Who is the seer? musical chairs

[Janelle Lile]

No: HPFGUIDX 37390

blpurdom wrote:
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.  (Perhaps part of Trelawney's hostility to him stems
from her sensing that he has real talent?  And she's resentful that
he doesn't appreciate or recognize his own gift but looks down on
Divination?  Future canon will tell...) Harry also has had prescient
dreams.

I write:
My favorite is-Harry-seeing-the-future moment is PoA 16, the Divination
final.

"'Are you sure?'  Professor Trelawney urged him.  'Are you quite sure, dear?
You don't see it writhing on the ground, perhaps, and a shadowy figure
raising an axe behind it?'
'No!' said Harry, starting to feel slightly sick...'It looks fine,
it's--flying away...'"

Which, as you and I know, is basically what happens.

I've had a shadow of an idea that Trelawney's tower room is the room with
unexplored potential, not the chamber-pot room (delightful as chamber-pots
undoubtedly are).  I'm not sure where that leaves Harry's dreams, though.
And the interview quote at
http://www.comicrelief.com/harrysbooks/pages/transcript2.shtml is that the
room is mentioned in book 4.  If that means book 4 but also book 3 then it
works, but if she means only book 4, well, never mind.

Also, is it possible that all this seeing business is terribly unpleasant
for the seer?  Harry feels sick and wants to leave in the above passage.

Janelle  (feeling brave today, apparently)

"Angela stamped her foot.  An unladylike action, no doubt, but how much
better than kicking an uncle with it, as her lower nature prompted."
P.G. Wodehouse