Prophecy # 1: Wait A Second

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 136153

We hear the story of someone overhearing Trelawney's first prophecy from  
Dumbledore in OOP (Chapter 37):
 
"My---our---one stroke of good fortune was that the eavesdropper was  
detected only a short way through the prophecy and thrown from the  building."
 
But this is directly contradicted (well, not really, but Dumbledore is  
skirting the issue again anyway, I think) by Trelawney's evidence in HBP (  Chapter 
25, italics mine):
 
"Dumbledore did the courtesy of calling upon me in my room.  He  questioned 
me....I must confess that, at first, I thought he seemed ill disposed  toward 
divination...and I remember I was starting to feel  a little odd, I had not 
eaten much that day, but then..."
 
And now Harry was paying attention properly for the first time, for he  knew 
what had happened then: Professor Trelawney had made the prophecy that had  
altered the course of his whole life, the prophecy about him and  Voldemort.
 
"...but then we were rudely interrupted by Severus Snape!"
 
"What?"
 
"Yes, there was a commotion outside the door and it flew open, and  there was 
that rather uncouth barman standing with Snape..."
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Harry immediately flies off the handle about this, as I would do in his  
place.  But he doesn't catch the point.  Snape did not leave that  hallway until 
the entire prophecy was made. Trelawney isn't going  to wake up mid-sentence 
and fall into her trance again. Take a look at the  quotes of Trelawney's 
prophecies in POA and OOP, too.  Not only in italics,  but in caps-lock and in a 
voice described as harsh.  Sibyl is not being  quiet here. (Maybe Caps-Lock! 
Harry has a point we weren't thinking  of).  
 
I'm definitely betting for Aberforth Dumbledore as the Order member we need  
to meet.
 
Thoughts, anyone?
 
Amber


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