Professor Trelawney's First Prediction

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No: HPFGUIDX 43960

Susanne wrote:
 
> And why would Voldemort (and everyone else?) believe her
> prediction was going to come true, if it was her first (and
> only real one for a long time)?
> 
> Especially since not many people seem to put much stock in
> her predictions now.

Now me:

Has it ever occurred to anyone that Dumbledore might have been joking 
when he said that the "servant of Lord Voldemort" prediction was only 
Trelawney's second real one?  I read it as a joke on my first reading 
of PoA, and it was only after I became a member of LOON that I 
started to wonder about the first prediction.  Although when someone 
asked JKR what Trelawney's first real prediction was in an interview, 
JKR refused to answer, which suggests there is probably something to 
it.

~Phyllis