Trelawney (was Re: Trelawney, Polyjuice Potion, house elves and Fudge)

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 113156

sad1199 said: 
"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. And wasn't there 
something about Dumbledore letting her live at Hogwarts because she 
made the prophecy? So, it would seem that Dumbledore would have at 
least told her what she prophecized..."

DuffyPoo:
Trelawney genuinely seems not to know what she says during her prophecies.  In the case of the one HP heard, she wasn't even aware she made a prophecy and denied she would ever say anything so far-fetched.

I don't think there is anything in canon about DD letting her live at Hogwarts because she made the prophecy although that is a pet theory of mine.  She is there for her own protection, 'no place safer than Hogwarts' and all that.  While she may not remember either making the prophecy, or the exact wording, DD wanted neither LV nor his DEs to get hold of her to 'force' it out of her as was done with Bertha Jorkins.  

I don't believe DD would tell her the exact wording of the prophecy for the same reason I don't think he has told anyone, other than HP.  Knowing the exact wording would put people at risk.  I'm sure several people know *of* the prophecy and maybe even the general gist of the thing, but I think only DD and HP know the whole thing - if we've been told the whole thing.

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