A thought about Prof. Trelawney

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 8823

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rachelle Elliott" <relliott at j...> 
wrote:
> Maybe I'm off but here goes.
> 
> We have 2 primary ways to refer to Lord Voldermort:  Lord Voldermort 
and
> He-who-must-not-be-named.  Others such as Draco Malfoy, Lucius 
Malfoy,
> Crouch, Barty J.R., ('evil' or potentially evil wizards) call 
Voldermort the
> 'Dark Lord'.  Please correct me if I am mistaken.  Here is the 
dilema:  Why
> does Professor Trelawney, in her prediction in PoA Chapter 16, refer 
to him
> as the 'Dark Lord?'  Was she on the other side or was it meerly an 
accident?
> 
> What are your thoughts?

It took me a minute to remember why I was so certain of this, but the 
baddies aren't the only ones who call him that.

In CoS, when Lockhart has the 'cherubs' going around delivering 
Valentine messages, the singing telegram type one that Harry gets from 
Ginny calls Harry 'the hero that conquered the Dark Lord!'.

Of course it's conceiveable to argue that this doesn't prove anything 
as at that time Ginny was under the influence of the Dark Lord 
himself, and thus an unwitting baddie...  But then if only baddies 
used that appelation, then someone would probably have heard that and 
gotten suspicious, I would think.  Ok, I'm thinking in circles now, so 
I'll give up before my brain gets dizzy and falls down.

-kimberly, who's only a little lightheaded