The two versions of the Prophecy

[j. lutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 143209

Orna:

>DD's memory, shows just the trance part of the prophecy, and 
>Trelawney, not remembering her prophecies in a waken state, 
>remembers just the periods, when she is awake, skipping over the 
>places when she is in a trance, leaving just some traces, of there 
>being something more (like the suddenness of the opening door, and 
>her inability to remember anything which has been said then). 


Whiggrrl,
delurking to discuss another possibility:

Is it possible that Trelawney was not making an authentic prophecy at 
the time of the interview, but instead was faking it, in hopes of 
impressing Dumbledore and getting a job?  Perhaps she figured that 
making a vague statement, favorable to Dumbledore's known sympathies, 
would convince him that Divination was worth teaching and she was worth 
hiring to teach it?  (If this is the case, I'm sure Dumbledore's and 
Voldemort's activities since the prophecy came out have more or less 
made it authentic.)  Perhaps she feels guilty at having faked her way 
into her job; this would explain her tendency to avoid meals in the 
Great Hall and what is clearly a serious drinking problem in /HBP/.

The detail "She continues and says, that after "that" DD seemed more disposed to give her a job" seems to me to support this line of thought.

Whiggrrl