The eavesdropper: DD plant

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88023

"confusinglyso" <pjcousins at b...> wrote (snipped by spangb):
Fracas to eject "eavesdropper" could cause trance to be broken.
> 

spangb responded:
>   Well,the text itself says that the one who was listening was thrown 
> out. But it doesn't specify who did the throwing. I mean, somebody 
> else might have been there, like Hagrid who might have spotted this 
> man eavesdropping and threw him out. Alternately, it doesn't require 
> that at all. After Dumbledore realised somebody was eavesdroping, he 
> just might have conjured a spell that threw this fellow. That 
> wouldn't break Trelawney's attention, would it?

Carol:
I don't think that *anything* could have broken Trelawney's trance.
She was not in the "mundane world" and was unaware of her
surroundings, just as she was when she delivered her second prophecy.
The intruder could have broken *Dumbledore's* attention, however, and
missing part of the prophecy might have been his reason for acquiring
a pensieve--to hear the entire prophecy from an objective outside
perspective, as many times as he needed or chose to do so. So I agree
with you that it may have been Dumbledore who threw the person out, at
least out of the room if not out of the Three Broomsticks. He could
have recognized the eavesdropper as a DE and thrown a stunning spell
or something. But the implication is that the person was actually
thrown out of the Three Broomsticks, not just removed from the room,
so I'm frankly as mystified as ever regarding this event.

Carol