Remus and Sibyll sitting in a tree ( wasRe: Trelawny really bugs me...

[potioncat]

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> vmonte:
> I know Trelawny has been discussed many times (by me and others) 
but 
> I've been rereading the books and this character really annoys me. 
> With so much talk about people being in charge of their own 
destinies 
> and making the "right" choices, why does Dumbledore put so much 
faith 
> into this woman's prophecies? Especially, when they can be read in 
so 
> many different ways. (The daily horoscope is just as vague--
although 
> not as grim.)  
> Regardless, I hope that Harry makes the decision to disregard 
> Trelawny's words and follow his own destiny.

Potioncat:
I'm re-reading PoA and something has been nagging at me. I'm not 
really ready to offer up this idea, but that's never stopped me 
before.  

I assume your subject is on purpose...Trelawny really bugs you?
Goes with all the bug like descriptions about her in PoA.

Her crystal ball is referred to as an orb. And for most of PoA, 
Lupin's boggart is called an orb.  He ran from Trelawney when she 
wanted to crystal gaze for him...

So how about this idea?  Lupin's Boggart is a prophecy orb (I don't 
know why! Maybe he's afraid of Trelawney.  Maybe there's a prediction 
about him that worries him. Maybe someone predicted he'd marry 
Trelawny)  To make the orb amusing, he turns it into a cockroach. 
That is, he  turns the prophecy orb into a bug, into Trelawney. 
Because he thinks it's funny that she looks like a bug.