True Prediction

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dasienko at e... wrote:
> Let's not forget that all through GoF, Trewlaney was predicting 
that 
> death was coming closer. She thought that it was Harry's death that 
> she was predicting,  but it really was Cedric's.
> In PoA, at Christmas, she predicted that Lupin wouldn't be with 
them 
> for very long, She thought that she was predicting his death, but 
she 
> was really predicting his departure.
> It seems that her "seer gene" is working  its her "interpretation 
> gene" that is lacking.


With all due respect, I don't think so. Professor Trelawney has been 
predicting the death of student every year since she started teaching 
at Hogwarts, and no one ever died until Cedric, who wasn't even in 
Harry's class. It was Harry's death she was predicting; Harry's tea-
leaves had the Grim, Harry had the shortest lifeline she had ever 
seen, and it was Harry she gazed at with tears in her eyes. As for 
Lupin, she probably figured he wouldn't last in his position any 
longer the the previous DADA teachers, both of whom left after a 
year. Either that, or she used the fact that he was ill to 'predict' 
that he wouldn't get better. She is, as someone said, 'a right old 
fraud'. 

Bente