Trelawney's part in HBP

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 137575

Ceridwen
>>One other thing I noticed, on page 544 of the US edition.  Trelawney, 
bemoaning her relationship with Firenze, says in part, "...Would 
Dumbledore have let me teach at this great school, *put so much trust 
in me all these years*, had I not proved myself to him?"  He placed 
the same sort of trust in Snape, it appears, and with similar 
results: no one trusts either of them, only in different ways.

CathyD now:
But, we know, Dumbledore doesn't *trust* Trelawney in the way he trusts Snape.  She is at the school purely for her own protection.  Snape overheard the first part of the prophecy.  He knows who made the prophecy.  She could be delivered into Voldemort's hands to try to get the rest of the prophecy from her.  Neither Snape nor LV  know that Trelawney has no memory of making the prophecy.  Dumbledore is only keeping her at the castle to keep her safe from torture at the hands of first, LV, then the DEs who walked free.  Trelawney doesn't know she is only at the school for her own protection...she thinks she's there because she's a wonderful teacher and Seer.  

As to your question, it is at the beginning of the chapter called, I think, The House of Gaunt.

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