CHP 17 DISCUSSION, II: Education Decree Number Twenty-Four

[a_b_desert_king]

No: HPFGUIDX 97381

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_rude_mechanical" 
<a_rude_mechanical at y...> wrote:

> Harry climbs up to the classroom, still angry.  And he's not 
alone. 
> Trelawney is busy throwing copies of "The Dream Oracle" at all the 
> students, at one point knocking Neville completely off his chair. 
> I'm sorry, his "pouf."  Harry divines (oh, the cleverness of me!)
> that 
> Sybil has received the results of DeeJay's inspection, and they are
> not favourable. Trelawney admits that she has been insulted and 
> accused-of what, we are left to guess. She lets us know, in her
> rampage, that she has been employed for sixteen years at Hogwarts. 
>  She spends the rest of the lesson muttering under her breath about
> DeeJay.  
> 
> ~~I'm still not sure why DD hired Trelawney.  Just because of the
> prophecy?  Who was teaching Divination before they hired her?  
> Anyone?~~

Heather replies:

I gathered from future scenes with Trelawney (when she gets fired) 
that DD had hired her to provide a safe and secure home for her to 
protect her from LV.  I think that her emotional breakdown in the 
entrance lobby was deathly fear that she was going to be ousted from 
Hogwarts and left on her own against LV.  She may not remember her 
actual prophesies, but she surely knows that it was a special 
prophecy which made DD hire her in the first place, and she is 
probably quite afraid of LV and what he would do to her in order to 
hear the prophesy himself.  I think that this opinion is backed up 
by the fact that DD will not allow her to leave Hogwarts even after 
she has been fired by Umbridge.  Also, she seems to be a little more 
rational after DD informs the whole school that she will not have to 
leave Hogwarts