The Sacking of Trelawney

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 129754

I am listening to the 5th book again on tape.  It is amazing how you 
hear things that you skipped over when reading the books or even 
when listening the first 2 times to the tape.  I must just be a bit 
dense.  The clues are so imbedded in with other things that they are 
very easy to miss.  Sometimes I have noticed that JKR puts about 5 
clues in one sentence of seeming unimportant commentary.  Such at 
the dream that Harry had with LV and Rookwood.

Then we come to the Sacking.  No one seems to be the least surprised 
that DD was able to replace Trelawney so quickly.  Actually within 
it seems 5 to 15 minutes of when she was sacked.  Now I am sure that 
maybe he figured it might happen and had a plan, but even still, his 
timing seems impossible.  How did he know it was even happening?  I 
can't imagine that Umbridge gave him any warning that it was going 
to happen at all and at that very moment.  He would have had to have 
had it all planned out with Firenze ahead of time.  And what kind of 
an agreement would that have been?  "Well Firenze, I don't want to 
insult you or anything, but just in case my divination teacher is 
sacked could you come along and take over?"  Somehow I can't see 
that type of conversation with a Centaur!!  I guess Firenze could 
have offered to help in anyway he might be needed whenever DD called 
him, but again I can't see that either since he knows the price he 
will pay.  I would think that it would have taken some time for DD 
to discuss it with him and for Firenze to make that type of a 
decision.

We are so taken in by the action that we (or at least I) don't see 
the 
 *wait a minute how did that happen?* part of the whole thing.  
It just sort of flows and no one in the story even bats an eye.  
Just poof DD is there to save the day, just like always.  No wizard 
can be *that* good. How does he do it?  OK, now maybe there are 
paintings in the room that Umbridge and Trelawney were in and they 
told DD.  But even then, it just all happens so fast.  Maybe DD uses 
a time-turner.   But I don't think he does that all the time 
either.  What is his secret??


This like everything else has probably been discussed before.  If so 
where?  I know that many of us are rereading or re-listening to the 
5th book right now.  Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?

Tonks_op