Harry the Seer (was: Does Ron the Seer need glasses?)

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 37385

> > > Susanne:
> > > I can't remember any seers besides Trelawney playing a big
> > > role in the HP universe (but I am not extremely observant
> > > and have only read all the books twice, so far).

> > > Dicentra:
> > What about Harry?  When he and Ron are making up disasters for 
> > their homework, Harry's first prediction is that he will be in 
> > danger of being burned, and the second is that he'll lose 
> > something valuable. Those are the first two tasks to a T, and this 
> > is before the Goblet coughed up Harry's name. 
  
> Barb:
> You make an excellent point.  The burn is the dragon and when he 
> loses something valuable, it's Ron.  (The thing he'll miss the most.)
> Personally, I think Harry has proven to be far more prescient than 
> Ron, in the first two books as well as after they started taking 
> Divination.  
> 
Dicentra:
> > As for predicting the third task, it's hard to say because Harry 
> > first wants to say he'll come out the worse in a fight, Ron says 
> > he wanted to do that one, and so Harry says he'll lose a bet. I 
> > suppose deciding to grab the trophy at the same time as Cedric was 
> > a kind of bet, but that's a rather broad interpretation, if you 
> > ask me. 

Barb:> 
> No, he DOES lose a bet, but it's nothing to do with Cedric.  He 
> loses a bet--but for someone else!  He loses a bet for Ludo Bagman!  
> I'm so glad you pointed out that Harry predicted all this...I'd 
> never noticed before!

> Dicentra again:
Ok, here's something to choke on. Go to the next page, where Harry
finishes up his homework. The last thing he makes up is to predict his
own death by decapitation. It's a funny line in the context of the
scene (and it's undoubtedly funny to Harry), but given that the other
things mentioned came true, what are we to think about the
decapitation? Is that how Harry will die in the end?  Is it how he
will NEARLY die in the end? (Of course, Pettigrew has to take his
place because of the life-debt. Or at least that's the theory.) He
certainly didn't escape decapitation at the end of GoF.

--Dicentra, who wishes she hadn't noticed it