[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Death

[Charlie Moody]

No: HPFGUIDX 76550

On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 05:33  PM, bohcoo wrote:

> POA, ch. 11, pg. 228, American Edition, Trelawney speaking:
> "'I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be thirteen!
> Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when thirteen dine
> together, the first to rise will be the first to die.'"
>
> GOF, ch. 23, pg. 415-419, American Edition
> "The House tables had vanished; instead there were about a hundred
> smaller, lantern-lit ones, each seating about a dozen people."
>
> (Reading through that section, we know that the judges and the
> champions with their partners are seated together at the top table:
> Dumbledore, Karkaroff, Bagman, Maxime, Percy, Krum & Hermoine, Harry
> & Parvati, Roger & Fleur, Cedric & Cho. Thirteen people.)
>
> "When the food had been consumed, Dumbledore stood up and asked the
> students to do the same."
>
> Uh. Oh.

Now me (Charlie):
Except for the fact that *Cedric* was the first to die.

Once again, Trelawney is spouting superstition as if it were insight.

Charlie