Trelawney isn't a fraud

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 111498

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <submarimon15 at y...> 
wrote:


Mike:> I'm sorry if this has been discussed from this viewpoint 
already, but 
> I have never seen it. Also, before you want to look at me with a 
> Snape-like disgust, there is quite a bit of proof the shows 
Professor 
> Trelawney to be an actual Seer, though obviously not as great as 
her 
> great-great-great grandmother, Cassandra, or whatever relation she 
> was.
> 
> This means however, that Harry, Ron, Hermione, McGonagall, Umbridge 
> and even Dumbledore are wrong about her. Right now you may be 
> thinking that this is a little much to push aside, but I'd 
appreciate 
> it if you hear me out. The fact that these people don't like 
> Trelawney, is that well to be blunt: She's annoying and likes to 
make 
> large productions of drama while she talks. (ie: PoA Christmas 
Feast)
> 
> First off a question: Why do we automatically think Trelawney is a 
> fraud?

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Geoff:
Just to add a little spice to the mixture, may I draw the attention 
of posters to a thread "Trelawney's predictions" which I started and 
to the replies which followed.

The thread began at message 103170.

Geoff:
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