Neville's Grandmother In Danger?

[Louis Badalament]

No: HPFGUIDX 99068

Is Neville's Grandmother due for trouble?  Let's look in Talons and 
Tea Leaves in Prisoner of Azkaban to see what our resident 
prophesizer has to say:  
 
---

"You, boy," she said suddenly to Neville, who almost
toppled off his pouf. "Is your grandmother well?"

"I think so," said Neville tremulously.

"I wouldn't be so sure if I were you, dear," said Professor 
Trelawney, the firelight glinting on her long emerald earrings.

---

Now, granted, Trelawney's not the most reliable source to go to, the 
plotline's made that very plain.  But there's something about this 
chapter in particular which gives one pause, which hints at things 
to come, which we've already seen. Let's move a bit further in the 
chapter, when Harry's staring into his teacup trying to divine Ron's 
future:

----

"Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross... " He consulted 
Unfogging
the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' -
- sorry about that -- but there's a thing that could be the sun... 
hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer 
but be very happy...."

----

Though at the time, Ron tells Harry he needs his 'Inner Eye 
checked,' we'll all remember that one point in Book Five with the 
Department of Mysteries battle where Ron has been hit with that 
weird spell which made him laugh moronically while he was wounded.  
He suffered, but was very happy.  

Let's continue, when Ron looks into Harry's cup:

---

"My turn..." Ron peered into Harry's teacup, his forehead wrinkled 
with effort. "There's a blob a bit like a bowler hat," he 
said. "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry of Magic...

He turned the teacup the other way up.

"But this way it looks more like an acorn.... What's that?" He 
scanned his copy of Unfogging the Future. "'A windfall, unexpected 
gold.'   

---

A windfall, unexpected gold.  Doesn't Harry wind up with a thousand 
galleons at the end of Goblet of Fire?  And working for the 
Ministry... Harry's already shown an interest in becoming an Auror, 
who are, by nature, Ministry employees.  

Is this chapter hinting at more than it lets on?  And can we infer, 
therefore, that something terrible might befall Neville's 
grandmother in one of the upcoming books, as Trelawney has warned?



Louis Badalament