Trelawney and ignorance

[djrfdh]

No: HPFGUIDX 96329

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> GOF - uk edition - pg 177 - Trelawney to Harry: " .....I think I am 
> right in saying, my dear, that you were born in mid-winter?"
> "No," said Harry. "I was born in July."
> 
> What's this about?
> 
> 1) Trelawney doesn't know who Harry IS (the boy who lived)? Has 
> Dumbledore - for whatever reason? - kept Trelawney inside Hogwarts 
> since he first hired her (before Harry's birth) and kept her 
ignorant 
> of the Harry/Voldemort incident? 
> If she knows the story about Harry isn't it sort of weird that she 
> doesn't know when he was born? He IS - after all - rather famous!
> 
> 2) Could it be that Trelawney was actually *right* about Harry 
being 
> born in mid-winter? In this case - what does that mean to the 
story? 
> And why would somebody (Dumbledore ?) lie about Harry's birthdate? 
To 
> keep someones (Voldemorts ?) attention away from someone else 
> (Neville ?).
> 
> This has probably been talked about before - but Trelawneys 
ignorance 
> on the issue of Harry's birthday confuses me.
> Theories?


Wasn't it Trelawney who made the prediction about a child being born 
on July 31st in DD presence before coming to Hogwarts? (Knowing her 
rather, shall we say, impulsive nature, it may be why DD insists that 
she remain at Hogwarts! Can't have HER blabbing!) And didn't DD tell 
Harry that Neville COULD have been the one that Voltemort was trying 
to kill?(At the end of OOTP)I think you're definitely "on" to 
something here! I'm checking other sources for more information....

IF Neville IS the one hunted by Voltemort, then perhaps Harry's 
parents are just part of a huge "coverup" and aren't really dead at 
all....but what a price to pay....having to watch your child 
being "abused" for 11 years before getting any help from Hogwarts! 
That would be more than I could bear! And IF Neville suffers from a 
Memory Charm, what could HE have seen that warranted that? The 
tormenting of HIS parents? Perhaps Voltemort got the story wrong! 
Afterall, he only stayed around for the first half! 

djrfdh...who is SO READY for book 6!