What happened to Trelawney?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91345

"brwneil" wrote:
One would assume then that as soon as Dumbledore was gone and 
Umbridge was made Headmistrest she would have sent Trelawney packing 
as one of her first acts, but we hear nothing.  Is this sort of an 
unwritten Flint?  Or did both Rowling and Umbridge forget she was 
still in the tower drinking her sherry?

Anatol: 
I believe Umbridge forgot her over all the trouble Fred and George are 
paying her. ;) I mean, you can't see very much of her if you doesn't 
happen to have taken Devination. Or Umbridge had her goal by "making" 
Dumbledore leave. Only problem I have with my own theory is that 
Dolores can't ignore some 5th year girls (Lavender was it?) always 
talking to Trelawney when she (U) banned all clubs etc.

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Carol:
Possibly all Umbridge intended to do with Trelawney was to demonstrate
her power and make someone suffer--and she succeeded admirably by
firing her and making her *think* she had to leave. Certainly
McGonagall would have stepped back in to oppose Umbridge if she had
tried to defy DD's stated wishes by depriving Trelawney of her home at
Hogwarts, and Umbridge probably realizes that McG is a force to be
reckoned with.

Also Dumbledore may have placed some sort of protection on Trelawney
so she couldn't be removed regardless of whether he was present in
Hogwarts or not, just as in CoS he stated that anyone who needed his
help would have it. (Sorry I don't have the exact quote at hand.) I
think, though, that Umbridge had accomplished her objective by firing
Trelawney and was determined to move on to her next victim, Hagrid,
but was sidetracked, as Anatol says, by a pair of red-haired twins.

Carol