[HPforGrownups] Re: Trelawney deserves credit, But so does Ron!

[Jen Snyder]

No: HPFGUIDX 43203

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ambir Adams" <ambiradams at h...> wrote:
> I actually think Ron is a bit more accurate with his predictions,
> although he doesn't realize it yet.  Most of everything he said to
> Harry has happened, or did happen.
<more snip> As for predictions by Ron, in Talons and Tealeaves he saw the
acorn in
Harry's teacup as being "a windfall, unexpected gold."  - the prize for the
Triwizard tournament.

This brings up something I've been thinking about, sparked by all the posts
about Professor Trelawney's accuracy.  I've been rereading PoA and I thought
of something...how interesting would it be if, in the first scene where we
meet Trelawney, all her seemingly accurate/impressive predictions are wrong,
but Ron and Harry's seemingly inaccurate and silly (to them) predictions are
right?  consider the following exchange (American PoA, p. 105-106):

Harry: "Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross...that means you're going
to have 'trials and suffering--sorry about that--but there's a thing that
could be the sun...hang on...that means 'great happiness'...so you're going
to suffer but be very happy...'
Ron: "There's a blob a bit like a bowler hat...maybe you're going to work
for the Ministry of Magic...but this way it looks more like an acorn...'a
windfall, unexpected gold'.  Excellent, you can lend me some...and there's a
thing here...that looks like an animal...it look like a hippo...no, a sheep"
(with some judicious editing)

Foreshadowing?  suffering but eventual great happiness for Ron?  Harry
working with/for the MoM in Order of the Phoenix?  The windfall might refer
to winning the Triwizard Tournament but could also refer to the leprechaun
gold in GoF (which Harry does lend to Ron).  And the animal could be a
(hippo)griff, or Sirius as dog.

I don't know if I believe that Ron is always right (although I have noticed
that even his off-hand predictions are often right), but I find  a lovely
irony in a scene where the person who thinks they are right is wrong and the
two characters who think they are fudging things as best they can are
actually speaking the truth.

Jen




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