Prof. Trelawney's 1st prediction

[Jade]

No: HPFGUIDX 45822

Julie <msbonsai at mninter.net> wrote:

>Ok, so we're fairly certain that the 2nd prediction
>is referring to 
>Pettigrew's escape, to bring Voldemort back to power.
>
>But we don't know about that first one.  I almost
>think we're going 
>to find out.  Could it have been a prediction about
>Harry in general 
>defeating Voldemort?  Is that why Voldemort goes
>after Harry?  If you 
>look at the way above passage, it's almost like
>whoever the man is, 
>he and Lilly are certainly trying to protect Harry
>more than 
>themselves, especially since Voldemort mentions that.
>Lilly does not 
>need to die.  I believe we have read elsewhere in the
>books that 
>Dumbledore knew that Voldemort was after the Potters,
>and that's why 
>they went into hiding.  But what if the reality is
>that he's after 
>just Harry?  Or just the male Potter line?

The theory that Trelawney's first prediction was that
Harry would defeat Voldemort is one I've heard a
lot... but there's one reason why I don't quite buy
it.

Why would Voldemort trust a prediction from someone
who at that time had NEVER made a real prediction? I
mean, of course you can explain it in any number of
ways (which I'm sure you can come up with for
yourselves so I'm not going to bother--it's late and
I'm tired), but still, something makes me think that's
not quite it. It's too obvious, for one thing.

Of course that still leaves the question of what the
first prediction actually WAS... But somehow I think
the reason for LV wanting to kill Harry has to go a
lot deeper than a prediction from someone who's only
made false ones in the past.

I DO think that we'll find out what that first
prediction was, and that it will have something to do
with Harry and/or Voldemort. In fact I'm certain of
it.

What if, for instance, Trelawney predicted that Tom
Riddle would become one of the most powerful Dark
Wizards of all time (btw, does anyone have some more
exact information as to Trelawney's age than
'middle-aged'?). Maybe she went to school with him or
something. Of course, no one believed her until it was
too late...

Maybe after this first prediction she made another
one, completely untrue, but which led LV to conclude
that Harry was a threat.

There are about a billion other theories once you get
past the 'she predicted that Harry would defeat
Voldie' one (is there an acronym for that?). I for one
will be quite disappointed if that turns out to be it,
if only because it's obvious and I like to be
surprised (I also like to feel clever when I figured
something out that nobody else did, if half the
readers figure the same thing it's not the same :D).

Jade, pondering

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