Divination important down the line/other silly musings

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No: HPFGUIDX 36566

OK, so it's not much of a stretch to accept Trelawney as mostly a windbag and 
a fraud. But I can't help but wonder if divination will become more important 
and impressive as the series goes on. As gets pointed out quite often, JKR 
rarely seems to drop in plot elements just for the heck of it.

After all, DADA seemed like little more than a running joke for the first 
couple of books, with teachers having about as much longevity as drummers in 
Spinal Tap, but it's become increasingly more serious, and useful, as the 
books progress (though still without much chance for tenure).

Speaking of DADA - and forgive me, I've only read the books once (so far) - 
is there any evidence that Snape actually wants that post other than the 
ever-so-reliable "everyone knows"? Does he ever actually state that he 
aspires to it?

And on a side-note about divination ... though, of course, Ron's predictions 
in GoF could be self-fulfilling prophecies, seems to me he might have a 
nascent spark of the Sight, as another favorite author calls it. One of her 
regular characters has it, it's just part of her life and the visions happen 
as a matter of course. If she gives you a gift or tells you something, you 
know it's for a reason.

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All the debate about LOLLIPOPS and the fact that Harry has his mother's eyes 
(a detail which somehow escaped my notice at first, dopey me) have, for some 
reason, got the song "Lily's Eyes" from the musical version of "The Secret 
Garden" running through my brain. If I had half a talent, I'd feel a filk 
coming on ...

Though I'm not quite in the LOLLIPOP kayak (boat? whatever) yet, I'm swimming 
toward it. (So, yes - I do like Snape. He's most certainly not a nice man, 
but then, I wouldn't be quite so fascinated by him if he were.)

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One other quick question - is the Sorting Hat others have mentioned the one 
on the main WB page for the movie, or is there another one somewhere?

Susan P.
(Who hopes she hasn't made a complete idiot of herself in her first post as a 
newbie and is going to lurk a bit more while trying to find the threads to 
stitch her very own Potions Master from the darling Harry Potter cross-stitch 
book she just got from Amazon.fr.)

 


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