Trelawny Prediction (WAS: Re: Three Missing Death Eaters)

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melpomene wrote: 
>...And my brain does one of those psychodelic double 
> takes and gloms onto Professor Trelawny's (sorry this isn't going 
to 
> be a perfect quote) comment about that "faithful servant" (there's 
> that term again) being "chained these twelve years." So far we've 
> speculated Black in Azkaban and Pettigrew in his Rat form for this 
> topic. Has anyone suggested that Snape may be the one being 
referred 
> to here? If V. still sees him as a faithful servant his being holed 
> up with the enemy for 12 years could be seen as being chained. 

Me:
My own brain did a psychedelic double take when I read this.  Turned 
around much of my perspective.  But then I dug out the actual quote. 
(note: no mention of the word "faithful.")  I divide the prediction 
into 8 points.  (I added in numbers to point these out):
"The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his 
followers.  (1) His servant has been chained these twelve years.  (2)
Tonight, before midnight... (3) the servant will break free (4) and 
set out (5) to rejoin his master.  (6) The Dark Lord will rise again 
(7) with his servant's aid, (8) greater and more terrible than ever 
he was.  Tonight... before midnight... the servant... will set out... 
to rejoin... his master..."
-PoA hardcover, pg 324

Snape can't be applied to (2), (3), and (4): wasn't Snape unconscious 
and then talking to Dumbledore at this time?  And he has yet 
to "break free" from the "chains" of Hogwarts.
  
I had always assumed that the servant was Pettigrew, since he is the 
only one, to my knowledge, to whom all eight of these points apply.  
(*I'd love someone to show me how all of the points can apply to 
Sirius Black; I just can't figure that one out as a possibility...  
It's mostly points (3) and (7) that I have problems with.)

 - nobody's rib