Tre Real Prediction, Who becomes Teacher

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:

 "Real prediction" 
> might simply mean "not fake"? IMHO, Dumbledore was present when 
> Trelawney made it and he, like Harry, could certainly distinguish a 
> real trance from reading Grims out of tea-leaves.>

Good one!  Predicting the Grim is like predicting "You will travel 
soon," and the next day you get up and go to work.  It's very vague 
and anyone can make a string of predictions like that, fully 
conscious.
> 
> The whole Grim thing, again IMO, is not a prediction come true, it 
is  simply JKR's very weird sense of humour, which I happen to share, 
and  a very lengthy illustration of Hermione's POV concerning 
Divination.>

You go, girl!  I also think it is a hint at how JKR feels about 
Divination.  I am much like Hermione in that I think Trelawney is full 
of it (I've made that very clear before).  The only "prediction" I am 
inclined to believe *will* happen is the one she made during Harry's 
final exam in PoA mostly because she went into a trance, had no 
control over it and didn't even believe she said it.

So there!

--jenny from ravenclaw************************************