Divination/ Harry or Ron's death

jklb66 jklb66 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 14 13:52:34 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 36501

Ok, for the most part, Trelawney is, a fraud.  Her technique is 
primarily predicting what she believes is likely to happen (clumsy, 
nervous Neville breaking a cup, Buckbeak being executed, Harry 
getting killed by Sirius Black or in the Triwizard Tournament) and 
doing so in a "spooky" voice.

However, that doesn't rule out the fact that she is often right. In 
addition to the 2 "true predictions" she makes while in trances, we 
have the following:

Throughout PoA, she keeps seeing a "grim" in Harry's future.  Well, 
there isn't a grim, but there certainly is a large, black dog.  If 
she had just called it a dog instead of a grim, we'd all be patting 
her on the back right now.  

She also predicts that, "Around Easter, one of our number will leave 
us forever."  I don't believe that Trelawney had any idea that 
Hermione would quit the class, but that doesn't change the fact that 
she did.

And one prediction that bothers me:  in PoA, at Christmas dinner, 
Trelawney is reluctant to sit at the table because, "Never forget 
that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first 
to die!"  At the end of dinner "Harry and Ron got up first from the 
table and she shreiked loudy. 'My dears! Which of you left his seat 
first? Which?' 'Dunno,' said Ron looking uneasily at Harry."  Many of 
us have predicted that either Ron or Harry will not survive book 7, 
and here is Trelawney predicting the same thing.  And if we believe 
she is correct, then we can assume that either Ron or Harry will die 
before anyone else at that dinner table (Dumbledore, McGonagall, 
Snape, Hermione).

Jennifer, who is very worried for Harry and Ron





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