The Trelawney Prediction

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 58185

> <valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I posted this comment previously this week. In deep obscurity. 
> Which I suppose is the reason it has generated no responses.
> > THat is of course assuming that the entire list hasn't decided to 
> > never reply to my posts again :P 
> > 

> > I have noticed that something strange is generally accepted in 
the 
> > theories that I have read. Many are satisfied with the concept 
that 
> > Trelawneys *First True Prediction* was the fall of Voldemort. 
> > 
> > In contrast I would like to question this complacency among fans. 
> > JK has duped me too many times to rest my laurels on that 
> simplistic 
> > and logical conclusion.
> > 
> > I would like to hear suggestions from the posting list on what 
> > Trelawneys "other" premonition was. 


This got me thinking about the nature of the "correct" predictions, 
so I re-read the passage in PoA, pg. 238

"The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his followers. 
His servant has been chained these twelve years. Tonight, before 
midnight, the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his 
master. The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater 
and more terrible than ever before. Tonight... before midnight... the 
serve... will set out... to rejoin... his master..."

Notice how unspecific it is? She doesn't say, or doesn't know, WHO 
the servant is. And the "chains," which people would naturally assume 
mean Sirius, imprisoned in Azkaban, are more metaphorical. Pettigrew 
has been "chained" to an existence as a rat.

I wonder if the first prediction was just as unspecific, to the point 
where people didn't get its full meaning until after V-Mort targeted 
the Potters, and maybe not until after he fell.

She could have predicted that he would fall, but in terms of 
something like "Many will fall, but the one thought most helpless, 
infused with strength, will live" or something like that.

Darrin
-- Or this could be JKR playing with us and her real first prediction 
was that Krum would catch the Snitch but Bulgaria would still lose.