Professor Trelawney's "experience"

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No: HPFGUIDX 54957

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Margaret Thomas 
<magsthomas at y...> wrote:
> First, I thought this was a great post! 

Why, thank you! :)

<snip>
> Then there's a part of me that would love to see both
> Hermione and McGonagall thoroughly shocked at seeing
> Trelawney somehow legitimized.  
<snip>
> Sure, Trelawney is more than a little batty and Harry
> finds her annoying...yet Dumbledore seems to think
> Trelawney may surprise him yet...
> 

I'm not sure that Trelawney will turn out to be as useful as her 
classroom :), but we already know that she has some useful history 
we've yet to learn the details of with her first correct prediction.

<snip>
> So there's opportunity to learn even more in the
> Divination's classroom -- in particular, about Harry's
> scar.  I don't have GoF or PoA at my side for a
> description of that room (beyond remembering its
> overpowering perfume, teacups, and cushions)...Is that
> classroom perhaps *round* (not unlike the room on Mary
> GrandPre's OotP cover)?...At the very least, I wager
> that the Divination classroom is more than it seems. 
> Perhaps a room we haven't explored yet -- one that
> merits further exploration (a la the foreshadowing JKR
> has provided us of Book 5)?...
> 
Trelawney's room is indeed round, but there is no description of 3 
doors in there.  The room is very dark however and it's possible, 
we've not seen the whole thing yet, but it's hard to say.  I wonder 
if her classroom could be the gateway to another physical area - 
closer to the spirit world (this is of course my own speculation).

> (Admittedly, I'll engage in Divination of a sort --
> analyzing tidbits of the previous books like so many
> tea leaves in order to predict future plot points! --
> anything to pass the time until June 21!)
> 

Don't we all!
Kristen