Rules of Divination and Trelawney

[meboriqua at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25624

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., caliburncy at y... wrote:
 
> My personal opinion (not without some sort of basis in canon, but 
> lacking truly conclusive evidence) is that Professor Trelawney is a 
> true seer who doesn't realize that she is one and therefore has all 
> this time been putting on an act, without knowing that she really 
does  possess an Inner Eye.>

Luke, I envy your ability to express perfectly what I try to when I 
ramble and here you did it again.  That is exactly what I think of 
Trelawney and that is why I believe her to be a fraud.
   
> 
> I agree that JKR has made Trelawney's status as a true seer or a 
fraud  rather ambiguous>

Yes, she definitely has.  I wonder if JKR is extremely skeptical of 
people who claim to be psychic.  My favorites are the "Real Licensed 
Psychics" I see advertised on the tv all the time, as if the fact that 
they paid for their certification is what makes them *truly* psychic.  
Trelawney reminds me very much of those 1-800 people (that means toll 
free phone numbers often associated with businesses for those of you 
who are not American) who say they can tell you all about your life if 
you'd just call and stay on for more than three minutes when the 
charges set in...

Oh, sorry, OT there for a minute.  Anyway, JKR has gone out of her 
way, it seems to make Divination a difficult thing to interpret, work 
with or believe.  Even here at HPFGU there are people who list 
Trelawney's predictions and make good arguments for them being real, 
while there are others (like me) who think she's full of it.  I mean, 
who believes "Crossing Over with Jonathan Edwards" (or whatever his 
name is) and who thinks he is a phony?  There is always a debate.

When we are dealing with what WILL happen, it will always be difficult 
to simply believe a prediction because really, you never know.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who thinks going back to work this week has 
made her ideas sound like nonsense here **********