Trelawney and Ignorance

[Ms Mo Me]

No: HPFGUIDX 96342

Subject: Trelawney and ignorance

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?

Inge


Mo:

We know that Trelawney doesn't remember when she makes
and ACTUAL prediction.  (in PoA, after HP's final, she
makes a prediction and then when HP tells her about
it, she doesn't recall it and thinks he is crazy)

I think Trelawney doesn't even KNOW that she made the
prophecy about HP or she would be all over it. (Can
you imagine: "I, the GREAT Trelawney predicted the
downfall of LV....")  DD doesn't want people knowing
about the Prophecy, so he keeps it a secret, BUT he
was smart enough to hire Trelawney to keep her around
in case she ever made any more predictions.  We know
that no one else knows the Trelawney can make actualy
predictions too, becase McGonagal even thinks she is a
fraud.  

So, since DD is keeping things under wraps, he doesn't
let Trelawney know of her own prophecy, and
henceforth, Trelawney doesn't bother to think when HP
was born.

~Mo


	
		
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