centaurs and Trelawney

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 82178

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "roseswicegood" <rose at s...> wrote:
> Ok--second post in the same day.  What is the group's opinion of the 
> centaur in Hogwarts?  What does all this mean?  Trelawney cannot 
> possibly compete with him as a divination teacher.  Does Dumbledore 
> have her stay at Hogwarts because she is the bearer of the prophecy?
> So--I have questions, Radioshack has answers, I know...:) 
> rose

bboy_mn:

I can't take credit for this idea, I'm just repeating it. Someone
speculated that a reasonable configuration of Divination teachers
would be Trelawney teaching years 1-4 or 5, and Frienze teaching
advanced Divination to possibly year 5, and definetely years 6 and 7.

Trelawney - I think Dumbledore keeps Trelawney around because she made
one very important prediction about Voldemort, and this was before
Voldemort fell, so at the time it was important. Certainly important
enough to keep her around for a while. Then when the prediction pretty
much turned out to be true, Harry defeated Voldemort, he couldn't
afford to let her go in case she predicted something else; which she
eventually did.

Some will question Trelawney's psychic abilities, but I think that is
somewhat irrelevant because she seems reasonable knowledgable in the
various forms of Divination (tea leaves, crystal ball, astrology,
palmistry, etc...) to give beginning student a adequate introduction
and basic working knowledge of the subjects.


Frienze - I think the Centaurs totally over reacted to Frienze taking
the Divinations job. I takes many many many years of total immersion
in the Centaur culture to become modestly proficient in their methods
of divination. 

In the classroom, Frienze could never possible give the students more
than a general superficial overview of Centaur Divination.
Illustration: if the subject of Centaur Divination is a set of
Encyclopedias then what Frienze would give the students would be a
comic book. Certainly, nothing for the Centaur population to worry about.

I can only hope the Centaurs come to their senses and see that
forgetting about Frienze and joining Dumbledore is much much more in
their best interests than ignoring the problem until Voldemort gives
them a 'for me' or 'against me' ultimatum. 

Just a thought.

bboy_mn