Bad, bad Trelawney

[karenoc1]

No: HPFGUIDX 73985

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evangelina839" 
<evangelina839 at y...> wrote:
This just occured to me and I'm too tired to give it any more thought
tonight, but I just wanted to mention it. In OoP, Harry asks Snape 
why he calls Voldemort "the Dark Lord" - "I've only ever heard Death 
Eaters call him that". (Seen and Unforeseen) And what does professor 
Trelawney call LV in both her predictions... "the Dark Lord". I do 
find that quite interesting, but I haven't thought of what it would
mean for Harry and the story if Trelawney is Ever So Evil, or if 
there has been any other indication that she might be. BTW, is there 
any other character, not confirmed DE, that has referred to LV as the 
Dark Lord? Sorry if this has already been brought up, I'm terribly 
behind at the moment.
evangelina

Now me:
This is a good point, but I'm not certain if it means that Prof. 
Trelawney has an intimate Death Eater-like connection to LV.  She 
doesn't seem to remember either of her actual predicitions, and when 
she is experiencing them, she seems possessed by something/one.  
(This has to have been mentioned before!)

Ginny Weasley sent Harry a Valentine in CoS that called him the hero 
that defeated the Dark Lord (bookless and paraphrasing here!).  I 
guess one could argue, though, that Ginny was possessed by Tom Riddle 
in CoS and might naturally think of LV in those terms, just as Tom 
himself might.
karenoc1