worse than a vampire and Lupin's boggart

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90175

> > And what would a werewolf fear
> > more than the moon that would reveal his true identity?
> > 
> > Carol
> 
> Perhaps the crystal ball that could(did) reveal his future? 
> McGonagall's comments about Sybil imply that there are a few 
> genuinely talented seers out there. Perhaps the Divination class 
> wasn't always rubish.
> 
> ~Calimora


Carol:
You could be right. After all, Trelawney does see what looks like a
Grim in the crystal ball in PoA and there really is a Grim-like dog in
Harry's future at that point. And she also seems to have predicted
that "one of our number will leave us forever" (quoting from memory
here), which could count as a minor prophecy about Hermione. It would
be funny if both Dumbledore and McGonagall were wrong about
divination. I do think that the crystal ball was a red herring to lead
us away from the idea of Lupin as a werewolf, but I'm not absolutely
sure. There seems to be no question that some prophecies are real (the
ones that were copied and stored in the DoM), but evidently minor
predictions based on palm reading and crystal ball gazing are too
insignificant to matter. As Firenze says, they focus on the individual
person and not on the whole picture. (Bad paraphrase, sorry.)

BTW, some questions I asked earlier still have not been answered. How
are the prophecies (or their echoes) captured in crystal and can the
ones whose containers were destroyed in the battle be restored? Is the
loss of the record of the prophecies important or not? (I realize that
we can't answer these questions with any precision, but I'm interested
in speculations about them.)

Carol