Trelawney - real seer or not? (was Re: DU treatment of Trelawney)

Juli jlnbtr at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 14 20:07:05 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 117874


> Finwitch:
> I disagree with you, Juli - I'd say Trelawney can
> tell the future. Aside from predicting Harry (and 
> various other living persons, acc. to McGonagall) 
> to die (which they will do, considering that the 
> Philosopher's Stone is gone, none of them would
> drink Unicorn Blood, and are probably too wise to 
> choose immortality anyway), have any of her 
> predictions as yet not happened?
> 
> Look at her predicting that Neville would break two
> teacups, that one of their number would leave them 
> before Easter (turned out to be Hermione, of whom 
> she *correctly* said lacked the Sight), that 'thing 
> you dread will happen'.. <snip> 


I think Trelawney just plays with the odds, we know
Neville always breaks thing, so why wouldn't he break
it? Besides, if someone tells you "careful with that"
you'll propably break it. 

I can't help myself, but I remeber when she tells
Harry he must have been born in the middle of the
winter, that's just so funny. 

Sure seers have always been chased, but so have
witches, I think it's for the same reason, people are
afraid of what they don't know. I don't think a seer
in the WW is thought as a problem, they are seers just
like others are metamorphus. 

As for the 'you will die' prophecy, you don't have to
be a seer to know that, I can honestly tell you that
you will die, I can't tell you when, but most
certainly you WILL die.

I don't think she ever jokes, she may be a joke but
she never makes fun of anyone, she believes her
prophecies are real, and she expects people to believe
her, but nobody ever does, and why should they, she
gets thing right sometimes, but just because it's a
coincidence. I could tell Harry right now that he will
be in great danger, not cause I'm a seer, but I look
back at history and he oftens finds himself in
dangerous situations, so odds are he will be again.

Juli








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