Trelawney's second prediction/Forbidden Forest Creatures

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 89337

At the end of POA Trelawney does her whole rigid face/ deep voice 
thing and predicts what we assume to be Pettigrew escaping and 
returning to Voldemort. I don't have my book in front of me, but 
doesn't she also say that the dark lord will rise again, with the 
servant's help, more powerful than before? I'm paraphrasing, but I 
interperet this to mean that Pettigrew would help Voldemort rise 
agin, which he did literally in GOF, but, most importantly, that 
Voldemort will regain his former power, and then some. JKR has said 
that Cedric's death was the beginning of the deaths. There will be 
more to come, and now that Voldemort can't hide behind the 
MM's 'nothing to see hear folks' attitude- isn't it reasonable to 
assume that he will begin a very public reign of terror, worse than 
fifteen years ago? After he gets the DE's out of Azkaban that is. 

Which brings me around to my second point. Based on the above 
theory, if Voldemort does gain more power, and is able to take over 
certain arenas that were out of reach to him during his first swing, 
wouldn't he want to take Hogwarts? Hagrid said in PS that Voldemort 
was getting powerful, but not powerful enough to take the school. If 
Voldemort is more powerful this time, isn't it likely he'll go after 
the place where:

1. Harry is. 
2. Dumbledore is.
3. And, I'm still not discounting Neville as a 
possible 'alternative' 'one with the power to vanquish the dark lord'
4. Not to mention a place that would be 'safe' for him- as there are 
few places as safe as Hogwarts. 

Now, if Voldemort does decide to take Harry at the school, something 
that can only happen in book 7, is it logical to think that the army 
that will stop him will not only be students and staff, but as a 
first defense, the creatures of the forbidden forest? 

Pretty scary stuff:

Centaurs
Grawp
Unicorns
Aragog and family
Fluffy


Not to mention a whole lot of House Elves (Not in the forest of 
course) who we as readers know to possess a certain amount of power 
of their own. I'm still convinced Dobby can apparate, but enough 
rambling from me. 

Anyone want to give me an opinion on this?

LizVega