Incomplete Prophecy

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 107363

 
> > mz_annethrope wrote
> > The prophecy in PoA also uses ellipses: "TONIGHT...BEFORE 
> > MIDNIGHT...THE SERVANT...WILL SET OUT..." and so on. I don't 
> > think there's meant to be any omissions here. Ellipses can 
> > also be used to indicate faltering speech, or so my Chicago 
> > Manual of Style indicates. I think something like that is 
> > happening here, but instead of faltering speech we get big 
> > dramatic pauses. Four dots probably indicates the end of a 
> > sentence.


Angie responds:
I actually thought of that (ellipses indicating pauses) after I 
posted. I went back and read the prophecy in POA and saw the ellipses 
there, too.  You may be very well be right about the purpose of the 
ellipses, but it still seems like the prophecy is incomplete to me.  
But, then again, Trelawney is kinda flaky!