Trelawney's part in HBP

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hsvdine" <hsvdine at y...> wrote:
> I'm new here and usually just read rather than write but no one else 
> is bringing this up so I thought I would just ask for some opinions. 
> It seems to me that JKR is very purposeful in what she throws in and 
> likes to bury clues in the books so it strikes me as very important 
> that Professor Trelawney is seen several times in HBP and seems more 
> agitated each time. I don't quite buy the shes just a drunk line and 
> it seems like there is more here. Anyone else have any thoughts....
> 
> hsvdine

I'm sorry, I may be going over my daily posts in this, but I just had 
to say something.  I think instead of Sybil Trelawney, her name should 
perhaps be Cassandra Trelawney.  Most people think of her as a fraud, 
and she acts like a stereotypical "fortune teller" most of the time.  
However, other than her two true prophecies, she has been right, in a 
way, at times.  A couple that I can recall:  1)  The Grim in POA.  Of 
course, it wasn't the grim, it was Sirius, but she did "see" a big, 
black dog.  2) The "lightning-struck tower" card reading she was doing 
before the tower scene.  Maybe she is having a breakdown from all her 
forecasts of doom while nobody takes her seriously, as well as her 
feeling insulted to have Firenze also teaching her subject.

Cheryl