Trelawney and ignorance

[A.J.]

No: HPFGUIDX 96367

--- 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."

I've wondered about this too!  It was very funny on first read in 
POA, but after OOTP, by now we wonder... I've wondered whether Mark 
Twain's "Tragedy of Puddin'Head Wilson" and its two boys born the 
same day but switched and mistaken-- named Tom and Chamber-- is just 
echoed in the situation where Harry found that he was a wizard after 
seeing Dudly spoiled, or to be taken with Harry's thinking, "Neville 
Longbottom" as the first alias that popped into his mind, and what 
exactly might be going on.

aj