[HPforGrownups] Re: Trelawney and her Magic

[Laura Menard]

No: HPFGUIDX 101473

Antosha:

Aside from the two 'true' prophecies that we know of, no, I don't recall Cassandra 
Trelawney ever managing a spell at all.

Nonetheless, if she were a squib, Dumbledore wouldn't have interviewed her for the 
position of Divination teacher at all, would he? She must have graduated from Hogwarts--
or perhaps one of the overseas schools.


Laura now:

I do not believe that you have to be able to preform magic to teach Divination at Hogwarts. At the end of chapter 26 in OotP Firenze the centaur is made the new Divination instuctor implying that one has to part of the WW but not a full fledge wand using wizard.

DD interviewed her out of respect for Trelawney's great-great-grandmother as stated  in chapter 37 of OotP. DD is telling HP about the hearing the prophecy while interviewing the " great-great-granddaughter of a very famous, very gifted Seer, and I thought it common politeness to meet her." (p. 840, Scholastic)


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