Parvati and Ron/Trelawney

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47650

Alina states;

>>Personally, I think it is. I think Trelawny knew that her "prediction" 
would come true sooner or later. After all, she has a 14 year old girl in the 
same class as a red-haired 14 year old boy. I think she guessed the chances 
of there ever being some trouble between the two teenagers are large enough 
for her to make a rather "realistical" prediction.<<

More to the point, she has a very pretty girl (i.e., eye-catching, attention 
drawing) who lives in the same House with the Weasley *TWINS!* ('nuff said..)

This "prediction" was a dead certainty of getting some level of "truth" 
applied to it -- right up there with the "prediction" that a klutz like 
Neville was going to break something eventually.

Actually, it's a bit amusing how many of these "phoney" predictions come out 
right on the money. Trelawney has got to have at least *some* degree of a 
gift. That prediction to Lavendar DID turn out -- on exactly the day she said 
it was going to. And Sybil can't have had any kind of inside knowledge about 
it. The problem was that once Lavendar got her bad news from home, no one 
worked the prediction backwards to the correct interpretation. No, not even 
Hermione. As Hermione pointed out, the pet had been killed on a different 
day, and Lavendar only *heard* about it on the day Trelawney predicted. 
Lavendar is convinced that Trelawney predicted that her rabbit would be 
killed. But she didn't. She said that the thing she most dreaded would happen 
on a given day. Clearly what Lavendar most dreaded was getting bad news from 
home. Which happened. *Exactly* as Trelawney said it would.

Trelawney's prediction that someone would be "leaving" them also came true. 
It's not altogether Trelawney's fault that she puts the most melodramatic 
interpretation on every glimmer she sees. She's a twerp. But she does seem to 
be at least a *bit* of a psychic twerp.

-JOdel