Has Trelawney Done Anything Magical?

[Jacqui]

No: HPFGUIDX 101371

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Jen: 
> .Well, I should be working too, but instead had to check this 
> > scene out in POA:
> > 
> > "Sure enough, Neville had no sooner than reached the shelf of 
> > teacups when there was a tinkle of breaking china. Professor 
> > Trelawney swept over to him holding a dustpan and brush and 
> said..."
> > (US hardcover, chap. 6, p. 105)
> > 
> > So, no evidence yet! Although I have to say that Trelawney 
holding 
> a 
> > wand in OOTP is probably evidence she can perform magic. 
> > 
> > Unless it belonged to a family member ;).
> 
> Potioncat:
> Isn't wizarding housekeeping interesting?  Here's Trelawny with a 
> broom and dust pan for a broken cup, yet Snape can repair a broken 
> jar with a spell.  Things can be swept away with "evanesco" yet 
> Filch is around to mop floors and scrub frog brains off ceilings. 
> And the castle employs hundreds of house-elves who also cook and 
> clean.
> Potioncat who needs to be out buying groceries for house-elves to 
> cook...wait I don't have any house-elves!

You do make a good point there.  I dont know why Trelawny wouldn't 
have repaired the tea cup...quite interesting.  In the case of Filch 
he is a squib, so he couldnt use it if he wanted to.  The house-elves 
have there own magic, but not the same kind as human's, so they 
probably can't just make something appear or disappear for that 
matter.  

Jacqui