prophecy/Firenze

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No: HPFGUIDX 79276

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Journalist" 
<journalisto at h...> wrote:
> Rachna:
> If the prophecy was first in the book and then I read Firenze's 
> warning, I would have questioned it.  Since, she has written it so 
> that it ends with the prophecy, you don't really question it.
> 
> Anyway, the point of my long-winded ramble was that maybe the 
> prophecy turns out to not be true and Rowling is just stringing us 
> along.
> 
<snip>, humans don't usually have the state of mind to interpret the 
signs around them correctly, and only a couple people are actual 
Seers, prophetic lightning rods.
> 
> Thus, it seems very, very likely that Dumbledore interpreted the 
Prophecy incorrectly. 
> 
> -Dan, who wishes Dumbledore would show it to Firenze...
> 
The problem with this line of thinking is that Trelwaney was not in a 
normal "state of mind". She speaks in an entirely different voice 
when giving the prophecy. In POA, she did not seem to remember giving 
the prophecy about someone returning to LV. As flakey as Trelawney 
appears at times, she has been correct thus far in her prophecies, 
and even some of her off hand comments.  In GOF, before the names 
were drawn for the Triwizards Tourney, she told Harry he was going to 
have a very difficult year ahead, and he does.  In OOTP, she tells 
Umbridge she is in great danger, and she was attacked by the centuars.
I do think that the tea leaf reading, palm reading, and crystal ball 
gazing my be a little flakey, and therefore used as a means to 
distract the reader from Trelawney being legitimate in her prophecies.
It will be interesting to see if and how Trelawney and Firenze 
interact with each other in coming books.
Fran