Has Trelawney Done Anything Magical?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 101379

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Could she have *broken* the cup by magic?  She picked on Neville 
as 
> a plausible cup-breaker, but she couldn't be certain he'd break 
one 
> (unless she had foresight, hur hur).  Perhaps she used magic to 
> ensure that her prediction came true.
> 

Jen: That's a possibility! There's only this sentence in POA about 
the incident, and it's vague:

"Sure enough, Neville had no sooner reached the shelf of teacups 
when there was a tinkle of breaking china." (US, chap. 6, p. 105).

Neville doesn't protest that he hadn't even picked up the cup before 
it broke, not that he would be one to confront a teacher. 

If Trelawney did use magic here, she's more devious than I've given 
her credit for!  Actually, I think Neville believing he *would* 
break a cup, since Trelawney said so, is more on the mark--the old 
self-fulfilling prophecy.