[HPforGrownups] Re: The real worst teacher at Hogwarts

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 57252

bard7696 at aol.com writes:

> And considering that Trelawney has two correct predictions in her 
> entire tenure at Hogwarts, I'm not sure Trelawney "has" it. At least 
> Snape and Hagrid KNOW something about the subject they teach.

Depends on what you consider "it" to be.  My opinion of Divination, and I 
*think* it is shared by Dumbledore (which is why he allows such an obvious 
fraud to teach it), is that true foreknowledge is iffy and unreliable.  It 
strikes when it wants to, not when you want it to.
So, if that's true, what does someone who has these visions/insights/flashes 
do the other 23 hours and 59 minutes a day?
[Opinion alert] He/she fakes it!  You make banal predictions vague enough to 
be pointed to later as "proof" of your powers.  There is a certain skill 
necessary to do this consistently.  It's the same skill that con men and 
actors have.  This skill could be the "it" that Hermione doesn't have, and 
(probably) doesn't want to develop. [/End opinion]

  --  Ray

"Everything I tell you is a lie, including that."
"Including what?"
"That everything I tell you is a lie.  It isn't true."
    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Bedazzled


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