediction is true.

Amy Z
who predicts that she will win the lottery tomorrow.  There, I'm rich! 
Even though I didn't buy a ticket!  (Magic cares not for these petty 
distinctions)