Trelawney, Polyjuice Potion, house elves and Fudge

[A.J.]

No: HPFGUIDX 113116

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sad1199" <sad1199 at y...> wrote:

> sad1199 again: 
> 
> My point was that while teaching Harry at school Trelawney says 
that 
> she thinks he is born in mid-winter (under Saturn). But she made 
the 
> prophecy about a boy born in the last days of July and then Harry 
> bounced Voldemort's curse back at him. She, being a person of 
> knowledge, should be able to dedeuce that Harry was the boy from 
the 
> prophecy and know that he was born in July. 

But this assumes that she even knew about the prophecy.  Dumbledore 
and the eavesdropper heard it-- that's all we know-- and we know that 
in POA (Chapter Sixteen-- have just the boxed set paperbacks with me 
at the moment) she was surprised when Harry quoted her new prophecy, 
and said that he must have been dreaming.  I assume she may well not 
have realized about making the first prophecy either.

A.J.