Trelawny's Prediction

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 52908

> Nobody's rib reminds us;
> 
> 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
> 
Predictions and Prophecies are notoriously cryptic. And they tend to be 
missing enough pieces that they tend only to be decypherable after the fact. 

Trelawny says; "His servant has been chained these twelve years" she says; 
"the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master". Where does 
she say that both statements refer to the same servant?

Harry "heard"; "The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid,"  Can 
we be so *very* confident that Trelawney didn't actually say; "The Dark Lord 
will rise again with his servants' aid"? Voldemort had *two* servants in GoF. 
One was unquestionably "chained" for 12 years. The other unquestionably 
"broke free" that night and set out to join his master. Voldy needed *both* 
of them to rise again. Are we so *sure* that the Prediction wasn't talking 
about both of them?

-JOdel


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