could JKR be making fun of us? /Hermione, Divination

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53145

--- "nobodysrib wrote:
 
> Oh no!  This makes me wonder... Consider how JKR portrays 
Divination: 
> mostly rubbish, with (if you actually have the gift for Divination) 
a 
> VERY occasional on-the-mark prediction - that you don't even 
remember 
> making once you've done it!  This can't be how JKR views *our* 
> theories and discussion, can it?...

Maybe it IS! After all, we do try to find what's *likely* to happen 
in the future books, and the little clues JKR has given stand for the 
rare and *real* prediction...

Hermione considers it being nonesense and not worthy of the bother 
(partly because Trelawney told her that 1)you can only learn so much 
from a book while *Hermione's* answer to nearly everything is in the 
library).

Divination is not nonsense, despite the surface of LIKELY 
predictions. Subconcious that notices things our awareness doesn't - 
pays attention to things considered amiss or nonsense simply can't be 
dealt with directly, but with all the star-maps and all, you can. And 
not only that - accepting your mortality and that of others...

See what happens with Harry when he accepts that he'll die behind the 
gravestone: "He's going to kill me anyway. I'll stand up and fight" - 
and then, *lives* because of it...


-- Finwitch