[HPforGrownups] Re: Does Ron the Seer need glasses?

[Liz Sager]

No: HPFGUIDX 37347

Marina wrote:
>To me, Ron's supposed "predictions" don't look like predictions at
>all.  He just throws out random thoughts and speculations, and some of
>them hit the mark while others don't.  There's no indication of
>anything mystical about the things he says; we've never seen him go
>into a trance the way Trelawney did.  Might as well argue that
>Hermione is a seer -- after all, she correctly "predicted" that Snape
>wasn't a bad guy, and that Crookshanks didn't really kill Scabbers.

I would think that a power so omnipotent as "seeing" would take a great deal 
of control and training--which Ron doesn't really have. He has Trelawney, in 
a class that he *really* doesn't take very seriously. At first glance, 
Trelawney teaching Divination is almost like a legless man who teaches 
running, IMHO. She might be the product of a seer who was never fully 
trained--and therefore cannot reach her full potential, and goes into random 
trances and doesn't remember a word that she's said.

Liz (who thinks Ron could be a seventh son, but doesn't want to repeat any 
arguments)

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