[HPforGrownups] What if Harry levelled with Professor Trelawney?

[alex fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 54994

Wow! Very interesting concept! In Fanon she is always an idiot also. But I don't think I have ever read one where she might be getting things right!!! If he HAD leveled with her maybe she could have used some of the things that she actually DOES know to help! Dumbldore himself said that the has had 2 proper visions!  This is quite the conundrum! Harry might have gotten some help from an unlikely sourse! Any input on this? 
Alex Fox


 Eric Oppen <oppen at mycns.net> wrote:
While I can understand why Harry doesn't think much of Professor Trelawney,
I do wonder what would have happened if he had levelled with her about that
dream he had in class---or the other dreams he's had involving Lord V?

Granted, she may come across as a "right old fraud," but she's also
apparently good enough at her job to stay on at Hogwarts, and that has to
count for something.  A lot of Hogwarts faculty are at or near the tops of
their specialities---Professor McGonagall's an Animagus, which is _rare_
even among magical folk and about the ultimate in Transfiguration, which she
teaches; Professor Snape's love of his subject and deep knowledge of it
shines through his scenes, and we have Professor Dumbledore's own word that
Divination is Not Easy At All.

I think Professor Trelawney's there more to expose pupils to the various
tools of Divination, and see if any of them do have the Sight---and that
she's not nearly as much of a New Age space-case as she lets on, any more
than Dumbledore is really just a nice, slightly dotty old man.  One of my
own favorite theories is that Professor Trelawney is actually a DE mole,
under orders to keep an eye on things at Hogwarts and otherwise keep a low
profile.  What better cover, after all, than as a dippy old bat who makes
phony predictions constantly?  Nobody takes her seriously, and that's often
a great asset to a spy.  Even if Professor Snape _wanted_ to do that
(assuming that Snape is Ever So Evil after all) his sinister manner and his
known background as a DE would preclude him from doing much good.  And we've
seen a deal before, in PS/SS, where the real bad guy was the last person
anybody would suspect..."Who would believe p-p-poor, stut-t-tering Professor
Quirrel was the one?"


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