Trelawney's predictions

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No: HPFGUIDX 103354



 Snow previously:

 I had wrote something a bit similar to this some time back but my
 ideas were relating more with the very first "classroom prophecy"
 than her prophecies as a whole but I did hit on a few of the
 questions that you were curious about or at best my interpretation
 from them as presented through canon. The post was #96426.

Geoff responded:
Thanks, I'd missed that post. However, I am still intrigued about
the "red-haired man". I wouldn't have described Ron as a man at that
point in time and, secondly, if she was making a prediction about the
Yule Ball, this was well over a year ahead and why didn't she make
the comment to Padma when she was in a Divination lesson? Is there
something still to be revealed? It's an interesting thought that, if
she is a hopeless Seer (apart from a couple of major prophecies), she
still manages to score 50% or so.

Snow again:
I agree with you that Trelawney hasn't been spot-on most of the time, 
which could be due to the fact that she dwells on worse case 
scenarios. This most likely prevents her from correctly interpreting 
what she sees.  I think she does "see" but she misinterprets what she 
sees. Trelawney's predictions no matter how ludicrous they may sound 
appear to have some validity to them. I just think its up to "us" to 
interpret them not her. The following is my own interpretation of one 
of Trelawney's predictions:

My interpretation of Trelawney's prediction that Harry was born in 
midwinter (GOF pg. 201) along with the comment from Harry were he 
states that he has two Neptunes and Ron makes a joke about it, was 
that Trelawney was actually seeing the Voldemort side of Harry that 
was transferred to him when Voldemort attempted to kill him. The two 
Neptunes would represent the fact that Harry and Voldemort are like 
twins in a sense (or in essence?) and Trelawney was actually seeing 
that Voldemort was born midwinter. (Which by the way to the best that 
I can figure would be February 9th. Also Harry is born almost 
midsummer, which would be the ying and yang again.)   

I think that Trelawney did "see" it just wasn't Harry that she was 
seeing. So again Trelawney's prediction may appear to be false when 
in fact in may be true if Voldemort was born in midwinter. I 
personally take it as a clue that Voldemort was born in midwinter, 
which would mean that it was he that was born under Saturn. There 
have been lots, and lots of Saturn referencing especially with the 
centaurs.  ;)