[HPforGrownups] Parvati a Seer (was: Trelawney isn't a fraud)

[caesian]

No: HPFGUIDX 111795

To borrow from Ron, I think she needs her inner eye tested.  The 
hilarious thing about Trelawney is that she DOES see things, but she 
allows her biases and prejudices to obscure their true meaning.  A 
classic case in point is the tea-leaf Grim - she really does see a 
giant dog stalking Harry - but her biases lead her to misidentify 
Sirius as the Grim.  And, although she does make predictions that can't 
be explained by gossip or reasoning (like the exact date that Lavender 
will get bad news), she never can get the meaning quite right.  
Ironically, while she may be in a better position than anyone else to 
See the truth, she is too blinkered and biased to do so.  As she says 
in OotP, Seers are always misunderstood (and in this case, even by 
herself).

Similar problems might be beginning for either Parvati Patil or 
Lavender Brown.  Parvati did very well in her divination exam at the 
end of PoA, so perhaps it is Parvati who is the budding Seer.  In GoF, 
when the Yule Ball is announced in Transfiguration, Lavender and 
Parvati dissolve into giggles and crane around to look at Harry.  It 
turns out that Harry does ask Parvati to the Ball - but not exactly for 
the reason she thinks.  She's even miraculously free to go with him, 
although she and her sister are "the prettiest girls in the year", and 
Harry left it rather late.  I'd say someone predicted Harry would ask 
Parvati to the ball.  Also, like Trelawney, Parvati has been easily 
blinded by gossip and suggestion (e.g. her reaction to Harry towards 
the beginning of OotP).  Just a fun little parallel,

Caesian