What if Harry levelled with Professor Trelawney?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55020


> ----> ~Cathy~----
> Professor Trelawney made her *true* prediction in Chapter 16 of 
PoA.  When
> Harry
> tried to tell her what she had said
> "Professor Trelawney looked thoroughly startled.<edit>  'I would 
certainly
> not presume to predict anything as farfetched as *that*!'"
> 
> If Trelawney didn't want to believe her own prediction, why would 
she
> believe Harry?  She would probably think he made the entire thing 
up for
> attention.
> 

Me:

That happened in PoA. She does remember Harry's prediction of the 
Buckbeak previous year, a prediction she considered "unlikely". She 
doesn't expect anyone to really see something in Crystal Ball, just 
to figure something that is likely, certainly, going to happen - 
prefrably some misery -and act as if they Saw it.

However, against all odds, Buckbeak *did* fly free, just like Harry 
said. So, Trelawney figures that Harry *does* have the Sight. When/if 
she heard of that, I'm certain she told them that Harry Potter saw it 
happen in Crystal Ball in her room's magical environment which of 
course leads Snape, who doesn't believe in divination any more than 
McGonagall or Hermione, to insist that "This has something to do with 
Potter"... And at the time, Harry both did and didn't know!

I'm not sure if Harry's patronus-stag has anything to do with his 
father being animagus. After all, animagus form reflects personality. 
Stag for Harry's father - dog for Sirius - and rat for Peter.

The one Harry summoned at Quidditch, that chased Draco Malfoy... 
James Potter, the chaser?

-- Finwitch