Has Professor Trelawney been kidnapped?

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 142182

I'm sorry if anyone has posted this before. 

I think Professor Trelawney might have been kidnapped under 
Voldemort's orders during the Death Eaters invasion of Hogwarts, 
while everybody was busy in the Astronomy Tower. With the Order and 
the DE's fighting under the AT, nobody could have noticed anything 
going on in the other tower _ the North Tower. And of course no one 
has missed Trelawney yet, because Dumbledore's death is a tragedy, 
and during tragedies other problems often go unnoticed.

Here are some facts:

Dumbledore to Harry, in his office, just after the battle in the 
D.O.M.:
'Voldemort, of course, had been obsessed with the possibility of 
hearing the prophecy ever since he regained his body,...'

Less than twenty days afterwards, Dumbledore to Harry in the 
Weasley's broom shed:
'There are only two people in the whole world who know the full 
contents of the prophecy made about you and Lord Voldemort, and they 
are both standing in this smelly, spidery broom shed.'

A few weeks after that, just before term starts, in Knockturn Alley: 
the Trio hear Malfoy threaten Borgin into helping him fix something 
(that now we know was the Vanishing Cabinet).

Presumably first half of March next year (just after Ron's 
birthday), Dumbledore to Harry, in his office:
'... nor can I ask Sybill Trelawney to leave. Between ourselves, she 
has no idea of the danger she would be in outside the castle.'

June, near end of term:
Death Eaters invade Hogwarts. Battle and death happen in the 
Astronomy Tower.

Dumbledore's funeral: Trelawney's name is not mentioned amongst the 
people who were there. Actually, she's not mentioned at all after 
the DE's attack.

And after the facts, a bit of thinking: what has Voldemort been up 
to all year? 

One might argue he's been spreading terror and mayhem in Britain and 
gathering his army, and that has been enough to keep him happy. But 
I don't think so: wasn't he obsessed about hearing the whole 
prophecy? Why wouldn't he still be?

Only a couple of months after Voldemort's first attempt to secure 
the Prophecy _ luring Harry into the D.O.M._ a second attempt was 
probably being carried on already. I'm talking about Malfoy working 
on the Vanishing Cabinets.

During HBP, we are repeatedly reminded the Dark Lord doesn't really 
think Draco will succeed in killing Dumbledore. Which is just common 
sense anyway, why would Voldemort think a schoolboy could do 
something better than him? And killing the greatest wizard alive, no 
less! What I think Voldemort wanted, besides punishing the Malfoys, 
was to get his Death Eaters into Hogwarts. And why? To try and get 
the prophecy once more.

If Dumbledore was able to produce a memory of Trelawney making the 
Prophecy, why wouldn't Trelawney be able as well? She doesn't know 
she made it, she was in a trance. But the memory should be there 
anyway, since she was there, in that moment, in that place. 

Voldemort is a great Legillimens. He was able to get all the 
memories he wanted from Bertha Jonkins, so he's probably confident 
he'll succeed with Trelawney. She's his last hope to hear the 
prophecy (he doesn't know Harry has seen Dumbledore's memory, and he 
wouldn't be able to Legillimens Dumbledore, would he).

But wasn't the whole Death Eater invasion about killing 
Dumbledore??? 

Well, maybe not. How would Voldemort guess Dumbledore would be 
weakened because the had drunk the potion that night? He probably 
sent those Death Eaters to their deaths, as he expected would happen 
to Draco. Snape said, 'I think he intends me to do it, in the 
end...'. So if Voldemort thought there was a chance of murdering 
Dumbledore, that chance was Snape. 

While things were going on in the Astronomy Tower, better and more 
able people (Bellatrix? Voldemort himself?) were in the North Tower 
kidnapping Trelawney _ in my opinion.

Also in my opinion, Dumbledore's death came as an unexpected, but 
big bonus to Voldemort _ Snape is probably in the heights of glory 
right now.

Lucianam