OOP: It CANT be Nevilles Prophecy / Can Harry Die?

[stardreams04]

No: HPFGUIDX 64707

> We know from her prediction at the end of PoA that Trelawney cannot 
> remember what she prophesies, but I wonder if this information 
could 
> be forced out of her using Veritaserum or the Cruciatus curse, 
which 
> has been used more than once to extract information from people, 
even 
> breaking through powerful memory charms (i.e. Bertha Jorkins).

Oooh, I'd be willing to bet you're right on the money. Maybe 
Veritaserum would be ineffective, but I have a nasty suspicion the  
Cruciatus curse would "jog" Trelawney's memory, so to speak. I'd like 
to think that Dumbledore's insistence that Trelawney stay at Hogawrts 
was born partially out of kindness - she HAD been a teacher for 16 
years, and really, who else was going to take in an apparent failure 
of a Seer? This theory would certainly explain why JKR used the 
word "sharply" to describe the way Dumbledore commanded that Sibyll 
remain in the castle.

~stardreams04