the Sight - Trelawney & Ron

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32989

Jennifer Boggess Ramon wrote:

> Harry and Ron seem to have a better track record for correct
> predictions than Trelawney does.  Harry certainly has better Sight,
> if his dreams are any indication.  And I've wondered why Ron was made
> a sixth son - and why there's that gap between Charlie and Percy.
> (If that gap is by Mr. and Mrs Weasley's choice, they decided to
> start having kids hand over fist again just as the darkest part of
> the Voldemort years settled in, and stopped right when V. lost his
> powers.  The only explanation I can come up with for _that_ is that
> they figured it was their duty to repopulate the wizarding world all
> by themselves - if it were just that Molly wanted a girl, they
> wouldn't have that gap . . .)


Or perhaps, Ron is a seventh son (is that where you were going with
this?). Would he be the seventh of a seventh (is Arthur a seventh)? Was
there a brother who died? Though I always remember Ron being quite
specific that he had "five older brothers", not "six, but one died".
Would be interesting...

Are sevenths of a seventh healers and seers? After all this talk about
Ron and his predictions, I think I'm going to have to go re-read his
(and Harry's) statements in light of this discussion. It would be an
interesting twist for Ron to turn out to be a true seer, probably be a
hell of a lot of fun too.

I'm not sure how to take Trelawney. It's sort of taking a handwriting
analysis course. You write a certain thing, and the teacher takes it
home, and come up with a profile based on your handwriting. Each kid in
class reads and says "Yeah...that's me to a 't'", and it turns out that
the same thing is written on each paper that was handed out. So...is
Trelawney a true seer, or do we just want to believe she is and we are
reading things into her predictions? Rowling has done a brilliant job
created her character, as we don't know what to acknowledge and what not
to acknowledge...except for the second prediction, and she doesn't even
remember that.

-Katze