Trelawney as a teacher (was: Trelawney isn't a fraud)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 111532

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

> Sure, Trelawney's students visit her and I fully believe that Parvati 
> and Lavender would fit into that category. However, she makes the 
> Neville prediction on the first day of class. This means that Neville 
> has had no reason to visit her previous to this occasion and I 
> sincerely doubt that Sybill spends her time talking about other 
> students in the teachers lounge ;)
> 


After his first year, Neville is a school  celebrity in his own right; he's the dark horse who 
won the House Cup for Gryffindor. That's the kind of thing that gets talked about. 
Trelawney could have heard gossip about him long before Neville showed up for his first 
lesson. 

Pippin