Trelawney, true Seer

[iggymcsnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 102925

> Batchevra:
> I think that Trelawney does see what is happening but interprets 
it wrong. 
> Take the fact that she constantly saw the Grim in POA when dealing 
with Harry. 
> She interprets it as a bad omen, but as we find out later, Sirius 
is a black 
> dog and in OOTP he comes from Grimmauld place. Her seeing this 
black dog around 
> Harry is correct, but wrong about it being a bad omen. 


Iggy here:

I think Trelawny is like a lot of people who have the sight... 
especially as the great granddaughter of a renowned seer... she 
expects that she can force herself to see... even though she 
professes that the sight cannot be forced.  (In other words, she 
doesn't practice what she... teaches...)  She also expects more of 
herself than she can realistically deliver, which (in itself) 
becomes a block to what she really can do.  I agree that she 
probably misinterprets what she sees, because she teaches out of a 
book.  One of the first thing any person who practices divination 
will tell you is to let your own sight be your guide, and only use a 
book as a guide of possibilities.  If you see something in a Tarot 
spread that goes against what the common perception is, trust your 
own instincts.  If you don't see something clearly.. then consult 
the book and use it to help as a possible clue or guide, but let 
yourself interpret from there.  (I have done a number of Tarot 
readings, and I trust my instincts first, and the book second.)

It's my opinion that the three biggest blocks to her achieving her 
potential are:  

1) She feels that she must live up to the reputation of her great 
grandmother, Cassandra.  (Who, inceidentally, nobody ever believed 
and almost always foretold doom and destruction.) This puts a lot of 
pressure on her to live up tot he family name.

2) Seers have a reputation for being all-knowing and mysterious.  
Trelawny tries to live up to that image... to the detriment of her 
true potential and her credibility.  

and 3)  She doesn't trust her own instincts and sight.  If she would 
learn to trust her own instincts, and not what she's told things 
mean, or what people might want them to mean, or even what fits the 
image of a seer the best, then she could actually be MUCH more than 
qualified to teach divination.  Think of it this way... the original 
astrologers, rune-casters, numerologists, and soothsayers didn't 
have teachers or learn from books.  They had to learn by watching 
the patterns of the things around them and see how things behaved.  
For example, the omen that birds flying low meaning rain has a basis 
in fact... they fly low because of the lower air pressure, which 
often means rain is on its way.  The old seers trusted their 
observations and their own instincts.  Trelawny doesn't.

As a little side note...

Trelawny thought Sirius was a Grim...  A harbinger of death...

Sirius was stuck at Grim-mauld place... this imprisonment 
contributed to his own death...

Trelawny DID see a Grim... Sirius Black... He was his own Grim, and 
(in his own way) foretold his own death...

Just an idea... *grin*

Iggy McSnurd