Trelawney's prediction

[heathernmoore]

No: HPFGUIDX 32046

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lucy Austin" <lucy at l...> wrote:
> heathernmoore wrote:
> 
> >  I  would suggest that Trelawney's first "accurate" prediction *can't* be 
> >anything about the defeat of Voldemort, because Dumbledore wouldn't 
> >yet be able to count it as a true prediction.
> 
> 
> Aha, but if she'd done all that going into a trance and speaking in a really deep voice stuff, and 
Dumbledore had witnessed it, he (with lots of experience no doubt with seers and visions) would have 
known that it was a true one even if it hadn't yet come true!
> 
> Lucy
> 


  Hrm.... I'm skeptical. Trancing and deep voices have never been a guarantee, or we'd have
to believe every tin nickel newage channeller is a Sincere Conduit of the Wisdom of the
Pleidean Brotherhood, instead of a skilled con.