centaurs (was Re: Red Herrings)

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No: HPFGUIDX 101803


Wanda:
> 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....  

>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.


Janelle:
I think you're on to something with this.  The last time I read SS it 
popped out to me when Firenze I believe is was said something 
like 'it is always the innocent who are the first victims'  you can 
read this as surface of it will be innocent people in general or you 
can see it as more specific 

1) sirius.  i know he wasn't the 'first' to die but he was close.  He 
spent the last twelve years of his life locked in azkaban for a crime 
he was wrongly acused of- he was innocent.

2) cedric, the first to die literally, could be seen as innocent in a 
way as well, or at least falsely accused of being a bad/useless 
person.  First by ron just because he beat gryffindor at quidditch, 
then by harry for dating cho, the girl he liked.