[HPforGrownups] Re: Prof. Trelawney deserves credit!

[Gail Bohacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 42755

Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote:

>I still don't see any of these things as real predictions or psychic
>ability on Trelawney's part.  If Trelawney knew, as I thought all of
>the professors did (I could be wrong, as it isn't stated in PoA), that
>Lupin is a werewolf, it is a very good guess that he won't last at
>Hogwarts.  That's being realistic, not psychic.  We all know what a
>hard time Lupin has had.

And I Respond:

Mayhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that Prof. Snape was the only one who 
knew that Lupin was a werewolf?

Jenny goes on:

>As for her predictions about Harry, I have to once again say that
>anyone can guess that Harry will be dealing with tough times.  Someone
>is always after him, whether it is Voldemort himself, the press (Rita
>Skeeter) or the public (Colin Creevey).  I also think Trelawney is
>taking a cheap shot when she talks about his "troubled soul".  Which
>13 year old kid without parents doesn't have a troubled soul?  Who
>wouldn't feel troubled knowing that someone as big and bad as
>Voldemort was after them?  Anyone who can read people can make these
>guesses.  I can read my own students in this way; it doesn't make me
>psychic.

In an earlier post by "I don't know who" (because I was being 'delete-happy' 
last night in my Inbox) somebody made an good point that some-so-called 
psychics often phrase their words very vaguely, so that it could mean just 
about anything.  I'm sure that's what Prof. Trelawney does.  Prof. Trelawney 
has some psychic abilities, and I personally know people in real life who 
also are psychic, and it really is a hit-or-miss kind of thing.  Kinda like 
playing the lottery.  Because one can foresee possible outcomes of the 
future, but one's present actions can turn and change things around.  It's 
an inexact science.

The thing about Prof. Trelawney is her behavior is so annoying...she's 
almost all the things I hate about the New Age movement rolled up in one.  
In JKR's books, I see her as a walking, talking foreshadowing device to help 
throw out more red herrings.

-Gail B. who is still waiting to see if anybody knows which year Harry was 
born...I thought I'd heard sometime in the '80's?




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