The two versions of the Prophecy

[Andrew]

No: HPFGUIDX 143238


> 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
>

Would it even matter if she faked the prophecy in the first place? 
It could have been made up, but it is real now. Voldemort and Harry 
will hunt eachother down until one is dead. A fake prophecy turned 
real? I doubt it. I think it was real the entire time, but that is 
just opinion.
Andrew