Trelawney going bad?

[pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it]

No: HPFGUIDX 27176

Hi, everybody,

normally, I faithfully stick to the rule of citing exactly who said 
what, only that until 10 October, being online still costs me a phone 
call to Italy (on the 10th, I'll get my Austrian connection), so I'm 
writing this on a word document first and then pasting it into a mail 
and therefore don't have the references at hand- forgive me, oh cited 
ones!

Answering the question about what it would need to give us a really 
good surprise in OoP, somebody responded that it would be Trelawney 
going over to the Dark Side, and somebody else argued that she's too 
much of a detached, completely disinterested-in-daily-reality 
character. In PoA, though, when she makes her true prediction, she 
does so in a weird baritone voice- obviously a male voice and 
certainly not her own. She seems to be in a trance and possessed by 
somebody who speaks through her- Voldemort??? Now, if she can be 
possessed once, it could happen again and so there would be a fair 
chance of her going over, not voluntarily, but "possessedly". 
Moreover, IMO her being sooo harmless is an impression we get through 
many students' eyes and by some comments from Dumbledore and 
McGonagall. Remember, when (in GoF or PoA- can't control right now), 
for a moment, she drops the mask and "she sounds more like McGonagall 
than her usual airy-fairy self?" It might be a Red Herring, but it 
might also point at some very unpleasant revelation about her.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37