triwizard & Voldemort's smarts

[fourfuries at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27143

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> Although it is tantalizing to imagine that Professor Trelawney's 
> first true prediction is that Harry will destroy the Heir of 
> Slytherin, there is one wrinkle.  Dumbledore indicates that 
Professor 
> Trelawney's prediction about Wormtail is her second correct 
> prediction.  We don't yet know if Harry will destroy the Heir of 
> Slytherin, so that can't be her first real prediction.  

Well...some people would say that getting ripped from your body and 
left powerless and incorporeal for 10 or 12 years is pretty darn 
close to getting destroyed, but we won't quibble.  

Besides, you are right that the clearer prediction probably would 
have been that the House of Potter and the House of the Last Heir 
would tangle, and the end of one or the other would be the result.  I 
am thinking of the Centaur Firenze, who said regarding the continuing 
conflict between Harry and Voldemort, "the stars have been read wrong 
before, even by Centaurs".  This suggets that the stars, as read by 
Centaurs, portend tragedy for Harry at the hands of Voldemort.  He 
was in fact captured and tortured by V, but he escaped.  Who knows 
how it will all end, but all these squishy predictions can be read as 
having come true to a certain extent.

4FR (tempted to pull out the horoscope and see what the stars have in 
store today)