Red Herrings

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 101796

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "brassgryphon" <madaxe at s...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mnaper2001" 
> <mnaperrone at a...> wrote:
> 
> He seems a pretty harmless red herring - one who takes up our 
> speculation time, but isn't meant as an actual cover for anything. 
> Normally, a red herring is meant to distract from the real thing - 
> which in this case would be another living magical relative of 
> Harry's. Riiiight.
> 
I think another one might be Trelawney.  It's not that she's totally 
useless to the plot, but I think the attention paid to her "seer" 
qualities and her occasional prophecies might be to draw attention 
away from the genuine seers - the Centaurs.  They're a very 
enigmatic presence at the moment, but I think they might to be more 
important than just as a source of discord in the WW.  Centaurs are 
traditionally seers, and in fact, Rowling does introduce that theme, 
but in a less than fully-formed manner (i.e., we get some mysterious 
references to Mars being bright, and then Firenze give the students 
some rather inconclusive lessons). It's just my hunch - but I think 
this could be where the real prophecies may be found, and Trelawney 
is a cover for it.

Wanda